Author: Emma Nadirian

Best way to move forward is to unite: Ruben Vardanyan introduces goals of The Future Armenian initiative

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 10:26, 8 July 2022

YEREVAN, JULY 8, ARMENPRESS. Ruben Vardanyan, Тhe Future Armenian co-Initiator, the co-founder of Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, is confident that The Future Armenian is an initiative giving an opportunity to work together, discuss new solution paths and make changes.

During a panel discussion at The Future Armenian Convention, Vardanyan said with this initiative they want to show that the Armenian people, who live not only in Armenia but also abroad, can really be united and find joint and effective solutions.

“It’s truly important that we manage to use our strongest sides. We have wonderful people living in Artsakh, Armenia and Diaspora who should feel that we can change our future together. Today the only way to success in the world is the model of working and cooperating together, and we as well need to understand that the best way to move forward is the cooperation with all circles”, Ruben Vardanyan said.

According to him, most of the Armenian people are used to live with the past and remember the sad moments of the past. However, he notes that everyone should be only optimistic towards the future and understand that today the only right way is not to look back, but to look ahead.

Touching upon the historical responsibility of the Armenian people and the current challenges, Ruben Vardanyan said: “For many years education and science have been very important for the Armenian people. Today keeping this is one of the most important issues for me. One of our goals is for the educated Armenian again to become an example and model for all. The second one is Artsakh which is a red line for me. We should get out of the status of a victim, we are a winning nation, it should be in our blood and genes that we can and must win. Thirdly, we need to clearly understand that the 21st century is our century, and we should use its opportunities for the development and the best future of Armenia because we bear a responsibility before our fallen boys, our children and our future generations”, Ruben Vardanyan said.

Central Bank of Armenia: exchange rates and prices of precious metals – 07-07-22

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 17:31, 7 July 2022

YEREVAN, 7 JULY, ARMENPRESS. The Central Bank of Armenia informs “Armenpress” that today, 7 July, USD exchange rate up by 1.18 drams to 409.38 drams. EUR exchange rate up by 0.84 drams to 417.16 drams. Russian Ruble exchange rate down by 0.11 drams to 6.50 drams. GBP exchange rate up by 4.11 drams to 490.85 drams.

The Central Bank has set the following prices for precious metals.

Gold price down by 165.74 drams to 23089.87 drams. Silver price down by 7.41 drams to 252.97 drams. Platinum price stood at 16414.1 drams.

Civilian car damaged as Azerbaijani forces target Armenia’s Yelpin village in Vayots Dzor

Emma Nadirian
Public Radio of Armenia
Armenia – July 7 2022
July 7, 2022, 19:56

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On July 7, at around 4:15 p.m., units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces opened fire from various types of weapons, including large-caliber rifles, at the Armenian military positions located in the western part of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, specifically in the Yelpin village of the Vayots Dzor region, as well as in the direction of the road leading to the village.

A civilian car was damaged in the shooting, the Ministry of Defense reports.

The fire from the Azerbaijani side was silenced by the retaliatory actions of the Armenian forces.

No casualties were reported on the Armenian side.

Music: G Face: An Armenian-American Independent Rapper

Emma Nadirian
July 7 2022



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This article is about G Face, who is an Armenian-American Indie-Rapper and Actor. He had many ups and downs in his life like everyone has but eventually found his foot in the right place in the music industry back in 2018.

He was born in Armenia and moved to the United States in 1994. He has featured with a lot of celebrities. Celebrities such as Slim 400 and Stupid Young. He was also the lead actor in a movie called “Green Card Warriors”.

Music is his passion. G Face has all the ingredients that a good musician must have. People of all ages love listening to his tracks. He wants to produce something that people can relate themselves to and get inspired. He is sharing his story through his discography.

Music is an art and it’s a resource for people to soothe their minds whenever they are stressed or exhausted from their daily life. His tracks contain a wonderful message in them. The music that he produces will take you on a new musical journey away from your sorrows and daily life problems where you will find comfort for a time being. Some tracks include All up, Gang Politics, Involved, Problems, & many more. 

The song is about some of the Problems that a certain class of people, unfortunately, face in the US usually. The song creates buzz and enables listeners to show their moves.  The track will touch your emotions.

The lyrics of the song are catchy. The celebrity rapper Slim 400 who has also featured in this track with G Face was recently killed. The song is receiving positive feedback from the listeners. You can listen to this track on Spotify.

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Armenia Prosecutor General does not receive relatives of soldiers killed in 44-day war

Emma Nadirian
NEWS.am
Armenia – July 6 2022
13:31, 06.07.2022

Armenia’s Prosecutor General Artur Davtyan did not receive the families of the soldiers who died in the 44-day Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war in the fall of 2020, arguing that they still have no new information, and discussions are underway to transfer the case.

Earlier, Armenian News-NEWS.am reported that a group of relatives of the aforesaid are holding a protest in front of the building of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia.

Their demand is that the criminal case filed with the Investigative Committee—and under the Criminal Code article on "abuse of official power, which has caused serious consequences"—be transferred to the National Security Service.

On June 30, a group of relatives of the aforesaid fallen servicemen had met with Prosecutor General Artur Davtyan and presented their demand.

Also, they demand that this criminal case be investigated under the Criminal Code article on "apparent high treason," and that PM Nikol Pashinyan be summoned for questioning under this article and be included in this case as a defendant.

Armenia says little progress in negotiations with Turkey

Emma Nadirian
July 1 2022

  • Jul 01 2022 11:33 Gmt+3
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Armenia sees little progress in rapprochement talks with Turkey, said Ruben Rubinyan, the country’s special representative for the normalisation process, Armenian newspaper Asbarez reported.

“Armenia has the political will, and the success of this process depends on whether Turkey has the political will. As you can see, up to this point there has not been much progress,” Rubinyan told reporters at the Armenian Parliament on Thursday. He also serves as the deputy speaker of the assembly.

“Since the beginning of the process, Armenia has been very constructive,” Rubinyan said, according to the newspaper, which is based in the United States.

Turkish and Armenian envoys have held three rounds of exploratory talks since January aimed at normalising diplomatic relations, frozen for almost three decades. Both countries began the talks without preconditions, though Turkey has frequently called on Armenia to open a trade corridor through territory it controls to Azerbaijan to allow the passage of Turkish and Azerbaijani goods.

Rubinyan said there was no specific document on the table, Asbarez said.

Ties between the two countries have been suspended since early 1990’s due to Armenia’s conflict with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, which the two countries last fought over in late 2020. The clashes lasted six weeks and Armenia handed back territories in Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan as part of a truce agreement signed in November 2020. Turkey sided with Azerbaijan in the conflict. Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993.

“The main thing in the process is political will, if there is a will, the rest is easy to solve,” Rubinyan said.

Rubinyan and Serdar Kılıç, Turkey’s special envoy for the talks, were scheduled to meet on Friday in Vienna, Asbarez said.

TUMO’s 42 Yerevan school ranked 8th in list of Global Top 100 Innovative Universities

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YEREVAN, JUNE 28, ARMENPRESS. 42 Yerevan school of the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies has been included in the list of the WURI Top 100 Innovative Universities alongside universities like MIT, Stanford, and UC Berkeley.

42 Yerevan is ranked 8th in the list and 1st in the WURI Top 50 for the category of Ethical Value.

Universities on this list are ranked based on innovativeness, implementability and impact.

42 Yerevan is a tuition-free programming school designed to train the ultimate masters of code. The program is run by TUMO Labs, the EU-powered educational program within the EU TUMO Convergence Center for Engineering and Applied Science.

Azerbaijani press: Meeting of Azerbaijani, Armenian, Russian prosecutor generals takes place (PHOTO)

Emma Nadirian
Politics Materials  18:21

BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 24. A trilateral meeting of the Prosecutor Generals of Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia was held in Minsk, on the initiative of the Russian side, General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Azerbaijan told Trend.

Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan Kamran Aliyev noted the significance of joint activities to search for persons missing as a result of the first and second Karabakh wars.

The meeting addressed the importance of mine maps for protecting people's lives, prevention of illegal trips to Karabakh, as well as underscored the need to continue cooperation in this area.

Azerbaijan's full compliance with the trilateral statement of November 10, 2020 was also emphasized.

Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov thanked his Azerbaijani and Armenian colleagues for considerable efforts to achieve peace and stability for the benefit of the region's peoples.

Moreover, the sides discussed future cooperation in the legal sphere and expressed support for strengthening ties.

Ex-President Kocharyan refuses to join Hayastan All Armenian Fund Board of Trustees

Emma Nadirian
NEWS.am
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14:12, 24.06.2022

A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Hayastan All Armenian Fund will be convened Saturday.

Yerevan.Today asked Bagrat Mikoyan, the coordinator of the office of second President Robert Kocharyan, whether the latter will attend this meeting, as he is a member of the aforesaid board.

Mikoyan responded: "President Kocharyan has refused to join the Board of Trustees of the Hayastan All Armenian Fund—in connection with the loss of financial transparency, reliability, and accountability by the Fund in recent times."

To note, during the 44-day Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) war in the fall of 2020, $107 million of the money donated to the Hayastan All Armenian Fund from a pan-Armenian fundraiser was transferred to the state budget of Armenia and, as PM Nikol Pashinyan said, it became an ordinary expense—salary, bonuses, etc. This decision was made without the participation of all members of the Board of Trustees of the Hayastan All Armenian Fund, including the former presidents of Armenia and Artsakh. Moreover, no invitation was sent to them.

World Health Network declares monkeypox a pandemic

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YEREVAN, JUNE 23, ARMENPRESS. The World Health Network (WHN) has declared monkeypox a pandemic.

The WHN made a statement which says:

“In view of the growth of monkeypox in 58 countries through local community transmission around the world, with 3,417 confirmed Monkeypox cases reported across 58 countries, and the rate of growth of cases increasing week by week across multiple continents,

the severe pain, scaring, blindness, and death, which has been observed in cases of Monkeypox historically,

the greater severity of Monkeypox in children, who have thus far been spared during the current outbreak but are likely to be infected increasingly as community transmission expands,

the danger of transmission to wildlife, including rodents such as mice, rats, squirrels, and domesticated pets, which would become a reservoir that will expand across the world leading to ongoing risk of human infection and the need to modify daily life due to this ongoing risk to avoid exposure in many contexts,

The World Health Network (WHN) declares the monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Global Concern, by which it indicates that this outbreak is not limited to a single country or region and should be addressed by immediate actions taken wherever community transmission is taking place in order to ensure that the least effort is needed and the smallest impact is suffered due to this outbreak”.

Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) is going to convene an emergency meeting to assess the global risk of the outbreak of the disease.