Author: Karabekian Emil

OSCE MG COCHAIRMEN TO VISIT YEREVAN, STEPANAKERT AND BAKU

ArmInfo
2009-09-29 18:03:00

ArmInfo. OSCE MG Cochairmen Bernard Fassier, Robert Bradtke and
Yuri Merzliakov will visit Yerevan, Stepanakert and Baku, Personal
Representative of OSCE Chair-in-Office, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk
said at today’s briefing held in Tavush administration.

According to him, the meeting of the cochairmen in Yerevan will be
held on October 1, then the mediators will visit Nagorno Karabakh and
Baku. The ambassador recalled that the visit of the cochairmen aims
at preparation for the next meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani
presidents.

INVENTICHESS’2009 IS OVER

Aysor.am
28.09.2009, 17:44

In round nine of InventiChess’2009 in Belgium, Gabriel Sarkisyan –
Anna Muzychuk set ended in draw. Armenia’s Grand Master seeded 5th-7th
with 4.5 points, sharing horizontals with Anna Muzychuk and Jan Timman.

In his turn, Jan Timman shares a point with India’s GM Krishnan
Sasikira.

Emil Sutovsky white won over Antoinette Stefanova, Bartosh Socko won
over Etienne Bacrot, and David Houel defeated Bart Michels.

Note that David Houel marked his first victory in Tournament; however,
he couldn’t reach a higher position in tournament table.

Emil Sutovsky is titled winner with 7 points of 9 possible. Etienne
Bacrot and Krishnan Sasikira with 5.5 points each share 2-3
horizontals. Bartosz Socko took 5 points.

Antoinette Stefanova with 4 points seeded eighth; Bart Michels has
2.5 points and David Houel – 2 points.

Emil Sutovsky (Israel) – Antoinette Stefanova (Bulgaria) 1:0 1.e4 e5
Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 a6 Ba4 Nf6 OO b5 Bb3 Bc5 c3 d6 a4 Bg4 axb5 axb5 Rxa8 Qxa8
h3 Bh5 d3 Na5 Bc2 b4 Ba4 c6 g4 Bg6 Qe1 Qa6 d4 exd4 e5 dxe5 Qxe5 Be7 Qb8
Bd8 Re1 Ne4 Qe5 Kd7 Qxd4 Kc8 Rxe4 Bb6 Qxg7 Rd8 Re1 Qa7 Nd4 bxc3 bxc3
Bxb1 Bg5 Bxd4 cxd4 Qxd4 Qxf7 Bg6 Qe6 Rd7 Bxc6 Nxc6 Qxc6 Kb8 Bf4 1:0:

Bartosz Socko (Poland) – Etienne Bacrot (France) 1:0 1.e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6
Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5 c6 dxc6 bxc6 Be2 h6 Nh3 g5 Nc3 Bg7 d3
Qb6 Ng1 g4 h3 h5 Ne4 Nxe4 dxe4 Be6 hxg4 Rd8 Bd3 Bxg4 f3 Be6 b3 Nb7
Qe2 Qd4 Rb1 Qb4 Kf2 Nc5 Be3 f5 exf5 Nxd3 cxd3 Bxf5 Rd1 Qc3 Rc1 Qb4
d4 e4 fxe4 Bxe4 Rxh5 Qf8 Ke1 Qb4 Kf1 OO Nf3 Rde8 Rcc5 Rf7 Rhg5 Ref8
Kg1 Bd5 Ne5 Rf6 Nd7 Rf1 Kh2 R8f5 Rxf5 Rxf5 Qg4 Rf1 Qg3 Kf7 Rc2 Bxd4
Rf2 Rxf2 Qxf2 Ke8 Bxd4 Kxd7 Qf5 Ke8 Qe5 Kd7 Qg7 Ke8 Qxa7 Qd6 Kg1 Qg6
Qb8 Kd7 Qb7 Kd6 Qg7 Qb1 Kh2 Qxa2 b4 Ke6 Bc5 Kf5 Kh3 Qb3 Kh4 1:0:

Gabriel Sargsyan (Armenia) – Anna Muzichuk (Slovenia) 0,5:0,5 1.d4 f5
Nc3 d5 Bf4 c6 e3 Nf6 Nf3 e6 Bd3 Be7 h3 OO Ne2 b6 OO Ne4 c4 Nd7 Rc1
Bb7 cxd5 exd5 Qa4 a6 Rxc6 b5 Qc2 Bxc6 Qxc6 Kh8 Qxd5 Ndc5 Bxe4 Nxe4
Qb3 Bd6 Rd1 Rc8 Ne5 Qe7 Ng3 Nxg3 Bxg3 Bb8 a4 g5 f4 Bxe5 dxe5 bxa4 1
fxg4 f5 Qe4 Kh2 Qxe3 Qa6 Qe4 Qf6 Kg8 Qd8 Kg7 Qe7 Kg8 Qe6 Kh8 Qf6 Kg8
Qd8 Kg7 Qe7 Kg8 Qe8 Kg7 Qe7 1 / 2: 1 / 2:

David Houel (UK) – Bart Michels (Belgium) 1:0 1.e4 e6 d4 d5 Nd2 Nf6
e5 Nfd7 c3 c5 f4 Nc6 Ndf3 Qb6 a3 a5 b3 Qc7 Be3 b6 Ne2 Ba6 h4 b5 f5
cxd4 cxd4 exf5 Nc3 Qb7 Nxd5 Ne7 Nxe7 Bxe7 Bd3 b4 Bxf5 bxa3 Kf2 Rc8
d5 Bc5 Re1 g6 e6 fxe6 Bxc5 Nxc5 Bxe6 Nxe6 Rxe6 Kf7 Ng5 Kg7 Qd4 Kh6
Qe3 Rc2 Kg1 Re2 Nf7 Kg7 Qd4 Kxf7 Rf1 Kg8 Qf6 Rxg2 Kh1 Rh2 Kxh2 Qb8
d6 Bxf1 Re7 Qf8 Qe6 1:0:

Krishnan Sasikiran (India) – Jan Timman (Netherlands) 0,5:0,5 1.d4
Nf6 c4 e6 Nc3 Bb4 Nf3 c5 g3 Bxc3 bxc3 Qa5 Bd2 b6 Bg2 Bb7 OO OO d5 Qa6
Bg5 Ne4 Qc2 f5 Bf4 Qxc4 Ne5 Qa6 dxe6 dxe6 Rfd1 Nc6 Rd7 Nxe5 Bxe5 Rf7
Rad1 Bd5 Rxf7 Kxf7 c4 Qxc4 Qxc4 Bxc4 Rd7 Kf8 Bf3 g6 Rxh7 1 / 2: 1 / 2:

RA PRESIDENT SIGNS DECREE ON HOLDING AUTUMN CALL-UP AND DEMOBILIZATION

NOYAN TAPAN
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 28, NOYAN TAPAN. On September 25, RA President
Serzh Sargsyan signed a decree on holding 2009 autumn call-up and
demobilization.

According to the decree, in 2009 October-December RA male citizens
having turned 18 before the autumn call-up will be called up
for cumpulsory and alternative services. Citizens having lost the
deferment right from the cumpulsory military service will be also
called up for military service.

According to a report by the RA President’s Press Office, servicemen
having done compulsory military service in the established term will
be demobilized in 2009 October-December.

LOW PRICES FOR FOOTBALL MATCH TICKETS

Panorama.am
12:48 28/09/2009

Armenia-Spain football match will be conducted in "Republican"
stadium after Vazgen Sargsyan on 10 October.

Though Armenian football team is going to host Europe’s champion,
Armenian Football Federation announces low prices for the tickets.

The prices for Southern and Northern tribunes are 3000 AMD, Eastern
tribune – 5000 and Western tribune – 7000, AFF reports.

Aysor.am
September 28

PROFESSOR MELIKYAN: WE ARE HAPPY TO PROMOTE EVOLUTION OF IT

55 bachelors and 74 holders of master’s degree successfully
completed their training process and are ready to move towards
professional-working.

"After high-technologies have been declared in Armenia as priority,
the qualitative education in engineering-biz became the priority
item. Coming from this issue Synopsis-Armenia Company developed
engineering centers in microelectronics together with Engineering
University in 2004 and with Yerevan’s University in 2005.

Synopsis Training program is aimed at preparing pf qualified
specialists in integrated circuits design (VLSI) and in electronic
design area (EDA), providing them job placement. More that
40 alumni work at Synopsis-Armenia or at IT-companies such as
Virage Logic Company, Mentor Graphics Company, and LTX-Company,"
said in statement. The center provides high of international level
knowledge in engineering and alumni have employment opportunities in
high-technology’s industry.

During the official ceremony Mr. Chi Fung Chan, Synopsis-Armenia’s
director, presented certificated to graduates.

"We are happy to promote evolution of IT and to provide specialized
education based on high technologies,’ said head of training department
of Synopsis-Armenia, Honored Worker of Science of Armenia, Ph.D.,
professor Vazgen Melikyan

Armenia strengthening energy security
26.09.2009 15:18 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan attended Saturday
the construction site of Yerevan heating plant.

`Construction works are at the final stage. The launch is scheduled
for April 30, 2010,’ heating plant director Hovakim Hovhannisyan told
reporters before the President’s arrival.

`The launch of the 271-megawatt heating plant is extremely important
for Armenia, since it will allow processing of 1 kilowatt-hour of
energy with half as much use of gas,’ he said.

For his part, RA Energy Minister Armen Movsisyan said that `with such
technical feasibility, the plant will the region’s leader.’

Asked whether the energy will be exported, Minister Movsisyan said the
internal market will be supplied first of all.

EU supports Armenia-Turkey talks

armradio.am
26.09.2009 12:24

President Serzh Sargsyan received the EU Special Representative for the
South Caucasus, Peter Semneby.

The interlocutors discussed the expanding Armenia-EU agenda. They
agreed that the Eastern Partnership Program included a great potential
of cooperation and would give new significance to the relations.

President Sargsyan and Peter Semneby referred to the process of
normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey.

President Sargsyan once again stressed that the relations between the
two countries should be normalized without preconditions, and any
deviation from this principle could endanger the whole process.

Peter Semneby confirmed the European Union’s support to the process of
Armenian-Turkish normalization and voiced hope that this historical
initiative of Armenia would succeed.

Variety

Estonia film fest adds industry market

Posted: Sat., Sep. 26, 2009, 2:12pm PT

Tallin Black Nights to feature 48 regional films up for sale

By NICK HOLDSWORTH

Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights, one of Eastern Europe’s leading winter
film festivals, is adding an industry event to this year’s line-up.

Dubbed the Black Market in a tongue-in-cheek reference to the
reputation that parts of the old Warsaw Bloc have for movie piracy,
the regional cinema and audiovisual market screenings will be a
strictly legitimate opportunity for buyers and sellers to make deals
at a midway point between larger international events, L.A.’s AFM in
early November and Berlin in February.

Devised by festival director Tina Lokk, this year’s Black Market —
which runs Nov. 30-Dec. 3, partially coinciding with established
co-production event the Baltic Event — is being treated as a pilot.

Lokk said the market will feature up to 48 industry screenings mainly
focusing on new films from neighboring regions and smaller film
industry countries: Central and Eastern Europe, Nordic region, Russia
as well as Georgia, Ukraine, Romania, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,
Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. The traditional Baltic Event, now
organized in cooperation with Black Market Industry Screenings, will
show the newest features from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

"The goal of Black Market Industry Screenings is to enhance
audiovisual cooperation on both sides of the eastern border of the
European Union and Nordic countries and to give filmmakers visibility
and access to the bigger audiovisual markets around the world. The
timing of the screenings and meetings in the beginning of December
will help to summarize the year and prepare for the next one," Lokk
said.

The market overlaps with the Baltic Event where 12 projects from the
Baltic countries, Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe and Russia,
will be presented, she added.

Another new feature of the Tallinn Film Festival (Nov. 27-Dec. 6), is
>From Books to Films, a literary right m neighboring regions that takes
place Nov. 29-30.

Ameriabank subsidiary opened in Kajaran
24.09.2009 19:52 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On September 24, an official opening of Ameriabank
new subsidiary in Kajaran, RA Syunik region took place. The ceremony
was attended by bank management, local administration head and Kajaran
Copper Molybdenum Factory Director Artsruni Averisyan.

`As an investment bank, Ameriabank pursues corporate client-oriented
policy and is focused on delivering high-quality customer service,’
Ameriabank Development Department Director Tigran Jrbashyan said at
the opening of new Ameriabank subsidiary.

According to Tigran Jrbashyan opening of Kajaran subsidiary was
suggested by demands of
corporate clients, particularly, Copper Molybdenum Factory.

`Quality of service offered at Kajanran subsidiary will be on a level
with services provided in Yerevan,’ he noted.

Beside new Kajaran subsidiary, 2 Ameriabank subsidiaries are operating
in Yerevan and Stepanakert.

U.S. CONGRESSMEN SUPPORT NORMALIZATION OF ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS

armradio.am
24.09.2009 18:16

Three congressmen who are the members of the Congressional Caucus
on Turkey sent a letter to other members of the U.S. House of
Representatives, supporting the rapprochement between Turkey and
Armenia, Anadolu Agency reports.

In their letter, U.S. congressmen Robert Wexler, Edward Whitfield
and Kay Granger supported the August 31 joint declaration of Turkey,
Armenia and Switzerland and the normalization process between Turkey
and Armenia.

The three congressmen called on their other colleagues to support
normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations, and said the trilateral
declaration made by the governments of Turkey, Armenia and Switzerland
on August 31 made public two protocols and a schedule to normalize
relations.

In their letter, Wexler, Whitfield and Granger said as far as they were
concerned, Turkish and Armenian leaders would most probably meet in
New York on the sidelines of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly.

The U.S. congressmen hoped this meeting would bring the two countries
closer to each other, and lay the groundwork for a planned visit
of Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to Turkey to watch a World Cup
qualifier on October 14.

The co-chairmen of the Congressional Caucus on Turkey said Turkey
and Armenia had been having internal consultations for six weeks,
and they were expected to sign protocols at the end of the six weeks
and present them to their parliaments for approval.

When protocols were ratified, they would pave the way for improving
bilateral relations between Turkey and Armenia, particularly
establishing diplomatic relations, commercial and economic cooperation,
the congressmen said.

In the letter, the U.S. congressmen said as far as they were
concerned, the protocol on establishment of diplomatic relations
between Turkey and Armenia reaffirmed the decision to open common
borders and establish full diplomatic relations once the protocols
entered into force.

Also, they said the protocol on improving bilateral relations would
ensure confidence for fulfillment of articles of the two protocols.

In the letter, U.S. congressmen said the significant progress of Turkey
and Armenia for normalizing their bilateral relations was encouraging.

U.S. congressmen underlined the key importance of this historic
development between the two countries for ensuring peace, security
and welfare in the South Caucasus.

The three congressmen said unfortunately, South Caucasus had been a
region where cooperation and relations were overshadowed and where
economic growth, stability and political reforms were restricted due
to decades long clashes.

Therefore, they said in their letter, they were encouraging Turkish and
Armenian governments and parliaments to progress on the rapprochement
process, with the support of the Swiss government, and to build a
better future for Turkey, Armenia and the entire South Caucasus.