Latvia’s Ritvars Suharevs took the gold in this category with 336kg and Iranian athlete Hossein Soltani received the silver medal for his overall result of 326kg.
Two other Armenian weightlifters to compete in this championship are Samvel Babakyan (94kg) and Varazdat Lalayan (104kg).
Internationally acclaimed Armenian conductor Sergey Smbatyan, the artistic director and principal conductor of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, is to conduct the Roma Tre Orchestra today at a concert organized as part of the first edition of “In Musica” Roma International Music Festival and Piano Competition taking place in Italy from 9 to 17 July.
Moscow-based Armenian violinist Haik Kazazyan and accomplished clarinetist Shirley Brill will perform as soloists at the concert, the symphony orchestra’s press service told Panorama.am.
The audience will be treated to music of Ludwig van Beethoven and contemporary Maltese composer Alexey Shor.
Teatro Argentina, one of the oldest opera houses in Rome (founded in 1732) is set to host the concert, the source said.
The Italian international music festival and piano competition is organized by the European Foundation for Support of Culture.
The event is aimed at presenting world-famous musicians and revealing new talents in classical music.
World-famous Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan will open the 12th Yerevan International Music Festival on 10 September.
Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall is set to host the solemn opening of the festival, Panorama.am was informed from the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra’s official website.
The event is dedicated to the 2800th anniversary of Yerevan and to the 100 anniversary of the First Republic of Armenia.
The program of the opening concert features Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms and Symphony No.9 by Ludwig van Beethoven. It will be conducted by Eduard Topchjan.
The artistic directors of the Yerevan music festival are Alexander Chaushian and Eduard Topchjan.
Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Sergey Khachatryan won First Prize at the VIII International Jean Sibelius Competition in Helsinki in 2000, becoming the youngest ever winner in the history of the competition. In 2005 he claimed First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.
In recent seasons, Sergey has performed with such major orchestras as the Bamberger Symphoniker (Herbert Blomstedt and Jonathan Nott), Münchner Philharmoniker (James Gaffigan), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Valcuha), Mariinsky Orchestra (Valery Gergiev) and Orchestre de Paris (Andris Nelsons and Gianandrea Noseda). He has also collaborated with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, NHK Symphony and the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras.
Sergey’s most recent appearances in the US were with the Seattle Symphony (Ludovic Morlot), Los Angeles Philharmonic (Morlot) and National Symphony Orchestra Washington (Vasily Petrenko). He has also visited the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony as well as the Ravinia, Blossom and Mostly Mozart Festivals.
By Rashid Shirinov
The campaign carried out by the Armenian media in connection with the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s son doing military service in Karabakh has been turned into a show, Spokesman for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Hikmat Hajiyev said at a press conference on July 11.
He noted that in this way the populist government of Pashinyan is trying to maintain its rating and image in the society.
“The 100 days of Pashinyan’s government are approaching, but instead of taking serious steps to solve the aggravated social, political and economic problems during these hundred days, the Armenian government is trying to maintain its rating through populist steps,” Hajiyev said.
The spokesman added that sending Armenian citizens to do military service on the territory of Azerbaijan is another proof that Armenia is an aggressor country.
“Such actions are not constructive and do not serve to ensure peace in the region,” he stressed.
Armenia captured Nagorno-Karabakh and seven surrounding regions from Azerbaijan in a war that followed the Soviet breakup in 1991. More than 20,000 Azerbaijanis were killed and nearly 1 million were displaced as a result of the war.
Large-scale hostilities ended with a Russia-brokered ceasefire in 1994 but Armenia continued the occupation in defiance of four UN Security Council resolutions calling for immediate and unconditional withdrawal.
Unfortunately, peace talks mediated by Russia, France and the U.S. within the OSCE Minsk Group have produced no tangible results so far due to Armenia’s unconstructive position on the issue.
ARMENIAN
ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date:
Contact: Danielle
Saroyan
Telephone:
(202) 393-3434
Web: www.aaainc.org
HENRY MORGENTHAU III, GRANDSON OF
AMBASSADOR MORGENTHAU AND LIFELONG SUPPORTER OF U.S. AFFIRMATION OF ARMENIAN
GENOCIDE, PASSES AWAY AT 101
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Armenian Assembly of America and
Armenian National Institute mourn the loss of a longtime friend of the Armenian
people, Henry Morgenthau III, who dedicated himself to honoring the memory of
his grandfather, Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, passed away on July 10.
In countless
public presentations, in television appearances, and in numerous publications,
Henry Morgenthau III recounted his recollections of his grandfather with whom
he lived in New York City. He was honored on many occasions by Armenian
organizations across the country.
The Armenian
National Institute and the Armenian Assembly of America shared the distinction
of organizing Mr. Morgenthau’s trip to Armenia in 1999 where he was honored by
the National Academy of Sciences, the Armenian Genocide Museum, and the City of
Yerevan.
Morgenthau
was joined by his sons Dr. Henry Ben Morgenthau and Kramer Morgenthau, as well
as Armenian Assembly President Carolyn Mugar, longtime personal friend of Henry
from the time of his residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Mrs. Kitty
Dukakis, wife of the former governor of the state of Massachusetts and a board
member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The
Morgenthau delegation was received by the president of Armenia, Robert
Kocharian, met with several other officials including U.S. Ambassador to
Armenia Michael Lemmon, and was the guest of honor at the naming of a Yerevan
city school in honor of Ambassador Morgenthau.
“My
grandfather frequently told me that his attempts to save Armenian lives at the
time of the Genocide and the establishment of the Near East Relief effort were
the achievements that meant the most to him,” Morgenthau explained on the
occasion. Ambassador Morgenthau served
as President Woodrow Wilson’s emissary to the Ottoman Empire during World War
I.
With Henry
Morgenthau III’s endorsement, in 1996 the Armenian Assembly of America
established the Henry Morgenthau Award for Meritorious Public Service which is
given out to public officials in recognition of their contributions in defense
of human rights. Recipients of the
Assembly’s Morgenthau Award include the first U.S. Ambassador to the Republic
of Armenia Harry Gilmore and U.S. Ambassador John Evans who publicly called for
official U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
A friend
also of the Armenian National Institute (ANI), Henry Morgenthau III encouraged
the organization with symbolic gifts of $1915 and joined with supporters and
Armenian Ambassador to the U.S. Tatoul Markarian in the opening of the ANI
Library, to which he contributed his grandfather’s library.
Henry
Morgenthau III was an author and television producer. His family history,
Mostly Morgenthaus, won the 1992 National Jewish Book Council prize for best
memoir. He was a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics,
and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard
University. Morgenthau’s shows on
Boston’s public television station, WGBH, won Peabody, Emmy, UPI, EFLA and
Flaherty Film Festival awards.
Morgenthau also updated his grandfather’s memoir, Ambassador
Morgenthau’s Story, with a lengthy postscript about the Ambassador’s life in
the 2003 edition of the book published by Wayne State University Press.
Henry
Morgenthau III’s brother, Robert Morgenthau, also a vocal advocate for Armenian
Genocide recognition, served as District Attorney for New York County in
Manhattan. Their father, Henry Morgenthau II, was Secretary of the Treasury
under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
“The
Armenian people have lost a true friend with Henry’s passing. His grandfather
Ambassador Henry Morgenthau played a critical role as the first opponent of
genocide on the world stage as he defended the Armenian people. With his first-hand familiarity of his
grandfather’s legacy, Henry stood with the Armenian people throughout his life,
always ready to step up immediately to lend his gravitas in support of all
essential issues for Armenians,” stated Armenian Assembly President Carolyn
Mugar.
“Despite
his advancing age, Henry continued to participate in Armenian Genocide
commemorative and advocacy events. He was honored at the community-wide
Centennial Genocide Commemoration in Washington, D.C. in 2015, where he walked
on stage surrounded by his children and grandchildren. The Morgenthaus are
legendary within the Armenian community, who are grateful that this noted
family validated their traumatic history as a people by informing the entire
world,” she continued.
Carolyn
added: “Henry was exemplary in carrying on Ambassador Morgenthau’s commitment
to genocide recognition and prevention. We all honor him for his total resolve
to relentlessly stand up and speak out against injustices of the past. He used
his voice to deepen people’s recognition of the importance of acknowledging the
truth in history and thereby using this truth to prevent the recurrence of
atrocities.”
Established
in 1972, the Armenian Assembly of America is the largest Washington-based
nationwide organization promoting public understanding and awareness of
Armenian issues. The Assembly is a non-partisan, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt
membership organization.
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Caption 1: Kramer Morgenthau, Henry Morgenthau III, and Dr. Henry Ben
Morgenthau standing underneath a photo of Ambassador Henry Morgenthau at the
Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan
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Caption 2: Henry Morgenthau III in Yerevan
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Caption 3: Armenian National Institute Director Dr. Rouben Adalian, Armenian
Assembly President Carolyn Mugar, Kramer Morgenthau, Kitty Dukakis, Henry
Morgenthau III, and Dr. Henry Ben Morgenthau at Tsitsernakaberd Armenian
Genocide Memorial
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Caption 4: Front Row: Dr. Hrant Matevosyan, Dr. Pietro Kuciukian, Armenian
Assembly President Carolyn Mugar, Dr. Richard Hovhannissian, Ambassador Michael
Lemon, Henry Morgenthau III, Dr. Fadei Sargsyan, Dr. Henry Ben Morgenthau, and
Dr. Lavrenti Barseghyan
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Caption 5: Former Armenian Assembly Chairman Hirair Hovnanian, Samantha Power,
Henry Morgenthau III, Ambassador John Evans, and Armenian Assembly President
Carolyn Mugar
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Caption 6: Ambassador Tatoul Markarian, Henry Morgenthau III, and ANI Director
Dr. Rouben Adalian at the opening of the ANI Research Library
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Caption 7: International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation Chairman Eduardo
Eurnekian, Robert Morgenthau, Armenian Assembly Co-Chair Anthony Barsamian, and
Assembly Executive Director Bryan Ardouny
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Caption 8: Henry Morgenthau III speaking at the Republic of Armenia Academy of
Sciences Conference
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The world perceives Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev’s statements as something that has nothing to do with the reality, and it’s meaningless to react to them seriously, Armenia’s deputy defense minister Gabriel Balayan said, commenting on Aliyev’s statement according to which they played a role in the change of power in Armenia.
“The world perceives what Aliyev says as statements that have nothing to do with the reality. This statement is another one from that list. I think it’s meaningless to comment on this, since, if we remember how many statements from the genre of fantasy have been made, perhaps this one will seem more modest”, the deputy defense minister said.
He stated that the foreign ministry will make a more detained statement on this matter.
Hayk Sargsyan, nephew of former President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, has been charged for committing a murder attempt and illegal possession of firearms, the Investigative Committee reported.
The 28 year old bodyguard of Narek Sargsyan, the nephew of former President Serzh Sargsyan, has voluntarily surrendered to authorities after arriving in Armenia on a Krasnodar-Yerevan flight on July 10 days after being declared wanted. The bodyguard, Artem Petrosyan, is charged with illegal possession of firearms and narcotics.
A court had approved a motion to remand Petrosyan into custody pending further proceedings.
Narek Sargsyan is still at large.
The National Security Service has carried out operations in the military recruitment office of Martuni in Gegharkunik Province. The military commissar has been detained, NSS spokesperson Samson Galstyan told ARMENPRESS.
No other details were available at the moment.
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