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March 10 2012

Khloe Kardashian To Bring Horror of Homeland Killings To Reality TV

March 10, 2012 03:20 PM EST

Khloe Kardashian is reportedly bringing the horrors of genocide to the
American public via the E! network and her Khloe and Lamar reality
show.

According to reports, Khloe will address her heritage in Armenia – maybe
in an effort to show that she really is a Kardashian – on an episode of
her hit reality show with husband Lama Odom.

Khloe will reportedly discuss “the Armenian Genocide highlighting
contemporary footage and photography by two veterans of the Armenian
Youth Federation (AYF), Armen Varadian and Justin Kaladjian,” said an
Armenian website.

“We were glad to be able to share educational resources with the
producers of Khloe & Lamar to help spread awareness about the Armenian
Genocide, and look forward to continuing to work with all the
Kardashians in ending the cycle of genocide worldwide,” said Sara
Cohan, director of The Genocide education project.

It’s great that Khloe Kardashian has decided to approach this subject
since she is able to reach millions of people and explain the genocide
in a manner that many can understand.

Hopefully, Khloe will continue her work to help those being affected
by the genocide in Armenia. Wouldn’t it make for a great episode if
she and Lamar actually went to visit some of those who have been made
refugees by this horrible travesty?

PEOPLE
Kim Kardashian désire adopter un Arménien

Il ne se passe pas une semaine sans que Kim Kardashian monopolise les
médias ou la presse people. Cette fois-ci la belle et plantureuse
arméno-américaine qui n’est plus à une déclaration près désire adopter
un enfant. Elle le dit sur le site de hollywoodlife.com. Elle a lancé
ses recherches pour adopter un enfant d’Haïti -où elle a effectué un
voyage humanitaire cette année- de Chine ou d’Arménie. Pays qu’elle se
dit originaire…sans jamais y avoir mis les pieds. Et si Kim
Kardashian commençait d’abord à se rendre en Arménie ? Car la dernière
fois, à Dubaï qui se trouve à quelques milliers de kilomètres
d’Erévan, elle affirmait être proche -géographiquement- de
l’Arménie…

Krikor Amirzayan

dimanche 11 mars 2012,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

ARMENIE-TELEPHONIE
L’Arménie compte 3,8 millions d’abonnés au téléphone portable

Ces dernières années profitant de la baisse des tarifs des
communications téléphoniques et l’arrivée de nouveaux opérateurs sur
le marché arménien, le nombre de téléphones portables a triplé en
Arménie. Il dépasse aujourd’hui le seuil de 3,8 millions
d’abonnements. Déjà en 2010 l’Arménie après la Russie, en deuxième
position des pays de la CEI (Communauté des Etats Indépendants) par le
nombre de téléphones portables par habitant. L’Arménie qui est devant
ses voisins la Géorgie et l’Azerbaïdjan et qui est classée en 43e
position mondiale -sur 210 pays- pour le nombre de téléphones
portables par habitant. Par ailleurs, alors que 5 % de la population
d’Arménie utilisait internet en 2007, aujourd’hui ce nombre dépasse
les 45 %. Il est vrai que les tarifs d’accès à internet ont baissé de
150 fois en quatre ans !

Krikor Amirzayan

dimanche 11 mars 2012,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

ARMENIE-POLITIQUE
Serge Sarkissian réélu président du Parti Républicain d’Arménie
lors d’un impressionnant 13e Congrès du parti présidentiel

Hier le Complexe sportif et culturel Karen Demridjian d’Erévan était
plein à craquer. Des milliers d’adhérents étaient venues au 13e
Congrès du Parti Républicain d’Arménie, le parti présidentiel.

Des centaines de personnalités, diplomates ou invités étrangers,
membres du gouvernement étaient présents. Un Congrès hautement
médiatisé, la Chaîne Publique d’Arménie diffusant en direct le
discours du Président Serge Sarkissian. Wilfrid Martens, le président
du Parti Populaire Européen auquel a adhéré l’Arménie en décembre
dernier à Marseille a dans une lettre, salué la tenue de ce 13e
congrès et réaffirmé la place de l’Arménie dans la famille européenne
du PPE. Le député de la Douma russe Arthur Tchilingarov -d’origine
arménienne- a également lu un message de félicitations du président
russe Vladimir Poutine. Fortement applaudi, le président arménien a
abordé de nombreux thèmes dont une Arménie forte et un Haut Karabagh
indépendant et qui ne retournera pas dans le giron de Bakou. Serge
Sarkissian a été réélu à l’unanimité à la présidence du Parti
Républicain d’Arménie.

Krikor Amirzayan

dimanche 11 mars 2012,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

Romania lawmaker punished for Holocaust commentes

Romanian lawmaker, Dan Sova (file photo)

press tv
Wed Mar 7, 2012 6:55PM GMT

Historical data show that a total of 24 Jews were killed during the
Iasi pogrom by the German army.”

Romanian opposition senator Dan Sova
A Romanian lawmaker has been punished by his Party after denying the
country’s late pro-Nazi leader Ion Antonescu’s responsibility in the
Holocaust during World War II.

Opposition senator Dan Sova was discharged as the Social Democrat
Party (PSD) spokesman on Wednesday after he said on television that
“no Jew suffered on Romanian territory, thanks to marshal Antonescu”.

Sova also claimed that “historical data show that a total of 24 Jews
were killed during the Iasi pogrom by the German army.”

“Mr Sova made a tremendous blunder. From now on he is no longer the
PSD spokesman,” the Social Democrats’ leader Victor Ponta said in a
press conference.

Ponta also said that Sova will be sent to Washington DC in United
States to visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Two Romanian NGOs, Romani CRISS and MCA Romania have filed a criminal
complaint against Sova, saying “the senator’s denial statements have
been explicit and his apology must reflect that he regrets and assumes
his error and not what might have been misunderstood or
misinterpreted”.

Holocaust denial is considered a crime in Romania.

People will gain a lot from this concert

Friday,
March 09

On March 11 in Aram Khachatrian concert hall the concert of Margarit
Shahinyan concert will be held.

It is dedicated to the 40-year concert activity of the singer. The
singer says this is the summery of her concert activity.

`There are very few professional singers like M. Shahinyan. I greatly
enjoyed the rehearsals and I am waiting for that concert. I am sure
that our people will gain a lot from this concert. Today everyone
sings whatever he wants, however he wants and nobody can stop them,’
says Professor Norayr Davtyan.

Psalms, medieval carols, works of Sayat Nova, Komitas and other
musicians are included in the program.

The concert was organized by the initiation of the RA Culture Ministry.

TODAY, 13:12

Aysor.am

Associated Press Online
March 8, 2012 Thursday 3:58 PM GMT

Russian grannies win bid to sing at Eurovision

By PETER LEONARD, Associated Press
MOSCOW

A Russian group known as the Buranovo Grannies has swept aside
glamorous opposition to represent the country at this year’s
Eurovision Song Contest.

The eight women beat 24 competitors, including a double act comprising
2008 Eurovision winner Dima Bilan, in a televised show late Wednesday.

An outfit from a village in Russia’s Udmurtia Republic, the women
blend modern pop sounds with their own traditional choral singing
style.

The refrain of the Buranovo Grannies “Party for Everybody” is in
English, but the remainder of the song is in Udmurt, a distant
relation of Finnish spoken by some 325,000 people.

The 57th Eurovision Song Contest will be held in May in Baku, Azerbaijan.

While some countries compete for the Eurovision title in earnest, the
contest has for many become an object of mockery.

But the Buranovo Grannies, who performed in customary peasant garb,
say they want to be taken seriously.

One group member, who identified herself in an interview to Russian
television station Rossiya-1 as granny Olya, said their goal in
performing is to raise money to build a church in their village of
Buranovo, which is home to around 650 people.

“Grandmothers don’t need glory and wealth. We have family, we have a
home, we have enough to live,” grandmother Olya said.

At an average age of 75, the Buranovo Grannies will be competing with
U.K. entry Engelbert Humperdinck for the gray vote.

Humperdinck, a sideburned, square-jawed, 75-year-old crooner who
famously beat the Beatles to the No. 1 spot in the U.K. charts in
1967, was selected by the BBC as Britain’s entry in the Eurovision.

Humperdinck whose former name is Arnold Dorsey was a 1960s sex symbol
whose “Release Me” topped the British charts in 1967, keeping The
Beatles’ “Penny Lane”/”Strawberry Fields Forever” at No. 2. He also
had a top 10 U.S. hit in 1976 with “After the Lovin.”

Previous winners of the contest include ’60s chanteuse Lulu, Sweden’s
ABBA victors in 1974 with “Waterloo” and Canada’s Celine Dion, who
triumphed for Switzerland in 1988.

On Wednesday, Armenia informed the European Broadcasting Union that it
would pull out of the contest over security concerns.

Armenia and Azerbaijan, which won the right to host the Eurovision by
winning the competition last year, have been bitter enemies since the
two former Soviet nations went to war in the 1990s over the disputed
Nagorno-Karabakh territory.

Online:

Buranovo Grannies’ winning performance:

The Hollywood Gossip
March 9 2012

Khloe & Lamar Sneak Peek: Talking Turkey
March 9th, 2012 1:17 PM by Hilton Hater 0Comments

Turkey and Armenia have a strained relationship, dating back to the
former’s massacre of the Ottoman Armenian population between 1915 and
1917.

Why do we bring up such historical atrocities on a celebrity gossip
site? Because Khloe Kardashian does so on this Sunday’s installment of
her painful reality show, reacting to the possibility of her husband
playing overseas in Turkey with a phone call to her uncle.

Would it actually be permissible for someone of Armenian descent to
live on that country? It’s a complicated question, but Khloe can at
least take solace in the fact that it was contrived for television:
Lamar Odom was never considering such a career move.

Tunisia Live
March 9 2012

Turkey Confirms France’s Invitation to Friends of Syria

Sana Ajmi | 09 March 2012

Press attaché of Abdullah Gül, the president of Turkey, confirmed
today that France will definitely be invited to the upcoming Friends
of Syria conference, to be hosted by Turkey. `The Friends of Syria
conference we will host is an international summit with all
representatives from the first conference participating,’ Mehmet Kasap
stated, a spokesman for President Gül.

Relations between Turkey and France have become increasingly tense
following France’s proposal to adopt a law criminalizing the denial of
the existence of the Armenian genocide – an extremely sensitive
subject in Turkish national dialogue. The Turkish government
subsequently responded by alleging that France committed genocide
during Algeria’s struggle to free itself from colonial rule.

The statement was made on the final day of Gül’s three-day diplomatic
visit to Tunisia. Gül concluded his trip by touring the Sadiki
secondary school and praying in Tunis’s iconic Zeitouna mosque. He
returned to Turkey this evening following a closing ceremony held at
4:00pm.

The second Friends of Syria summit will be held in Istanbul on a yet
to be determined date.

Posted on 16 January 2012. Tags: armenia, ottoman empire, Women and girls

Women’s Views on News

By Sue Tapply

Summary of story from AlJazeera, January 12, 2012

Filmmaker Suzanne Khardalian makes a journey into her own family with
a film that investigates the terrible truth behind her late grandma’s
odd tattoos.

During the First World War, millions of Armenians were forced out of
their homes in the then Ottoman empire, into the deserts of Syria and
Iraq.

More than a million people died in what Armenians describe as a
genocide, although Turkey rejects this accusation. Many of the women
and young girls who did not die were made slaves, or concubines.

Her grandma was always a bit strange, never liking physical contact,
and was covered with unusual – Turkish – marks.

Everybody in Khardalian’s family seemed to know the story, but no-one
ever spoke about it.

So when grandma’s mystery is slowly unveiled, family taboos are broken
down and Khardalian exposes the bigger story – the fate of the
Armenian women driven out of Ottoman Turkey during the First World
War.

The painful journey behind her grandma’s tattoos unfolds through
Armenia, Lebanon, Sweden and Syria, finally bringing out the truth.

Sue Tapply may be contacted at [email protected] or
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