Armenpress News Agency , Armenia Friday 'Armenia uncovered' documentary to discover contemporary Armenia for foreigners YEREVAN, AUGUST 18, ARMENPRESS. ‘Armenia uncovered’ documentary will present Armenia to foreigners, reports Armenpress. Armenian cultural figures from different parts of the world are involved in the film-making process. ‘The beautified project’ group founder Andre Simonyan told reporters the film will be probably screened by any international TV channel. “The purpose of the film is to introduce Armenia, Armenians to foreigners. For many people Armenia is a post-Soviet country that tries to reach Europe. They want to present contemporary Armenia. In the film Armenia will be presented as a very interesting multicultural country with its nature, cuisine aimed at attracting tourists”, Andre Simonyan said, adding that the title of the film ‘Armenia uncovered’ already hints that Armenia is a secret that they want to discover for foreigners. He informed that the authors shoot different sectors of the country’s culture - cuisine, theatrical art, music, fashion… The film-making crew was also interested in the International Barbecue festival and they decided to include it in the film. “The film-making team consists of nationals from different countries. The team consists of Austrian, American, as well as Yerevan residents. Every day they try to visit 3-4 places to shoot different things”, Simonyan said.
Author: Vardan Badalian
Education: Schoolboy from Sisian develops automated school bell system
ARKA, Armenia
Aug 16 2017
YEREVAN, August 16. /ARKA/. A 16-year-old schoolboy from Armenian Sisian, Edgar Poghosyan, has developed an automated school bell system that will be tested on September 1 in a number of schools, the press service of the Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE) said.
The system has four main functions. The first one makes the constant presence of someone in the teacher's room to turn on the bell unnecessary. Second, the system has a built-in alarm button. The third one enables turning on music during the breaks and the fourth function plays the anthem of the Republic of Armenia before the first lesson.
This system is called Clever Sentry and is available on csentry.com. It is also able to work on mobile devices. -0-
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Chess: Aronian draws against Svidler, stays among the leaders at the Sinquefield Cup
Panorama, Armenia
Aug 11 2017
In the penultimate round of the Sinquefield Cup being held at Saint Louis, United State, the Armenian GM Levon Aronian played draw against Pyotr Svidler of Russia, the National Olympic Committee of Armenia reported.
With the last round still to come, the Armenian GM tops the table with 5 points sharing the first spot with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and former world champion Viswanathan Anand.
The winner of the tournament will be declared in the ninth round, where the Armenian will face world champion Magnus Carlsen.
RFE/RL Armenian Report – 08/10/2017
Thursday, Yerevan Approves First Deal With Russian-Armenian Investors . Emil Danielyan Armenia - Prime Minister Karen Karapetian (R) and Russian-Armenian businessman Samvel Karapetian announce the creation of a Russian-Armenian investment fund in Yerevan, 25Mar2017. An investment fund set up recently by wealthy Russian entrepreneurs of Armenian descent plans to build a major hydroelectric plant in Armenia in what will be the first business project financed by it, it was announced on Thursday. The Armenian government gave the green light to the project, saying that it will boost the country's energy security. The decision took the form of formal approval of a framework agreement with the fund called the Investors Club of Armenia (ICA). "This is the first major project of the Investors Club of Armenia which has been discussed in detail ever since the creation of the fund," Energy Minister Ashot Manukian said at a weekly cabinet meeting. The fund was officially presented in March at a ceremony in Yerevan attended by Prime Minister Karen Karapetian. The latter has close rapports with its key founders, notably the Armenian-born billionaire Samvel Karapetian (no relation). Minister for Economic Development Suren Karayan said in April that the fund's investments in the Armenian economy should total around $300 million this year. One of Karayan's deputies told reporters last month that the first ICA-funded projects relating to renewable energy will be launched this fall. The new hydroelectric plant is due to be built on the Debed river flowing through Armenia's northern Lori province. It will be located near Shnogh, a village 20 kilometers south of the country's border with Georgia. Armenia - A view of the Debed river flowing through a canyon in the Lori province, July 2010. Manukian told fellow cabinet members that the "modern and sophisticated" facility will absorb at least $150 million in investments and have a capacity of 76 megawatts. Power generated by it will account for 5 percent of Armenian electricity production, the energy minister said. The ICA says on its website that the Shnogh plant's construction will take three years. The framework agreement with the Russian-Armenian investors commits the government to guaranteeing that Armenia's national electric utility will buy 500 million kilowatt/hours of electricity annually form the future plant. Incidentally, the utility belongs to Samvel Karapetian's Tashir Group. The Russian-Armenian tycoon also owns Armenia's largest thermal power plant and shopping malls in Yerevan. The "Forbes" magazine estimates his personal fortune at $3.5billion, suggesting that he is the richest ethnic Armenian in the world. The ICA website also reveals that the fund would like to at least partly finance the planned construction of a 100-megawatt hydroelectric plant on the Arax river marking Armenia's border with Iran. The Armenian and Iranian governments have long been trying to implement the project. Manukian on Thursday stressed hydropower's importance for Armenia's energy security. He said the Shnogh plant and smaller hydroelectric facilities currently under construction will raise renewable energy's share in Armenian electricity output to around 50 percent. Hydroelectric plants produced nearly one-third of Armenia's electricity last year. The proportion stood at only 20 percent a decade ago. It has risen rapidly thanks to more than 150 small and privately owned hydroelectric plants built along fast-flowing mountainous rivers. Hydropower is much cheaper than electricity supplied by thermal-power plants mainly using Russian natural gas. New Banana Importer Reports Acid Attack . Tatev Danielian Armenia -- Refrigerator parts of a banana warehouse in Yerevan damaged by acid, 10Aug2017. A businessman who has helped to end a long-standing monopoly on imports of bananas to Armenia reported on Thursday an acid attack on his warehouses in Yerevan. Vahram Mirakian said that early in the morning someone poured acid on refrigerator compressors of the warehouses where bananas imported by his company are stored. "If the refrigerator had stopped working at night, 20 tons of produce would have perished within an hour," he told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am). The 33-year-old entrepreneur said he has alerted the Armenian police about the incident and will ascertain the damage after police officers inspect the scene. Mirakian also said that the attacker did not damage other equipment or steal any bananas. "I can therefore presume that it was the work of those individuals who are not interested in our importing bananas," he added without naming names. Banana imports to Armenia were for many years effectively monopolized by the Katrin Group company reputedly controlled by Mihran Poghosian, the influential former head of a state body enforcing court rulings. Poghosian resigned in April 2016 after being accused of having secret offshore accounts exposed by the Panama Papers. Earlier this year, he was elected to the Armenian parliament on the ruling Republican Party's ticket. Prime Minister Karen Karapetian pledged to liberalize these and other lucrative imports shortly after taking office last September. Mirakian and other entrepreneurs started importing bananas later in 2016. The State Revenue Committee (SRC) claimed in November that it has cracked down on unnamed individuals which it said tried to obstruct a banana shipment carried out by one of the new importers. Mirakian insisted that his company has faced no "artificial obstacles" to its banana imports amounting to 40-80 tons per month. "We were one of the first [new entities] to bring in bananas late last year," he said. "We have continued steadily binging in bananas since then." He also made clear that the latest incident will not force him to pull out of the business. According to the State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition (SCPEC), some 40 entities imported bananas to Armenia last year. Katrin Group accounted for 56 percent of those imports, a commission spokeswoman told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am). Ministers Differ On Impact Of New U.S. Sanctions Against Russia . Artak Hambardzumian Armenia - Prime Minister Karen Karapetian chairs a cabinet meeting in Yerevan, 10Aug2017. Senior Armenian government officials have made conflicting statements about the possible impact on Armenia of new economic sanctions which the United States has imposed on Russia. The sanctions targeting the energy sector could further hurt the Russian economy that contracted in 2016 and 2015 amid falling oil prices. The first U.S. and European Union sanctions slapped on Moscow in 2014 added to Russia's economic woes. Russia is Armenia's number one trading partner and main source of multimillion-dollar remittances from Armenians working abroad. Hence, fears in Yerevan about the fallout from the additional sanctions imposed by the U.S. Congress late last month. "Sanctions [against Russia] have long been in force but as you can see, our economy has already adapted to them," Armenian Minister for Economic Development Suren Karayan said on Thursday. "Right now I see no cause for serious concern." Finance Minister Vartan Aramian was less sanguine when he spoke to RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am) last week. "I don't think that these sanctions will create the kind of a serious situation which we saw in 2014-2015," he said. "But in any case, they will certainly damage Armenia." Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharian likewise admitted on Thursday that a fresh economic downturn in Russia would have spillover effects on Armenia. "Obviously, when there are negative developments in the Russian economy they reflect on all of Russia's neighbors," he told reporters. Kocharian said that Armenia is now seeking to diversify its foreign trading partners in hopes of minimizing g the impact of the U.S. sanctions. Karayan also stressed the importance of diversifying Armenian exports. "In the first half of this year, our exports to the [Russian-led] Eurasian Economic Union rose by 25 percent, while exports to the European Union rose by 20 percent," he said. "So we are trying to diversify our export markets." Last week, the government drew up a priority list of 14 nations with which it will be seeking closer economic ties. The list includes Russia, the U.S., China and the key EU member states as well as neighboring Georgia and Iran. The government pledged to foster greater Armenian exports to those countries and attract more investments and tourists from them. Press Review "Aravot" says that despite its military victory in the 2008 war in South Ossetia, Russia "lost Georgia as an ally and a friendly country." The paper is certain that "this situation will not last forever for the simple reason that Russia will not stay in this region forever." "Many consider this unlikely," it says in an editorial. "But the collapse of the Soviet Union seemed just as unlikely." Lragir.am praises the Armenian leadership for threatening counteroffensive military operations against Azerbaijan, sending troops to NATO exercises in Georgia and stepping up diplomatic contacts with Western and other non-Russian powers in the course of last month. "July showed that taking a more or less tough position and pursuing one's own interests creates a totally different situation," writes the online publication. "First and foremost, it removes the factor of the Armenian side's predictability in the Karabakh conflict, which allowed Azerbaijan to advance its military diplomacy and demands and at the same time bring Russia into the realm of its demands. This does not mean of course that Azerbaijan may abandon its policy. With Armenia adopting a new policy, every gunshot fired by Azerbaijan will damage not only Azerbaijan but also Russia." 1in.am comments on opposition threats to stage street protests in Yerevan if President Serzh Sarkisian becomes prime minister after serving out his second and final presidential term in office in April 2018. The publication is skeptical about those threats, saying that opposition leaders could only solve "petty partisan issues" with their tough talk addressed to Sarkisian. (Tigran Avetisian) Reprinted on ANN/Armenian News with permission from RFE/RL Copyright (c) 2017 Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Inc. 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. www.rferl.org
Culture: Listen to jazz and taste the Armenian honey – Tavush region gets ready for the annual festival
Panorama, Armenia
Aug 9 2017
Soran National park in Berd city of Armenia’s Tavush regions will host the traditional festival of Shamshadin Honey and Berry on August 13. The annual event that takes place during the month of August will be preceded by the Jazz on the Border” Festival. The guests and residents of the region will listen to Jazz music till midnight and taste Shamshadin-produced honey and other locally prepared food in the next morning.
“We have conducted unpreceded works this year for the overnight stay of our guests,” Hayk Chobanyan, the Head of Spiritual Revival Foundation of Tavush region told reporters.
In his words, the festival is aimed at branding and promoting the locally produced honey with expected popularity of beekeeping and honey production in the area.
“Today honey is a brand in this region as the wine for Areni. We have witnessed serious progress over the past years in apiculture,” Chobanyan said, adding the festival will also contribute to the social, cultural, and infrastructure development of the Berd region.
Parseghian remembered as much for kindness as his coaching
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Aug 6 2017
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Ara Parseghian was remembered as a championship football coach, mentor, tireless fund-raiser for medical research and gentleman of the first order during his funeral Mass and a memorial celebration that followed on Sunday.
Parseghian, who brought Notre Dame's proud program out of the doldrums of the early 1960s to win two national titles, died Wednesday at 94 .
Former Notre Dame football Lou Holtz and former basketball coach Digger Phelps were among the speakers at the memorial. Country music artist Vince Gill, who with his wife Amy Grant are friends of the Parseghian family, performed two songs.
Holtz told attendees that the late school President Rev. Theodore Hesburgh once said hiring Parseghian was one of the smartest things he had ever done and that Parseghian once said his years in South Bend were the greatest of his and his family's lives.
"Had Ara Parseghian not shown up, so many people would have missed him because of his insight, his love of his family and his caring for people," Holtz said. "A lot of people can be successful. But Ara was significant. Significant is when you help other people be successful and, of course, that lasts many a lifetime."
Parseghian, who coached at Miami University, his alma mater, and Northwestern prior to coming to South Bend, had 25 consensus All-Americans and a Heisman Trophy winner play for him at Notre Dame. He won national titles in 1966 and 1973 and posted an .836 winning percentage before he retired in 1974 at age 51.
It was noted at the memorial that Parseghian's playbook always had the saying "We have no breaking point!" written on the last page. Parseghian lived that mantra outside football, as well.
Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins, who presided at the funeral, spoke of the grace with which the Parseghians faced devastating illnesses that touched the family. Parseghian and his wife of 68 years, Katie, lost three grandchildren between the ages of 9-16 to Niemann-Pick disease from 1997-2005. Parseghian helped create a foundation that has raised more than $45 million for research on the disease.
Parseghian also was a past national chairman for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. His daughter, Karan Burke, died in 2014 after battling MS for four decades.
"Such losses crush many people. They did not crush Ara" and his family," Jenkins said.
Peter Schivarelli, manager of the band Chicago, remembered the opportunity Parseghian gave him to try out for the team as a walk-on in the 1960s. Though never more than a backup, Schivarelli said, Parseghian treated him as well as any All-American. Years later, Parseghian arranged for members of Chicago to stand on the Notre Dame sideline during a game against Southern California.
The band never forgot Parseghian's kindness, Schivarelli said, and for the last 23 years has donated one dollar from every concert ticket sold to Parseghian's foundation.
Phelps spoke of Parseghian's sense of humor. In 1965, Phelps, then a high school coach in Pennsylvania, wrote a letter to Parseghian saying he wanted one day to be head basketball coach at Notre Dame and emulate the work Parseghian was doing with football. Phelps was hired in 1971 and came to find out that old note to Parseghian had been deposited in the coach's "crazy letter file."
When Phelps' basketball team ascended to No. 1 in the national polls in January 1974, Parseghian acknowledged the achievement by inviting him to the stage at an event celebrating the '73 football championship.
"He was a big brother and mentor," Phelps said. "He was incredible being who he was, especially in letting me know how to coach here at Notre Dame. He told me every game you play is the other team's Super Bowl. Your kids have to be ready, and above being ready, because the other team is coming after you."
Nephew Tom Parseghian's eulogy at the funeral described Ara as the son of Armenian immigrants in Akron, Ohio. Ara's father saw no value in activities not academically centered. So Ara's brother forged their father's signature on a permission slip so Ara could play sports in school.
Ara grew into a fierce competitor as an athlete and coach, his nephew said, but it's the gentleman the people who knew him will remember best.
"In 1964," Tom Parseghian said, "before being offered the job, Father Hesburgh asked him a question: 'Ara, will you adhere to the standards of integrity we expect here at Notre Dame?' He verbally answered that question that day, and he continued to answer that question for the next 53 years."
Europeanization of Turkey or Turkification of Europe?
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
By Edmond Y. Azadian
The tug of war between Ankara and Brussels continues. Turkey is a candidate for membership in the European Union. It persists in joining the EU, but refuses to abide by its rules and then blames Europe for blocking its entry into the family of Western nations.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan outlined the current standoff in the following manner: “The stance of the European Union is clear to see … 54 years have passed and they are messing us about.” He then criticized Brussels’ failure to keep its promise on everything from a visa deal to aid for Syrian migrants.
For Europe, Turkey is the necessary evil to execute any plan concocted in the West to deal with the crises in the Middle East. But for Ankara, assuming that role comes with the entitlement of joining Europe, a dream which has kept Turkey languishing at the gates of Europe for a long time.
It is characteristic of Turks to conquer nations and usurp their wealth as they have done to the Armenians and the Byzantines. Since Fatih Sultan Muhammed conquered Constantinople in 1453, the eyes of the Ottoman rulers have been set on Europe. But the invasion of Soliman the Magnificent was stopped at the gates of Vienna in 1529, as the Frankish warrior Charles Martel had stopped the Muslim armed expansion to the North at the Battle of Tours in 732 AD.
However, the Turks kept the Balkan nations under their rule for more than four centuries leaving a legacy of death and destruction to this day.
Thus far, Europe has been saved from the menace of Turkification, but no one knows for how long. Turkish leaders do not mince their words. Their intentions are crystal clear. When President Erdogan orders every Turkish family to have at least five children in Europe “who eventually will decide the destiny of Europe,” then the handwriting is on the wall for everyone to see. He also blackmails European leaders by letting them know that if they don’t give in to his wishes, they will no longer walk safely in their streets. Yet, European leaders kowtow to Erdogan driven by a civilized code of conduct.
Turkey is polarized demographically. There is a segment of society that has given the world top notch, world-class literature, such as Orhan Pamuk, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and then there is another segment of society, jingoists and religious fanatics living in the backwaters. When the Islamic mobs vote for the likes of Erdogan to assume the powers of a dictator, the first casualties are those in the first segment, with many living in self-imposed exile abroad or languishing in Erdogan’s overfilled jails.
Of course, there is a third segment in between, namely the Kurds, who constitute fully one third of the population and who aspire to autonomy or independence.
But Erdogan is riding high in Turkey, projecting his arrogance towards Europe.
In the current state of affairs, Europeans see very clearly that once they open the floodgates in front of the Turks, the likelihood of European Turkification is more than Turkey’s Europeanization.
On July 15, President Erdogan and his AKP ruling party used the anniversary of the botched coup to flex their muscles. Erdogan needed to demonstrate his bravura to his domestic foes as well as his European challengers. Indeed, a few weeks ago, Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, leader of the Republican People’s party and Erdogan’s main opponent, has called the putsch a “controlled coup.”
Kiliçdaroglu had walked from Ankara to Istanbul to protest the president’s repressive rule. It was a walk longer than that of Mahatma Gandhi when he protested British rule over India.
Upon arriving in Istanbul, Kiliçdaroglu gave a scathing speech to a crowd of 1.5 million. To outdo this challenge, Erdogan rallied a crowd 5-million strong at the Istanbul Bridge, which henceforth has been renamed the July 15 Martyrs Bridge, to give his fiery speech.
He walked through the crowd, protected by a police force of 25,000. Then he flew to Ankara to continue the commemoration in the parliament, which had been bombed during the coup, at midnight, to a crowd of 170,000.
Erdogan was very defiant in his speech. He said, “We cannot defeat the queen, the king or the sheikhs without defeating the pawns, knights and castles. Firstly, we will rip the heads of these traitors.” Then he added that he would approve the death penalty “without hesitation” if the parliament voted to restore it.
This kind of rhetoric draws Turkey closer to Saudi jurisprudence rather than to Europe.
Erdogan is a man of his word. His tough talk does not offer empty threats; to date, he has detained 155,000 people; 50,000 have been jailed and 140,000 have been dismissed from their jobs, on suspicion of having participated in the coup. Those who have been dismissed include a third of the judiciary, a tenth of the police force, 7,800 military officers, more than 8,000 academics and 33,000 teachers. As well, 942 companies have been seized.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists calls Turkey the world’s biggest jailer of journalists, with 160 detained.
Under Erdogan’s emergency rule, the police do not need any proof to arrest journalists as “terrorists” or “terrorist sympathizers.”
A report by the Venice Commission of the EU found that the constitutional amendments were “a dangerous step backwards” and “degenerative of Turkey’s constitutional democratic tradition.”
Alarmed by those developments, the European parliament voted (477 out of 638 members) to suspend accession negotiations with Turkey, which was a resounding “no” to Erdogan’s dictatorship.
Erdogan has given the EU an ultimatum, that if that body does not continue the negotiation process, then Turkey will simply walk away. However, in a statement, the European Chief Jean-Claude Juncker announced that the EU remained committed to a dialogue with Turkey and asked Ankara to strengthen its democracy, adding at the end, “If Turkey were to introduce the death penalty, the Turkish government would finally slam the door to EU membership.”
Now, it remains to be seen who will blink first. If we remember Erdogan’s standoffs with Israeli leader Benyamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin, it will not be hard to guess his moves.
Turkey’s relations with its neighbors and faraway nations undoubtedly affect Armenia. The Russo-Turkish rapprochement will certainly make it more conduce for Moscow to trample Armenia’s interests. Similarly, Turkey’s admission into the EU will have negative fallout for Armenia. Many pundits and statesmen in Armenia believe that Turkey’s entry into the EU will enforce Ankara to behave with more civility with its neighbors. They also advocate that with Turkey’s admission into the EU, Europe’s borders will extend all the way to Armenia, therefore Ankara will no longer be able to blockade Armenia.
But precedents vigorously discourage such theories. It suffices to mention that Turkey and Greece are members of NATO and yet Ankara continuously bullies Athens, has occupied Cyprus and fellow NATO members cannot budge Turkey from its arrogant position. Therefore, joining the EU can hardly serve Armenia’s interests. Turkey will always force its way, it will try to eat its cake and have it, while Europe looks the other way.
BAKU: Ministry: Russia will continue to protect rights of Lapshin given court verdict
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
18:16 (UTC+04:00)
By Rashid Shirinov
Russia will continue to protect the legitimate rights of Alexander Lapshin, who was sentenced to three years in prison in Baku.
“Today the Baku Court on Grave Crimes sentenced the Russian citizen Alexander Lapshin to three years of imprisonment. As is known, Lapshin was charged because he visited Nagorno Karabakh,” Russian Foreign Ministry’s Information and Press Department told RIA Novosti agency on July 20.
“We will continue the work to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the Russian citizen given the court verdict. Representatives of the Russian Embassy in Azerbaijan are in contact with Lapshin and his lawyer,” Russian Foreign Ministry added.
Blogger Lapshin was charged with his illegal visits to the Armenia-occupied Azerbaijani lands and a criminal conspiracy with the Armenians living there. He violated Azerbaijani laws on state border in April 2011 and October 2012.
Helped by his accomplices in the occupied territories, Lapshin paid a number of visits to Azerbaijan’s occupied lands, where he voiced support for "independence" of the illegal regime, and made public calls against Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territorial integrity on April 6 and June 29, 2016.
The blogger was arrested in Minsk in late 2016 and transferred to Baku in February 2017.
By the decision of the Baku Court on Grave Crimes, Lapshin will serve his sentence in a general regime colony.
Republic of Armenia : 2017 Article IV Consultation and Fifth and Final Review [IMF]
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Since its independence, Armenia has made significant strides in enhancing macroeconomic stability. Growth has been satisfactory with inflation under control and the fiscal situation broadly well managed. Lately, adverse external developments have led to significant falls in remittances and the price of copper, Armenia’s main export. Following subdued growth in 2016, the economy is expected to gradually recover in 2017, but the outlook is clouded by downside risks and tough challenges remain: growth continues to be volatile and narrowly based, trade opportunities remain limited, and public debt has increased sharply. Following important reforms in the energy sector and the tax code, the government is determined to tackle corruption, improve competition, and promote sustainable growth.
Education: Rostelecom sums up program for students
iTel.am, Armenia
Rostelecom sums up program for students
16:26 | 18.07.17 | News | visibility 1109
Rostelecom summed up today the New Opportunities for Students program, which enabled 20 students of different specialties from Armenia’s universities to compete and become the company’s staffer.
That was the third edition of the program in Armenia. The participants took one-month interactive learning course that directly involved Rostelecom employees.
“It’s very important for us to have a dialogue with young people and introduce them to the principles of our company’s corporate management. I’m certain that the knowledge they acquired here will facilitate further development of their careers. Thanks to our project, the students became more confident and learned about working in an office, for a big organization. It’s noteworthy that participants of last year’s course now work in various departments of Rostelecom and successfully combine work and education,” said Rostelecom Armenia CEO Hayk Faramazyan.
Winner of the competitive part of the program Lilit Grigoryan was offered three-month paid internship at a Rostelecom department of her choice and a job at the company if her results are good.
The program participants received certificates at the final meeting. They will be considered if Rostelecom Armenia has vacancies in the near future.
Rostelecom summed up today the New Opportunities for Students program, which enabled 20 students of different specialties from Armenia’s universities to compete and become the company’s staffer.
That was the third edition of the program in Armenia. The participants took one-month interactive learning course that directly involved Rostelecom employees.
“It’s very important for us to have a dialogue with young people and introduce them to the principles of our company’s corporate management. I’m certain that the knowledge they acquired here will facilitate further development of their careers. Thanks to our project, the students became more confident and learned about working in an office, for a big organization. It’s noteworthy that participants of last year’s course now work in various departments of Rostelecom and successfully combine work and education,” said Rostelecom Armenia CEO Hayk Faramazyan.
Winner of the competitive part of the program Lilit Grigoryan was offered three-month paid internship at a Rostelecom department of her choice and a job at the company if her results are good.
The program participants received certificates at the final meeting. They will be considered if Rostelecom Armenia has vacancies in the near future.