Author: Manouk Vasilian

Relatives of missing soldiers spend night outside the Armenian government

Manouk Vasilian
Panorama, Armenia
Aug 27 2021
– Panorama | Armenian news

Society 11:57 27/08/2021Armenia

Relatives and family members of Armenian soldiers, who went missing during the 2020 Artsakh war, spent a night on Saturday outside the government building to call the authorities’ attention to the problem and to learn about the search efforts.

"Neither the National Assembly, nor the government are interested in the fate of our sons," one of the protest participants, Arsen Ghukasyan, said during a Facebook live from the scene.

He also called on all parents who do not accept DNA results join them and continue the struggle to reveal the truth. 

Remains of Armenia soldier Isahak Simonyan declared missing in action during 44-day Karabakh war are found

Manouk Vasilian
News.am, Armenia
22:18, 22.07.2021

Remains of Isahak Simonyan, who was missing in action during the 44-day war [in Nagorno-Karabakh], have been found, as reported on the Facebook page of Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia.

“Dear compatriots, residents of Vayk city, we are deeply sad to report that the remains of Isahak Simonyan, who was missing in action during the 44-day war, have been found.

The Requiem Service will be held on at St. Mary’s Church in Malatia district of Yerevan (5:30pm-7:30pm).

The funeral will be held at Yerablur Military Pantheon on July 23 at 12:30pm.

Isahak was born in 1995. On October 9, 2020, he left and participated in the battles that were being led in Jrakan. Since October 12, he was declared missing in action. The remains were found after searches conducted on July 18.

We express condolences to the family, realtives, friends and close ones of Isahak Simonyan on this irreversible and very premature loss.

It is extremely difficult to find words of consolation when a young man dies, especially a hero.”


Armenia to participate in Dubai Expo 2020

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YEREVAN, JULY 20, ARMENPRESS. Armenia will participate in Dubai Expo 2020, a large international exhibition in the United Arab Emirates.

The Expo will launch on October 1 and will last until 2022 March 21.

Last year the Expo was postponed because of the COVID-19 restrictions.

192 countries will participate in the event.

The organizers expect around 25 million visits of both local and foreign guests.

Armenia’s caretaker economy minister is the chief commissioner for coordinating, organizing the country’s participation to the exhibition.

The Expo organizers provided support package for Armenia’s participation, as well as special conditions. The package involves providing property and services worth 1.5 million USD free of charge.

Made In Armenia four-day exhibition will also be organized on during the Expo. The Armenian companies will present their products and services, will have a chance to establish business ties, find foreign partners and investors.

 

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Armenpress: Secretary General of Foreign Ministry of Armenia dismissed

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Secretary General of Foreign Ministry of Armenia dismissed

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YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS. Caretaker Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan signed a decision on relieving Vahagn Melikyan from the position of Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry, e-gov.am reports.

Vahagn Melikyan has been serving as Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry since May 21, 2018.

 

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Armenpress: Iran’s President doesn’t rule out 5th wave of COVID-19 as delta spreads

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Iran’s President doesn’t rule out 5th wave of COVID-19 as delta spreads

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YEREVAN, JULY 10, ARMENPRESS. The coronavirus situation in Iran worsens, the country is facing a likelihood of the 5th wave of the disease, President Hassan Rouhani said.

He informed that the delta variant is spreading in the country’s southern and south-eastern regions. Rouhani said they can vaccinate up to 500,000 citizens daily, but stressed the need to keep all the rules to prevent the further spread of the virus.

“Maybe, the 5th wave has already started”, he said.

Iran’s total confirmed COVID-19 cases are 3.3 million, with 85.6 thousand deaths so far.

 

Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

Azeris do not know how to present Tigranakert – Hamlet Poghosyan

Manouk Vasilian
Panorama, Armenia
July 2 2021
 

Culture 14:44 02/07/2021NKR

"Azeris have launched a campaign on media, alleging the Armenians have armenized the Shahbulag Castle built by Khan Panaha and developed the 'myth of Tigranakert' for that reason,"  the head of Artsakh archeological group of Institute of Ethnography Hamlet Petrosyan told Panorama.am, adding the Azeri's attempts are nothing but stupidity. 

"They do not conceive the essence of Tigranakert  and even have complexes about speaking of it. They have no idea what to accuse us of in case with Tigranakert and have not a defined approach to it, if not present the site as an Albanian ," Petrosyan said. 

The archeologist stressed that Tigranakert had been built, according to the best standards of Anatolian Hellenic traditions. "It couldn't  be built by one born in Artsakh or Albania but only an imperator who could mobilize the architectural resources of Asia Minor. Apparently, the Azeris have no answer to this question," said Petrosyan. 

The head of the  archaeological expedition in Tigranakert added that the scale of discoveries made by his group further complicates the arguments and claims brought by the Azerbaijani side. 

Petrosyan said that he closely follows the Azerbaijani publications about the archeological site, and except visits, no information about works carried out in the area are reported. 

To note, excavations at Tigranakert began in March 2005, when it was first discovered, and until 2020 were ongoing under the directorship of Hamlet L. Petrosyan of the  Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography. Archaeologists have uncovered two of the main walls of the city, as well as Hellenistic-style towers and an Armenian basilica church dating to the fifth to seventh centuries. During the excavations of 2008–2010, silver coins of the Parthian monarchs Mithridates IV (r. 57–54 BC) and Orodes II (r. 57–37 BC) were found.

In June 2010, a museum dedicated to the study and preservation of artefacts unearthed from Tigranakert was opened in the adjacent Shahbulag Castle.

According to the November 9 Karabakh armistice of the Armenian PM, Russian and Azerbaijani presidents, the area was handed  handed over to Azerbaijan. 

Circumstances of 44-day Artsakh War must be seriously and thoroughly examined – Pashinyan

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YEREVAN, JULY 1, ARMENPRESS. Caretaker Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan says the circumstances of the 2020 Artsakh War must be seriously and thoroughly examined, because, he adds, there are some issues, the public needs the answers.

“Of course, it’s another topic which part must be investigated within judiciary framework, which system must be investigated in commission or other formats prescribed by law, but it’s important to record that all circumstances of the 44-day war and other circumstances connected with it must be definitely examined where there is a problem of criminal-legal assessment, there should be a criminal-legal assessment. Where there is a problem of political assessment, political assessment must be given, but I think that the public and we all feel that necessity, and the prosecution has a lot to do in this respect”, Pashinyan said.

 

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VoA: After Big Election Victory, Armenia’s Leader Calls for Reconciliation [Video]

Manouk Vasilian
Voice of America
June 22 2021
June 22, 2021 12:09 PM 

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is calling for reconciliation after winning a snap election held in a bid to unite a nation deeply polarized in the wake of its defeat in a recent conflict with Azerbaijan.  Jonathan Spier narrates this report from Pablo Gonzalez in Yerevan and Ricardo Marquina in Moscow.

Camera: Pablo Gonzalez 
Produced by: Ricardo Marquina 

Ruling force, its head have no idea of Armenia’s development – political technologist

Manouk Vasilian
Aysor, Armenia
June 22 2021    

The electricity cuts in few provinces, the usage of administrative resources means that the results will be the ones the authorities want, political technologist Armen Badalyan told Aysor.am.

He stressed that launching a legal process into violations was what has been expected to follow. As to what will happen then, is difficult to say, the expert said.

"A situation when the emigration will grow has been created. These moods have reinforced among some people, and the other part will just step aside and watch what happens," Badalyan noted.

He stressed that the issue is not whether the winner force is bad or good.

"The issue is that the ruling political force and its leader like in 2018 till now, and hence as well, have no idea about Armenia's development," Badalyan said, adding that the incumbent authorities and their chief live with the day's course, not knowing that the world is being directed in another way.

"If you are receiving some percent by drawing [figures] and if they are being recognized by foreign ministers of different countries it does not mean that investments will flow and the life will be happy. Neither the leader of the country, nor his teammates understand anything, they simply speak about steel mandate, breaking, crushing. They were breaking and crushing for three years and will again break and crush," he said.

Referring to the actions of the opposition, Badalyan said in any case legal procedure should follow and all the existing violations should be fully presented to the judicial bodies to show that the elected body is not legitimate.

"As to what they will decide to do afterwards, is another issue, but they should show that the elections are not legitimate and the body created as a result of it is not legitimate as well," the expert said.

Karabakh army ex-spokesman: Azerbaijan doing everything towards final destruction of our statehood

Manouk Vasilian
News.am, Armenia
16:07, 26.06.2021
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Despite the humiliating defeatism of the Armenian side, Baku—from the position of the winner—is doing everything to direct the further development of events towards the final destruction of our statehood. Senor Hasratyan, former spokesperson of the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) Defense Army, wrote this on Facebook.

"It is hard to say to what extend the citizens who voted—in the last (…) [snap parliamentary] elections [in Armenia]—for the authorities who lost the [Artsakh] war [last] realize the seriousness of all this. But it is clear that the political force leading them and, in particular, the owner [i.e., acting PM Nikol Pashinyan] of the hammer endowed with "supernatural abilities" is contributing (…) to the implementation of this Armenian-destroying plan.

For many, the question may arise: And what is the way out of the dire situation? … The answer is very simple and straightforward. If you love your child, family, friend, neighbor, birthplace and, ultimately, the Homeland that completes it all, then reject—as soon as possible—the illusion of peace being wrapped around your neck at the cost of criminal defeatism and, listening to your own strength, go to save what is still possible to save. But this does not at all mean to war only (…), but, first of all, it assumes acting by thinking so as not to be deceived (…),” Hasratyan added, in particular.