Author: Zaminian Bedik

Tiffany Diamond Eternity Bands and Cartier ‘Love’ Rings: Beladora
Announces Sharp Wedding Jewelry Sales Increase

Beladora.com, the online presence of Kazanjian & Fogarty, announces a
sharp increase in sales of vintage and estate wedding jewelry,
particularly in signed jewelry such as Tiffany & Company diamond
eternity bands, Cartier "Love" rings, Cartier "Rolling" rings, Tiffany
& Co. diamond solitaire engagement rings and Vintage Edwardian and Art
Deco diamond rings. The surprising sales increase is being attributed
to the wedding season and a renewed consumer interest in high-value
pre-owned estate wedding jewelry.

PRWeb.com
Tuesday, July 21,2009

(PRWEB) July 21, 2009 — The online vintage and signed jewelry
boutique, Beladora, announces a remarkable sales increase in wedding
jewelry. Cartier "Love" rings and Tiffany & Co. diamond eternity bands
are especially popular among those looking for "something old,
something new, something borrowed, something blue." Beladora CEO Nancy
Revy attributes this to wedding couples’ growing interest in saving on
"something new" while gaining the added quality and sentiment that
comes with signed pieces.

"In this time of economic uncertainty, our Beladora clients are
looking for value when it comes to purchasing wedding jewelry. Gone
are the days when couples would visit their local retail jewelry store
to choose their wedding rings and pay full retail mark-up," says
Revy. "Today, engaged couples are looking for ways to save money. They
are going online and buying pre-owned estate wedding jewelry,
particularly gold and platinum wedding bands, diamond eternity bands
and vintage diamond rings."

Located on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, Beladora.com caters to both
local and global clientele. It’s the online face of world-renowned
estate jeweler Kazanjian & Fogarty and brings premier signed estate
jewelry to brides, grooms, and wedding planners, offering the
professional expertise of on-staff estate buyers, GIA gemologists and
trained jewelry professionals.

Engaged couple
he economy by flocking to Beladora to purchase popular pre-owned
wedding jewelry. Revy points to the unique benefits of investing in
these pieces:

"With the money saved by purchasing pre-owed Tiffany diamond eternity
bands and solitaire rings, Cartier ‘Love’ and tri-color rolling rings,
Edwardian and Art Deco diamond rings and other antique estate wedding
rings from Beladora.com, rather than from retail jewelry stores,
couples can waylay some of those wedding worries. The economic
situation shouldn’t intrude on the magic of a marriage ceremony, and
Beladora.com offers exquisite bridal jewelry that is equivalent to or
better than jewelry bought in a retail store but at a fraction of the
price."

In addition to providing signed estate wedding rings and bands to
brides and grooms to be, Beladora.com offers antique, vintage and
contemporary jewelry from such noted designers as Van Cleef & Arpels,
Bvlgari, Chanel, Tiffany & Co., Mauboussin, Dior, Cartier and many
others. Tahitian and South Sea pearls are also popular jewelry items
for the mothers of the brides and grooms. Jewelry ranges from wedding
bands to brooches, pendants, cufflinks, earrings, bracelets,
necklaces, tiaras and jewelry gifts for the bridal party.

Interested buyers can visit Beladora.com to shop the selection,
updated regularly.

About Beladora:

Kazanjian & Fogarty sells its estate and vintage jewelry finds to
clients around the globe through Beladora.com. The firm is a partner
to Beverly Hills based estate jeweler and gemstone dealer Kazanjian
Brothers, Inc. In-house buyers, gemologists and jewelry professionals
bring more than 80 years of combined experience to the e-boutique,
focused on client-first service and secure online shopping
convenience.

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Nancy Revy
800-680-9589
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Russian, Armenian, Azeri leaders to discuss Karabakh principles

00:5418/07/2009

MOSCOW, July 18 (RIA Novosti) – The presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan
and Armenia will meet on Saturday for trilateral talks on the basic
principles of a settlement for the Nagorny Karabakh conflict, a Russian
presidential adviser said.

Sergei Prikhodko told journalists that there were no plans to sign any
agreements after the presidents’ discussions.

The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham
Aliyev, held one-on-one talks in Moscow on Friday, the latest in a
series of discussions since Russian President Dmitry Medvedev brought
the two sides back to the negotiating table last year.

Friday’s meeting focused on the principles for resolving the dispute
agreed at an internationally mediated conference in Madrid in 2007.

Nagorny Karabakh, a region in Azerbaijan with a largely Armenian
population, has been a source of conflict between the former Soviet
republics since the late 1980s. The province has its own government and
is de facto independent.

The co-chairs of the Minsk Group – the United States, Russia and France
– said during the G8 summit in Italy earlier this month that they would
submit a revised set of proposals on the disputed region, and that any
agreement must be based on the Madrid accord.

The war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the mountainous enclave in
1988-1994 left an estimated 35,000 people dead. Sporadic violence on
the border has continued ever since.

ANY ATTEMPTS TO RETURN NAGORNO KARABAKH REPUBLIC TO PAST FRAUGHT WITH NEW ESCALATION OF CONFLICT

Noyan Tapan
July 17, 2009

STEPANAKERT, JULY 17, NOYAN TAPAN. Due to the recent developments
around the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict settlement, the NKR Ministry
of Foreign Affairs made a statement on July 15, which read:

"The NKR stance on the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict settlement
is stable. It is impossible to achieve the conflict settlement,
ignoring the existing reality. Any attempts to return the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic to the past are not only counterproductive, but
are also fraught with new escalation of the conflict. Real progress
at the negotiations is possible only under the Karabakh party’s
equal participation in all the stages of the negotiation process. No
agreement regarding the interests, fate, and future of the Nagorno
Karabakh Republic can be adopted without the participation of its
people and leadership, which bears the principal responsibility for it.

We hope that all the actors interested in the peaceful settlement
will prevent any violation of the status quo in the region caused by
the intensification of the negotiation process on the basis of the
current settlement wording.

Proceeding from the above mentioned, we consider it required to
reset the distorted negotiation process, to return the NKR to the
negotiation table as an equal party to the negotiation process,
and to transform the basic principles of the settlement."

TURKISH PRESIDENT EXTENDED CONDOLENCES TO HIS ARMENIAN AND IRANIAN COLLEAGUES

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
17.07.2009 20:14 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish President Abdullah Gul has extended
condolences to his Armenian and Iranian colleagues in connection with
Tu-154 liner’s crash.

In his condolence letter to Presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Mahmud
Ahmadinejad, Mr. Gul expresses Turkish nation’s grief over the recent
air crash which killed 168 people.

POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ROUTES OF NABUCCO
Karine Ter-Sahakyan

PanARMENIAN.Net
16.07.2009 GMT+04:00

The essential thing to do is to bring the pipeline into Turkey, and
there are two ways to do it: to bring it from Turkmenistan through
Azerbaijan and Georgia, or from Iran through Armenia.

On July 13 the long-awaited agreement on beginning the realization
of the Nabucco gas pipeline was signed in Ankara, which immediately
gave rise to numerous commentaries and predictions by all interested
parties. Quite naturally, the gloomiest forecasts apropos of the
realization of the project were made by Russia. But it’s fairly
explicable, because in case of exploitation of the gas pipe, Moscow
loses a very and dreadfully important lever of pressure on Europe and
the Caucasus, which in no way pleases her. Accustomed to the policy
of threats, Russian authorities will do everything in their power to
hinder the realization of Nabucco.

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ It is necessary to note that Russia has specific
levers to hit the target. Moscow thinks she somehow solved the
problem by buying up all the Azerbaijani gas and promising Baku a
spice-cake in the form of the Karabakh conflict "regulation". Not by
chance, indeed, were the Madrid principles, whose essence was long
a widely known secret, promulgated especially these days. However,
hardly can Azerbaijan seriously believe that the resolution will be
quite pleasing for Baku. As a matter of fact, Russia is not the one
to make resolutions, no matter how much she seeks it, because she
definitely does not match the role of a mediator-peacemaker. The same
spice-cake is stored up also for Armenia, but with some reservations
and conditions.

However, Moscow forgets one essential matter: the isolation of Iran is
not eternal, changes in the region occur very frequently and who can
assert that tomorrow Iran will not be allowed to the gas pipe? She
will be allowed for one simple reason: the Azerbaijani gas, even if
it is completely pumped into Nabucco, is not sufficient anyway. So,
the Turkmen or Iranian gas will be necessary. Iran, which holds the
second place in the world with its gas deposits, can easily fill up
Nabucco. As far as the Turkmen gas is concerned, Teheran can simply
buy it up and deliver it to China and the Far East countries, which
would be both cheaper and faster.

Actually, everything at present depends on the choice of the gas
pipe route. The essential thing to do is to bring the pipeline into
Turkey, and there are two ways to do it: either to bring it from
Turkmenistan through Azerbaijan and Georgia, or from Iran through
Armenia. The first route is political and economic, while the second
is purely economic and profitable. To all appearances, the story of
the oil pipeline Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan repeats itself: it would have
been economically more profitable for it to pass through Armenia,
but Baku with the support of Turkey and Georgia did everything in her
power to obstruct the realization of this project. However, things
are much more complicated with Nabucco. First, it is longer and,
hence, more expensive. Second, it is essential for Europe, because the
latter needs to finally reject the delivery of the Russian gas. Well,
for the same purposes Nabucco is also necessary to the region. In any
event Russia will not be able to control the gas pipe, irrespective
of which country it passes through, because she will have to manage
to close the valve in two countries simultaneously, and no one has yet
succeeded in doing it. Sure, Moscow will try to impede the construction
process and to dictate conditions. Moreover, she will do it by way of
Armenia, which in the West is considered to be the chief pro-Russian
country in the South Caucasus. And again the Iranian factor comes to
the fore. It is possible to come to an agreement with three Caucasian
countries (by hook or by crook), but Iran, who claims to the role of
the regional power, will definitely carry out her own policy. The
USA still says that Nabucco can be filled with the Russian gas,
but never with the Iranian. However, it is said only now, but as
we have already noted, there is one more possible scenario. After
the presidential elections there began cleanings on the very top in
Iran, and Leader of the Iranian nuclear program Gholamreza Aghazadeh,
who supported main oppositionist of the country Mir-Hossein Mousavi,
retired. Moreover, if Europe has to choose between Iran and Russia as
gas suppliers, most likely she will give preference to Iran: in spite
of the "irreconcilability of ayatollahs" it is always possible reach
understanding with Teheran. And though it is also possible to reach
an agreement with Moscow, it is too costly. It’s no less difficult
to negotiate with Iran or Iraq, who are ready to contribute their
mite into Nabucco, but there will clearly be no blackmail on their
part. Although, who knows? But, in any event, under equal conditions,
the East gives preference to expediency and not to instantaneous
political or economic gains.

As far as the two supposed branches are concerned, here, unfortunately,
almost everything depends on Russia, or, to be more accurate, on her
power in resolving her regional problems. Nabucco may become that
point of no return, after which Moscow will have great difficulty in
controlling not only the conflict situation in the Caucasus, but also
the relations with seemingly friendly countries: Iran, Azerbaijan
and Armenia. Georgia, naturally, is not counted – relations with it
have been damaged for long. In a broader sense, the project is yet
beneficial far only for Turkey as the basic transit country. Armenia
can earn dividends only if she becomes the second transit county. But
truly serious geopolitical changes are necessary for this.

ARMENIA TO GET 130 MILLION EURO FROM GERMANY WITHIN NEXT 2 YEARS

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
18.07.2009 11:40 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia will get loans from Germany to the amount of
130 million euro during next 2 years in compliance with the protocol
signed by the Armenian-German intergovernmental commission on financial
and technical cooperation, reported the press office of the RA Ministry
of Finance.

Armenian-German economic cooperation bases on three sectors: finance,
energy and water supply.

France To Exit Econ Slump In 2H 2010 – Report

Dow Jones Newswires
July 17, 2009

PARIS (Dow Jones) — The French economy will pick up from the current
slump in the second half of next year, Stimulus Minister Patrick
Devedjian told daily Le Parisien in an interview published Friday.

Devedjian added that while France hasn’t exited the downturn yet, he
sees "numerous signs of improvement."

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OSCE MG DISTORTED ESSENCE OF NKR CONFLICT

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
15.07.2009 17:34 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Proposals advanced by OSCE MG Co-Chairs dealing with
NKR conflict settlement have not changed in question. As before,
mediators force Armenian side to hand over certain territories
to Azerbaijan, NKR ex-Foreign Minister Arman Melikyan told a news
conference in Yerevan. "Mediators exert pressure on conflicting
parties. But it’s impossible to do without pressures, as there
are many countries having serious interests. Armenia’s task in
the current situation is to formulate its interests and make every
possible effort to protect them on international arena," Arman
Melikyan said, stressing the basic interest of Armenian side,
i.e. maintaining NKR’s present-day territory and protecting the
rights of over 500 thousand Armenian refugees. Madrid Principles,
according to Melikyan, do not clearly define any issue, "Armenia’s
signing the document will mean that the country recognizes Karabakh
within the boundaries of Nagorno Karabakh Autonomous Region. We
are currently facing a complicated situation. Nevertheless,
it is possible to find some way out, e.g. to initiate a parallel
process of recognizing NKR independence," the speaker said, adding
that mediators had distorted the essence of NKR conflict, in an
attempt to provide legal vs. political solution to the problem.

EDWARD NALBANDYAN – ONLY A "MEGAPHONE" FOR GOVERNMENT?

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
14.07.2009 19:31 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ People in bloggospheres express various views;
some of them demand FM Edward Nalbandyan’s resignation, others find
him just a megaphone for authorities, Arthur Avtandilyan told a news
conference. Nalbandyan is not to blame, he finds, he is simply not
lucky enough to be the first to support Madrid principles. "All the
principles contained therein imply betrayal of national interests,"
Avtandilyan said.

In their statement, Armenian bloggers demanded President Serzh Sargsyan
to immediately discharge Foreign Minister from office. They condemn
Mr. Nalbandyan’s July 11 speech in which he welcomed MG Co-Chairs’
anti-Armenian statement.

OFFICIAL SITE OF AMERIABANK IN THE INTERNATIONAL BLOOMBERG SYSTEM

ArmInfo
2009-07-14 17:00:00

Arminfo. Official site of Ameriabank (code AMRB) has been opened in
the international Bloomberg system.

As press-service of the bank reported, the quotations of the state
and corporative bonds, including the debt papers of ‘IMEX Group’
(Ameriabank is its underwriter and market-maker), the forward and
spot-rates of currencies, the rates of interest of the inter-bank
deposits and credits aswell as the rates on REPO deals and REPO
agreements, are placed at the official site of Ameriabank in an
on-line regime.

The Bloomberg system gives service to clients from more than 100
countries of the world including thousands of information sites
and special sectors of Bloomberg News, which gives an opportunity
to choose the needed information about the financial instruments,
in particular, currency, shares, futures and options.

Ameriabank is going to extend the specter of services over the next
3 months.

To note, Ameriabank also gives a specter of universal banking services.

"Troyka Dialog" is the strategic partner of Ameriabank. The majority
shareholders of Ameriabank are: TDA Holdings Limited company,
affiliated with the Russian investment company ‘Troyka Dialog’ with
99,7% share of participating in the capital.