Author: Varosian Antranik

2ND EXHIBITION "PANARMENIAN EXPO-2006" OPENED IN ARMENIA

Arka News Agency, Armenia
Sept 25 2006

YEREVAN, September 25. /ARKA/. The 2nd exhibition "PanArmenian
Expo-2006" has been opened in Armenia.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, RA Minister of Trade and Economic
Development Karen Chshmarityan stated that the exhibition, which
has been opened on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of Armenia’s
independence, is different from the last exhibition due to a larger
number of participants and products.

"The exhibition presents the most important sector of Armenia’s
economy, including information technologies," the Minister said.

Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Armenia Martin
Sargsyan said that the "PanArmenian Expo-2006" exhibition is evidence
of obvious progress in democratic and economic reforms. He also
pointed out that 80 small and medium businesses established over the
last three years are taking part in the exhibition.

Sargsyan added that the exhibition has no counterparts. He said that
the exhibition is for the first time being relayed on Internet in an
on-line regime.

About 250 organizations are taking part in the 2nd exhibition
"PanArmenian Expo-2006", 90% of them being small and medium
businesses. About 160 companies took part in the 1st exhibition. It
was visisted by over 20,000 people.

AZERBAIJANI MILITARY VICTIMS OF A PEACEFUL PERIOD
by Dzhasur Mamedov
Translated by Pavel Pushkin

Source: Voenno-Promyshlenny Kuryer, No. 35, September 13-19, 2006, p. 5
Agency WPS
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
September 22, 2006 Friday

One hundred and eighty-five soldiers died in Azerbaijan in 44 months

Non-Combat Losses In The Armed Forces Of Azerbaijan Manifest Difficult
Situation In The Army; According to the journalists’ military studies
center Doktrina, in the first eight months of 2006, irreversible
losses of the Azerbaijani army exceeded 36 people.

According to journalists’ military studies center Doktrina, in the
first eight months of 2006, irreversible losses of the Azerbaijani
army exceeded 36 people. This figure is more than the figure of losses
in the relevant period of 2005 amounting to 29. Overall, at least 39
servicemen died in the full year 2005. The irreversible army losses
in 2004 amounted to 35. Thus, these sad figures have a trend of growth.

Relying on the information confirmed at various times by officials
of security agencies it is possible to say that of the 36 servicemen
who died in the first eight months of 2006, 35 served in units of
the Defense Ministry and one served in the State Border Guards Service.

In 2005, 35 servicemen died in the Defense Ministry, three servicemen
died in the State Border Guards Service and one serviceman died in the
Interior Forces. In 2004, 31 servicemen died in the Defense Ministry,
three servicemen died in the State Border Guards Service and one
serviceman died in the interior Forces.

The quantity of dead officers grew in 2006, too. Eight servicemen
were in ranks from lieutenant to colonel, one was a warrant officer
and the remaining 27 were soldiers and sergeants. Among the servicemen
who died in 2005, were 33 soldiers and sergeants, two warrant officers
and four officers in ranks from lieutenant to major.

In 2004, majority of the dead servicemen were soldiers and sergeants
(27) and five were officers.

Analyzing the reasons for deaths of the servicemen of the Azerbaijani
army it is possible to draw a conclusion that the so-called "factor
of the Armenian bullet" is gradually moving to the background. In
2005, soldiers and officers died mostly from bullets from enemy
positions. Monitoring printed and electronic mass media of Azerbaijan
in eight months of 2006, showed that eight servicemen died as a result
of various accidents, ten died "from the Armenian bullet," one exploded
on a mine, two died as a result of a fire, five committed suicide,
three were buried by a snow slide, six died from hazing and one
died from sunstroke. In 2006, only 11 ("Armenian bullet" and a mine
explosion) of the 36 cases of deaths of servicemen can be qualified
as deaths in combat operations. The remaining 25 servicemen died in
non-combat situations.

In 2005, 22 servicemen died from enemy bullets (overall, 39 servicemen
died), two servicemen were killed by a snow slide, two exploded on
a mine and five died as a result of accidents (traffic incident,
unknown bullet, mysterious circumstances and other), four died from
bullets of their fellow soldiers and four committed suicides. Hazing
prevailed among the reasons of deaths in 2004. Ten servicemen died
as a result of that, nine servicemen were killed by enemy bullets,
four died from accidents (electric shock, drowning and other), two
died because of snow slide and four exploded on mines.

Overall, the year 2003, can be considered the most unfavorable of
the last years for the Azerbaijani army. Deaths of 75 servicemen
were registered in 2003. Thirty-four servicemen died from Armenian
bullets. The army lost also 13 servicemen from hazing, eight servicemen
as a result of suicides, seven servicemen exploded on mines and seven
servicemen died from diseases.

Twenty servicemen were wounded in the first eight months of 2006,
due to various reasons. This quantity is a little lower than in 2005
(forty-four servicemen were wounded in 2005, which was the highest
parameter in the last few years). Of the servicemen wounded in 2006,
the Defense Ministry accounted for 18 people, the military prosecutor’s
office accounted for one person and State Border Guards Service
accounted for one serviceman (forty-one servicemen of the Defense
Ministry, two servicemen of the Interior Forces and one serviceman
of the State Border Guards Service were wounded in 2005).

In 2006, like in the last few years, the overwhelming part of the
wounded were soldiers.

We need to pay attention to the reasons for the wounds. First place
belongs to enemy bullets and explosion of mines and other kinds of
ammunition accounting for six wounded each. Then follow hazing (3),
fires (2), catastrophes (2) and accidents (1). We need to mention also
the data for 2005, when 35 servicemen were wounded by enemy’s bullets,
two were wounded by mine explosions, five were wounded because of
accidents, one was wounded because of hazing and one was wounded
because of a suicide attempt.

We can draw a sad conclusion. Between January 2003 and August 2006,
that is in 44 months, the armed forces of Azerbaijan lost at least
185 servicemen. Of this quantity deaths of 89 servicemen were combat
losses (75 from Armenian bullets and 14 from mine explosions) and
96 deaths happened outside of the combat situation (33 from hazing,
23 because of accidents, 21 because of suicide, 11 from snow slide,
seven from diseases and one from sunstroke). During the same period
more than 119 servicemen were wounded.

According to analysts of Doktrina, losses of this scale are
unacceptable for such a small country as Azerbaijan and show that
condition of the army is intolerable. Experts see the reasons for
growing quantity of servicemen’s deaths in the arbitrary actions,
lawlessness, irresponsibility, and inaction of laws, corruption,
inept command and other negative phenomena dominating in the army.

Observers also think that it is necessary to seek the reason for the
non-combat deaths in existence of the atmosphere of impunity in the
army. If everyone from commanders of military units to top-ranking
officials of the Defense Ministry keep avoiding punishment the sad
army statistical data will keep growing.

RUSSIAN TV CHANNEL SCREENS A FILM DEDICATED TO COMPOSER ARNO BABAJANYAN

Public Radio of Armenia
Sept 22 2006

On September 21 Russia’s "Rosia" TV Channel screened "Arno Babajanyan’s
Ferris Wheel" film dedicated to great Armenian composer of 21st
century.

In the film contemporaries of the composer retrieve episodes
from his life and creative work. Warm memories were presented by
composer Alexandra Pakhmutova, poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko, actor Armen
Jigarkhanyan, film producer Nerses Hovhannisyan, the composer’s son
Nerses Hovhannisyan and others.

The film tells about the serious disease of the composer, his great
success in foreign countries, his meetings in Yerevan and Moscow,
Aram Khachatryan’s role, etc.

In one year after Arno Babajanyan’s death poet Andrey Voznesenski
devoted a poem to him, which includes the following words: "I will
live as long as music exists."

Once asked to name his favorite song, the composer had responded that
the best song is the one, which is still to be written.

"ENTERPRISES INCUBATOR FOUNDATION", SUN MICROSYSTEMS SIGN CONTRACT ON COOPERATION

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Sept 20 2006

YEREVAN, September 20. /ARKA/. The Enterprises Incubator Foundation
(EIF) and Sun Microsystems signed a cooperation contract today,
Tigran Davtyan, deputy minister of trade and economic development of
Armenia reported at the Armenia-Diaspora Second Economic Forum.

"This cooperation will extend the scope of programs on assistance to
small and medium entrepreneurship currently implemented in Armenia,"
he said.

Director of the EIF Bagrat Yengibaryan reported that the cooperation
will be carried out in three directions: the establishment of a
radio-frequency identification laboratory (RFID); establishment of
Java labs in cooperation with the country’s leading universities for
the training of young specialists; establishment of Solution Centers.

Yengibaryan explained that the Centers will allow the software
developers to test their products.

"This will allow Armenia to think of the next step. And it can turn
from a country executing foreign orders into one selling IT products,"
Yengibaryan said. R.O. –0–

LIBERALS AND NATIONALISTS IN TURKEY FACE OFF AGAIN OVER FREEDOM OF SPEECH
by: Nicolas Birch

Eurasianet
September 19, 2006

A prize-winning Turkish novelist is scheduled to stand trial September
21 on charges of belittling Turkishness. The case is the latest in a
string of prosecutions pitting liberals against nationalists in this
European Union candidate country.

Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul <iEnd>has topped Turkish
bestseller lists since it was published in March, winning critical
praise for its portrait of the friendship between two girls, an
Armenian-American and a Turk. But the work’s direct treatment of
the mass murder of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 has also attracted the
attention of Kemal Kerincsiz, the nationalist lawyer whose rise to
prominence as an opponent of free speech has paralleled Turkey’s EU
accession process. Kerincsiz has figured prominently in a number
of high-profile free speech cases, including the prosecution last
December of Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s best-known author. [For background
see the Eurasia Insight archive].

In Shafak’s case, Kerincsiz’s gripe is not with something she said, but
with comments made by characters in her book. Sitting in his cramped
central Istanbul law office, the soft-spoken Kerincsiz doesn’t take
long to find one of the passages that offended him.

"I am the grandchild of genocide survivors who lost all their relatives
at the hands of Turkish butchers in 1915," he reads, quoting Dikran
Stamboulian, a minor Armenian character. "There’s plenty more where
this came from," he adds. Turkey and Armenia have long disputed the
tragic events of 1915, when over one million Armenians perished amid
the upheaval of World War I. Armenians insist that the actions of
Ottoman Turkish forces constituted genocide.

Turkish leaders steadfastly deny this. [For additional information
see the Eurasia Insight archive].

Shafak is being prosecuted under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal
Code. Facing a possible sentence of three years if convicted, she
is fully aware of the seriousness of her situation. "Until recently,
I took comfort in the fact that nobody had ever been convicted under
[Article] 301," she said. "Then, in June, a higher court confirmed
[the Turkish-Armenian journalist] Hrant Dink’s six-month suspended
sentence. That’s terrible news for him, and it could constitute a
precedent for me."

Shafak gave birth to her first child on September 16 and has yet to
decide whether to attend her trial. "She wants to be there to defend
herself against these ridiculous charges," her husband, Eyup Can, said
on the phone from the Istanbul hospital where his wife is recovering
from a caesarean section. "The doctors are opposed, and so am I,
to be honest."

He hasn’t forgotten the scenes outside the Istanbul courthouse
where Orhan Pamuk was tried last December. Nationalists smashed the
novelist’s car windshield and attacked his supporters as the police
looked on.

A similar welcome could be in store for Shafak. For weeks, a website
belonging to Kerincsiz’s nationalist group has called on "patriots" to
turn out in opposition to the "newly-chosen princess of capitulationist
intellectuals."

"I oppose all violence," Kerincsiz said, "but if you call somebody’s
grandfather a butcher, there is no telling what reactions will be."

"It’s an invitation to a lynching," ripostes newspaper editor Ismet
Berkan, another victim of the nationalist lawyer’s attention. "Let’s
hope the police are prepared."

If the language in the debate over Shafak’s novel is violent, it’s
ultimately because this trial is symbolic of a much deeper struggle
going on in Turkey. For nationalists like Kemal Kerincsiz, the clash
of civilizations is real, and Turkey, a Muslim country, belongs with
the East. What the European Union is trying to do, he claims, is
"strip away our Muslim and Turkish identity."

Those like Shafak who support Turkey’s integration into Western
economic and security structures, Kerincsiz says derisively, are
"world citizens, half-Turks."

Though intended as an insult, Kerincsiz’s comment doesn’t seem to
offend the Strasbourg-born Shafak, who has spent much of her life
outside Turkey. Both in her life and her work, she is an enemy of
easy categorizations. "My ideal is cosmopolitanism, refusing to
belong to either side in this polarized world," she says in her
perfect English. This attitude helped prompt her to agree to serve
as a columnist for a religious newspaper, a move that generated
considerable criticism.

"Too many people see the world in black and white, us and them.

That’s wrong. Ambiguity, synthesis: these are the things that
compose Turkish society, and that is not something to be ashamed of,"
Shafak said.

It remains to be seen which side will win the debate. Few take
Kerincsiz’s claim as the voice of the Turkish people seriously –
even the country’s ultra-nationalist political party has been put
off by the violent actions of his supporters.

But nationalism has traditionally proven a powerful force in Turkish
politics. And a growing sense among Turks that Brussels is just
playing with Ankara over the accession issue has played into the
hands of people like Kerincsiz.

"Turkey has been changing rapidly over the past five years, but it
hasn’t yet reached the point of no return," says political analyst
Umut Ozkirimli. "These are critical times."

NOTES: Nicolas Birch specializes in Turkey, Iran and the Middle East.

GENERAL WARD THANKED ARMENIAN PEACEKEEPERS FOR SERVICE IN IRAQ AND KOSOVO

PanARMENIAN.Net
20.09.2006 15:14 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Deputy Commander of U.S. European Command
(EUCOM), General William E. "Kip" Ward, visited Armenia September
19-20 as part of a regional familiarization trip. General Ward visited
Georgia before arriving in Armenia, and will also travel to Azerbaijan,
U.S. Embassy press office told PanARMENIAN.Net.

In Armenia, General Ward visited Armenia’s 12th Peacekeeping
Battalion. He thanked the battalion for its honorable service in
the multinational operations in Iraq and Kosovo and emphasized
the importance of international efforts to support Iraq’s growing
democracy and ensure peace and stability in the Balkans. In addition,
General Ward met with Minister of Defense Serge Sargsyan, with
whom he discussed a number of issues, including regional stability,
U.S.-Armenian cooperation in the security and defense spheres, and
the Kansas-Armenia State Partnership Program.

ARMENIANS CANNOT INFLUENCE APPOINTMENT OF US AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.09.2006 17:47 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The appointment of the US Ambassador to Armenia is
purely American problem and neither Armenians nor any other nation can
influence it, Head of Hay Dat Office Kiro Manoyan stated at a news
conference September 19. In his words, most senators, who voted for
Hoagland, motivated their actions that the White House will not propose
another candidate in case Hoagland is not confirmed. "All members
of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee are sure that the White
House should change its position over the Armenian Genocide," he said.

In Manoyan’s words, White House confirming Hoagland during US Senate
vacation not ruled out. "In any case the Ambassador is a representative
of the President and he should express the position of the state
leader," he said. In Manoyan’s opinion, the US-Armenia relations are
at a rather high level. "There are no serious problems between us,"
he remarked. As of the Millennium Challenge Program, Manoyan noted
the importance of holding "transparent and fair parliamentary and
presidential elections in 2007 and 2008," reports IA Regnum.

TOUGH TIME FOR E.U. RELATIONS
By Deniz Ulke Aribogan

Turkish Press, MI
Published: 9/18/2006

AKSAM- Obviously one doesn’t see the same object if one is standing
at different angles. Our distance from that object, our angle
and direction determines in what way and how much we can see that
thing. The other element which affects our vision is the capacity
of our eyes. Our political vision is no different. Our angle, the
way we stand and the obstacles to our vision shape our stance on
political incidents.

Interestingly, when our eyes don’t see well, we use glasses or
contact lenses, but we have no doubt about the clarity of our
political vision. We sometimes have the harshest views about certain
issues that we can’t see. Maybe the more information we have and see
things from different angles, the harder it is for us to have a firm
opinion. However, it’s much easier to have a view before becoming
informed. What’s more, those who have a view talk the most. One can
feel the same situation in our country and other countries. In the
US, politics is talked, thought about and produced in Washington,
DC the most. Serious political discussions are held not only at
research institutions and universities, but also in restaurants,
shopping centers and taxis. The world’s information is compiled
there. Therefore, lobbies are very influential.

They’re trying to turn the results of research and the way they are
interpreted by politicians in their own favor. Particularly ethnic
lobbies are working very professionally and tcan have an impact on
many decisions.

However, Turkey is very weak on this. We’ve never managed to get
organized and do lobbying. The Greek, Armenian, Jewish, Arab and
Hispanic lobbies are very active. They have close contacts with
politicians.

However, nobody is working in the direction of Turkey’s political
strategy, except for a few Turkish researchers and some volunteers. We
have no sufficient channel to explain ourselves to the US, market our
vision in foreign politics and tell our problems about northern Iraq
and the terrorist PKK. These people don’t know us and know little
about us, but they know a lot about the issues which concern us. Up
to now the Jewish lobby has been able to close the asymmetry which
emerged through the Greek and Armenian lobbies and it also succeeded
in influencing the Congress on many issues. However, we don’t have
such a support following the visit of Hamas officials to Turkey.

What’s more, now the Jewish people have to turn back to issues which
concern them, because the lobbies think that Israel’s policies are
increasing the anger towards the US. In other words, they aren’t
as relaxed as they were in the past. They also have an interesting
stance about the terrorist PKK. They say that although nearly 3,000
US soldiers have died in Iraq, this news isn’t covered by newspapers
and that our nation is very insensitive about our own soldiers, and
so why should we be interested in yours? So they’re shortsighted in
terms of both time and place.

They also can’t see the consequences of an Armenian genocide
resolution. The Armenian diaspora turned this bill into a raison
d’etre, and it’s using all its power. The timing is also very
appropriate. It’s not allowing anybody to know about it, but it can
provide everybody with views in the US Congress. After it’s passed
by the US Congress, it would be no surprise if it creates a domino
effect and is adopted by other countries in short order. We should
hurry up now, before it’s too late.

Kenya Times, Kenya

Change policies on foreign aid

By Mundia Mundia Jnr

The Kenyan politicians and world donors should own up by taking
responsibility for not consulting Kenyans when they choose to agree to
overburden the country with the money that ends up suppressing the
citizenry. The IMF and World Bank policy-makers only hold political
paramountcy under the guise of helping to implement development
programmes. Their presence in the country only encourages national
fragmentation due to the coupling effect of neo-politics of economics.

Kenya, like Ethiopia, ought to renegotiate or phase out
foreign-financed projects and de-link their national and political
programmes from foreign donor funding. Unfortunately, many
politicians in and out of government unwittingly side with aid
agencies, for their own gains, to fleece wananchi and partially
destabilise the nation.

Politicians voluntarily create never ending constitutional,
politico-economic and electoral stalemates to give a chance to the
Western World and donors an opportunity to peg their economic demands
on Kenyans and the Government. Currently there is a major problem
affecting the Ministry of Health whereby less money is being spent on
the management of Tuberculosis especially in our unbalanced economic
set up as a result of massive poverty and misuse of resources.

Certainly, the political fatigue that Kenyans are facing is due to
lack of political will by politicians to even publish the Political
Parties Bill and the Witness Protection Bill that is meant to protect
whistle blowers. There would be some challenge as how John Githongo
would be treated by the same government that gave him placement. The
latter’s case, which the World Bank and IMF are still concerned about
due to the involvement of the Anglo Leasing scandals is to help tackle
the cases as one of the conditionalities set by the foreign agencies.
Also, since the amendment of the Public Officers Ethics Act in May
2004 nothing much has bore fruits.

Kenya’s major donor, the World Bank, that has vested political
interests (though it denies) and wananchi are desperate now and in the
coming months as we approach the 2007 general election for robust
steps to be taken in the fight against gross corruption. With
efficiency of politicians on such matters, Kenyans have to adapt to
new ways of financing their programmes.

Instead of allowing the two to enhance spending money on wasteful
blanket projects and hiring expensive foreign technical experts, we
should capitalise on our locally acquired knowhow to safeguard our
people.

Western aid is perceived by many as the ultimate panacea for Kenya’s
challenges, including political. This aid only mutates with time from
the economic target to a more politically resistant manoeuvre for
neocolonialism. Many foreign investors through the support of locally
registered foreign agencies have invaded our society in order to
ensure they subsidise their Western businesses locally with massive
profits taken back to their homeland. Foreign criminals have taken
advantage of this hospitality loophole. The Armenian case is one in
many where wicked `business personalities’ who come at the pretext of
being foreign investors, are allowed by government operatives to
illegally enrich themselves through elitist thuggery and manage to
escape criminal responsibility.

We will never fight corruption which backtracks our economy when such
is allowed in our systems of governance or else the `good governance’
talk would only be a fancy strategy of opportunism to deceive locals
and indirectly enrich the Western World culprits.

Exit deceit, enter the World Bank and IMF strategies. Economic
inequalities on aid donors that provide donor funds are yet to be
exposed due to political interference mainly because their vested
political and economic interests primarily dupe parliamentarians with
elusive pipe dream projects for the nation under the guise of
sponsoring superior financial assistance and development. Another
scheme by aid agencies is that foreign policies are formulated to
ensure Western taxpayers foot the bill of many disastrous projects
worldwide including famine relief, hurricane funds, finances for
fighting malaria, HIV/AIDS, corruption and political conflicts. These
even worsen lives of the affected recipients due to prescriptions of
unrealistic conditionalities that only favour such institutions.

Has Kenya uplifted the life expectancy of its citizens, decreased
HIV/AIDS epidemic, reduced infant mortality and promoted literacy with
such aid assistance?

World Bank and IMF through the Ministry of Education have cleverly
made Kenyans believe that primary education is `free’. This beats
logic in that the government through the taxpayer’s money and some
from the donors is used to foot the education bill nationally.

It is more of a political tool of deceit than economic. If not I
stand to wonder if the 5.8% growth rate is being used by politicians
to impress the Western world, cushion the slow pace of fighting
corruption or are politicians telling Kenyans that government is
seriously collecting all its taxes to the coffers.

Thus, matter of factly, the World Bank and IMF need to showcase their
economic efficiency to the locals instead of professionally sit on our
pressing poverty and further fleece our skeletal economy.

The locals should be involved in collective policy making and resource
management on what affects us most and have aid agencies as partial
sponsors and economic instructors.

Generic necessities Our interethnic and political harmony depend
heavily on our own political continuance of locally-based economic
prosperity and not to pander to the whims of the political class, IMF,
World Bank, NGOs and other foreign agencies.

PERSIAN FAMOUS POET AND TRANSLATOR, ARMENOLOGIST AHMAD NURIZADE AWARDED MEDAL OF WRITERS’ UNION OF ARMENIA

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Sept 11 2006

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 11, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. "One of famous
and modern poets of Iran, Ahmad Nurizade, irrevocably tied his life
with the Armenian literature, Armenian culture," Levon Ananian, the
Chairman of the Writers’ Union of Armenia mentioned at the September 8
event dedicated to the 40th anniversary of Persian poet and translator
Ahmad Nurizade’s literary activity.

Levon Ananian mentioned that Nurizade’s translations from Armenian
into Persian make dozens of volumes. In his words, according to
Persian mass media, the Armenian literature and culture are better
known in Iran than the Chinese ones, owing to Nurizade’s works. In
words of the Chairman of the Writers’ Union of Armenia, Ahmad Nurizade
is today being recognized as founder of the Armenology in the Persian
language in Iran. He is also the only non-Armenian poet in the world,
who writes in Armenian, and Nurizade’s "Masis is not a Mountain"
poem has been involved in Armenian text-books. In words of Reza Atufi,
the Culture Advisor of the IRI Embassy to Armenia, Nurizade is one of
those best literary figures who make great efforts in the literary
spheres of both Armenia and Iran. R.Atufi appreciated and attached
importance to Nurizade’s role in the affair of establishing friendship
between the two countries. In Ahmad Nurizade’s words, poetry of no
nation is published in Iran with such a volume and number as the
Armenians’ poetry. "The Armenian people deserves it as this people
is owner of centuries-old and rich culture and occupies its special
place in the world civilization," the poet mentioned. At the end of
the event Levon Ananian awarded Ahmad Nurizade medal of the Writers’
Union of Armenia for the literary contribution.