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8 April 2015

Professor Richard Hovannisian’s Book Presentation on April 21

Yerevan–The Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS)
and the Armenian Academy of Sciences are pleased to host a public
presentation of the Armenian translation of Volume II of Academician
Richard G. Hovannisian’s four-volume series entitled `The Republic of
Armenia.’

Richard Hovannisian, who devoted a quarter of a century to research, write,
and deliver to the public his monumental work on the first Armenian
republic, 1918-1920, will be on hand to address the audience on the
publication of the second volume, which is subtitled `From Versailles to
London, 1919-1920.’

The special ceremony will take place on April 21 at noon in the conference
hall of the Presidium of the Armenian Academy of Sciences.

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leading independent strategic research center located in Yerevan, Armenia.
As an institution committed to conducting professional policy research and
analysis, the Center strives to raise the level of public debate and seeks
to broaden societal engagement in the policy process as well as to foster
greater and more inclusive civic knowledge. Founded in 1994, ACNIS is the
institutional initiative of Raffi K. Hovannisian, Armenia’s first Minister
of Foreign Affairs. Over the past 20 years, it has achieved a prominent
reputation as a primary source of multi-disciplinary studies covering a
wide range of national and international policy issues.

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KARABAKH SOLDIER WOUNDED DURING AZERBAIJAN ATTACK IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION

00:26, 09.04.2015
Region:Armenia, Karabakh, Azerbaijan
Theme: Politics, Society

YEREVAN. – Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Army serviceman
Gor Darmanyan continues to be in critical but stable condition.

The director of the Armenian Ministry of Defense Central Clinical
Military Hospital in Yerevan, Aram Asaturyan, told about the
aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

To note, Darmanyan was wounded on March 19 while defending against
an Azerbaijani military infiltration attempt.

Asaturyan noted that the soldier was transferred to Yerevan on Tuesday.

“The [health] danger has not yet passed, he is in critical condition,
[and] he is in the intensive care unit,” the hospital director said.

“A surgery issue is not discussed at this point, but he has numerous
injuries.”

To note, Gor Darmanyan’s leg was amputated

As reported earlier, an enhanced team from Azerbaijan’s special
military detachment launched an attack, on March 19 at around 8:30am,
on the NKR Defense Army positions stationed in a northerly (Gyulistan)
direction.

As a result of the skirmish that lasted about two hours, however,
the Armenian military position holders and the relief forces compelled
the adversary to flee. Subsequently, they pursued the said Azerbaijani
military team and completely crushed them nearby their own military
position.

Unfortunately, NKR Defense Army servicemen Hakob Khachatryan (born
in 1996), Eduard Hayrapetyan (born in 1995), and Arshak Harutyunyan
(born in 1995) died, and four others were wounded while confronting
the adversary. One of the wounded soldiers, Samvel Hakobyan (born in
1995), died in hospital on March 26.

Armenia News – NEWS.am

5.8% YEAR-ON-YEAR PRICE RISE IN ARMENIA IN MARCH

15:20 * 09.04.15

This January-March, a price rise was registered in a number of sectors
in Armenia.

Specifically, Armenia’s education sector showed a 0.4% rise in prices,
healthcare system a 1.2% rise, recreation and entertainment a 1.2%
price rise, public catering a 1.5%, culture a 2.3% and public utilities
a 2.7% price rise.

“The communication sector registered a 0.1% decrease in prices and
the transport sector a 1% decrease in prices, which is the result of
a decrease in prices for air transport,” Gurgen Martirosyan of the
National Statistical Service of Armenia said.

A 0.2% price rise was registered in Yerevan against the general 0.1%
rise in 11 Armenian towns.

“A 5.8% price rise was registered in Armenia this March as compared
with last March,” Mr Martirosyan said.

PRESIDENT SENDS CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO GERMAN JOURNALIST AND HISTORIAN WOLFGANG GUST

16:33, 9 April, 2015

YEREVAN, 9 APRIL, ARMENPRESS. President Serzh Sargsyan today, on
9 April, sent a congratulatory message to German journalist and
historian Wolfgang Gust on the occasion of his 80th birthday. As
the Public Relations and Mass Media Department of the Structure to
the Office of the President of the Republic of Armenia reports to
“Armenpress”, the President’s message reads as follows:

“Dear Mr. Gust,

I congratulate you on your 80th birthday.

Sincere journalists and historians like you are precious to us. As
experts and citizens, you don’t spare any effort to seek, find and
reveal the truth with impartiality.

This year, as Armenians around the world and all progressive mankind
commemorate the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, we remember
with special gratitude those who have made their contributions to
genocide studies.

I thank you for your extensive efforts and clear position.

I wish you health and all the best.”

GENERAL TER-TADEVOSYAN: ARRESTING ZHIRAIR SEFILYAN WAS A MISTAKE

Lragir.am
Country – 09 April 2015, 11:45

Major General Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, Hero of Karabakh War, finds
that arresting Zhirair Sefilyan, Pavel Manukyan and the others was
the mistake of the authorities. He says they could have met them,
talked to them, urged them not to take to the street and refrain from
protests on April 24.

“Arresting Zhirair Sefilyan was something incomprehensible. First
they beat them, then they arrested them… There must be freedom of
expression. To tell the truth, I don’t know anything about their plans,
I don’t know what he wants but he is my brother-in-arms, and I think
he cannot be arrested just in case he does something on April 24.”

Evoking his brothers-in-arms and their feats, Arkady Tadevosyan also
noted that planning something on April 24 was a mistake too though he
knows that the representatives of the Founding Parliament, and Zhirair
Sefilyan himself announced that their actions will be peaceful and
in accordance with law.

“But he shouldn’t have told that, that was the reason to arrest him.

There was so much [time] till April 24, they could have worked with
him, he might have agreed but to arrest Zhiro and claim that he is a
terrorist… That was a very wrong decision to arrest him. Now those
who are speaking so much now, those speakers will hide somewhere when
hard times come, and people like him will again pick up their guns
and defend our country,” he notes.

Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan calls to free the heroes. He calls his
brother-in-arms Pavlik Manukyan to stop his hunger strike. “He’s a very
good guy, Pavlik is very good. Zhiro sat for several times and got
out… They are very strong men, I know them very well. I just can’t
understand why they chose April 24. It was their mistake, I think.”

The hero of the Karabakh war believes that arrests and searches will
not bend those people who have passed a glorious way.

ARMENIA’S DOMESTIC TRADE TURNOVER FALLS BY 6.9% TO AMD 269.8 BILLION IN JANUARY-FEBRUARY

YEREVAN, April 9. /ARKA/. Armenia’s domestic trade turnover dropped
by 6.9% in January-February 2015 to AMD 269.8 billion, the National
Statistical Service of Armenia reports.

Retail trade accounted for about 63% of the overall volume and
amounted to AMD 170 billion in January-February, a reduction of 6.5%
as compared to the same period of the year before.

At the same time, wholesale trade fell by 6.4% in the period and
accounted for 33.8% of the overall domestic trade (about AMD 91.2
billion).

According to the statistics, store trade accounted for a substantial
share of the retail trade – 69.8% or AMD 118.6 billion. Trading at
commodity markets was over AMD 13.5 billion or 8% of the overall
retail trade, according to the report. ($1 – 474.99 drams). –0-

HAYKAKAN ZHAMANAK: CULTURE MINISTRY TO DIGITALIZE 16 FILMS FROM ARMENIAN CINEMA HERITAGE

11:39 09/04/2015 >> DAILY PRESS

Armenia’s Ministry of Culture has decided to digitalize 16 films from
Armenian cinema heritage, Haykakan Zhamanak reports.

The Ministry expects to receive over 25 million drams from the
government for this purpose.

Out of these films, five are dedicated to the Armenian Genocide. They
will be digitalized by April 24.

The government will discuss this issue during its weekly session today.

Source: Panorama.am

NO CONNIVING AT NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT ESCALATING INTO ALL-OUT WAR – EXPERTS ON RUSSIAN FM’S STATEMENT

00:31 * 09.04.15

Russian FM Sergey Lavrov’s statement confirms the position that there
are no prerequisites or readiness for escalating the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict into hostilities, political scientist Alexander Margarov
told Tert.am.

Azerbaijan is following the logic it alone understands.

“And it is difficult to say whether this statement will have a
‘freezing’ impact because the scale of ceasefire violations by
Azerbaijan cannot be compared with the previous scale. However, due to
an adequate response by the Armenian sides, Azerbaijan comes to realize
that its potential is insufficient, and there are no alternatives to
negotiations,” Mr Margarov said.

Both the co-chairs and the conflicting parties accept this fact,
he added.

The tension since last summer shows Azerbaijan’s inconsistency and
conflict with the co-chairs’ statements and prove the fact that
Azerbaijan’s promises have no value, and the co-chairs’ latest
statement mentioned the fact.

The Russian FM’s statement is a signal for Azerbaijan that the
co-chairs, particularly Russia, are not going to connive at any
escalation.

“No one is going to connive at the conflict escalating into
hostilities,” Mr Margarov said.

In any case, at an official level Azerbaijan displays its commitment
to reach a negotiated settlement of the conflict.

“Basically, no one benefits from hostilities in any region,” Mr
Margarov said.

According to him, not only Russia, but also many other nations have
their interests.

Ruben Mehrabyan, expert for the Armenian Center for National and
International Studies (ACNIS), believes that the Russian FM’s statement
does not convey any new message, but confirmation of Russia’s position
on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: all-out war is not to Russia’s
benefit – at least at the current stage.

“Of course, a final settlement of the conflict is not of benefit to
Russia as well, and Russia’s unprecedented arms supplies to Azerbaijan
proves Russia needs the conflict to continue for the region to remain
closed to communication that is not in Russia’s interests,” he said.

The Russian FM’s statement will not contribute to improvement of
the situation because the border tension is, first of all, in the
interests of Russia and of the Aliyev regime.

“In any case, Russia has not made – nor will it make – any efforts
to put an end to border incidents. Russia needs permanent, but
controllable, tension. Russia is making the best use of the situation
because the Russian supplies to the Aliyev regime allow him to become
so impudent as to constantly escalate border tension, which is in
Russia’s interests,” Mr Mehrabyan said.

ARF YOUTH ORGANIZATION DEMANDS THAT GERMANY CALL ON TURKEY TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

YEREVAN, April 9. / ARKA /. A youth organization affiliated with the
Armenian Revolutionary Federation/Dashnaktsutyun (ARF) party protested
today outside the German embassy in Yerevan demanding that the German
government call on Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

“We demand that the German government urge Turkey to recognize the
Armenian Genocide. Germany’s opinion is important to us since it
is the country that has confronted with a dark page in its history
and is still paying its price,’ a member of the organization Ani
Khachatryan said.

The protesters also called on Germany to express more clearly its
position on the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire by adopting
a law criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide.

The protesters wanted to hand a letter with their demands to ambassador
Rainer Morel, but he did not come out of the embassy.

Similar protests are being held in 17 countries around the world. I

In June, 2005 the German Bundestag passed a resolution that “honors
and commemorates the victims of violence, murder and expulsion among
the Armenian people before and during the First World War”.

The resolution also states that ‘the German parliament deplores the
acts of the Government of the Ottoman Empire regarding the almost
complete destruction of Armenians in Anatolia and also the inglorious
role of the German Reich in the face of the organized expulsion and
extermination of Armenians which it did not try to stop.’

The Armenian Genocide was the first genocide of the twentieth century.

According to Armenian and many other historians, up to 1.5 million
Armenians were killed starting in 1915 in a systematic campaign by
the government of Turkey. Turkey has been denying it for decades.

The Armenian genocide was recognized by tens of countries. The first
was Uruguay that did so in 1965. Other nations are Russia, France,
Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden,
Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina,
42 U.S. states.

It was recognized also by the Vatican, the European Parliament, the
World Council of Churches and other international organizations. -0-

KHLOE KARDASHIAN OVERWHELMED BY ARMENIAN WELCOME

10:05, 09 Apr 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

Khloe Kardashian can’t believe the “overwhelmingly beautiful” welcome
she has received in Armenia, acoording to Film-News.co.uk.

The reality star arrived in the country, which her family originates
from, with her older sister Kim and her husband Kanye West. The group
was completed by the couple’s daughter, 22-month-old North West. After
making their way through Zvartnots International Airport on Wednesday
night, Khloe, 30, was quick to take to Instagram to share photographs
of their arrival and subsequent joy of being in the country.

“The love and welcoming to Armenia has been overwhelmingly
beautiful!!! I wholeheartedly, can’t believe all of you Angels who are
outside our hotel with flowers and smiles,” she wrote alongside a snap
of a huge crowd of people. The family’s long journey from Los Angeles
and late arrival time meant Khloe was feeling pretty tired. However,
the star hoped to get some rest and be fresh to take in the sights
the following day.

“Im incredibly eager to get some sleep and see Armenia in the day
light! I hope I’m able to sleep. I’m so excited to be here!” she added.

However their holiday isn’t just for pleasure, as it’s believed that
E! cameras are capturing all the activities for their TV show Keeping
Up With The Kardashians.

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