Category: 2022

Armenpress: Book Giving Day marked in Armenia

Ani Basmajian

Book Giving Day marked in Armenia

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 08:50,

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 19, ARMENPRESS. Book Giving Day is celebrated today, February 19 – the birthday of renowned poet Hovhannes Tumanyan.

Numerous book festivals, presentations, fairs and other events are held on this occasion.

This year, the Book Giving Day is dedicated to the 125th anniversary of birth of Yeghishe Charents.

Book Giving Day was launched in 2008 by then-President of the Union of Writers Levon Ananyan.

Events are scheduled at the Hovhannes Tumanyan museum, the Khnko Aper Library, Congress Hotel (Book Winter Festival) and elsewhere.

The Antares Publishing House will mark the day at the Daran book store.

The ARMENPRESS News Agency will sum up the results of the Grkaptuyt competition, with winners receiving popular books.

Construction of new Armenian American museum has started in Glendale

Emil Lazarian
Feb 20 2022
By John Gregory
Sunday, 9:41AM PT
GLENDALE, Calif. (KABC) — Glendale is home to a large population of Armenian Americans, and the city will soon be home to a museum focused on their history and accomplishments.

Construction has started on a new museum and cultural center, something the Armenian American community in Glendale has dreamed about for decades.
“This is one step closer to the dream,” Glendale Mayor Paula Devine said. “One step closer to the dream that’s going to be right here for all of us who are so privileged to have this museum in Glendale, in our city.”

The center will have a focus on learning with a wide range of public programming. The museum will house permanent and temporary exhibitions, an auditorium, a demonstration kitchen, and an archives center.

The center will highlight the horrors and lessons of the Armenian Genocide.

“It’s going to be a place that’s going to preserve the memory of all those martyrs from the Armenian genocide,” Armenian American Museum Executive Director Shant Sahakian said. “But also a place for youngsters, and students to come every single year to be able to learn, and educate themselves, and educate others about the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide, but also the perseverance of the people and also as a lesson to make sure those types of things never happen again.”

Located on Colorado Boulevard in Glendale, the center is right in the middle of one of the largest Armenian communities in the United States.

“This project was born with the Armenian genocide centennial as a gift for the next hundred years, the next generation of Armenian Americans, and so for Armenians it’s going to be a hub for the community,” Sahakian said. “It’s going to be a platform for Armenian artists, thought leaders, writers, authors, but also a place that’s going to be a public institution to serve all.”
For Armenian Americans, it will be a new home for their heritage, and for everyone else a chance to learn and better understand this vibrant community.

The center is expected to be open in the summer of 2024.

  

Armenian community, alliances and upcoming elections – [REPORT]

Maghakian Mike
 Lebanon
Feb 19 2022

The Armenian community in Lebanon has six electoral seats, five for the Armenian Orthodox and one for the Armenian Catholic, distributed as follows: four in the Beirut First District, including one for the Armenian Catholic, one in the northern Metn and one in Zahle.
 
The number of Armenian voters in Lebanon is 106,476. However, 86,163 of them are Armenian Orthodox and 20,313 are Armenian Catholic. 
 
Their turnout in the last elections was about 28 percent.


To watch the full report, please click on the video at the link




Armenia ex-president: Artsakh will always be ours

Jalatian Sonya
News.am, Armenia
Feb 20 2022
11:18, 20.02.2022

The second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, sent a congratulatory message on the occasion of Artsakh’s Revival Day.

” 34 years ago on this day, a difficult for Artsakh and the whole Armenian nation, but promising future, events were launched. A process that led to the rebirth of Artsakh.

All Armenians took part in this movement. After the glorious victories, Armenia, Artsakh and the Diaspora were engaged in the renaissance and the strengthening of the Republic of Artsakh.

Today, however, it is with a heavy heart that I congratulate on the occasion of Artsakh’s rebirth. We must regain our strength, determination and unity to overcome despair and the consequences of defeat.

Artsakh will always be ours,” the second President’s message reads.

Armenia and Artsakh Republic united in the fair fight for realization of national aspirations

Emil Lazarian
Public Radio of Armenia
Feb 20 2022
, 20:20

 1 minute read

Armenia and Artsakh continue to be united in the fair fight for the realization of national aspirations, the Foreign Ministry of Armenia said in a statement on Artsakh Revival Day.

“On February 20, 1988, the Council of People’s Deputies of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast made a historic decision to peacefully strive for putting an end to the decades-long policy of ethnic discrimination and cleansing against the Armenians of Artsakh and the realization of their right to self-determination,” the Ministry said.

“These events of 1988 laid the foundation for the pan-Armenian movement – a struggle for the right to free, safe and dignified life in one’s own homeland and the protection of rights,” it added.

“After 34 years, despite the horrific massacres and ethnic cleansing carried out by the Azerbaijani SSR and then two bloody Karabakh wars, Armenia and Artsakh continue to be united in the fair fight for the realization of national aspirations, statehood, sovereignty, rights of the Armenians of Artsakh, and international recognition of the homeland,” the statement reads.

February 20 is Artsakh Revival Day

Hambik Zargarian
Public Radio of Armenia
Feb 20 2022
, 11:41

 1 minute read

February 20 is celebrated as Artsakh Revival Day. On tis day in 1988, the Council of People’s Deputies of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region passed a decision on unification with Armenia.

This historic decision marked the beginning of a new stage of the national-liberation struggle of the Armenians of Artsakh – the Karabakh Movement. It was a truly democratic movement, a struggle for civil rights, national identity, economic equality and dignified life.

From the very beginning, the Karabakh Movement was peaceful and embodied the aspiration of the people of Artsakh to exercise its inalienable right to self-determination by using the legal mechanisms in place.

The response of Baku to the legitimate demand of the Armenians of Artsakh was its refusal of political dialogue and bloody crimes against the Armenian population of the Azerbaijani SSR.

In an attempt to intimidate the people of Artsakh by force, the Azerbaijani authorities launched ethnic cleansing in Sumgait, Baku, and other Armenian-populated cities of Azerbaijan, as well as in the settlements of Northern Artsakh, which subsequently grew into large-scale military aggression against the civilian population of Artsakh.

Putin signs order drafting reservists

Emil Lazarian

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 10:15,

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 19, ARMENPRESS. President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed an order on drafting reservists to the military, RIA Novosti reported.

According to the order, the citizens from the Russian reserve will be drafted to “pass military training in the Russian Armed Forces and in the state security and federal security service bodies.”

FM Mirzoyan, German Minister of State Lindner discuss repatriation of Armenian POWs

Emma Jilavian

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 10:41,

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 19, ARMENPRESS. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan had a meeting on February 18 in Munich with Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany Tobias Lindner.

The sides exchanged ideas on effective cooperation between the two countries in bilateral and multilateral platforms, the Armenian foreign ministry said. FM Mirzoyan was pleased to note the positive dynamics of the friendly relations between Armenia and Germany, anchored on historical ties, common values and mutual interests.

Mirzoyan and Lindner expressed readiness to deepen cooperation between the two countries ahead of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties.

They exchanged ideas over several pressing issues of the regional and international agenda. FM Mirzoyan briefed Lindner on the situation in Nagorno Karabakh and the border of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The need for a comprehensive and lasting resolution of the NK conflict under the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairmanship was highlighted.

The issue of the immediate repatriation of the Armenian POWs and other detainees held in Azerbaijan was discussed.

The normalization process between Armenia and Turkey was also discussed.

Armenian Defense Ministry calls on Azerbaijan to refrain from spreading disinformation

Chalian Meline

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 11:27,

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 19, ARMENPRESS. The Ministry of Defense of Armenia announced on February 19 that the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan continues periodically releasing disinformation falsely accusing the Armenian military in opening fire at Azerbaijani military positions at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

“Particularly, in the evening of February 18, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan released a statement falsely claiming that on the same day the Armenian Armed Forces opened fire in the direction of the Azerbaijani combat positions deployed in the north-eastern section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

The Ministry of Defense of Armenia calls on the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan to refrain from the conduct of spreading false information regarding the border situation, which doesn’t anyhow contribute to the establishment of stability on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border,” the Ministry of Defense of Armenia said.