Author: Yeghisabet Arthur

PR Web (press release)

Bmi Announces New Connecting Flight from Manchester

More convenient and flexible schedule for connecting customers.

London (PRWEB) August 12, 2009 — bmi, Britain’s business airline, has
changed its schedule on flights between Manchester and London for its
winter timetable. The new schedule will see a new rotation added with
more convenient flight times for customers making onward connections
with bmi at Heathrow to key destinations within the Middle East, such
as Beirut and Tel Aviv or with Star Alliance partners to the Far
East. From October, customers can choose from seven daily flights
including the new mid-morning flight service from Manchester to
Heathrow, departing 10.50, and arriving in the capital at midday.
bmi’s Managing Director, Peter Spencer said: "The new schedule between
Manchester and Heathrow demonstrates our commitment to providing a
more seamless service for our customers. The new rotation connects
perfectly with our flights to Beirut and Tel Aviv at Heathrow making
travel with bmi to the Middle East from Manchester smoother and
quicker, while the schedule works well with our Star Alliance partners
and their onward connections to the Far East. "
bmi also recently extended its complimentary Chauffeur Drive service
to include UK regional airports, meaning customers travelling on
selected Business Class fares from Manchester to Almaty, Amman,
Azerbaijan, Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Kyrgyzstan, Moscow, Saudi Arabia,
Tel Aviv and Yerevan can now take advantage of this service to and
from the airport at each end. The service is also available in the UK
only for those travelling to Tehran and Tbilisi.
In addition to benefits including online check-in and Chauffeur Drive,
customers can also take advantage of Diamond Club, the UK’s most
generous frequent flyer programme, and bmi’s Company Rewards programme
for SMEs (small and medium enterprises). Diamond Club destinations
miles can be spent on flights with Star Alliance member airlines,
hotel accommodation and on a range of gifts and treats.
bmi is the airline for business travellers offering an extensive UK
and international network, with over 1,800 flights a week to more than
45 destinations worldwide. Along with the UK’s most generous frequent
flyer programme, Diamond Club, Business travellers with bmi can
check-in online, use self check-in machines or priority check in areas
and also have access to the bmi Business Lounge with a fast track
through security.
Notes to Editors:
As part of the new winter schedule, bmi is adding two additional
rotations from Manchester to London Heathrow. Departing Manchester at
10.50am and 8.50am , both flights conveniently connect with bmi
departures to Beirut and Tel Aviv. The return flights from London
Heathrow at 11.30am and 3.05pm, perfectly serve bmi’s flights in from
Beirut and Tel Aviv, connecting back through to Manchester.

bmi is the second largest airline at London Heathrow, one of the
world’s leading international hub airports. Across its mainline route
network bmi operates to Aberdeen; Addis Ababa; Aleppo; Almaty; Amman;
Amsterdam; Baku; Beirut; Belfast City; Bishkek; Brussels; Cairo;
Damascus; Dammam; Dublin; Edinburgh; Freetown; Glasgow; Hanover;
Jeddah; Khartoum; Kiev; London Heathrow; Manchester; Moscow
Domodedovo; Palma Mallorca; Riyadh; Tbilisi; Tehran; Tel Aviv; Venice;
Yerevan. bmi regional operates to Aberdeen; Birmingham; Brussels;
Cologne; Copenhagen; East Midlands; Edinburgh; Esbjerg; Glasgow;
Groningen; Leeds Bradford; Lyon; Manchester; Norwich; Zurich.

BMI is a member of Star Alliance, established in 1997 as the first
truly global airline alliance to offer customers worldwide reach and a
smooth travel experience. Star Alliance received the Air Transport
World Market Leadership Award in 2008 and was voted Best Airline
Alliance by Business Traveller Magazine in 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2008
and by Skytrax in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009. The members are Air
Canada, Air China, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian,
bmi, EGYPTAIR, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines,
Shanghai Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Spanair,
SWISS, TAP Portugal, Turkish Airlines, THAI, United and US
Airways. Regional member carriers Adria Airways (Slovenia), Blue1
(Finland) and Croatia Airlines enhance the global network. Aegean
Airlines, Air India, Brussels Airlines, Continental Airlines and TAM
have been announced as future members. Overall, the Star Alliance
network offers 17,000 daily flights to 916 destinations in 160
countries.

"UNUSUAL BEAST" OF DEBED RIVER TURNS OUT TO BE ORDINARY OTTER

Noyan Tapan
Aug 19, 2009

YEREVAN, AUGUST 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The "unusual beast-mutant"
of the Debed River was an otter, Director of the World Wildlife
Fund (WWF) Armenia Office Karen Manvelian said during a talk with
representatives of EcoLur NGO. He denied the local mass media reports
that a beast-mutant allegedly emerged in the river. According to him,
the description of the beast by the witnesses resembles the description
of otters whose burrows are on the river bank.

Otters eat fish and can swim. "No wonder that the people who saw the
otter took this animal for a mutant. We have become disaccustomed to
unexplored nature and stopped recognizing animals that used to live
in our rivers and whose number is gradually declining," K. Manvelian
said. He underlined that otters are not aggressive animals. "Like any
other animal, the otter defends itself when people try to catch him,"
Director of WWF Armenia said, adding that the otter as an endangered
species is included in the Red Book of Armenia and the International
Red List.

THREE MEN INDICTED IN KIDNAPPING THAT LED POLICE TO EASTVALE HOME
By John Asbury

Press-Enterprise
10:00 PM PDT on Friday, August 14, 2009

Three men were indicted Friday on federal kidnapping charges that
they held a Van Nuys man for ransom for five days in an Eastvale
house with a sophisticated marijuana growing operation.

Galvin Shaun Gibson, 30, of Eastvale, Vagan Adzhemyan, 41, of Costa
Mesa, and Suren Garibyan, 32, of North Hollywood were each arrested
last week after Los Angeles police stormed an Eastvale house on
Delaware River Drive where the victim was being held, according to
a U.S. Attorney’s indictment.

The three men were indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit
kidnapping and kidnapping by a federal grand jury. They face life
in federal prison if convicted. They are scheduled to be arraigned
Aug. 24.

Gibson was arrested by SWAT officers at the home. The unidentified
hostage was hospitalized for a week-old gunshot wound. Police also
found a marijuana growing operation capable of producing about $50,000
in profit every few months.

LAPD officers said the victim was taken from his apartment in Van
Nuys, shot with a Taser, shot in the intestine with a gun, tied up
and blindfolded. The victim was forced into a waiting van, according
to the indictment.

The Van Nuys man called his family in Russia, saying he had been
kidnapped and that his family had to pay $1 million for his release
by Aug. 4.

LAPD officers and FBI agents conducted surveillance of various
locations, including the Eastvale home where suspects were seen going
back and forth and the victim was held, according to the indictment.

On Aug. 3, Gibson and his three pit bulls kept watch over the
blindfolded victim in Eastvale while the other two men used the
victim’s bank card to withdraw money from his account, the indictment
stated.

Adzhemyan, who was found with an Armenian passport, and Garibyan were
arrested that night.

The victim suffered a serious infection from a ruptured intestine
and was last listed in critical condition. He was also found with
burn wounds that were untreated, according to the indictment.

Reach John Asbury at 951-763-3451 or [email protected]

ARMENIAN BUENOS AIRES PROGRAM LAUNCHES IN BUENOS AIRES

Noyan Tapan
Aug 13, 2009

YEREVAN, AUGUST 13, NOYAN TAPAN. The event entitled Armenian
Buenos Aires launched on August 10, 2009 on the initiative of the
Commission for the Preservation of Historic Cultural Heritage of
Argentine Ministry of Culture, RA Embassy in Buenos Aires and Armenian
communitie. The aim of this historic-cultural program implemented by
Buenos Aires government is to show the role of Armenians residing
in Buenos Aires in the cultural, economic, public and humanitarian
fields, as well as to present the Armenian people’s history, reasons
for Armenians’ immigration to Argentina and their achievements within
the last century as the citizens of Argentina.

According to the Press and Public Relations Department of the RA
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the opening ceremony of the Armenian
Buenos Aires program took place in the ancient building of the first
Argentinean Republic Parliament.

Leticia Maronese, the Secretary General for the Preservation of
Historic Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, the Deputy
Chairman of National Institute against Discrimination, Xenophobia
and Racism Pedro Muradian, the Director General of the Heritage and
History Institute Liliana Barela and RA Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary to Argentina Vladimir Karmirshalyan presented the
opening speech.

The Armenian Buenos Aires program which includes The Immigration
of Armenians to Buenos Aires, Armenians and Religion, Genocide and
Negation, The role of Armenian Woman in Society, Armenian Press,
Armenian Art, Armenian Cuisine and other themes, will end with a
concert of community ensembles.

GRIGORY KARASIN TO PRESENT RUSSIA IN OSCE MINSK GROUP

News.com
11:21 / 08/14/2009

Russia raises status of its Co-chair in negotiations on
Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. Reliable diplomatic sourced confirmed
for NEWS.am the information on Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
Grigory Karasin’s soon appointment as Russian Co-chair in OSCE Minsk
Group. Karasin will replace Russian diplomat Yuri Merzlyakov who
occupied the seat over six years.

THE SITE OF THE RA ECONOMY MINISTRY IS HARMFUL

Aysor.am
13.08.2009, 15:07

"There are Armenian sites which have been hacked since Friday and
have not been recovered yet. Particularly the site of the Ministry
of Economy has been hacked and has not been recovered. It is also the
problem of the National Security council that the governmental sites
are being hacked", – today said Stepan Aslanyan the director of the
"Smart Systems" company to the journalists.

He mentioned that there are 2 types of hacking, Defacement, when the
appearance of the site is changed, pages are added, and flags are put
on the page so that can be visible for all the users, and the Mauser,
which is much more dangerous, he says. In this case the viruses are
sent to the computer. The computer is being damaged invisibly, and
the results appear later.

Stepan Aslanyan said that the Economy Ministry site has been hacked
by the 2nd type of virus, the most dangerous one.

Anahit Khechoyan, the head of the information and public relation
department of RA Economy Ministry, answering the question of Aysor.am
said it is not known yet who has hacked the site but the Ministry too
has felt that the site is vulnerable and has decided not to prolong
the agreement of the operating company.

"We are going to open a new site. We hope that it will take short
time. The works are being done already. Simply at this moment the
tools do not allow the experts who work with us to correct it",
– said A. Khechoyan adding that maybe the experts of the previous
operating company could resume the site, but also because of the
financial problems another group has been chosen which at this moment
is not bale to recover the site.

She also informed that the Ministry has a new IT group, which promises
to make the internal and external net more powerful.

"The new site will operate as soon as possible, the design is chosen,
and the main tools exist too. The Ministry is newly formed, and we
have to make substantial changes too", – noted Khechoyan.

But till that time the computers of those who will use the site of
RA Economy Ministry will gain new viruses and new problems.

THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES THAT THE AMERICANS WILL NOT DISLIKE THE ARMENIAN PARTY TO THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT

ArmInfo
2009-08-12 21:08:00

ArmInfo. There are no guarantees that the party to the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict the Americans may happen to dislike will not be the Armenians,
says political expert Sergey Shakaryants.

The possible successor of Matthew Bryza as US co-chair of the OSCE
MG, deputy assistant secretary of state Tina Kaidanow is an even more
provocative figure.

Some sources say that Kaidanow has won the favor of her bosses due
to her work in Kosovo where she contributed to the genocide of Serbs.

RA PM WILL ASSIST THE INTERSTATE BANK

armradio.am
12.08.2009 15:59

RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan will assist the Interstate
Bank. Today Sargsyan hosted the Interstate Bank new appointed President
Igor Suvorov.

Suvorov presented the activities and strategy of the bank, as well as
projects realized in Armenia, RA Governmental Press Service informed
NEWS.am.

The parties discussed the projects in energy sector and the prospects
of "Nairit" CJSC factory development.

Armenian PM consented to support the bank in solving the on-going
problems.

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GOLDEN APRICOT FILM FESTIVAL IN JAVAKHK

Asbarez
/golden-apricot-film-festival-in-javakhk/
Aug 11, 2009

YEREVAN (Combined Sources)-The Golden Apricot International Film
Festival will leave for Javakhk and will feature six of the films
that competed in the festival that concluded last month.

The effort is part of the "Golden Apricot on Wheels," which for
the second year has taken the festival films to Akhalkalak to allow
Armenian residents of Javakhk to experience the acclaimed festival.

One of the films going to Akhalkalak is "The Other Bank," by Georgian
director Georgi Ovashvili and was the winner of the main prize at
the festival. Harutiune Khachatryan’s documentary "Boundary" will
also be part of the films being screened in Javakhk.

"Such cultural programs are mainly aimed to bridge the gap between
Armenia and Georgia," Ashot Melkonyan, director of the Institute of
Armenian History, told a press conference Tuesday in Yerevan. "We must
remember that Javakhk shouldn’t become a bone of contention between our
countries, on the contrary, it should bring the two together," he said

"Golden Apricot on wheels" will opened at the Akhalkalak Cultural
Center with screening of Sergei Paradjanov’s masterpiece, "The Color
of Pomegranates," which celebrated its 40th anniversary this year.

According to Khachatryan, the festival director, "Golden Apricot on
Wheels" will travel to other Armenian-populated regions of Georgia
next year.

"Golden Apricot on Wheels" is a partnership with the Tbilisi
International Film Festival and the National Cinema Center of Georgia.

9 UNFAIR BORROWERS ESTABLISHED BY CENTRAL BANK IN ARMENIA

/ARKA/
August 10, 2009
Yerevan

The Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) published the list of nine unfair
borrowers with overdue liabilities (exceeding 180 days) to commercial
banks as of the end of June this year. The overdue amount exceeds 5%
of minimum norm on banks’ total capital, i.e. 5 billion drams.

CBA’s press service reported that the list is published as required
by item 3 of article 6 of Armenian Bank Secrecy Law.

Among the unfair borrowers were nine organizations (including KARZEL
llc, Intermotor-Yerevan llc, Universalshin llc, Agrinex ojsc and
others) and two individuals – Vladislav Mangasaryan and Ashot
Ghazaryan.