Author: Vorskanian Yeghisabet

Sports: Football: Armenia’s Alashkert, Pyunik out of Europa League qualifying

Vorskanian Yeghisabet
Panorama, Armenia
Aug 17 2018

Armenian football clubs Alashkert and Pyunik have been left out of the Europa League third qualifying round after suffering second-leg defeats on Thursday.

FC Alashkert lost to Romania’s Cluj 0-5 in the return march, the Football Federation of Armenia told Panorama.am. 

Alashkert had also lost the home match against Cluj 0-2 in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital.

Drawing the first clash, FC Pyunik also suffered a 1-2 defeat at the hands of Maccabi Tel Aviv in the second leg of the Europa League third qualifying round in Israel. 

168: For a long time the U.S. Government wanted to see a complete and impartial investigation into the March 1 tragic incidents – Richard Mills

Vorskanian Yeghisabet
| 13:08 | August 15 2018
Category
Politics

The U.S. Government is attentively following the developments in Armenia connected with the March 1 case, U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Richard Mills told the reporters.

“For a long time the U.S. Government wanted to see a complete and impartial investigation into the March 1 tragic incidents”, Mills said.

The Ambassador highlighted the necessity of carrying out the process in line with the law. “It’s of key importance that any action taken against the persons who have committed crime or are suspected in it should be guided by rule of law and in line with Armenia’s laws and regulations”, Richard Mills said.

Mésopotamia, avec Pascal Maguesyan.

Vorskanian Yeghisabet
France Culture
12 août  2018


Mésopotamia, avec Pascal Maguesyan.

L’association MESOPOTAMIA a pour ambition de dresser un inventaire exhaustif du patrimoine chrétien et yézidi en Irak. Sauvegarder le patrimoine, préserver la mémoire des peuples, œuvrer pour la citoyenneté et le bien commun.

Un cimeière yézidi du nord de l’Irak• Crédits : Sébastien de Courtois.

Entre Tigre et Euphrate, berceau de nos humanités, les chrétiens d’Irak dans leur diversités, assyriens, chaldéens, syriaques, ou arméniens, et les Yézidis ont contribué à façonner l’identité de cette terre, comme plus tard la citoyenneté irakienne.

Ces communautés qui ont été persécutées ces dernières années à Mossoul, à Sinjar et dans la plaine de Ninive, résistent pour survivre. Les retours sont difficiles mais non impossibles. 

C’est dans ce contexte qu’est né le projet MESOPOTAMIA Heritage. 

La démarche de l’association repose sur l’intuition suivante, exprimée par Pascal Maguesyan : “Si nous prétendons prendre soin des vivants, nous devons aussi prendre soin de leur patrimoine.”

www.mesopotamiaheritage.org

Pascal Maguesyan est aussi l’auteur d’un très beau récit de voyage en Turquie centrale et orientale : Sur le chemin de Guiragos, à découvrir aux éditions Union internationale des organisations terre et culture. 

www.terreetculture.org

” (…) En trente-deux chapitres, ce petit-fils d’anciens rescapés du massacre, nous fait revivre par les mots la grandeur de cette  civilisation arménienne aujourd’hui en souffrance : églises abandonnées, monastères vidés de leurs moines, villages rebaptisés en langue turque. Au fil de la lecture, les paysages surgissent et frappent nos esprits : le Mont Ararat, le lac de Van, l’île d’Aghtamar. Un  témoignage qui reconstruit l’histoire de l’Arménie, et de ceux qui l’ont écrite : le poète Varoujan, Tamar la beauté légendaire, ou le roi Tiridate IV, qui, en 301, fit de l’Arménie une nation chrétienne…” écrit Luc Balbont dans Chrétiens de la Méditerranée.  

Pascal Maguesyan est l’auteur de : Chrétiens d’Orient : ombres et lumières.- Thaddée, 2013, Anaphora, sentier de vie.- Anaphora, 2014.


168: PM Pashinyan invites people to meet in Republic Square on August 17 to sum up 100 days of his term in office

Vorskanian Yeghisabet
| 11:51 | August 1 2018
Category
Politics

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan invites people to meet in the Republic Square on August 17, at 18:30 to present the results of his 100-day term in office, reports Armenpress.

“I will soon mark my 100 days in the position of the prime minister, and I propose to hold a great rally on August 17, at our traditional meeting place – the Republic Square. I don’t know how you, but I missed you a lot. I want us to again have an opportunity to communicate with each other”, the PM said live on Facebook.

He stated that a very important event is expected, and the participation of everyone is necessary. They will discuss what has happened during these 100 days of this tenure, what steps the government has taken and will take to ensure drastic development.

“We will talk about the existing opportunities and challenges, how we are going to deal with them, to use the opportunities and manage the challenges. It will be a very important meeting in terms of putting the stable grounds of the future and launching Armenia’s development in practice. We will also talk about the problems we faced during this period, the solutions and management of which we are dealing with”, the PM said.

Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan

Azerbaijani Press: Armenia should show constructivism at upcoming talks in New York

Vorskanian Yeghisabet
AzerNews, Azerbaijan
Aug 2 2018
Armenia should show constructivism at upcoming talks in New York

By Rashid Shirinov

Armenia should take advantage of another chance provided by Azerbaijan and show appropriate constructivism during the negotiations on the settlement of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, a well-known Turkish expert, professor Togrul Ismayil told Day.Az on August 1.

He was commenting on the news about the next meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers scheduled to be held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York in September.

The expert positively assessed this and noted the importance of the upcoming meeting of the Azerbaijani and Armenian officials.

“I support a peaceful way of resolving this problem within the rules and norms of international law. Armenia, having occupied the territory of a foreign state, clearly violated the norms of international law, and still refuses to comply with the UN Security Council resolutions, which is not acceptable for Azerbaijan,” Ismayil stressed.

The expert added that Yerevan should realize the deplorable situation in which Armenia has been staying for many years.

“Pashinyan’s government must seriously realize that by continuing the aggression against Azerbaijan, Armenia itself loses in all aspects and deprives itself of the last chance to get out of the economic and political impasse,” Ismayil mentioned.

Because of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenia has no economic relations and transport links with Azerbaijan and Turkey. Thus, Armenia has turned into the black sheep of the region. The economy of the country remains critical, demonstrating incredibly low indexes every year.

Armenia broke out a lengthy war against Azerbaijan by laying territorial claims on the country. Since a war in the early 1990s, Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and over 1 million were displaced as a result of the large-scale hostilities.

To this day, Armenia has not implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding regions.

Moscow warns Armenia against ‘political’ crackdown on old elite

Vorskanian Yeghisabet 
Agence France Presse
 Tuesday 7:10 PM GMT
Moscow warns Armenia against 'political' crackdown on old elite
Moscow, 
Russia's foreign minister on Tuesday warned Armenia's new leadership
not to make "political" moves against pro-Moscow former elites who are
currently being targeted in an anti-corruption crackdown.
The remarks came after former president Robert Kocharyan was charged
with tipping a 2008 election in favour of his pro-Moscow successor.
"The events of the last few days...contradict the recent declarations
of the new Armenian leadership that it was not planning to pursue its
predecessors on political grounds," Sergei Lavrov said in comments
carried by Russian news agencies.
"Moscow, as an ally of Yerevan, has always had an interest in the
stability of the Armenian state and therefore what is happening there
must be of concern to us," he said, adding he was hoping for
"constructive" developments.
Lavrov's declaration is the first outward sign of tension between
Russia and Armenia since opposition campaigner Nikol Pashinyan swept
to power in the ex-Soviet nation in May on the back of popular
protests.
He launched a campaign to stamp out graft, which has already seen the
arrest of a number of top officials.
Unlike the leaders of earlier popular movements in ex-Soviet Georgia
and Ukraine, Pashinyan has tried to maintain good ties with Moscow.
Yuri Khachaturov, the Armenian secretary general of the Collective
Security Treaty Organization -- a military alliance led by Moscow --
has also been charged in the case that saw the arrest of Kocharyan.
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Armenian Republicans denounce Kocharyan detention as antidemocratic step

Vorskanian Yeghisabet
ARKA, Armenia

YEREVAN, July 30. /ARKA/. The faction of the Republican Party of Armenia reacted angrily to the detention of former Armenian president Robert Kocharyan. 

The party members think that this process ‘has nothing in common with democracy, legality and independence of the justice system’. 

In their opinion, the criminal case strikes hard at political things inside Armenia and ‘such unjustified accusations lay grounds for political split in the country’, which are especially dangerous ‘amid challenges around Armenia and Artsakh’. 

They also think that the trouble caused to Kocharyan may tarnish Armenia’s reputation in international and judicial organizations.  

A Yerevan district court late on July 27 ruled that the Special Investigative Service (SIS) could hold Kocharyan for two months in pre-trial detention pending investigation. The case dates back to late February and early March 2008 following the disputed presidential election, when then prime minister Serzh Sargsyan was declared the winner, angering the opposition, led by the first Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosyan and setting off 10 days of nonstop protests that led to a crackdown on March 1, in which 10 people were killed and more than 200 injured.

Kocharyan is now charged with toppling constitutional order in collusion with other persons, and the agency has applied to court for a detention warrant. 

The same charge was brought against Yuri Khachaturov, secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, who had been the chief of the Yerevan garrison at the time of the bloody events of 2008. 

However, Khachaturov was released on bail, for AMD 5 million.  

Also former defense minister Mikael Harutyunyan is wanted by the law-enforcement authorities as a defendant in the case. 

He is accused of illegally using the Armenian armed forces against opposition supporters who demonstrated in Yerevan in the wake of the disputed presidential election held in February 2008. –0—


LIVE Discussion on incident in Panic (video)

Vorskanian Yeghisabet
  • 13:57 | July 23,2018 | Politics
  • Armenian:
  • Rus
Media Center holds a discussion on “The incident in Panic: Is it necessary to reconsider the conditions for the deployment of the 102nd Russian military base?”
Speakers:
Stepan Grigoryan, Chairman of the Board of Analytical Center for Globalization and Regional Cooperation, political scientist
Artur Sakunts, President of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor Office
Ara Papian, Chairman of Modus Vivendi Center, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia

Robert Emmiyan : «Je rêve que mon record soit battu un jour»

Vorskanian Yeghisabet
La Depeche. France
-8 juillet 2018
 
 
 
Robert Emmiyan : «Je rêve que mon record soit battu un jour»
 
Athlétisme
 
Les stars de l’athlétisme mondial étaient aussi en tribune ce week-end au Stadium d’Albi. Aux alentours de 15 heures samedi, avaient lieu les qualifications du concours masculin du saut en longueur. Dans les gradins, un homme en chemise blanche se tient le long des rambardes et donne ses conseils à certains athlètes. Il s’agit de Robert Emmiyan, recordman d’Europe de la discipline depuis plus de trente ans (1987, 8 mètres 86).
 
Aujourd’hui, l’ancien sauteur arménien est devenu président de la fédération d’athlétisme de son pays. «Je suis aussi conseiller pour la Fédération Française et je travaille en tant qu’entraîneur à l’INSEP, je coach deux athlètes pour ces championnats de France Elite» explique-t-il. Président de la fédération arménienne d’athlétisme depuis 2010, Robert Emmiyan a notamment établi une convention avec la fédération française. Elle permet à des athlètes arméniens de s’entraîner et se préparer en utilisant des infrastructures françaises. «Au niveau équipement on n’a pas d’équivalent en Arménie de ce qui se fait en France. Nos athlètes viendront notamment se préparer à Marseille avant les championnats d’Europe de Berlin cet été. Je voudrais vraiment remercier la fédération française pour ça !»
 
Transmettre à une nouvelle génération
 
Passionné par son sport, Robert Emmiyan n’a pas pu s’en éloigner après sa retraite en tant qu’athlète de haut niveau. Une carrière sportive qui lui a permis de tisser des liens, essentiels aujourd’hui : «mon parcours au haut niveau m’a permis de me créer un réseau de relations international. Je suis même en bons termes avec mes anciens concurrents comme Carl Lewis ou Mike Powell.» Aujourd’hui, celui qui détient toujours le record d’Europe du saut en longueur, se bat au quotidien pour doter l’Arménie d’installations sportives dédiées à l’athlétisme de haut niveau. Robert Emmiyan veut désormais transmettre son expérience et ses connaissances à une nouvelle génération, avec notamment en tête un but bien précis : «Je rêve qu’un athlète d’aujourd’hui batte mon record vieux de trente ans !»
 
Corentin Murat

168: Government to undertake bold tax changes – Pashinyan

Vorskanian Yeghisabet
| 15:59 | July 10 2018
Category
BUSINESS & ECONOMY

The government of Armenia has rejected a bill brought forward by Republican lawmakers on reducing revenue tax rates to 20% in case of 500,000 drams and 25% in case of more than 500,000 drams.

At today’s Cabinet meeting, finance minister Atom Janjughazyan noted that the government is principally in favor of such changes, however it must take place as part of a complete tax package.

“I am speaking about the fact that we are taking the path where through revising direct tax rates an opportunity is created for these means to be directed for the development of the economy. We must have a balanced stance in this case too, because as a result of this certain decrease of tax entries will take place. Approximately this amounts to 45-47 billion drams. This kind of a change should be accompanied by any project of compensating these means. There was a sense that it was possible to be done through administrative means, but the problem cannot be solved solely by this. We recommend the authors of the bill to refrain from this change, but we keep the issue on the agenda,” he said.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that they’ve decided to undertake bold changes in this sector during a discussion in Dilijan last week. “We have reached a correct conclusion that instead of going for partly changes of the tax code we will take a certain break, carry out serious studies and undertake complete changes. The package must be submitted to the parliament in September. The business community is highly anticipating these decisions,” he said.