Author: Felekian Ara

House members disturbed by State Department non-response to Congressional
inquiry on Ambassador Evans’ firing

ArmRadio.am
18.07.2006 13:54

Members of the US House of Representatives have expressed
disappointment at the Administration’s repeated failure to provide
a clear and straightforward explanation for the dismissal of US
Ambassador to Armenia John Marshall Evans, even as the State Department
issued yet another letter sidestepping the issue, reported the Armenian
National Committee of America (ANCA).

In their response to the May 22nd letter spearheaded by Rep. Edward
Markey (D-MA) and cosigned by 60 House members, Assistant Secretary
for Legislative Affairs Jeffrey Bergner failed, once again, to address
reports that Ambassador Evans’ was being recalled for his statements
on the Armenian Genocide. The letter began with the well-worn refrain
that "All Ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the President and as
advocates of the President’s policies." He went on to argue that,
"allegations that the US is removing Ambassador Evans under pressure
from the Government of Turkey are simply untrue," despite the fact
that numerous Turkish press accounts in March of 2005 reported that
then Turkish Ambassador to the US Faruk Logoglu did indeed protest
Ambassador Evans’ remarks to State Department officials.

The State Department’s letter, sent to House Members on July 11th,
went on to state that "The United States has never denied the tragic
events of 1915. .

. . We believe this tragedy is of such enormous human significance that
its characterization should be determined through heartfelt dialogue,
not through diplomatic or political proclamations."

Several House Members immediately reacted to the response, expressing
concern that the State Department has, yet again, avoided providing
a clear reasoning for the Ambassador Evans firing.

In their letter to the State Department, Rep. Markey and fellow
Congressional cosigners expressed special concern about the destructive
precedent of recalling a US diplomat for speaking truthfully on
matters of historical record.

They wrote that, "we must not allow the perception to linger that
Ambassador Evans is being required to vacate his position early for
accurately labeling the cataclysmic events of 1915 as genocide." The
Representatives, noting President Ronald Reagan’s references to
the Armenian Genocide, reminded Secretary Rice that Amb. Evans "did
nothing more than succinctly repeat the conclusions enunciated by
those before him."

The Congressional signatories also expressed concern about the role of
the Government of Turkey in the impending removal of Ambassador Evans
from his posting. "Were the United States to allow the views or beliefs
of a third country to interfere with our diplomatic postings to the
Republic of Armenia," wrote the House members, "it would establish a
dangerous precedent and be injurious to the long- standing relationship
built on trust and friendship between the two countries."

ENLARGEMENT : EU WARNS TURKEY OVER SENTENCE AGAINST JOURNALIST

European Report
July 13, 2006

EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn reacted with consternation on 12
July to the news that Turkey’s appeals court had upheld a suspended
prison sentence handed down to a Turkish-Armenian journalist for
insulting "Turkishness" in an article that appeared in 2004. The
Commissioner said of the latest complication in Turkey’s EU membership
bid that he was disappointed by the judgement in the case of Hrant
Dink, saying it limited the exercise of freedom of expression in
Turkey.

It is not the first time that the EU has complained about people
being prosecuted for expressing non-violent opinions in Turkey. But
European Commission officials said the latest development was of
particular concern because, being a final judgment issued by Turkey’s
highest jurisdiction, it would establish binding case law for lower
jurisdictions to follow. And there were still a number of similar
court cases pending.

Mr Rehn said the Turkish courts had not succeeded in establishing a
"positive case law" when interpreting the country’s new penal code
vis-a-vis relevant EU standards. He urged the Turkish authorities to
amend Article 301 of the code – on which the Dink decision was based –
and other vaguely formulated articles "in order to guarantee freedom
of expression in Turkey". The Commissioner recalled that freedom of
expression was a key principle under the political criteria for EU
membership and "constitutes the core of democracy".

The Commission said it would review the situation in the light of
the political membership criteria in its progress report on Turkey
expected in the autumn. Ankara has been coming under pressure from
the EU to meet obligations towards Cyprus and bring fresh impetus to
accession-related reforms.

Armenia: Watchdog concerned at jailing of editor without bail

Text of press release by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists
(CPJ) on 7 July

The editor of an opposition daily has been jailed in the Armenian
capital, Yerevan, for more than two weeks without bail. Arman
Babadzhanian, editor-in-chief of Zhamanak Yerevan (Yerevan Times),
faces up to five years in prison for allegedly forging documents
to avoid military service, but the Committee to Protect Journalists
[CPJ] and others are concerned that the charge was prompted by his
newspaper’s critical reporting on government conduct.

Babadzhanian was arrested 26 June, just days after the
Armenian-language newspaper published an article questioning
the independence of the prosecutor general’s office, said Seda
Muradian of the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting
(IWPR), which has followed the case closely. Authorities allege that
forgeries occurred in 2002, but they did not explain the delay in
pressing charges.

Press reports said the prosecutor general summoned Babadzhanian for
questioning as a witness in a criminal case but jailed him instead
on the forgery charge. News reports said that the editor allegedly
confessed to forging documents to avoid the draft, but press freedom
and human rights groups are questioning the prosecutors’ motives.

Babadzhanian was being held today [7 July] in the Nabarashen
pre-trial detention centre in Yerevan, according to the Yerevan Press
Club. His lawyer unsuccessfully sought Babadzhanian’s release from
preliminary detention while the case was pending. CPJ sources said
that Babadzhanian could remain imprisoned without bail for weeks
before the case proceeds.

Muradian, Armenia country director for IWPR, said the prosecutor’s
refusal to grant Babadzhanian preliminary release on bail is very
unusual in this type of case. "Authorities are treating Babadzhanian
as a dangerous criminal," Muradian told CPJ.

On Wednesday [5 July], the Yerevan Press Club, Internews Armenia, the
Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression, the Helsinki Committee
of Armenia, and other local press freedom groups sent a letter to
the prosecutor general’s office seeking Babadzhanian’s release on
bail. The groups also challenged the validity of Babadzhanian’s
purported confession. Also on Wednesday, editors of seven Armenian
independent and opposition newspapers issued a statement saying
Babadzhanian’s arrest was intended to intimidate the press.

"We are very concerned that the criminal case against Arman
Babadzhanian may be related to his journalism," CPJ Executive Director
Joel Simon said today.

"We call on Armenian authorities to release him pending trial and
make their evidence against him public."

Babadzhanian’s colleagues from Zhamanak Yerevan staged protests in
front of the prosecutor general’s office for three days after their
editor was arrested, saying that the case is politically motivated
and connected to the paper’s critical editorial stance, according to
press reports.

Armenian independent press has come under pressure in recent
years. The independent television station A1+ has been refused a
broadcast licence 11 times since it was taken off the air in 2002. In
April 2005, legislation restricting press coverage of terrorism was
adopted. Retaliatory assaults against journalists continue, especially
in the provinces, and officials do little to apprehend and prosecute
the perpetrators, CPJ research shows.

IRAN AND ARMENIA COMMENDED LEVEL OF PARTNERSHIP

Lragir.am
06 July 06

The presidents of Armenia and Iran uphold development of partnership.

Referring to the Iranian news agency IRNA, ARKA reports that this was
affirmed in the first round of the Iran-Armenia top-level negotiation
in Tehran. President Robert Kocharyan stated during the negotiations
that Armenia and Iran have signed over 90 documents on partnership,
which must be brought into being as soon as possible. Besides, Robert
Kocharyan expressed interest in expanding partnership with Iran in the
sphere of energy, electricity and transport, namely railroad between
the two countries. Robert Kocharyan invited Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad to Armenia for an official visit. The invitation was
accepted. The president of Iran appreciated the Armenian and Iranian
partnership and highlighted a more intensive use of the potential of
Armenia and Iran in further development of partnership.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pointed to fostering cooperation in culture,
tourism and especially energy. The president of Iran commended
the work of the Iran-Armenia Intergovernmental Committee. During
the negotiations Armenia and Iran signed several documents on
humanitarian and economic partnership, as well as cooperation in the
sphere of energy. One of the documents is an agreement on financing
the construction of the third high-voltage transmission line.

TONINO GUERRA TO BE HONORABLE GUEST OF "GOLDEN APRICOT" YEREVAN FILM FESTIVAL
By Tamar Minasian

AZG Armenian Daily
07/07/2006

The organizers of "Golden Apricot" Yerevan international Film Festival
cooperate with the international organizations as every year, this
year too. The office of the Third Film Festival collaborates with the
cinema workers from Europe and Asia, as well as with the embassies
of France, Germany and Iran to Armenia, as well as with the British
Council and the Open Society Institute.

The organizers of the festival informed at yesterday’s press conference
that the British Council assisted the festival by providing that with
the English language sub-titles for the films.

In the course of "Day of France" July 14 arrangement at Charles
Aznavour Square a musical arrangement will be held. The French films
are included in the program of both the feature and documentary film
competitions, but also in "The Armenian Panorama" section. "Travel to
Armenia" film by Robert Getikian will be shown within the framework
of "The Armenian Panorama" program. The film was shot last year
in Armenia.

Sousana Haroutiunian, Chief Director of the Festival, stated that it is
envisaged to hold "A Day in Europe" non-competition program that will
include European films. She added that Tonino Guerra, famous Italian
screenwriter, would be the honored guest of the festival and will
arrive in Yerevan on July 13. He will participate in the award ceremony
of the festival. Being one of the closest friends of Sergey Parajanov,
mr. Guera expressed readiness to arrive in Yerevan and get familiarized
to the land of Armenia and its people. Within the framework of the
arrangement envisaged at Parajanov Museum Mr. Guerra will be awarded
with a prize for his contribution to the world cinematography.

On July 10, the opening ceremony of the festival will take place. It
is envisaged that besides the classical "Namous," "Andrey" film by
Narine Mkrtchian and Arsen Azatian dwelling on the creative life of
Andrey Tarkovsky will be shown on July 10.

MONITORING IN KHOJAVAND DISTRICT WAS BROKEN IN RESULT OF FIRE OPENED BY ARMENIAN MILITARY FORCES AT OSCE REPRESENTATIVES
Author: E.Javadova

TREND, Azerbaijan
July 4 2006

On July 4, the monitoring scheduled for the north-west of Kuropatkina
village of Khojavand district was broken in result of fire opened
by Armenian military forces at the representatives of OSCE. The
monitoring was stopped according to the order of Andji Kaspishk,
the personal envoy of OSCE chairman, Trend reports with reference to
the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan Republic.

The monitoring from Azerbaijani side should be held by the desert
assistants of the personal envoy of the present OSCE chairman Imre
Palatinus and Yuri Aberli, and from Armenain side by the personal
envoy of the present OSCE chairman Andji Kaspishk and his desert
assistants Gunter Folk and Peter Ky.

And the monitoring held by the same monitoring group on the front
line near Mahrizli village of Agdam district was completed without
incidents.

ALIYEV: ECONOMIC STRENGTH WILL LEAD TO ADVANTAGEOUS RESOLUTION OF KARABAKH

The New Anatolian, Turkey
July 2 2006

Azerbaijan’s rapidly growing economy will permit it to resolve the
dispute with Armenia over the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region
to its own advantage, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev asserted,
asserting that time is in Baku’s favor.

Aliyev’s comments late Thursday were the latest in a series of
increasingly aggressive statements on the disputed enclave, whose
status remain unresolved more than a decade after a ceasefire ended
six years of open conflict.

Azerbaijan won’t accept any resolution that "doesn’t correspond to
the country’s national interests," said Aliyev, underlining that from
a political viewpoint, Azerbaijan’s superiority is evident and that
its military potential is also growing.

"As for the economy, we’re five times stronger than Armenia now and
in the near future our economic superiority will have increased by
10 to 20 fold," he said. "I’m fully confident that due to this we’ll
be able to settle the Karabakh problem to our advantage."

Stressing that Azerbaijan is willing to solve the problem by peaceful
means, Aliyev however said added that would never compensate for the
loss of its territory.

Nagorno-Karabakh is situated inside Azerbaijan, but is populated
mostly by ethnic Armenians who have run it and seven contiguous
districts since an uneasy 1994 ceasefire ended six years of full-scale
war. Sporadic border clashes regularly break out and the unresolved
conflict has held up development in the strategic region.

Pushed by international mediators, including France, the U.S. and
Russia, Aliyev and his Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharian, have
already met twice this year to try and agree on a resolution. Neither
effort yielded any results, though some observers have said the fact
that the two presidents continue to meet is positive.

Azerbaijan’s economy has grown substantially in recent years as its
vast Caspian Sea oil reserves have begun to be tapped. Aliyev said
last year that the country’s military spending was set to double to
nearly $300 million.

Foreign ministers at a G8 meeting in Moscow on Thursday called for
a prompt resolution of Nagorno-Karabakh’s status within the year.

"We’re calling on Azerbaijan and Armenia to show the political will
to reach an agreement this year and prepare their peoples for peace
and not war," the joint statement said.

ARMENIAN DEPUTIES IN PACE AGAINST TURKISH AND AZERI POLICIES

PanARMENIAN.Net
29.06.2006 15:06 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Member of Armenian parliamentary delegation Artashes
Geghamyan addressed the discussion non the freedom of expression
and respect of religious confessions at the PACE Summer Session. In
his words, hooligan manifestations during the visit of Catholicos of
All Armenians Garegin II, denial of the Armenian Genocide, blockade
against Armenia held by Turkey are inadmissible for a country aspiring
for EU accession.

Hermine Naghdalyan addressed the sitting on migration and human
rights. She noted that migrants and displaced persons often find
themselves in unbearable conditions and need protection of human
rights. She showed the difference in documents on the state of affairs
in Armenia and Azerbaijan, reports the Armenian NA Press Service.

ARIANE ASCARIDE, COEUR ARMENIEN

Le Temps, Suisse
28 juin 2006

Pour "Le Voyage en Armenie", Robert Guediguian et Ariane Ascaride se
sont enfin eloignes de leurs bases marseillaises. Avec un bonheur
mitige. Ecarte de la competition cannoise, ce regard sur l’Armenie
d’aujourd’hui s’avère neanmoins captivant. Rencontre avec une actrice
engagee.

Quand ce n’est pas Robert Guediguian qui accompagne la sortie d’un
de ses films, c’est Ariane Ascaride qui s’en charge. Avec une belle
constance dans l’alternance. Heroïne, mais aussi scenariste du
Voyage en Armenie, la volontaire Ariane peut d’ailleurs revendiquer
celui-ci. Après tout, il n’existerait pas sans elle, petite-fille
d’immigres napolitains qui a tenu a rappeler ses origines armeniennes
au père de leurs deux filles.

Le Temps: Qu’est-ce qui vous a amenes en Armenie ex-sovietique?

Ariane Ascaride: En 2000, nous avons ete invites a Erevan pour une
retrospective des films de Robert. C’etait une initiative de gens
de la diaspora armenienne, qui venaient de renover l’unique cinema
d’Erevan. J’etais fatiguee et j’y allais a contrecoeur. Mais deja
sur le chemin entre l’aeroport et le centre-ville, je suis tombee
amoureuse de ce pays! On atterrit la-bas le soir, et tout au long
de la route, il y avait ces petits kiosques eclaires, tout pleins
de fleurs coupees. C’etait magnifique! Depuis, ils ont fait place a
des casinos… Mais bon, je me suis très vite senti bien la-bas. Je
crois qu’inconsciemment, j’y retrouvais des choses que j’avais connues
durant mon enfance a Marseille. Une certaine ambiance populaire…

– Il paraît que l’idee de ce film vous revient?

– Moi qui suis d’origine italienne, j’avais un jour fait le voyage
dans l’autre sens, a Naples. Et c’est très etrange de constater que
oui, il y a une part de vous qui vient de cet autre pays. J’etais
sûre que Robert avait dû ressentir quelque chose d’approchant, meme
si l’armenite n’est pas quelque chose qui l’a beaucoup travaille
jusqu’ici: son père est armenien, mais il a plutôt adopte la culture
de sa mère allemande. Pour finir, comme tout ca me travaillait, j’ai
eu l’idee de cette histoire d’une femme qui part sur les traces de
son père disparu. Durant le tournage de Brodeuses, dans lequel je
jouais une Armenienne, Robert s’est laisse convaincre et nous avons
bien sûr retravaille ca ensemble.

– L’Armenie vous a tôt confronte a la question de l’echec communiste?

– Vous arrivez toujours dans un pays avec des convictions, une
certaine manière de penser le monde. Et puis, vous vous rendez compte
que ce n’est pas obligatoirement comme ca que les choses doivent
fonctionner. La, j’ai decouvert cet incroyable imbroglio dans lequel
se retrouvent les gens dans les ex-republiques sovietiques. C’etait
destabilisant et j’ai voulu raconter ca dans le film.

– Le personnage de l’officier joue par Gerard Meylan a devance le
vôtre sur ce terrain…

– Cet Armenien de Marseille, qui parle avec l’accent, existe
vraiment! Je n’ai rien invente. Il a reellement eu ce parcours de
militant de gauche qui s’est recentre sur le combat identitaire,
a commis des attentats dans les annees 1980 avec l’ASALA, l’Armee
secrète de liberation de l’Armenie, s’est enfui et a ete condamne a
30 ans de prison par contumace. Il est reste la-bas, a combattu pour
le Haut-Karabakh. Il s’est fait son trou, mais au fond, lui aussi
s’est lourdement trompe.

– Le film brasse large, de la religion a une diaspora tiraillee…

– D’abord, vous ne pouvez pas parler de l’Armenie sans parler de
religion. Elle est pratiquee de manière très libre et individuelle,
mais elle est indissociable de la culture armenienne. Quant
au nationalisme, si l’on considère que l’Armenie existe depuis
2500 ans et que ce n’est devenu un Etat independant qu’en 1991,
on peut comprendre qu’il y ait un sentiment fort d’appartenance a
cette terre-la. Par contre, la diaspora nee du genocide est surtout
composee d’Armeniens qui vivaient en Turquie, d’où un certain decalage
avec les Armeniens d’Armenie.

– Ce "sale business" que vous denoncez est-il si apparent que ca?

– Oh oui! On fait des "affaires" partout. Cette scène dans la
boîte de nuit où un homme cherche a se procurer un avion, je l’ai
vecue! On n’imagine pas ca ici, dans nos societes très organisees
et legalisees. Mais la, du jour au lendemain, l’Union sovietique a
disparu, les Russes ont tout coupe, les usines se sont arretees.

Alors il a bien fallu repartir a zero avecle système D. Et comme
ailleurs, ce sont d’abord des anciens apparatchiks et des mafieux
qui s’en sortent le mieux.

– C’est une situation qui autorise quand meme un espoir?

– Je vous avouerai sincèrement que pour moi, il est assez mince. Il y
a actuellement une grande contradiction entre ce liberalisme sauvage
et beaucoup d’honnetes gens qui cherchent a retrouver leurs marques
a travers la solidarite, les traditions et meme un peu de l’heritage
sovietique. Tandis qu’une majorite de la population vit dans la
pauvrete, la television, qui est devenue omnipresente, diffuse les
valeurs de nos sitcoms: argent, sexe et grosses voitures. Alors
forcement, on en vient a se demander si c’est si formidable que ca
comme evolution d’une societe…

– Et les jeunes?

– Ils partagent tous ce reve occidental, fonde sur une fausse image.

Quand vous voulez leur expliquer que tout n’est pas si facile, ils
ne vous croient pas. Meme les etudiants ne pensent qu’a partir. Cela
pourrait pourtant etre gratifiant de contribuer a la reconstruction
de votre pays, non? Heureusement, certains finissent quand meme par
revenir, parce que leurs racines sont la.

– A l’arrivee, quelle lecon avez-vous tire de votre "Voyage en
Armenie"?

– Que les repères identitaires peuvent etre une richesse
supplementaire. Ceux qui ne veulent y voir qu’une porte ouverte aux
derives fondamentalistes se trompent. Et si j’ai reussi a imaginer
ce film-la, peut-etre que cela veut dire que l’identite, c’est aussi
quelque chose qui peut se construire.

Encadre: Guediguian s’aventure de l’autre côte du mont Ararat

Quete identitaire et deuil du communisme hantent "Le Voyage en
Armenie".

Par Norbert Creutz

Recale a Cannes, proprement assassine par les Cahiers du cinema…

Mais qu’a donc fait Robert Guediguian pour se mettre a dos tout ce
beau monde? Commis sa première daube? Meme pas. Le moment semble
juste venu de payer le prix du consensus, forcement suspect, qui
avait accueilli Marius et Jeannette d’abord, puis Le Promeneur du
Champ-de-Mars… Pourtant, pour qui apprecie son cinema a la fois
intelligent et populaire, c’est bien la continuite d’inspiration
de l’auteur marseillais qui fait plaisir a voir dans ce Voyage en
Armenie. Un film qui s’ouvre sur de nouveaux horizons pour faire
decouvrir un pays quasiment jamais montre a l’ecran. Et s’il donne
par moments a voir un côte bricole, pas vraiment plus maladroit ou
naïf pour autant.

C’est au contraire d’une nouvelle oeuvre très riche et variee qu’a
accouche Guediguian, appliquant sa methode de La Ville est tranquille a
un nouveau paysage. On a a peine le temps de s’y retrouver en famille,
le temps d’un prologue a Marseille, que c’est parti pour Erevan,
en Armenie ex-sovietique.

Son vieux père malade (le realisateur Marcel Bluwal) ayant disparu
au lieu de suivre un traitement a l’hôpital, Anna (Ariane Ascaride),
qui est medecin, finit par deviner qu’il est reparti la-bas, au
pays de sa jeunesse. Ne serait-ce que pour comprendre, elle doit le
retrouver. Mais autant chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin!

D’abord chaperonnee par l’homme d’affaires Sarkis (Simon Abkarian),
puis livree a elle-meme avec le vieux chauffeur Manouk (Roman Avinian,
le heros de Vodka Lemon), elle finit par obtenir l’aide de l’influent
Yervanth (Gerard Meylan), un militaire lui aussi venu de Marseille. Au
passage, elle n’aurait peut-etre pas dû s’interesser de trop près au
sort de la jeune Schake (Chorik Grigorian, une decouverte), coiffeuse,
danseuse et convoyeuse qui joue un jeu dangereux…

Inaccessible Ararat

Qui trop embrasse mal etreint? C’etait le reproche fait en son temps
a Ararat d’Atom Egoyan, film trop alambique qui s’attaquait au tabou
du genocide de 1915. Ici, c’est avant tout du petit pays aujourd’hui
appele Armenie qu’il s’agit. Pour le faire decouvrir, Guediguian
a eu recours a cette trame d’enquete assez simple, mais fortement
teintee de documentaire. D’un côte la ville, l’arrière-pays et les
figurants, 100% reels; de l’autre le recit, avec ses tetes plus ou
moins connues (tiens, Jalil Lespert!), sa petite touche didactique
(saviez-vous que l’Armenie est le plus ancien pays chretien?) et son
action a deux balles (Anna tombe sur un trafic de medicaments).

Le film procède en ajoutant des couches. Ici le constat de la faillite
du communisme, la le portrait du nouveau monde des affaires, euphemisme
pour la mafia. Chorik represente le choix qui attend les jeunes;
Sarkis, Yervanth et l’humanitaire Simon les differentes attitudes des
Armeniens de la diaspora. Les rouages de la fiction grincent un peu,
on devine un peu trop les intentions, mais qu’importe. Globalement,
la methode opère a nouveau: le tableau se complexifie et on se demande
vraiment comment ce pays, si beau mais si pauvre, s’en sortira.

Alors que les certitudes d’Anna vacillent, pour finir, c’est
l’importance du reve pour vivre qui est ici affirmee, a travers
l’inaccessible mont Ararat, reste en Turquie. Plutôt que l’apologie
du communautariste lue par certains, nous avons vu dans ce Voyage
en Armenie une belle confrontation avec toutes les contradictions de
l’identite. Armenienne, mais pas seulement.

Le Voyage en Armenie, de Robert Guediguian (France 2006), avec
Ariane Ascaride, Gerard Meylan, Chorik Grigorian, Roman Avinian,
Simon Abkarian, Jalil Lespert, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. 2h05

Encadre: L’Armenie en images

Par Norbert Creutz

Avec Le Voyage en Armenie, Robert Guediguian est venu combler un
certain deficit d’image(s). A en croire Le cinema armenien, ouvrage
collectif edite a l’occasion d’une retrospective au Centre Pompidou
en 1993, ce dernier existe pourtant, dessinant les contours d’une
nation eclatee, mais non moins reelle. Quel rapport cependant entre
les films poetiques de Sergueï Paradjanov (alias Sarkis Parajanian)
et d’Artavaztd Pelechian et ceux des cineastes de la diaspora, comme
Rouben Mamoulian ou Henri Verneuil (alias Achod Malakian)?

Depuis l’independance, en 1991, l’Armenie a produit une quarantaine
de films, plus ou moins bricoles. Bien sûr, il y a eu Calendar et
Ararat du Canadien Atom Egoyan, mais le pays actuel y apparaissait
a peine. Seul Vodka Lemonde Hiner Saleem (un Kurde), situe dans
un village de haute montagne, en avait montre un peu plus. C’est
dire l’importance de ce Voyage en Armeniepour la construction d’une
nouvelle identite armenienne!

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NEXT ECHELON WITH RUSSIAN MATERIAL FROM AKHALKALAKI HEADS FOR ARMENIA

PanARMENIAN.Net
29.06.2006 13:11 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ An echelon of 24 units of material left the 62nd
Russian military base in Akhalkalaki, heading for Armenia. The
motorcade comprises 18 units of wheeled equipment and 6 pieces
of ordnance. The materiel is sent to Gyumri Armenian city for
being completing bringing Russian 102nd military base there up
to strength. This is not the first echelon with equipment sent to
Gyumri. In June 17 cars with 106 tons of various ammunition were
taken there.

Two days ago 12th echelon with arms of Russian bases, being withdrawn
from Georgia, left Tsalka railway station. The echelon was included 22
self-propelled artillery plants, as well as 72 tons of ammunition and
other military property from the 62nd Russian military base. Earlier 7
consists with equipment, arms and other property of the 62nd Russian
military base (Akhalkalaki) and 12th base (Batumi) were transited
to Russia through Azerbaijan. Another four echelons left Batumi
for Armenia to complete bringing the 102nd military base in Gyumri,
reports Interfax.