Author: nina hovnanian

`MTS Hay-Fi’ – an Internet hotspot anywhere

18-01-2013 15:33:52 | Armenia | Science and Technology

VivaCell-MTS offers `MTS Hay-Fi’ device, a small mobile modem designed
to create and share internet connection with friends, family members
or mobile workgroups. The benefits of this convenient device, fitting
a pocket and able to satisfy everyday’s needs for mobile internet, are
the following:

– Opportunity to provide Internet and create a local area network for
up to 10 devices, including a laptop, a tablet, a smartphone, a video-
or photocamera, a video gaming device, etc.
– Opportunity to set-up a security-enabled wireless network access
– Opportunity to send and receive SMS directly from the computer.

For activating the `MTS Hay-Fi’ modem, one just needs to insert the
corresponding mobile card into it, and connect the Hay-Fi modem to any
of the above-mentioned devices.

If a device does not support Wi-Fi, it can be connected to the `MTS
Hay-Fi’ via a USB cable.

The price of the `MTS Hay-Fi’ is AMD 32000. It is compatible with any
of the four `MTS Connect’ tariff plans listed below, and in case of
subscribing for at least 18 months, the modem is provided to the
subscriber on special terms:

Tariff plan MTS Hay-Fi
`MTS Connect Unlimited’ free of charge
`MTS Connect Unlimited +’ free of charge
`MTS Connect 256′ AMD 5000
`MTS Connect Student’ AMD 3000

All prices include VAT.

VivaCell-MTS (K-Telecom CJSC) is Armenia’s leading mobile operator,
having the widest 2G/3.75G/4G network reach and spreading a wide range
of Voice and Data services all across Armenia. Having the best of the
Armenian people interest at heart since its launch on 1st July 2005
and in a short period of time VivaCell-MTS has managed to build a
nationwide network and a considerable customer base. VivaCell-MTS
drives innovation and aims at always being at the forefront of any
development serving the Armenian mobile communications market. For
more information, visit
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Mobile TeleSystems OJSC (“MTS”) is the leading telecommunications
group in Russia and the CIS, offering mobile and fixed voice,
broadband, pay TV as well as content and entertainment services in one
of the world’s fastest growing regions. Including its subsidiaries,
the Group services over 100 million mobile subscribers. The Group has
been awarded GSM licenses in Russia, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Armenia
and Belarus, a region that boasts a total population of more than 200
million. Since June 2000, MTS’ Level 3 ADRs have been listed on the
New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbol MBT). Additional information
about the MTS Group can be found at

– Science and Technology
News from Armenia and Diaspora – Noyan Tapan

REVUE DE PRESSE
De l’anti-sionisme à la judéophobie : la Turquie passe la vitesse supérieure…

Les services secrets de Turquie (MIT) viennent de lancer une enquête
sur au moins cinq citoyens turcs qui auraient, selon eux, « collaboré
» avec Israël en 2010 dans la lutte contre le Mavi Marmara.

Le MIT estime que les suspects ont soit aidé les troupes israéliennes
qui ont arraisonné le navire soit pris part à l’interrogatoire des
terroristes de l’IHH présents sur le navire.

POUR LIRE LA SUITE CLIQUER SUR LE LIEN

samedi 19 janvier 2013,
Stéphane ©armenews.com

EREVAN
Le zoo d’Erévan va recevoir de nouveaux pensionnaires

Cette année le zoo d’Erévan accueillera de nombreux nouveaux
pensionnaires tels que des chimpanzés, des tapirs ou des girafes.
C’est en grande partie le fruit de la collaboration entre le zoo
Biblique de Jérusalem et d’Erévan que les habitants de la capitale
arménienne auront en 2013 l’occasion de voir dans leur zoo des espèces
exotiques d’animaux relativement rares. L’an dernier un accord de
coopération avait été signé entre Erévan et Jérusalem. Par ailleurs le
zoo d’Erévan va acquérir en 2013 des autruches, des tigres du Bengale,
des zèbres, ainsi que de nombreux autres animaux qui feront la
curiosité des enfants, des parents et des visiteurs. Les responsables
du zoo d’Erévan désirant replacer leur établissement au centre des
intérêts et des loisirs de la capitale arménienne.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 19 janvier 2013,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

PRESS RELEASE
Ararat-Eskijian Museum
15105 Mission Hills Rd
Mission Hills CA, 91345
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 818-838-4862

RICHARD HOVANNISIAN TO LECTURE ON SMYRNA CATASTROPHE AT WESTERN DIOCESE

Professor Richard G. Hovannisian will present an illustrated lecture,
`The Smyrna Catastrophe, 1922-2012,’ on Thursday, January 31, 2013,
at 7:00 p.m., in the Zorayan Museum at the Western Diocese of the
Armenian Church, 3325 N. Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank, CA 91504. The
program will be held under the auspices of the Western Diocese, His
Eminence Abp. Hovnan Derderian, Primate, and with the co-sponsorship
of The Ararat-Eskijian Museum and the National Association for
Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR).

September 2012 marked the 90th anniversary of the Smyrna Catastrophe
when much of the city, the second largest in the Ottoman Empire, was
destroyed by fire during the final phase of the Greco-Turkish War. The
calamity marked the end of a strong Christian presence in the historic
Aegean coastal regions and turned hundreds of thousands of Greeks and
Armenians into refugees.

In this illustrated lecture, Prof. Richard Hovannisian will discuss the
important role of Smyrna (Izmir) in modern Armenian history and the
inferno that engulfed the city in September 1922. Hovannisian is the
editor of the recently published Armenian Smyrna/Izmir, the eleventh
volume of proceedings from the UCLA conference series `Historic
Armenian Cities and Provinces.’ He also traveled to Izmir and
environs in June 2012 as the historian-guide for a NAASR Armenian
Heritage Tour led by Armen Aroyan.

A book signing of Armenian Smyrna/Izmir will immediately follow the
lecture. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Richard Hovannisian is the author of Armenia on the Road to
Independence, the four-volume history The Republic of Armenia, and has
edited and contributed to more than twenty-five books including The
Armenian Genocide in Perspective; The Armenian People from Ancient to
Modern Times; Remembrance and Denial; Looking Backward, Moving Forward;
and The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies. Professor
Hovannisian was the first holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation
Chair in Modern Armenian History at UCLA and currently serves as
Distinguished Chancellor’s Fellow at Chapman University in
Orange County and Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the University of
California, Irvine.

For more information about the January 31 program contact the Western
Diocese at 818-558-7474, the Ararat-Eskijian Museum at
[email protected] or 818-838-4862, or NAASR at
617-489-1610 or [email protected].

Veteran Turkish journalist Mehmet Ali Birand dies at age 71

Mehmet Ali Birand (Photo: Today’s Zaman, Mine Çaha)

17 January 2013 / TODAY’S ZAMAN, Ä°STANBUL,

Chairman of the Kanal D News Group and veteran journalist Mehmet Ali
Birand who advocated more freedoms and democracy in Turkey during a
career spanning 48 years, has died. He was 71.
His son Umur says Birand, who had cancer, died in Ä°stanbul on Thursday
from an infection.

Birand began his career with Milliyet newspaper in 1964 but became
better known for a series of interviews and documentaries produced in
the 1980s. His books on Turkey’s EU membership bid, its military and
its intervention of Cyprus were translated into several languages.

Birand was among a number of liberal journalists who were fired by
their bosses in 1997 under pressure from the military, which also
toppled a pro-Islamic government.

Birand was taken to the American Hospital in Ä°stanbul for an operation
to replace a stent in his gallbladder on Wednesday and was kept in
intensive care.

Birand, who covers political and diplomatic affairs, has been
practicing journalism in Turkey since the late 1970s. He interviewed
numerous world leaders in the late Cold War era, including
then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the late leader of the
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Arafat and Iraqi
dictator Saddam Hussein.

Birand’s program `32. Gün’ (32nd Day) became a brand name in news
broadcasting in the 1980s and trained many well-known TV journalists
in Turkey.

He also witnessed several key political developments abroad and at
home, including military coups, and he received harsh criticism from
the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) for his stance on the Kurdish issue in
the 1990s.

Birand likewise drew ire from secular circles when he confessed that
most Turkish seculars had been happy to see a military intervention on
Feb. 28, 1997, rather than live under a government led by a
conservative party.

Birand, a prominent journalist, columnist, anchor and above all an
investigative reporter, was born on Dec. 9, 1941, in Ä°stanbul’s
BeyoÄ?lu district. The son of Mürvet and Ä°zzet Birand, who were
originally from ElazıÄ? province, Birand was ethnically Kurdish.

He studied at Galatasaray High School and started his professional
career at the Milliyet daily in 1964. He worked briefly as the
editor-in-chief of Milliyet.

He wrote columns for the Sabah daily, and produced and presented the
program `32. Gün’ for the channels TRT and Show TV. He was also an
anchor for Show TV from 1992-1995. While a senior executive at the CNN
Türk channel, Birand was also presenting `32. Gün’ on Kanal D. Birand
spoke fluent French and English and was also a citizen of Belgium.

He was married and a father to Umur Ali.

Karabakh president conducts working meeting in Hadrut

18:03 – 19.01.13

President of the Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic Bako Sahakyan
visited on Saturday the city of Hadrout to conduct a working
consultations devoted to agriculture issues.

In a speech delivered at the meeting, the president said that the
country has all the preconditions – climatic, historical and
socioeconomic- to ensure the sector’s dynamic development.

According to a press release by the Nagorno-Karabakh Presidential
Office, Sahakyan stressed the importance of pilot projects relating to
the agriculture development efforts.

The meeting was also attended by NKR Prime Minister Ara Haroutunyan,
heads of regional administration departments and communities

No Talks on the Entrance of the Second Communication Operator

Saturday, 19 January 2013 14:10

`In the sphere of telecommunication we shall exert joint efforts with
`Karabakh Telecom’ CJSC to solve the problem of reachability of the
Internet in the regions and rural communities,’ this was reported by
NKR Minister of Industrial Infrastructures Levon Mnatsakanyan in his
interview to `Azat Artsakh’.

To the question about the possibility of the second operator’s
entrance to Artsakh the minister noted, `I don’t want to exclude the
second operator’s entrance but in fact there are still no talks on
this.’

On part of prices of Karabakh Telecom services Levon Mnatsakanyan
thinks there is a problem of quality and speed of the Internet and it
should be solved together with the communication operator of Artsakh.

Bulgarie-Turquie-politique-minorités-criminalité-attentat
Bulgarie : le dirigeant du parti de la minorité turque échappe à un attentat

Le dirigeant historique du parti de la minorité turque en Bulgarie,
Ahmed Dogan, a échappé samedi à un attentat, dont l’auteur a été
arrêté par la police, a annoncé le vice-président du parti, Lyutvi
Mestan.

Lors du congrès du Mouvement pour les droits et les libertés (MRF) et
alors que Ahmed Dogan s’adressait depuis la tribune aux délégués, un
jeune homme, gé de 25 ans et, selon la police, armé d’un pistolet à
gaz et de deux couteaux, a tenté de tirer sur le dirigeant, mais sans
succès. Il a ensuite été maîtrisé par des délégués, ont par ailleurs
indiqué des témoins à la radio publique BNR.

Ahmed Dogan, gé de 58 ans, dirige le MRF depuis sa fondation, en
1990, et son parti a participé à deux reprises à des gouvernements de
coalition à direction socialiste (ex-communistes) ou de centre-gauche
de 2001 à 2009, mais est aujourd’hui dans l’opposition au gouvernement
conservateur du Premier ministre, Boïko Borissov.

La presse s’attend à ce que Ahmed Dogan annonce son retrait de la
présidence du MRF dans la soirée, une décision sans rapport avec la
tentative d’attentat.

En Bulgarie, la minorité turque d’un pays longtemps sous la domination
ottomane (1396-1878) représente environ 10% de la population.

dimanche 20 janvier 2013,
Stéphane ©armenews.com

Glendale News-Press (California)
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
January 11, 2013 Friday

Art ‘Lionheart’ Hovhannisyan headed for Shobox showdown

BY: Grant Gordon, Glendale News-Press, Calif.

Jan. 11–Thus far, Art “Lionheart” Hovhannisyan’s road to boxing glory
has been a bumpy one, slowed by a myriad of injuries and bout
cancellations.

Still, the action fighter with an unbeaten record finds himself poised
once more to knock down the door of opportunity and become a title
contender.

Hovhannisyan is slated to fight Logan McGuinness on Feb. 22 in a
“Shobox” main event with a possible World Boxing Assn. championship
bout as the winner’s prize.

“We cannot be fighting the Joe Schmoes anymore,” said George
Bastmajyan, Hovhannisyan’s manager and cut man. “We need a
career-defining fight. This is it.”

Hovhannisyan (15-0-2, eight knockouts) will face McGuinness (19-0-1,
nine KOs) in a 10-round super featherweight (130 pounds) bout at the
Morongo Casino in Cabazon.

According to Bastmajyan, by next week it should be determined by the
WBA if the bout will be a title eliminator for the right to face
champion Takashi Uchiyama.

Nonetheless, the bout is another step in the right direction to
contendership status for Hovhannisyan, a hard-charging fighter, whose
hard-training style and just some bad luck have led to a share of hand
injuries over the years for the 31-year-old Armenian native.

“This is the only direction we can go,” Bastmajyan said.

McGuinness, 27, is a Canadian native ranked fifth in the super
featherweight division by the WBA and also holds the North American
Boxing Assn. title. McGuinness will make just his second appearance in
a United States ring after a six-round draw in Connecticut in 2010.
Other than single bouts in Ireland and the United Kingdom, McGuinness’
fights have all been in Canada.

Trained by Edmond Tarverdyan at the Glendale Fighting Club,
Hovhannisyan most recently had his debut on HBO fall through. That was
coming on the heels of a split decision win over Miguel Acosta in July
of 2012. The Acosta bout was also on Showtime, as was a knockout
victory over the previously undefeated Archie Ray Marquez in June of
2011 that was likely Hovhannisyan’s most impressive performance to
date.

His camp is hoping, and confident, that changes against McGuinness.

“We are very confident,” Bastmajyan said. “Art is very confident.”

“We don’t overlook any opponents, but this should not be a problem for us.”

The bout begins a two-day span that will be monumental in the local
fighting scene and most notably for the GFC.

Tarverdyan, who’s been getting assistance with Hovhanissyan’s training
from former Glendale standout boxer William Abelyan, also trains
Ultimate Fighting Championship women’s bantamweight champion Ronda
Rousey and UFC featherweight fighter Manny Gamburyan.

The day after Hovhannisyan’s bout, Rousey will headline UFC 157 from
Anaheim when she faces Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC women’s
bout for Rousey’s title. On the same card, Gamburyan will take on Chad
Mendes in a matchup of former featherweight title contenders.

Bastmajyan also said GFC boxer Gapo Tolmajyan might also fight on the
Feb. 22 Showtime undercard.

So, for Hovhannisyan and his Glendale Fighting Club stablemates, the
last weekend of February may indeed be a weekend of career-defining
fights.

Turan news agency, Azerbaijan
Dec 29 2012

Azeri, Armenian NGOs launch joint website to promote dialogue

Non-governmental organizations in Azerbaijan and Armenia have created
a joint website to promote dialogue between the two countries,
Baku-based private Turan news agency reported on 29 December.

The website Publicdialogues.info was created by the Institute for
Peace and Democracy in Azerbaijan and Region Research Centre in
Armenia, Turan said, adding that the website was the “first of its
kind”.

The purpose of the website is to allow Armenians and Azerbaijanis to
receive first-hand information from the two countries, Turan said. The
news agency quoted Leyla Yunus, director of the Institute for Peace
and Democracy, as saying that the website will serve as a platform for
online discussions and press conferences for journalists, experts,
politicians, activists and representatives of civil society from the
two countries.

Since its creation, Publicdialogues.info has carried interviews on a
wide variety of topics, including the Karabakh conflict, human rights
issues, legislation, trade unions, cinematography and tourism. The
website will be presented in the Azerbaijani and Armenian capitals in
January, Turan news agency said, adding that it also has a page on
Facebook ().

The project is being supported by the British Foreign Office, the news
agency reported.

[Translated]