Divorces Harm The Country

Azat Artsakh – Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR)
09 Feb 05

The basis of the state is the family which determines the continuity
and rhythm of human life. The more strong and stable the family
is, the more powerful the state is. For the traditional people of
Artsakh this motto has acquired a new meaning on the way of building
statehood. Do all the marriages bring happiness to the couples? Do
all the married couples cross the borderline of old age together? At
the Civilian Registry Office of Stepanakert we were informed that 292
marriages and 46 divorces were recorded in 2003, and 318 marriages and
57 divorces in 2004. It should also be mentioned that a considerable
number of marriages are not registered at all. We were told that in
case of divorce the couple must pay a sum which should not exceed 10
thousand drams. By the way, in the decision of the court the sum of
the state tax is also mentioned. The main part of the fine is paid
by the spouse who is to blame for breaking the family. In foreign
countries married couples sign a marriage contract and in case of
divorce the family property is divided between the spouses according
to the contract. However, the marriage contract is not real for our
country for several reasons: problems of unemployment and housing,
social and economic conditions, etc. According to the secretary of the
Stepanakert City Hall Committee for Guardianship and Trusteeship Vazgen
Gasparian, in 2004 the committee discussed 11 cases on guardianship,
5 cases on connected with children and their upbringing and other
cases, all in all 41. According to him, the cases connected with
children increased against the previous years. These are the cases
when the parents cannot achieve an agreement and turn to the City
Hall to solve their problem. â~@~Both the parties have equal rights
for meeting with children,â~@~] said the secretary of the committee
adding that many parents unfortunately avoid responsibility for their
children and prefer working in private companies in order not to
pay alimony. Recently the committee, the members of which regularly
meet with parties and take part in trials, has saved three families.
â~@~To say that the cause for divorces is always of social character
would not be correct. There are different factors: upbringing,
character, temperament, lack of mutual understanding. All of us must
try to solve national problems together. Therefore, to have powerful
statehood and healthy society it is necessary to think seriously over
the stability of the family,â~@~] said Vazgen Gasparian.

NVARD OHANJANIAN. 09-02-2005

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

NIKITA MIKHALKOV: ZORI BALAYAN ALWAYS ACHIEVES HIS GOAL

Azg/arm
10 Feb 05

Itâ~@~Ys rather easy to talk about Zori Balayan on one hand and very
difficult on the other as his versatility and the polarity of diverse
situations during his lifetime put him beyond comparison. My encounter
with him dates more than 30 years back to the wonderful time when I
was doing my army in the Far East, in Kamchatka, when Zori joined our
legendary 117-day long tour on dog and deer sleighs. Zori, I guess,
has been solely independent since his childhood with a unique way
of thinking, wit and sometimes outwardly strange decisions. In the
meantime he was very attentive to everyoneâ~@~Ys needs, even the
trivial ones. >>From this perspective Zori is a unique personality.

I am grateful to him for being a true friend during a rather tough
period in my life when I was far away from home. They will understand
me who know what it means to appear in a warm flat with a bathroom and
food after the barracks. My warm recollections of Kamchatka are linked
with Zoriâ~@~Ys personality who was a friend, a doctor and a defender
in some cases. He was in freedom, on the other side of the wall and I
was on the other, at the checkpoint. In such conditions people value
the simplest things that pass by your attention in daily life. I felt
that again years later when my elder son, Stepan, was also serving in
the seas of the Far East and was writing letters telling that a pair
of woolen socks are more important then a tape recorder of Sharp brand.

Zori has a very important human and a manly feature that amazes
me. He always achieves goals he sets. Hardly anyone will imagine
how difficult it was to go on an expedition with dogs and deer
from south Kamchatka to north Chukotka. Only he could talk us into
naming the expedition Karabakh. Why Karabakh? On dogs, in Kamchatka,
in winter. And Karabakh. It seemed inexplicable. But that was Zori
we dealt with. Karabakh was not simply a location or a geographical
spot for him. It is his life. I understood that years later when
events started there. I understood why he called the expedition
Karabakh. Zori used to apply words with deeper meaning from then on.

As I said, Zori was a versatile character and as I see that quality
did not leave him afterwards. I know that he went on a sea voyage
lately. By the way, I was also invited to join him. He is one of those
who say: “Yes, I am of the kind of adventurers who imperil their own
lives but not othersâ~@~Y”. I think he ran the risks at the sea this
time either. And hopefully he came out as winner.

It certainly didnâ~@~Yt surprise me. I remember Zori voyaging in the
bay of Avachinsky with his friend Vyacheslav Panteleyev, captain of
a small yacht Delphin, in summer of 1972. I was lucky to join them
aboard the ship few times. Zori wrote about our voyages in his “The
White Marathon”: “It took our breath away each time we approached the
3 brothers: the 3 huge rocks sticking out of the ocean. The width of
the place where the water was of other color â~@~S true blue â~@~S
waves mightier, foam bigger and whiter drew us to itself. Our Delphin
was too small; smaller of foam waves of the Pacific”.

We were getting ready for an expedition on dog sleighs into the
tundra. Once Zori told me on the yacht that he is going to surprise
me. He asked the captain of Delphin to steer out of the bay and
asked me to sing a verse “I am walking down Moscow but I can still
cross the salty Pacific, tundra and taiga” from “Iâ~@~Ym walking down
Moscow”. Then added with faith in his intonation: “Now we will cross
the Pacific but undoubtedly weâ~@~Yll cross the tundra and taiga too”.
Few months later we crossed both tundra and taiga. That was perhaps the
most invaluable gift in my life. The words from “Iâ~@~Ym walking down
Moscow” â~@~S song that whole my country sang â~@~S turned prophetic
for me thanks to Zori.

Now, I wish Zori the most important thing: never lose your harmony
which is for me an entire philosophy. It is a life where your desires
and your abilities correspond. All the troubles people face come from
thinking that they can if they want. I am sure that Zori could stand
back from such trend and hopefully will keep on that.

Dear Zori, I congratulate you on your jubilee. I remember every day
and every hour of our journey. I was reading our diaries lately,
and I think of publishing them some day. I wish you, my brother,
to want things you can achieve. That is the true manâ~@~Ys harmony
in the world. I wish you good health.

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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Post-Gillette: Will the life sciences pick up the
slack?

EXCLUSIVE REPORTS

Boston Business Journal (Boston, MA)
February 4, 2005

By Mark Hollmer, Journal Staff

While the Boston region risks losing more than a
thousand jobs following the sale of the venerable
Gillette Co. to Procter & Gamble Co., the state’s
health care and life sciences sectors offer a partial
silver lining.

Some of the region’s major hospitals and biotechnology
companies plan to add or fill nearly 2,700 combined
jobs over the coming year, based on informal Boston
Business Journal estimates.

Some insiders say the net job growth will at least
lessen the pain generated by Gillette’s loss and the
region’s recent financial services consolidations,
revealing that health care and life sciences are
rising to the task.

“It is … a consciousness-raising event, that
presents … opportunities for all of us leaders in
the business community and leaders in the public arena
to become specifically focused on the opportunities
that present themselves in and around biotechnology,
specifically, and life sciences in general,” said
Thomas Finneran, the new president of the
Massachusetts Biotechnology Council and former
longtime House speaker.

Others point out that jobs gains in health and life
sciences, however welcome, don’t diminish the fact
that executives and employees of a consumer-products
company such as Gillette can’t necessarily transfer
their skills to the new sectors posting “help wanted”
signs.

“What happens to the 1,800 people in the (Gillette)
executive office? They’re probably not going to move
into positions created in health care/life sciences,”
said Richard Lord, president and CEO of Associated
Industries of Massachusetts.

With the New England Economic Project projecting the
creation of 43,000 jobs in Massachusetts through 2005,
many of those jobs could come from life sciences and
health care. However, many of those jobs will be
focused on research and development and won’t likely
lead to many local manufacturing jobs here, said
Noubar Afeyan, managing partner at Flagship Ventures
in Cambridge and a senior lecturer at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School
of Management.

Genzyme Corp. in Cambridge, which employs 4,990 people
in Massachusetts, said in December that it had 300
regional job openings and plans to fill between 300
and 500 new and vacant positions. The Novartis
Institutes for BioMedical Research Inc., which brought
900 jobs to Cambridge last year, plans to add about
200 more in 2005. Boston Scientific Corp. in Natick
employs 2,073 people in Massachusetts and added 384
people regionally in 2004. The medical device giant
plans to fill 183 positions here in 2005 and
potentially more, according to a spokesperson.

Even such smaller companies as Transkaryotic Therapies
Inc. in Cambridge, which employs 380 people, hired 60
people in 2004. TKT will hire 20 more through the
first part of this year as it focuses on gaining
regulatory approvals for two of its compounds.
AstraZeneca, which employs 1,203 people at its Waltham
research facility, also plans to hire locally this
year for sales, research and development and
operations positions.

Massachusetts General Hospital said in December it
would add 725 clinical care and research jobs to its
18,127-person work force in 2005. Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center said it plans to add 350
clinical care employees to its 6,700-person work
force, and Children’s Hospital Boston said it would
boost its 7,200-person staff over the next year by 250
people. Brigham and Women’s Hospital is aiming to fill
at least 120 vacant nursing positions alone.

Biopharmaceutical employment in Massachusetts reached
21,400 people in 2003 and will continue to grow as the
industry expands, according to the Milken Institute,
which recently compiled a report looking at
biopharmaceutical industry contributions domestically.

Health care employment in Massachusetts varies by
sector, but hospitals show the most growth. Hospitals
employed 156,100 people in December 2003, and the
number jumped by 1,500 by December 2004, according to
data from the state Division of Unemployment Career
Services.

Mark Hollmer can be reached at
[email protected]

REFUGEES MUST REGAIN THEIR LOSSES

Azat Artsakh – Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR)
09 Feb 05

The NKR department for migration, refugees and re-settlement carries
out a record of the refugees in the republic. According to the head
of the department Serge Amirkhanian, the aim of these measures is to
grant a status to the refugees and improve their social conditions,
for later to retrieve their lost property or compensate for the
losses. â~@~In recognized countries all the refugees have the
right for the corresponding status and certificate. The latter
is a document equal to the passport. The fact that Karabakh is
not recognized does not allow our refugees to receive assistance
from international organizations,â~@~] said Amirkhanian. By the
decision of the government, the registered refugees will be granted
privileges: flat, financial aid, transport fare, free transporting of
luggage. Serge Amirkhanian said, another aim of the record is to apply
to the international organizations for receiving compensation for the
property lost when the refugees were displaced. At the department we
were told that in 2005 it is planned to build flats in Stepanakert for
the refugees living in dormitories, in bad housing conditions. ***
The fact-finding group of the OSCE Minsk Group has been in Karabakh
since January 10 to check the question of mass re-settlement,
development of drug business and terrorism in Nagorni Karabakh raised
by Azerbaijan. The head of the NKR department for migration, refugees
and re-settlement Serge Amirkhanian said the Minsk Group co-chairmen
had wished to meet with the refugees of Karabakh as well. The meeting
took place on February 6. They were people displaced from different
places in Azerbaijan, living in hard social conditions, and hoping to
get the assistance of international organizations to compensate for
their losses in some way or another. *** Serge Amirkhanian abstained
from answering our question on the impressions and OSCE monitoring
mission and the results of the monitoring saying that it was still
early to discuss the results. But he said that they nevertheless had
the possibility to get convinced personally in the falseness of the
questions raised by Azerbaijan. â~@~I think, the fact-finding group
witnessed that what Azerbaijan says is not true. We do not deny that
there are refugees living in these territories who had been displaced
from their homes. The government may provide some social assistance to
these people but this does not yet mean mass re-settlement. In this
sense, I think, the situation will get a positive assessment,â~@~]
he said.

SRBUHI VANIAN. 09-02-2005

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Teledyne Wins NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Contractor Excellence
Award for Second Consecutive Year

Business Wire
Wednesday, February 9, 2005

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb. 9, 2005–Teledyne Technologies
Incorporated (NYSE:TDY – News) today announced that Teledyne Brown
Engineering, Inc., for the second year in a row, has been selected by
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) to receive the Contractor
Excellence Award in the large business – service category.

Teledyne Brown was selected for the annual award based on the high
quality of the company’s services and support and heightened
performance, which resulted in cost savings to MSFC of more than $15
million over the last four years. Cross training and hiring personnel
with diverse backgrounds also allowed Teledyne Brown to keep costs to
almost nine percent below plan.

Under a contract with The Boeing Company, Teledyne Brown currently
supports payload integration for the International Space Station (ISS).
Since June 2002, Teledyne Brown has been supporting the Systems
Development and Operations Support (SDOS) contract with a team that has
been working on space hardware and software development, integration and
operation, maintenance of payload facilities and carrier subsystems on
the ISS and other space exploration initiatives.

The company is involved in several other MSFC programs including the
Operation and Maintenance of Propellants, Pressurants and Calibration
(PPC), the Engineering, Analytical, and Integration Support to MSFC’s
Material Science Glovebox and Biotechnology Programs.

Since becoming one of the first contractors to MSFC, Teledyne Brown has
continued to emphasize safety and quality assurance.

“Teledyne Brown has a vital role with Marshall in achieving NASA’s goal
of safe human spaceflight,” said Marshall Center Director David King.
“Their contributions are helping us fulfill the Vision for Space
Exploration, and inspiring the next generation of space explorers.”

“We are very honored to receive this award again,” said Robert
Mehrabian, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Teledyne
Technologies. “The award is a reflection of the outstanding team we have
supporting Marshall Space Flight Center programs. I would like to thank
everyone at NASA for this recognition. We look forward to continuing to
provide the Marshall Center with the exceptional quality of work that is
synonymous with Teledyne Brown.”

Teledyne Brown Engineering will receive a plaque at an awards ceremony
in the near future.

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Tigran Mansurian Nominated for Grammy Award in Classical Contemporary Composition

Arts & Entertainment

The Philadelphia Inquirer
February 7, 2005

Grammy Nominations

Category: Classical Contemporary Composition

Nominees:
– “Adams: on the Transmigration of Souls,” John Adams (Lorin Maazel;
Brooklyn Youth Chorus and New York Choral Artists; New York Philharmonic);
– “Higdon: Concerto for Orchestra,” Jennifer Higdon (Robert Spano;
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra);
– “Mansurian: ‘… And Then I Was in Time Again’,” Tigran Mansurian (Kim
Kashkashian, viola; Christoph Poppen; Munich Chamber Orchestra);
– “Previn: Violin Concerto ‘Anne-Sophie’,” Andre Previn (Anne-Sophie
Mutter, violin; Andre Previn; Boston Symphony Orchestra);
– “Silvestrov: Requiem for Larissa,” Valentin Silvestrov (Volodymyr
Sirenko; Yevhen Savchuk; National Choir of Ukraine “Dumka”; National
Symphony Orchestra Of Ukraine).

Karabakh extends martial law

Artsakh Public TV, Stepanakert
9 Feb 05

[Presenter over video of parliament session] The NKR [Nagornyy
Karabakh Republic] National Assembly held a plenary session on 9
February. At the beginning of the session, members of the Democratic
Artsakh Union ZHAM faction announced that they had renamed the faction
the Democratic faction since the Democratic Artsakh Union had been
renamed the Artsakh Democratic Party. The parliament formed an interim
counting commission consisting of three deputies.

The National Assembly adopted a legislative program for the 10th
session, which consisted of 22 paragraphs. The parliament discussed
and adopted a law on extending martial law in the NKR.

The National Assembly also heard a report presented by NKR
Prosecutor-General Mavrik Gukasyan on the activities of the
prosecutor’s office in 2004. The NKR prosecutor-general was
dissatisfied with the activities of his office.

The National Assembly discussed and adopted a new charter of Artsakh
Public TV. The parliament also exempted Azat Artsakh newspaper
from debts.

The National Assembly adopted changes and amendments to the NKR laws
on administrative division and civil service. The National Assembly
also adopted a law on ombudsman.

At the end of the session deputies put questions to members of the
NKR Cabinet of Ministers.

NATO Secretary General to receive report on Garabagh conflict

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Feb 9 2005

Baku, February 8, AssA-Irada — NATO Secretary General’s special envoy
on South Caucasus and Central Asia, Robert Simons, says he is pleased
with the status of NATO-Azerbaijan relations. “I am very satisfied
with the current level of ties between the alliance and Azerbaijan”,
he told a news briefing at the Foreign Ministry on the results of
his visit to Baku.

Simons said that NATO and Azerbaijan are co-operating extensively
in numerous fields. He added that work on the Individual Partnership
Plan has been completed, and its implementation will begin following
its approval by NATO.

Simons continued that he had met with Azeri officials dealing with
the document and discussed with them all matters relating to its
efficient realization. He commented that he was satisfied with all
the work underway in this area. A NATO working group is due to visit
Baku in mid-February to clarify certain details.

Simons added that while in Azerbaijan, he also met with his colleagues
to discuss the Upper Garabagh conflict. He said that he had collected
enough data on the matter and would submit a relevant report to the
NATO Secretary General.*

Azeri paper accuses Russian, French mediators of Armenian sympathy

Yeni Musavat, Baku
9 Feb 05

Text of political department report by Azerbaijani newspaper Yeni
Musavat on 9 February headlined “Absurd statements from co-chairmen”
and subheaded “Russian and French co-chairmen spoke of the rights of
‘Armenian refugees’ from Nagornyy Karabakh in Xankandi”

The Russian and French co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group, Yuri
Merzlyakov and Bernard Fassier, have issued absurd statements in a
meeting with the head of the “refugee committee” of the separatist
regime in Karabakh, Sanasar Saryan. Regnum news agency quoted Saryan
as complaining about international indifference to the violation of
the rights of “about half a million Armenian” refugees from Nagornyy
Karabakh in a meeting with the co-chairmen, who were in Xankandi
as part of the OSCE fact-finding mission. “There are almost half a
million refugees from Nagornyy Karabakh across the globe. They do not
have appropriate rights and cannot receive any benefits or assistance.”

In response to Saryan’s complaints, Merzlyakov said that it would be
wrong to think that the co-chairmen were aloof to this issue. “We
are meeting refugees here, too. You should understand that the
co-chairmen should be impartial, but you should not accuse us of
having no feelings.”

French co-chairman Fassier said that he had seen many refugees living
in “hard conditions” during his visit to Karabakh. “Therefore, I
understand your pain,” the French co-chairman said. Fassier added that
it was necessary to deal with the issue of the status of Karabakh’s
“Armenian refugees”. “I know for now that it is necessary to tackle
it.”

The representative of the separatist regime told the OSCE mission
during its visit to the occupied territories that Armenian refugees
are being re-settled in those territories. Reports about the content
of Saryan’s meeting with the co-chairmen show that they have agreed
with this argument of the separatists and even expressed regret
about the conditions of the Armenians, who were settled in the
occupied territories of Azerbaijan in violation of all international
conventions. It is interesting that Merzlyakov actually backed the
statement by the representative of the separatist regime that half a
million Armenians had allegedly became refugees. This is despite the
fact that Merzlyakov cannot but know how absurd Saryan’s allegation
is. How could Nagornyy Karabakh produce 500,000 Armenian refugees
if the entire population of the republic was close to 165,000 people
before the start of military operations?

Despite his claims of impartiality, Merzlyakov sympathizes in part
with the absurd claims by the representative of the separatist regime
and concurs that the rights of “hundreds of thousands” of Armenian
refugees from Nagornyy Karabakh are being violated. All this raises
doubts about the objectivity of the OSCE mission assigned to examine
Armenia’s settlement policy in Azerbaijan’s occupied lands.

Separatist official dismisses Azeri claims of “illegal resettlement” in Karabakh

Regnum, Moscow
9 Feb 05

[No dateline as received] “Allegations of the Azerbaijani deputy
foreign minister [Araz Azimov] that Armenian refugees have breached
international law are unfounded,” Nagornyy Karabakh Deputy Foreign
Minister Masis Mailyan has told a Regnum news agency correspondent. He
was commenting on Azimov’s interview with [Azerbaijani] Azad Azarbaycan
TV, in which the latter, in particular, accused the Armenian side of
illegally settling the territories controlled by the Nagornyy Karabakh
Republic [NKR].

“Azerbaijan forcibly evicted these people from the places of their
permanent residence in Baku, Sumqayit, Kirovabad [Soviet name for
Ganca], Mingacevir and other places in Azerbaijan predominantly
populated by ethnic Armenians. Azerbaijan has resettled the occupied
territories of the NKR and the Armenian villages north of Nagornyy
Karabakh at the state level. International mediators are very well
aware of this,” Mailyan said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress