Armenian GM Levon Aronian plans to take part in the 2017 Grand Chess Tour tournament from June 28 to July 2 in Leuven, Belgium. The Armenian player will play one-round rapid and 2-round blitz events.
As the Chess Federation of Armenia reports, GMs Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So, Viswanathan Anand, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Anish Giri, Vassily Ivanchuk and Baadur Jobava will play.
The Junior European Wrestling Championships concluded in Dortmund, Germany, where the Armenian national freestyle wrestling team headed by head coach Avetik Vardanyan won one silver and two bronze medals.
As the National Olympic Committee of Armenia told Panorama.am, on the final day of the tournament Hovhannes Maghakyan (129kg) conceded to Magomedain Dibirov of Russia in the final bout, taking the silver.
Earlier, Arsen Harutyunyan (55kg) won 10-0 to Leonid Kolesnik of Moldova in the fight for the bronze medal. Another bronze medal for Armenia was secured by Karen Zurabyan (50kg).
Patricia Field and Tony Shafrazi
Garo Armen
NEW YORK — Children of Armenia Fund (COAF), a nonprofit organization whose goal is to better the lives of rural Armenian children, held its seventh Annual Summer Soiree on June 20 at the PHD Rooftop Lounge at the Dream Hotel Downtown. Among the special guests were Tony Shafrazi, Patricia Field, Edward Barsamian, Tigran Tsitoghdzyan and Armen Keteyan. The annual summer fundraiser raised more than $80,000 for a new high-tech library, part of COAF’s SMART Initiative, intended to make a lasting impact on education.
“Every one of you counts in trying to bring the rural people of Armenia back up to where they deserve to be, so we are counting on you,” said Dr. Garo H. Armen, COAF’s chairman and founder, after discussing COAF’s SMART initiative and its expected impact on rural youths and their family’s lives.
A SMART Center Library is an innovative open-concept area that houses technological educational resources and reading materials. The library will be equipped with media and global subscriptions, as well as access to a broad array of information, services, data and audio-visual content. It will be a place to both read and think — where group discussions are fostered, research is done, and big ideas are born.
The technology within will provide a link to the vast field of knowledge able to be grasped beyond the chalkboard of previous rural Armenian classrooms. The center is intended to be a window for kids and their families into a different world; one in which they can see a brighter future.
By Laman Ismayilova
The Czech Foreign Ministry has refuted Armenian media reports regarding anti-Azerbaijan statements allegedly made by Czech Republic’s ambassador to Armenia Petr Mikyska.
Deputy Spokeswoman of the Czech Foreign Ministry Irena Valentová told Trend that Mikyska had participated in a press conference organized by The National Press Club in Yerevan.
“The press conference output was not authorized by the ambassador and it contains messages that were not delivered by Ambassador Mikyska,” she said.
the deputy spokeswoman went on to add that following this event, Azerbaijan’s Ambassador in Prague was received at the Czech Foreign Ministry.
“With the above stated clarification, both sides consider this issue as resolved,” she said.
Earlier, Armenian media reported that the Czech Republic’s ambassador to Yerevan allegedly made anti-Azerbaijan statements in connection with Azerbaijan’s declaring several MEPs, including a Czech politician, internationally wanted for their illegal visits to the Azerbaijani territories occupied by Armenia.
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Hikmat Hajiyev told Trend that if the Czech ambassador had made such statements, this contradicts the law, the norms and principles of international law.
For about three decades Armenia and Azerbaijan are in a state of war following Yerevan’s aggression, ethnic cleansing policy and illegal territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenia keeps under control over 20 percent of Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions in a brutal war in the early 1990s.
Despite a fragile ceasefire agreement signed in 1994, Armenia keeps violating armistice with Azerbaijan.
Trend News Agency (Baku, Azerbaijan) Wednesday Neither military, nor economic factors allow Armenia to inflict serious blow on Azerbaijan June 28--The statements of Armenian Defense Minister Vigen Sargsyan that a serious blow will be inflicted on Azerbaijan and that eight Azerbaijani servicemen were allegedly killed in the last ten days are not true, the press service of Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry said in a message June 28. Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry perceives the words of Armenia's defense minister with bitter irony and states that his amateurish speech, which is not grounded in real facts and disseminated with propaganda aim, is nothing but lie and impudence. Neither military, economic, human resources, nor other factors make it possible for Armenia to inflict a serious blow on Azerbaijan, said the ministry's message. Azerbaijani soldiers and the up-to-date military equipment and armaments, which have a crushing power, are capable of suppressing any threat by the enemy, destroying it and restoring the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan, said the message. As for the losses, it would be more appropriate if Sargsyan took up the cases of death in the Armenian army. It is the Armenian side that constantly hides losses at the front line and other cases of death in the army. Sargsyan would look sincere if, instead of voicing such delusional statements, he would correctly inform the Armenian public about the real number of losses of the Armenian side in recent days as a result of the retaliatory measures of the Azerbaijani army, says the Defense Ministry's message. The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
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Following Church Divine Liturgy which starts at 10:30am
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