Author: Ani Tigranian

Press Release: 9th Wounded Soldier in Artsakh Receives a Home from the Tufenkian Foundation

Ani Tigranian
Dear partners,

The Tufenkian Foundation is delighted to share with you the latest news 
about the support provided to the wounded soldiers of Artsakh. Please feel free to share the news with your readers. Attached is the press release in English and Armenian, as well as photos.


Warm Regards,


Ani Asatryan
Public Relations Officer, Tufenkian Charitable Foundation
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Հարգելի գործընկերներ,

Թուֆենկյան հիմնադրամը ուրախ է Ձեզ հետ կիսվել Արցախի վիրավոր զինվորներին տրամադրվող  աջակցության վերաբերյալ նորություններով: Խնդրում ենք տարածել այս նորությունը Ձեր ընթերցողների շրջանում: Նամակին կից կարող եք տեսնել մամլո հաղորդագրությունը և լուսանկարներ:

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Անի Ասատրյան

Թուֆենկյան բարեգործական հիմնադրամ


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It’s the “right time” for investments in Armenia, PM says

Ani Tigranian
MediaMax, Armenia
It’s the “right time” for investments in Armenia, PM says

Karen Karapetyan and his Lebanese counterpart Saad Hariri discussed the prospects of the development of economic cooperation between the two countries.

“Lebanese companies can use our platform to enter larger markers, taking into consideration our membership in the Eurasian Economic Union, free economic zone at the border with Iran, GSP+ trade regime with the European Union. Overall it’s the right time to come to Armenia and make investments,” Karen Karapetyan said.

PM’s security detail allegedly involved in car crash

Ani Tigranian
| 13:47 | February 26 2018
Category
Society

The security detail of Armenian Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan has been involved in a car crash, according to online media reports.

According to the reports the accident happened at 11:00 in the Mamikonyants Street of Yerevan, when a Hyundai and a Mercedes Benz collided.

No one has been hurt in the accident, according to online media.

The Hyundai SUV is allegedly a governmental vehicle registered under the personal protection unit of the Prime Minister.

7 people indicted for drug trafficking from Iran to Armenia

Ani Tigranian
| 17:50 | February 26 2018
Category
Society

Seven people have been charged amid an ongoing drug trafficking criminal investigation, the Yerevan investigative committee department reported.

Earlier it was reported that a large amount of narcotics had been discovered and seized as result of the investigation, and seven people involved in the trafficking were identified and charged.

Preliminary investigation concluded that the narcotics have been smuggled from Iran. The smugglers, citizens of Iran, used various methods to smuggle the drugs, namely by hiding the packages in household equipment on board of passenger buses en route to Armenia. The smugglers also used body packing, a method whereby the smuggler is transporting the narcotics inside his/her body. The contraband was later transported to a rented apartment in Armenia and sold to a group of Armenian citizens.

3 Iranians and 4 Armenians have been indicted.

2 of the Iranians and 3 of the Armenians have been remanded in custody.

Police seized different types of narcotics, including Marijuana, methamphetamines, psychotropic substances from raided apartments. Officers found more than 381 grams of meth, with the street value of 1 gram being 100,000 drams.

The criminal case has been transferred to the prosecution.

Eurovision: Watch now: Depi Evratesil chooses the Armenian entrant for Lisbon!

Ani Tigranian
ESC Today, EU
Feb 25 2018
 
 
Watch now: Depi Evratesil chooses the Armenian entrant for Lisbon!
 
ArmeniaNews
 
by Georgi Senkishev 6:45 pm
 
Tonight Yerevan will host the final show of the Armenian national selection Depi Evratesil 2018 which ran during this week with two semi-finals, from which 10 acts in total qualified. But who will win the ticket to Lisbon out of these 10 candidates?
 
How to watch?
 
Depi Evratesil final will air live from 19:15 CET (22:15 local time) on the following channels:
 
AMPTV
Live webcast via the broadcaster’s official website
Live webcast on the Depi Evratesil YouTube channel
 
Who is competing?
 
10 acts in total will battle it out, but only one will win the right to go to Eurovision and represent the country in Lisbon. A combination of jury and televoting will decide the Armenian representative.
 
Here are tonight’s finalists in the scheduled running order:
 
Sevak Khanagyan – Qami
Gevorg Harutyunyan – Stand up
Lusine Mardanyan – If you don’t walk me home
Kamil Show – Puerto Rico
Amaliya Margaryan – Waiting for the sun
Nemra – I’m a liar
Mariam Petrosyan – Fade
Mger Armenia – Forever
Robert Koloyan – Get away with us
Asmik Shiroyan – You & I
 
During the past week two semi-finals were held in Armenia to shortlist the best 10 acts that deserved to advance to the final. The following 10 acts were finally eliminated in the semi-finals and therefore are now out of the competition:
 
Arman Mesroyan – What you hide
Zhanna Davtyan – Unbreakable
Tyom – Follow the ocean
AlternatiV – Stare at me
Angel – Heartbeat
Tamar Kaprelian – Poison (Ari ari)
Suren Poghosyan – The voice
Hayk Kasparov – Enamórame
Gata Band – Shogha
Maria’s Secret – Escape
 
Armenia at Eurovision 2017
 
Following tonight’s show, we will get to know who will succeed Artsvik and will go to Lisbon.
 
Last year, Armenia was represented by Depi Evratesil’s winner Artsvik and her song Fly with me. Despite the song being among the most favourite ones, she finally reached a 18th place in the final with 79 points. You can watch her performance in Kyiv here:
 

Sports/Olympics: Armenia’s Mikayel Mikayelyan finishes the 83rd in Olympic skiathlon

Ani Tigranian
Panorama, Armenia
Feb 16 2018
18:54 16/02/2018

Armenian skier Mikayel Mikayelyan finished the 83rd in the 15k freestyle race at the Olympics. The Armenian showed a result of 39:01.4, around six seconds behind the winner.

Swiss Dario Cologna became the quadruple Olympic champion in the race. Norwegian Simen Kruger, who has previously won gold in the skiathlon, became the second. Russian Denis Spicav won bronze in the Olympics.

To note, this was the last race of Mikayelyan in Pyeongchang. Armenia's last representative Ashot Karapetyan competing in the Alpine skiing will start on February 22.

Bratislava: Slovak parliament head says massacre of Armenians was genocide

Ani Tigranian
CTK National News Wire, Czech Rep.

January 29, 2018 Monday 4:23 PM (Central European Time)


Slovak parliament head says massacre of Armenians was genocide

Bratislava, Jan 29 (CTK) – Armenians have an experience with genocide, were a target of attacks and suffered a lot in their position of an island of Christianity, Slovak parliament chairman Andrej Danko said after meeting his Armenian counterpart Ara Babloyan today.

"I do not conceal it that I am one of the people in Slovakia who feel huge respect for the values of Christianity and mainly for the suffering of some of those who fought against Islamisation. It is Armenians, an island of Christianity, who suffered a lot. Millions of Armenians were a target of attacks, suffering and misery," Danko told journalists.

"Who else but Armenians has experience with genocide," he asked.

Babloyan said a large part of the Armenian nation was massacred in the genocide in 1915. He and Danko laid wreaths at the monument of the Armenian genocide victims in Bratislava.

Turkey dismisses the 100-years old massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire having been a genocide. It criticises the countries which speak of a genocide in this connection.

Danko, who heads the Slovak National Party (SNS), said the current Slovakia, too, was afflicted by the Ottoman Empire's expansivity.

"In our literature and history, our ancestors described our nation's suffering. Maybe this is also why our people understand the position of the Armenians," Danko said.

He said he is proud of the Slovak parliament having condemned the massacre of Armenians several years ago.

"I am very glad that the EU and all advanced countries joined in condemning the Armenian genocide and called on Turkey to cope with its history," he said.

In 2004, the Slovak parliament passed a resolution calling the genocide of Armenians a crime against humanity.

Three years ago, the EP approved a resolution saying that the recognition of the Armenian genocide by Turkey would open the path to reconciliation.

Turkey says the massacre was not the Ottoman Empire's intention but a civil war event whose victims also included Turks.

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Azerbaijani Press: Poland to continue efforts to promote peaceful resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Ani Tigranian
Trend, Azerbaijan
Jan 24 2018
21:54 (UTC+04:00)             

Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 24

By Nigar Guliyeva – Trend:

Poland will continue efforts to promote a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Polish Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued on the Krakow meeting.

“The Foreign Ministry welcomes the outcome of the Krakow meeting of the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Edward Nalbandian and Elmar Mammadyarov,” reads the statement.

“Poland will continue efforts to promote respect for the principle of peaceful resolution of disputes and conflicts based on international law.”

The ministry further noted that Poland will play an active role in this field as part of its non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council in 2018-2019.

The Foreign Ministers of the two countries met in Krakow on Jan.18 with the participation of the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Andrew Schofer (USA), Stefan Visconti (France) and Igor Popov (Russia), and Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office.

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.

Former Cambridge University professor to run for Armenian president

Ani Tigranian
Xinhua General News Service, China
Friday 9:47 PM EST
 
 
Former Cambridge University professor to run for Armenian president
 
Source: Xinhua| 2018-01-20 10:45:00|Editor: Yurou
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YEREVAN, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) — Armenia's ruling Republic Party of Armenia (RPA) will nominate Armen Sargsyan, a former maths professor of Cambridge University, as a presidential candidate, announced RPA leader and outgoing President Serzh Sargsyan in a statement on Friday.

Sargsyan was the country's prime minister briefly from November 1996 until March 1997.

Armenia has been transitioning from a presidential system of governance to a parliamentary one since its constitutional reforms in December 2015.

Under the new amendments, though recognized as head of state, the president will take on largely ceremonial roles, while the real executive power remains in the hands of the prime minister.

The presidential election is set for March 2 when Armenia's National Assembly will elect a new president for a seven-year term.

The incumbent president's second and final term expires on April 9, on which Armenia's transition to a parliamentary system of governance will be completed.

 
 

Sports: Inter Milan can’t afford Henrikh Mkhitaryan – Spalletti

Ani Tigranian
Panorama, Armenia
Jan 5 2018

Inter Milan will not be making a bid for Manchester United's Henrikh Mkhitaryan or Javier Pastore of Paris Saint-Germain during the January transfer window because they cannot afford either, according to their coach Luciano Spalletti.

ESP reported, at a press conference on Friday, Spalletti discussed what he called a "distracting" transfer window, since he cannot find anybody who can improve the squad he has already got who is not priced out of Inter's reach.

"I think people are ignoring it because you know all too well what the problems are. It's what I was saying at the start of the season: if we want to improve, we need to get players who are better than the ones we've already got," he said at a news conference.

"Who do you want us to go and get, who is better than what we've got? Tell me? Come on, give me some names, otherwise we just go around [in circles]. It's up to you…"

One reporter mentioned attacking midfielder Mkhitaryan. "Mkhitaryan, [Javier] Pastore and then… you see? You need €30-40 million to buy them. We don't have it. It's no use beating about the bush — I've been told that we can't spend €40m, so there's no point even talking about it.

"Maybe you could have an exchange of players on loan, but then you would need, for example, Manchester United to want one of our players, but you've both got to have the same intentions,” the coach was quoted by the source.