Author: Liana Toganian

One more team less in the Armenian Championship

Liana Toganian
  • 15:53 | October 13,2017 | Sports
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The regular session of the Disciplinary Committee of the Football Federation of Armenia took place today.

As reported by the Football Federation of Armenia, R. Grigoryan, Vanadzor Football Academy Director, applied to the Federation to remove “Lori-2-04” from the Championship.

The FFA Disciplinary Committee fined the company with limited liability with AMD 50,000.

The Hrazdan children’s and youth sports school was also fined 5000 drams, because in the match of the women’s tournament “Girls Gyumri-2” and “Hrazdan AH”, Arthur Harutyunyan, the coach of the “Hrazdan” team registered 15 players in the protocol instead of mandatory 18 players.

Yerevan Jazz Fest 2017 to bring world jazz superstars to Armenia

Liana Toganian
Panorama, Armenia
Oct 12 2017
Culture 11:10 12/10/2017Armenia

Armenian Jazz Association and Mezzo Production present the Yerevan Jazz Fest annual international festival in Armenia for the second year already.

Yerevan Jazz Fest 2017 will kick off on 26 October, running until 3 November, the organizers of the festival told Panorama.am.

This year's festival is dedicated to the founder of famous cymbal manufacturer Zildjian Company – Avedis Zildjian.

According to the organizers, this year the four-day festival will bring together the world jazz superstars, including twofold Grammy award winner, famous bass guitar player Marcus Miller and fourfold Grammy award winner, famous jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, who will share the stage with Armenian jazzmen.

The opening of the festival will be held at Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex on 26 October with a live concert by U.S. jazz superstar Marcus Miller.

The second concert is scheduled for 29 October, at Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall, with the participation of the Armenian State Jazz Band (Art director Armen Hysnunts), Levon Malkhasyan, Igor Butman, Ani Arzumanyan and Anna Vardazaryan.

The program of the third concert to be held in Gyumri on 30 October features performances by Levon Malkhasyan, Alexis Avakian, Miqayel Voskanyan & Friends band, Vazgen Asatryan and Lusine Sargsyan.

Arto Tuncboyaciyan & Armenian Navy Band, Artak Nersisyan, Marine Hakobyan and Pako Sarr will perform at Khachaturian Concert Hall on 1 November.

The closing of Yerevan Jazz Fest 2017 will be held at Khachaturian Concert Hall on 3 November, with a joint concert by Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Vahagn Hayrapetyana and Alexis Avakian.

Vahram Baghdasaryan: Serzh Sargsyan will remain in the political arena

Liana Toganian
  • 15:09 | October 9,2017 | Politics
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“Be patient. We do not have time to tell who Prime Minister will be in April,” Vahram Baghdasaryan, leader of the RPA faction, stated today at the NA briefing.

Vahram Baghdasaryan is skipping the issue on maybe in the Republican taboo is put on discussions about the candidate for the Prime Minister. He says that they were discussing many issues at the Executive Body sessions, except that one. “We do not need it. When the time comes, we will not need to ask questions. Serzh Sargsyan will speak about it by himself.”

In response to a journalist’s question whether it was possible for Serzh Sargsyan to remain in safety, Vahram Baghdasaryan mentioned that he would not exclude anything in politics, but reminded that being the leader of the political majority, Serzh Sargsyan would remain in the political arena and would be one of the country’s most prominent politicians.

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Boris gets that sinking feeling

Liana Toganian 
The Times (London)
September 2, 2017 Saturday


Boris gets that sinking feeling

 by Patrick Kidd

"No more of that ghastly Johnson family," pleads a TMS reader. Maybe
we should have a moratorium on stories about the blond clan but only
after this one sent in by someone who was an intern at The Spectator
when Boris was its editor.

The Armenian ambassador was at a lunch and my spy heard BoJo,
discovering where the guest was from, say: "My great-grandfather
worked for the last Ottoman Sultan. Did they have anything to do with
Armenia?"

The ambassador's face turned to stone. "Yes," he said. "They massacred
thousands of my people."

A chill fell over the lunch before Boris tried to rescue things. "I'm
MP for Henley," he said. "You know, the regatta. Jolly boating weather
and all that. Er . . . do you row in Armenia?" No wonder he became our
chief diplomat.


Twenty years after she became a global acting star in Titanic, Kate
Winslet, above, tells Glamour that she had other ambitions as a child.
"I had a fleeting idea about becoming a hairdresser," she says, "but I
cut off a friend's earlobe trying to cut their hair. I saw him again
not long ago. He said: 'You can still see the marks'."

pressing engagement As Ramsay Bolton, one of the archvillains in Game
of Thrones, Iwan Rheon was voted "most hated man on television" by The
New York Times last year. Donald Trump will have been disappointed.
The Welsh actor has his fans, though. He was at a convention in
Nashville recently where a man asked if he would propose to his
girlfriend for him. "I think you should do it," Rheon said. The man
explained that he would do it first but wanted to take a photo of the
actor on his knee with a ring, too. Luckily she stuck with the
boyfriend.

judi is upstaged at last Dame Judi Dench has had a fine acting career,
with ten Baftas and an Oscar in her loo, but her star is starting to
wane with the young. She was recently out with her redheaded
20-year-old grandson, she tells Saga magazine, and was asked for a
photo. "Oh lovely," she said.

"Of course." But it was the grandson whom they wanted. "He looks
uncannily like Ed Sheeran," Dench explains. When she mentioned this to
her agent, he contacted Sheeran and the singer sportingly sent her
grandson a message that read: "I hear I look a lot like you." Words to
melt a grandma's heart.

After his poll ratings plunged during two months of aloof silence,
Emmanuel Macron has decided to make himself more accessible again. The
French president has promised to give two radio addresses to the
nation every month. Gossip in the Élysée says that he has chosen radio
rather than television in order to keep down his make-up bills, which
were running at £8,000 a month.

gone to pot Rosa Monckton runs a charity in Brighton called Team
Domenica that helps adults with learning difficulties. It has a café
where they can experience work. One young man was showing a customer
all the loose-leaf tea they serve. "That's Assam, that's Earl Grey,
that's Oolong and that's er..." He searched his memory. "Ah yes, my
dad's got some," he finally said. "That's marijuana." Gives a new
meaning to the phrase "...and one for the pot".

patrick kidd

Chess: Levon Aronian draws with Garry Kasparov in St. Louis

Liana Toganian
MediaMax, Armenia

Aug 16 2017

Pairings of rapid chess continued yesterday, 4-6 rounds have already finished.  
 
First Levon Aronian shared points with Garry Kasparov, who was invited to the tournament. Then the Armenian player lost to Le Quang Liem and defeated Fabiano Caruana.
 
Aronian won 7 points after the 6th round and is currently in the third place. Ian Nepomniachtchi is the leader with 8 points.

Did Israeli Defense company carry out demonstration of drone strike against Armenia?

Liana Toganian
Jerusalem Post

Aug 13 2017
ByAnna Ahronheim
21:12
 

The Defense Ministry is checking reports that the Israeli firm Aeronautics Defense Systems had been asked by Azerbaijan to carry out a live demonstration of an armed unmanned aerial vehicle against an Armenian military position.

The Israeli daily Maariv reported on Sunday that a team belonging to the Israeli defense company arrived in Azerbaijan to finalize a contract for the sale of its Orbiter 1K UAV when they were asked to strike the position. According to the report the two Israelis operating the UAV refused to hit the position and senior representatives of the company took control and operated the craft themselves, ultimately missing their targets.

The Defense Ministry said that while “as a rule, the Defense Ministry does not make it a practice to comment on issues involving military exports the claim is being examined by the relevant parties at the ministry.”

Aeronautics Defense Systems for their part strongly denied that the event ever occurred telling The Jerusalem Post that “Aeronautics never performs demonstrations using live fire and that was true in this case as well” and that the operation of the craft is carried out by the purchaser and whatever occurs is the purchaser’s responsibility.

Aeronautics’s Orbiter 1K is a loitering suicide drone capable of carrying a 1 to 2 kg. special explosive payload.

“Aeronautics markets its products to customers in about 50 different countries,[and] only in accordance with approval from the Defense Export Controls Agency,” the statement from the company added.

The Central Asian country which borders Iran is one of the main suppliers of crude oil to Israel and has become a major recipient of Israeli military hardware in recent years. In 2012 Jerusalem and Baku signed a $1.4 billion deal which focused on drones and missile defense systems. A year earlier Aeronautics opened a factory in Azerbaijan to build the company’s Aerostar and Orbiter UAVs.

Azerbaijan and Armenia have had a long-standing dispute over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and violence has in recent years led to the deaths of dozens of soldiers. Nagorno-Karabakh is located within Azerbaijan and it is internationally recognized as being part of that country but a large part of it is governed by separatists who seized control of the mountainous region backed by Yerevan in a war in the 1990s.

Despite a cease-fire signed by the two foes in 1994 the two have never signed a peace treaty and during the last flare-up between the two countries last year it was reported that Azerbaijan had used suicide drones against Armenian targets including a Harop drone made by Israel Aerospace Industries killing seven Armenian soldiers when it hit a bus they were traveling in.

Armenian Ambassador Armen Melkonian later delivered a formal protest to Israel over the weapons and Meretz chairwoman Zehava Gal-On demanded that then-defense minister Moshe Ya’alon stop the delivery of Israeli drones to Baku until Jerusalem receives a clear commitment that Israeli weapons will not be used against Armenia.

“Armenia and Azerbaijan are both friendly to Israel and it is inconceivable that Israeli weapons be used in a war between the two countries over the Nagorno-Karabakh region,” she wrote shortly after the incident with the Harop UAV stressing that “it is Israel’s obligation to ensure that weapons it manufactures do not contribute to igniting the land which is burning anyway, and not to take part in attacks by either side.”

According to a report in the Vestnik Kavkaza news site, Azer Mammadov, senior adviser to Azerbaijan’s Defense Industry Minister Yavar Jamalov, said that the use of UAVs by both sides has led Baku to increase its “acquisitions and joint developments from and with Israel.”

The report also quoted Mammadov as saying local manufacturer AZAD is producing the Zarba-1K based on Aeronautics’s Orbiter-K which “due to its very low acoustic signature […] is not detectable until two seconds before diving into the attack.”

Mammadov stated that the testing of the Zarba-1K is expected to be completed within “a few months after which we plan to field 100 of them.” 

Existence of independent and democratic Artsakh undisputable fact – senior lawmaker

Liana Toganian 
Armenpress News Agency , Armenia
August 12, 2017 Saturday


Existence of independent and democratic Artsakh undisputable fact –
senior lawmaker



YEREVAN, AUGUST 12, ARMENPRESS. Vice President of the National
Assembly of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov, MP Gagik Melikyan and
Portuguese MP RubinaBerardo met with President of the National
Assembly of Artsakh Ashot Ghulyan on August 12.

Highlighting the visit of the European parliamentarian to Artsakh, the
Vice President of the Armenian parliament noted that such visits make
the international recognition of the Republic of Artsakh closer and
closer.

“The freedom loving people of Artsakh voted for free, independent and
democratic country back in 1991. Today the existence of independent
and democratic Artsakh is an undisputable reality and we are ready to
use our parliamentary relations to raise the fair demand of the people
of Artsakh in all parliamentary platforms”, “Armenpress” reports
Sharmazanov saying.

Relations with Germany to normalize after German elections, Erdoğan says

Liana Toganian
Aravot, Armenia

Aug 12 2017

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said on Aug. 12 that tension with Europe was due to European domestic politics and relations with Berlin would improve after Germany’s parliamentary election in September. Hurriyet Daily News reports.

“Criticism from Europe is about their internal politics,” Erdoğan said in a speech in the western city of Isparta that was broadcast live on television.

“France and Austria did this before, we see that Germany follows the same strategy. I believe that this situation will improve after elections,” he said, referring to the Sept. 24 polls where Chancellor Angela Merkel is running for a fourth term.

Relations between the two countries have been severely strained due to a number of reasons since last year. Germany had to withdraw its Tornado aircrafts and troops from the İncirlik base in the southern province of Adana after Ankara refused a visit by German lawmakers there due to political issues.

In a reconciliatory move, Turkey said a visit to the Konya base would be possible as German troops deployed there are operating under a NATO mission. However, this was also blocked by Turkey in protest against Berlin’s ban on a visit by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to meet the Turkish community living in Germany when he attended a G20 summit.

The row over Konya was averted after NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg intervened and suggested that a NATO visit including German lawmakers to the base should be held, with the Turkish Foreign Ministry stressing on the constructive and facilitating role of Stoltenberg.

Artsakh MFA Head received Baroness Caroline Cox

Liana Toganian 
ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
 Thursday


Artsakh MFA Head received Baroness Caroline Cox

 Yerevan August 10

Naira Badalyan. On August 10, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh Republic) Karen Mirzoyan
received a delegation led by Baroness Caroline Cox, member of the
House of Lords of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland.

Welcoming Caroline Cox's 86th visit to Artsakh the Minister highly
appreciated her consistent efforts aimed at advocating the interests
of Artsakh and its people, as well as disseminating truthful
information about the conflict between Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh
in the international arena.

During the meeting the sides also exchanged thoughts on a range of
issues of mutual interest, including those related to the current
stage of humanitarian projects initiated by the Baroness in Artsakh.