According to preliminary reports there are two ethnic Armenians among the victims of massive wildfires in California. One more Armenian is in the list of missing persons, Armenian foreign ministry spokesperson Anna Naghdalyan told Armenpress.
She informed that three homes owned by Armenian families have been damaged due to the fires.
203 persons still remain missing in California fires.
Search operations continue.
88 people have been killed so far in the massive fires.
The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) has shared a video as a pre-election campaign that is more anti-advertising.
It presents a video of contradictions in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s statements made at different times.
YEREVAN. – The Armenian truck drivers blocked Iran-Armenia highway on Wednesday morning demanding equal conditions for the Armenian and Iranian carriers, Aravot daily writes.
The Armenian drivers said they are permitted to import a limited amount of diesel fuel from Iran, while the Iranian carriers have no restrictions.
Mayor of the town of Meghri Mkhitar Zakaryan met with the drivers and promised to convey their demands to the administration of Syunik province.
Forward of Armenia’s national football team Yura Movsisyan has praised teamwork for the victory against Gibraltar.
“Great Team Victory in Gibraltar… oh and 4 goals. #GoArmenia”, he said on Facebook.
Gibraltar suffered a total defeat to Armenia in the Nations League – Grp D4 home match at the Victoria Stadium on November 16. The match ended 2:6.
In the first minutes of the match Armenia’s Kartashyan and Movsisyan were shown the yellow card for fouls.
The score was opened by Gibraltar’s Tjay De Barr with a right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
In the 26th minute Gibraltar’s Joseph Chipolina was shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
One minute later Armenia’s Yura Movsisyan equals the score from very close range to the bottom left corner. About ten minutes later Rumyan Hovsepyan (Armenia) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
The first half ended 1:1.
Yura Movsisyan started the second half with some amazing performance and scored two goals in the 48th and 52nd minutes, brining the score to 1:3. Minutes later, AGAIN Yura Movsisyan scores a goal – the first Poker in the history of the Armenian national football team.
In the 62nd minute, when the score is 1:4, Armenia substitutes Rumyan Hovsepyan with Gor Malakyan.
66’ Artur Kartashian brings the score to 1:5.
78’ Gibraltar’s Adam Priestley scores Armenia’s goals.
90+4’ Armenia’s Alexander Karapetyan wraps up the match in the overtime and Armenia wins the game 2:6.
Armenia’s next match will take place November 19 against Lichtenstein.
Armenia’s ex defense minister Vigen Sargsyan referred to Armenia’s foreign policy in a Facebook post.
He particularly stressed that the calls to withdraw from CSTO and EAEU are irresponsible statements.
“Allied strategic relations with Russia, agreement with the EU, expanding cooperation with the USA, good partnership with Iran and Georgia, deepening dialogue with China, considerable role in the CSTO and EAEU, on the other hand presidency in Organization of Francophonie.
Success formula – knowledge, consistent work, skilled team. Keeping all this with statements is impossible. The real intentions and visions are displayed with actions, made decisions. The past months raise serious concern regarding the development of the country’s foreign ties. We are living in a region and in a period when each mistake may become fatal,” he wrote, adding that they will continue working for the sake of balanced pro-Armenian foreign policy.
For Columbus attorney Stephen McCoy, bread means family. And not just any bread, but the traditional Armenian braided sweetbread called choreg.
And not just any choreg recipe, but the recipe his great-grandmother carried with her through war, through genocide, across two continents and in utter poverty to a new life – and a new family – in America.
“It’s not just a treat; there’s our family history that’s, kind of, brought and baked into it,” said McCoy of his family’s choreg recipe.
As a young adult, McCoy’s great-grandmother Armine lived in Armenia during the period of World War I and the Ottoman Empire’s 1915 Armenian genocide.
According to some estimates, that genocide took the lives of more than one million Armenians, including at least three of McCoy’s ancestors.
“Armine’s father and two of her siblings were killed in the genocides,” McCoy said. “The family split at a point where mother and a couple of her siblings lived in Russia. And she came back to check on their homes and their belongings. And from there, they lived in abandoned buildings, and she first-hand witnessed mass killings.”
Armine managed to escape the Armenian genocide in a British military evacuation. She and tens of thousands of others were routed first to cities in the Middle East. Armine later landed in Europe.
“She eventually found her way to Marseille, in France, where she met my great-grandfather,” McCoy said. “She really didn’t have any belongings with her by the time she got to Marseille. Really, she just had the clothes on her back and what knowledge she was able to bring, and part of that was this bread recipe.”
From France, Armine and McCoy’s great-grandfather immigrated to Niagara Falla, New York, and started the family that would one day include McCoy.
Armine had learned how to make choreg from her mother, and McCoy doesn’t know how many generations back the family recipe extends.
But Armine’s family carried that recipe forward through later generations, all the way to McCoy’s holiday celebrations and family gatherings, where it has always been a tradition.
“[My mom] has made it virtually every year since I was a child,” McCoy said. “I really grew up with this stuff. She would make huge batches – I’m talking dozens of loaves – and she would actually mail them out to various members of our family that live in Niagara Falls, Phoenix, even Oklahoma City. It would be made early in the year around spring, sometimes around Christmastime, really around the holidays.”
In the 1980s, someone recorded Armine’s choreg recipe on a typewriter, likely taking dictation from Armine.
“When my great-grandmother was still living, she was able to recite the recipe,” McCoy said.
That typed recipe is now mounted and framed, and just earlier this year, McCoy’s mother handed off the family choreg recipe to him.
“She symbolically passed the baton,” he said, “and this year I made it for the first time.”
And that means McCoy has joined the ranks of others in his extended family for whom making Armine’s recipe is a treat as special as eating it.
“We had a big family reunion in Niagara Falls recently with a lot of our extended family and cousins that are the descendants of Armine, and we made choreg there,” he said. “It was a great experience to see some of the older members of our family actually sit down and make it for the entire family.”
As a child, McCoy says, he had not understood the extent to which his great-grandmother and her immediate family had been affected by the Armenian genocide. But now, as keeper of Armine’s choreg recipe, he appreciates that this special bread is full of family history, as well as flavor.
Said McCoy, “Hopefully this will be something that I can pass along to [family] in the future, as well.”
On Thanksgiving Day, hear family bread stories from cultures around the world, along with beautiful American music during Thanksgiving with The American Sound – Let Us Break Bread Together at 2 p.m. on Classical 101. Then keep listening at 3 p.m. to enjoy Thanksgiving with the American Sound – Pilgrim's Rest, an hour of tranquil American music to fill your Thanksgiving with peace and joy.
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Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan received on October 30 co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Stéphane Visconti of France and Andrew Schofer of the United States of America, personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office Andrzej Kasprzyk and officials accompanying them.
The press service of the Artsakh President’s Office reported that issues related to the Azerbaijani-Karabagh conflict settlement, situation along the border between Artsakh and Azerbaijan as well as recent developments were on the discussion agenda.
The Artsakh Republic President reaffirmed commitment of official Stepanakert to the peaceful settlement of the Azerbaijani-Karabagh conflict under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group, reiterating the necessity of restoring the full-fledged negotiations format with the participation of Artsakh in all the stages of the conflict settlement.
Bako Sahakyan stressed the imperative of applying ceasefire-maintenance mechanisms, considering it among the cornerstone components of maintaining stability and peace in the region.
menia President’s Office will make a statement on the controversial bill about Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly
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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 22, ARMENPRESS. Armenian President's Office is expected to make a statement regarding President's actions concerning the controversial bill on amending the Rules of Procedure law of parliament that was adopted on October 2 and still hasn’t been signed into law by him.
Adopted bills should be signed into law by the president to come into effect.
Sarkissian’s office said the president's office will issue a statement until the defined deadline.
“The deadline is October 24,” Sarkissian’s office told ARMENPRESS.
Under the law, the president has 21 days to either sign a bill into law or to forward it to the Consitutional Court to dispute its constitutionality.
The controversial bill is an amendment to the Rules of Procedure law of the parliament, whereby in the event of a parliament session being unable to be held because of lack of quorum, or if lawmakers are anyhow prevented from participating, it will be considered interrupted rather than failed, with a possibility of resuming at a later date.
The bill was perceived as an apparent limitation of possible circumstances of dissolution of parliament initiated by Republicans. It was adopted on October 2 by the parliament which is dominated by Republicans [HHK], and sparked demonstrations. On that day, PM Nikol Pashinyan sacked Cabinet members and governors representing the ARF and Tsarukyan factions for supporting the bill.
Coincidentally, the first round of electing a prime minister will be held on the very same day – October 24.
Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan
As of 20:00 of 3 reports on apparent electoral breaches committed during elections of local self-government bodies held in 49 communities of 9 RA provinces were received in territorial subdivisions of the RA Investigative Committee.
Two of the materials with apparent electoral breach refer to breach of confidentiality of ballot, one refers to attempt of double voting. Preliminary investigation of criminal cases initiated on the base of the mentioned reports is conducted in Kotayk Regional Investigative Department.
Investigation is conducted as prescribed by law to verify circumstances mentioned in the reports. Additional information about procedural decisions made on the base of the results will be provided.
We remind that by the instruction of the Chairman of the RA Investigative Committee Hayk Grigoryan the whole staff of RA IC regional investigative departments worked on October 21 conditioned by elections of local self-government bodies held in 9 RA provinces.