ARMENIANS SAY LAST FAREWELL TO KAREN ASRIAN
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ARMENPRESS
June 11, 2008
President Serzh Sarkisian, Parliament Speaker Tigran Torosian and
Prime Minister Tigran Sarkisian joined today thousands of Armenians
to say the last farewell to talented chess player Karen Asrian who
died suddenly on June 9.
Karen Asrian was only 28, but he was Olympic chess champion, three
times champion of Armenia and winner of many international chess
competitions.
The leadership of the country visited the Chess House in Yerevan were
Karen Asrian’s coffin was laid, to convey their condolences to Karen
Asrian’s family and relatives.
Levon Aronian, Vladimir Hakobian, Gabriel Sarkisian, Peter Leko of
Hungary, Michael Adams of UK, Alexander Morozevich of Russia and Boris
Gelfand of Israel who are in Yerevan for an international competition,
paid their last tribute to their friend.