Author: Anna Tamamian

Ambassador Navasardyan proposes Yerevan to become Trump-Rouhani possible meeting place

Anna Tamamian
ArmenPress, Armenia
Aug 3 2018
Ambassador Navasardyan proposes Yerevan to become Trump-Rouhani possible meeting place


YEREVAN, AUGUST 3, ARMENPRESS. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Arman Navasardyan suggests that Armenia applies to official Tehran and Washington with the proposal to hold Trump-Rouhani possible meeting in Yerevan, reports Armenpress.

“As you know, talks are underway to organize the meeting of the US President Donald Trump and President of Iran Hassan Rouhani. Whether it will be held or not, is difficult to say, but it is more likely. It will be good if Armenia officially applies to Tehran and Washington to hold the possible meeting in Yerevan. It would be an interesting diplomatic step and will have good consequences”, he said.

The Ambassador said Yerevan hasn’t made such initiative yet, and this is a good chance to do that. “I don’t rule out that Baku as well would like to propose the same thing, but I think in that case Iran would prefer Armenia”, he said.

Edited and translated by Aneta Harutyunyan

Sports: Armenia gymnastics team to compete in medal count in European C’ship

Anna Tamamian
MediaMax, Armenia
Aug 1 2018
Armenia gymnastics team to compete in medal count in European C’ship

Secretary General of Armenian Gymnastics Federation Garnik Saroyan has told Mediamax Sport that both senior and junior athletes will be competing for medals.

For the first time, Armenian senior team will be involved in the competition for medal count. Head coach of the team Hakob Serobyan has chosen which athletes will represent Armenia in each exercise.

Floor: Vahagn Davtyan, Artur Davtyan, Vigen Khachatryan.

Pommel horse: Harutyun Merdinyan, Artur Davtyan, Vigen Khachatryan.

Rings: Artur Davtyan, Vahagn Davtyan, Artur Tovmasyan.

Vault: Vigen Khachatryan, Artur Davtyan, Vahagn Davtyan.

Horizontal Bar: Harutyun Merdinyan, Artur Davtyan, Vigen Khachatryan.

Parallel Bars: Vigen Khachatryan, Artur Tovmasyan, Artur Davtyan.

They will compete in the qualifying round on August 9. The final will take place on August 12.

Junior athletes to represent Armenia are Zhora Smbatyan and Gagik Khachikyan. Both will be involved in all around competition on August 3. If they reach the final, we will see Smbatyan and Khachikyan perform on August 10 as well.

Armenian officers to participate in military exercise in Georgia

Anna Tamamian
MediaMax, Armenia
Armenian officers to participate in military exercise in Georgia

Armenian Defense Ministry has said that the officers will be given different roles in the headquarters staff. The positions they will hold for the duration of the exercise are related to the duties Armenian troops fulfill in the international missions for maintaining peace and stability.

The exercise is not organized by NATO itself. The invited parties are NATO member and partner countries, which send staff officers or troops to the exercise.

Armenian Armed Forces is sending representatives to Noble Partner 2018 at the invitation of the Georgian Ministry of Defense.

Last year Armenia sent a field hospital with the staff of 40 to the same exercise.

“Participation of U.S.-financed field hospital in Noble Partner has turned out impossible in 2018, because the hospital was involved in international assessment exercises on July 22-27 in Armenia and it cannot be relocated in just a few days.

The format and conditions of participation of representatives of the Armenian Armed Forces was agreed with our Georgian partners during the conference in early June, when the Noble Partner 2018 exercise was planned,” said the Armenian Defense Ministry.

Armenia’s 1000 largest corporate taxpayers paid over 446.6 billion drams in various taxes for first half of 2018

Anna Tamamian
ARKA, Armenia

YEREVAN, July 30. /ARKA/. Armenia’s 1000 largest corporate taxpayers paid over 446.6 billion drams in various taxes in the first half of 2018, by 18% or 68.1 billion drams more than in the same period of time in 2017, the State Revenue Committee said.

According to the State Revenue Committee, about 343.7 billion drams of that amount were collected directly by the tax authorities, and about 102.8 billion drams by the customs authorities.

Of that amount about 168 billion drams were collected as direct taxes (income tax – 92.4 billion drams and payroll tax – 75.6 billion drams), some 211.8 billion drams were collected as indirect taxes (VAT – 177.1 billion drams and  excise taxes – 34.6 billion drams), and also 66.6 billion drams were collected as other taxes and duties.

Armenia’s 1000 largest corporate taxpayers accounted for 74.1% of the total amount of taxes and duties collected in January-June 2018. Taxes and duties totaled more than 602.1 billion drams, an increase of 9.6% from the year before.

The list was topped by the Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine in the southern province of Syunik that paid over 24.6 billion drams as taxes, up from 9.7 billion drams paid for the same period in 2017.

Second in the list is Gazprom Armenia national gas distribution company, which paid 20.7 billion drams, down from 24.4 billion drams paid a year before. It is followed by Grand Tobacco, which paid 16.7 billion drams, up from 15.6 billion drams paid for the first half of 2017. The fourth is GeoProMining Gold company, which paid about 8.8 billion drams against 8.1 billion drams paid for the same period in 2017.

The CPS OIL CORPORATION company, which paid 8.16 billion drams, compared with 6.1 billion drams for 6 months of 2017, was fifth.

The list of top 10 large taxpayers also includes PHILIP MORRIS ARMENIA (8.1 billion drams), Alex Holding (7.6 billion drams), JTI ARMENIA (7 billion drams), Electrical Networks of Armenia (6.5 billion drams) and International Masis Tabak "(5.8 billion drams). ($ 1 – 480.89 drams). -0-


YSU team wins four medals at International Student Olympiad in Mathematics

Anna Tamamian
  • 18:15 | July 30,2018 | Social
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On July 22-28, 25th International Competition in Mathematics (International Mathematics Competition) was held in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, with participation of 70 University teams (351 participants). Armenia was represented by Yerevan State University team at the competition. Four participants represented the Yerevan State University; three of them – Arsen Hambardzumyan, Gevorg Mnatsakanyan and Albert Gevorgyan – were awarded with gold medals, and Vahagn Altunyan won a silver medal.

The Olympiad was held individually and team-based. Arsen Hambardzumyan shared the 12th-13th places in the personal account. The team of the Yerevan State University took the 4th place in the team championship. This is an unprecedented result for the YSU team. while the team’s best result was in the 7th place.

The YSU Student team was headed by YSU and AUA lecturer Karen Keryan. YSU team was trained by Vardan Voskanyan and Karen Keryan.

It should be noted that the team of St. Petersburg State University took the first place in the International Student Olympiad in Mathematics, and the second and third places were occupied by the teams of Israel’s National School and Pisa High School. The IMC Student International Olympiad in Mathematics was for the first time held in 1994.

Turkish Press: Azerbaijani soldier martyred in clash with Armenia

Anna Tamamian
Yeni Şafak , Turkey


Azerbaijani soldier martyred in clash with Armenia

16:00 Anadolu Agency
Fotoğraf: Resul Rehimov

    An Azerbaijani soldier was martyred in a clash at Armenia-Azerbaijan frontline, according to Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry on Saturday.

    In a statement, the ministry said Armenian forces violated the cease-fire and martyred a soldier, identified as Samet Alisov, in the shooting.

    Azerbaijan and Armenia remain in dispute over the occupied Karabakh region. Karabakh broke away from Azerbaijan in 1991 with Armenian military' support, and a peace process has yet to be implemented.