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Turan Information Agency, Azerbaijani opposition Monday Scandal around the "Peace Platform" Baku / 29.05.17 / Turan: The "Public Platform", created a few months ago from public figures of Azerbaijan and Armenia, seems to begin to fall apart. Thus, one of the Armenian members of this public association Vahan Martirosyan made accusations against Azerbaijan. So, this former political refugee, who hid for several months in Baku with his family, suddenly stated that the Peace Platform was a product of Azerbaijani special services and called on not to trust its members. After leaving Baku, Martirosyan resided in a third country and cooperated with one of the pro-government websites of Azerbaijan for a long time. He thanked the Azerbaijani authorities for a long time and supported the activities of the "Platform for Peace" in every possible way, however, for some unknown reasons, he now began to say that he does not trust the Azerbaijani authorities and urges his compatriots in Armenia not to yield to Baku propaganda, but on the contrary to resist it in every way. Whatever the reasons for such a "metamorphosis", this indicates that attempts to create an authoritative structure from someone else are doomed to failure. At one time, human rights activists of Azerbaijan and Armenia actively cooperated in humanitarian issues and raised the issue of reconciliation of the two peoples at a serious level. However, to some in Baku, this seemed a betrayal and a dangerous undertaking. Moreover, human rights activists were accused of treason and even imprisoned as Armenian spies. But now, the "peacekeeper" selected by the Azerbaijani authorities from Armenia beautifully spat in the face, the authors of this venture called "The Platform of the World". -02B-

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BELMONT, Mass.—On May 18, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) received a grant of $225,000 from the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund of the Massachusetts Cultural Council to go toward construction of an elevator and other accessibility features as part of NAASR’s $4.5 million project for its headquarters on Concord Avenue in Belmont. With this grant, NAASR has commitments for 70 percent of the total budget.

NAASR will be undertaking a $4.5 million, top-to-bottom renovation of its aging building in Belmont, Mass.

NAASR’s aim is to transform its building, which has remained virtually unchanged since its purchase in 1989, and to welcome the public with a redesigned bookstore, lounge café, scholars’ conference room, and garden atrium, and solarium, encouraging research, study, lectures, informal gatherings, and professional activities centered around Armenian Studies. The building transformation is being designed by the architectural, design, and engineering firm of Symmes Maini & McKee Associates in Cambridge, Mass.

Renovations to the building, funded in part with this grant, will bring the building into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by adding an elevator serving all levels, an entry ramp, and accessible rest rooms. The renovation will also add a fourth level (third story) to the building, with a 150-person event hall and state-of-the-art audio-visual technology to allow live streaming and remote participants and presenters from throughout the world.

“This grant is essential in helping to preserve our rare holdings for future generations and make them accessible to all,” said Yervant Chekijian, NAASR’s Chairman of the Board. “With the latest technologies incorporated into the building, we will be able to connect people from around the world and truly become a global center for Armenian Studies.”

The initial reason for NAASR’s capital project was to preserve NAASR’s rare books, periodicals, and archives in NAASR’s Edward and Helen Mardigian Library, one of the top five publicly accessible Armenian Studies libraries in the world, soon to reach 40,000 volumes in diverse languages and alphabets, with holdings dating to the 1600s.

The library has grown to become world class and is a living legacy of culture and history after the Armenian Genocide. NAASR’s holdings are mostly in Armenian, but many are in Turkish, Persian, Russian, French, English, Arabic, and German, and other languages, and NAASR welcomes anyone to browse and study in the library.

The inspiring design and upgraded accessibility will draw professionals, students, scholars, thought leaders, genealogical researchers, and the general public into the building to attend evening programs, study, conduct research, browse the bookstore, and connect with each other.

“We are thrilled and honored to be selected for a Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund grant,” said NAASR Executive Director Sarah Ignatius. “It comes at the exact right moment to motivate people to make our vision a reality. And we are grateful that Massachusetts recognizes the critical importance of supporting capital investments to cultural non-profits.”

Founded in 1955, NAASR is the only national, non-profit organization serving as a bridge between Armenian Studies scholars and the public, to preserve and enrich Armenian culture, history, and identity for future generations. Each year, NAASR hosts over 40 lectures on a wide range of topics from 5th century art to contemporary realities in the Republic of Armenia and the Near East.

NAASR lectures reach a multi-generational audience, which includes students, professionals, and the general public, and encompasses NAASR’s contemporary topics series, supported by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with programs on Syrian Armenians, Nagorno-Karabagh, Armenian identity, and diasporan involvement in Armenia’s development.

Each year, NAASR awards grants to scholars and recently helped to fund Prof. Taner Akçam’s groundbreaking work uncovering lost evidence about the Armenian Genocide. NAASR also operates one of the largest English-language bookstores on Armenian topics, available onsite and online through NAASR’s website at www.naasr.org.

NAASR’s mission is to foster Armenian Studies and build community worldwide to preserve and enrich Armenian culture, history, and identity for future generations. NAASR achieved its initial ambitious goal of advancing Armenian Studies by raising funds to help endow the first chairs of Armenian Studies at Harvard and UCLA less than 50 years after the Armenian Genocide, and has since gone on to support other endowed positions, which now exist at 13 universities, increasing awareness of Armenian contributions to world culture and civilization, and laying the factual foundation upon which Genocide recognition rests, leading to a new generation relying on NAASR for academic research and connections to the public.

For more information about NAASR visit www.naasr.org or contact or 617-489-1610.

NAASR Receives $225,000 Grant from Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund

AzerNews, Azerbaijan

15:02 (UTC+04:00)

By Fuad Muxtar-Aqbabali

Hardly a day goes by without shelling of Azerbaijani civilian targets and front line villages by Armenian occupying forces. The enemy resorts to similar provocations, especially when Azerbaijan plays host to international events.

The latest deterioration along the front line also overlapped with the start of the fourth Islamic Solidarity Games. Yerevan made an attempt to deteriorate the situation by advancing “Osa surface-to-air missile system of the Armenian air defense forces to a new position… to take control of the airspace,” the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry said in a press release on 15 May 2017.

Funny enough, three days later, finally a statement by the OSCE Minsk Group came. “According to information collected from multiple reliable sources, on 15 May, Azerbaijani armed forces fired a missile across the Line of Contact, striking military equipment. On the evening of 16 May and continuing into 17 May, Armenian armed forces retaliated with mortar fire of various calibers. These actions by both sides represent significant violations of the ceasefire and are cause for alarm,” the statement read.

As usual, without denunciation of the aggressor and explaining the reasons why Azerbaijan destroyed the enemy’s military equipment, the group remained loyal to years-old style and expressed concern about the “violations of the ceasefire”.

The same group, however, failed to react to a statement by Maj-Gen Andranik Makaryan, commander of the Russian-Armenian combined group of forces, who threatened Azerbaijan with military actions if Baku goes to war to liberate the occupied Karabakh and surrounding seven adjacent districts.

Armenia as a red herring

For nearly two decades into the XXI century, the aggressor state of Armenia in the South Caucasus has been retaining about 20 per cent of Azerbaijani territories under occupation. Armenia was, is, and will undoubtedly be a powder keg in the whole Caucasus, distracting nations from cementing their deeply-cherished independence and sovereignty.

Unless official Yerevan is taught a bitter lesson, the aggression against Azerbaijani ancestral lands, for sure to go on endlessly, and no hopes that the junta regimes driven by ultra-nationalistic motives will give up preposterous claims on the neighbor’s internationally-recognized lands.

Yerevan’s belligerent policies remain an imminent threat not only to Azerbaijan but also to Georgia, another nation in the South Caucasus. Carrying similar threats for centuries and serving alien plans’ realization in the region, Armenia has also deteriorated own plight plagued by corruption, debts, economic and political dependency, the exodus of residents and internal tension.

The nation – home to Russian military bases – has so far failed to realize the dreadful and aggressive nature of its policies. It stubbornly refuses to end treacherous policies, and tries with the help of patrons and anti-Azerbaijani circles to deny the aggression. It both retains the occupation of Azerbaijani lands and serves malign forces’ far-reaching plans to keep the region in explosive and desperate situation.

Azerbaijan rightly refuses to reconcile itself with the status quo and is set to change it at any cost to end the unjust occupation. Armenia also serves interests of states who vehemently oppose Azerbaijan’s determination to safeguard hard-won independence, restore the territorial integrity to navigate through unseen and unpredictable obstacles in the region.

Armenia as well distracts Azerbaijan’s attention from strengthening own state institutions, investment in the national economy and building prosperous future for citizens. With the occupation of Azerbaijani lands and ignoring international laws, official Yerevan plays into hands of states driven by own plans and plots to keep the region in turmoil for years to come.

With the help of foreign pro-Armenian politicians and organizations, official Yerevan and the diaspora also hopelessly tried to block Azerbaijan’s oil and gas pipelines, the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum railways project, designed both to be conducive to the regional and global economic development and to help Europe to diversify gas supplies away from Russia.

Carte blanche or challenge to Putin?

Deeply-polarized by almost two-decade rule of the rogue regimes and economic hardships, official Yerevan shows no signs of relinquishing aggressive policies against the neighbor and ceding Azerbaijani lands to bring about peace and harmony to the Caucasus. On the contrary, the corrupt and criminal regime paves the way for the possible fresh turmoils, becoming instrumental in further aggravation of the situation across the region.

Azerbaijan is in complete control of the situation along the entire perimeter of the front and has to step up pressure on the aggressor country through inflicting heavy casualties on it. Official Baku has to constantly apply political, economic, diplomatic, military leverage over Armenia to stifle any move for justification.

It is to no avail and useless to pin hopes on the OSCE Minsk Group to resolve the long-drawn-out conflict. Azerbaijan has long endured the status quo and hoped that the international mediators will finally live up to the obligations and commitments though almost 30 years have been lost in the hope of triumph of justice.

Over this period, Armenia has been misappropriating neighboring Azerbaijan's our national resources, destroying historical monuments, mosques, erasing their identities through changing names of districts and villages.

Azerbaijan couldn’t and did not reconcile itself with the endless occupation. The April 2006 flare-up proved the might of the Azerbaijani army to act, and as the Azerbaijani Supreme Commander-in-Chief said “the Armenian armed forces need to draw a conclusion from the April fighting, or there will be more successful military operations, like Lala Tapa”.

Describing the April fighting as yet another historic victory, President Aliyev said that “the world witnessed that Azerbaijan will never tolerate Armenia’s occupying policy. We must restore our territorial integrity and we will. It’s our ancestral land. The Lala Tapa military operation is our symbol of heroism and it made a history…”

The aggressor itself has been hardly hit by the junta regime’s aggression against Azerbaijani lands. The unfounded military spending, political apathy, poverty, emigration and others have reduced this resource-poor country, built on our lands and funded for 70 years from Soviet budget, to the verge of collapse.

Judging by Armenia’s moves, official Yerevan has charted several scenarios out of the current situation.

Firstly, to let Russia cement its dominance over the country despite domestic discontent; secondly, to mobilize pro-Armenian forces across Europe and the USA to bring pressure on Azerbaijan. Fortunately, Donald Trump’s victory disillusioned the Armenian Diaspora and deprived it of the leverage.

Thirdly, Armenia seeks to get support of as many countries as possible to disappoint Azerbaijan, and encourage investment in the poverty-stricken country.

Hit hard by the on-going economic recession, the exodus of citizens, the loss of even symbolic independence, Armenia is making futile attempts to make a comeback after the devastating 2016 April defeat in the hands of the Azerbaijani army. Azerbaijan has been on full alert for threats coming from Armenia and works day and night to confront them, using all available resources.

Despite Azerbaijan’s persistent calls and UN resolutions, urging the aggressor state to unconditionally liberate the occupied lands, Yerevan beats about the bush. On the contrary, it plots fresh and appalling plans to cause blatant provocation against Azerbaijan. Another latest provocation of Armenia came to light when Azerbaijan arrested a number of military servicemen and civilians, who, it said, provided military secrets to the aggressor Armenia.

Another trick Armenia resorted to is to closely involve Moscow’s 102nd military base, stationed in Armenia’s northern city of Gyumri and part of the Southern Military District of the Russian armed forces, in its aggression against Azerbaijan. At the same time, under the 2016 interstate treaty, the military base has been subordinated to the Russian-Armenian combined group of forces.

Maj-Gen Andranik Makaryan, commander of the combined group of forces, bragged about the group’s readiness to neutralize a potential threat from Turkey. “If there is a threat from Turkey, we will throw ourselves in the enemy’s way. This is enshrined in the documents,” the general out of nowhere told a news conference.

Makaryan also claimed that the military group would be used against Azerbaijan if the latter goes to war to liberate occupied Karabakh and surrounding seven adjacent districts. Asked if Putin can ban their attack or not, the arrogant general was quoted as saying: “No, he can’t.”

This claim remains to be seen and tested.

AGBU Press Office 55 East 59th Street New York, NY 10022-1112 Website: www.agbu.org PRESS RELEASE Tuesday, THE AGBU PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT INTRODUCES ARMENIAN MUSIC TO NEW YORK CITY STUDENTS THROUGH CARNEGIE HALL’S MUSICAL EXPLORERS PROGRAM This spring, the AGBU Performing Arts Department collaborated with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute (WMI) to have Armenia represented for the first time as part of WMI’s Musical Explorers program. The program is designed to connect students in grades K-2 to New York City’s rich and diverse musical community as they build fundamental music skills through listening, singing and moving to songs from all over the world. For four days, hundreds of New York City students and teachers sang traditional Armenian songs together with the acapella folk trio Zulal, the oud player Ara Dinkjian, and the clarinetist Martin Haroutunian, who showed the students several traditional Armenian instruments. Zulal takes Armenia’s village folk melodies and weaves intricate arrangements that pay tribute to the rural roots of the music, while introducing a sophisticated lyricism and energy. The trio’s singers—Teni Apelian, Yeraz Markarian, and Anaïs Tekerian—have been singing together since 2002 and have performed at the Getty Museum, Berklee College of Music, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage and New York’s Symphony Space, along with performances for Cirque du Soleil and the Silk Road Project. Ara Dinkjian is an Armenian American oud player who has appeared in 22 countries and continues to compose, perform, record and teach. Martin Haroutunian, an accomplished clarinetist, is the director of the Arev Ensemble in Boston, which uses folk and modern instruments to recreate Armenian music. The Musical Explorers program introduces New York City students and teachers to songs and dances from around the world, which they eventually perform along with the artists during the interactive concerts. As part of the program, Zulal led workshops with New York City public school K-2 teachers and advised on the creation of a full curriculum, including an accompanying CD, featuring lessons and creative extensions for semester-long coursework. In the 2016-17 season, along with Armenian folk music, students also learned about bluegrass, Chinese traditional music, Sudanese celebration songs, calypso, and hip-hop, exploring a diverse range of musical genres found in their New York City neighborhoods. “At one moment during the concert, the host asked Ara Dinkjian to play his oud together with the steel pan of the calypso musician and the beats of the hip-hop DJ, displaying how diversity can be unified in one piece of music. This concept aligns perfectly with the mission of AGBU PAD: to present our unique culture to the diverse audiences of New York. Hearing hundreds of children from the five boroughs of New York sing Armenian folk songs is the most touching symbol of unity in this immensely multicultural city,” said Hayk Arsenyan, the director of the AGBU Performing Arts Department. For more information about AGBU PAD, please visit https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.agbuperformingarts.org_&d=DwIF-g&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=LVw5zH6C4LHpVQcGEdVcrQ&m=3oLTFdM56cJV9TJs5OKNwWc42zUFtW-3eYG5kY0zH0M&s=YHpiHjdQgAsr2d4IP-yC4T0xTURU0GYPaicz9anH_TY&e= . For more information about the Weill Music Institute’s Musical Explorers: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.carnegiehall.org_Education_Musical-2DExplorers_&d=DwIF-g&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=LVw5zH6C4LHpVQcGEdVcrQ&m=3oLTFdM56cJV9TJs5OKNwWc42zUFtW-3eYG5kY0zH0M&s=mzEv66PolCMUBP25Vusse_js3bzmptsBDZdCAQVtQjo&e= . Established in 1906, AGBU (www.agbu.org) is the world's largest non-profit Armenian organization. Headquartered in New York City, AGBU preserves and promotes the Armenian identity and heritage through educational, cultural and humanitarian programs, annually touching the lives of some 500,000 Armenians around the world. For more information about AGBU and its worldwide programs, please visit www.agbu.org.

Tuesday, Tsarukian Allies Quit Parliament . Tatevik Lazarian Armenia - The newly elected National Assembly holds its first sitting in Yerevan, 18May2017. Three members of Armenia's new parliament, who effectively revolted against businessman Gagik Tsarukian shortly after recent elections, have ceded their parliament seats to other members of his alliance. The Tsarukian Bloc won 31 of the 105 seats in the new National Assembly elected on April 2. Shortly after the vote, it submitted to the Central Election Commission (CEC) letters of resignation supposedly signed by 23 of its mostly successful election candidates. Twelve of those candidates told the CEC, however, that they did not sign the letters and would still like to become parliament deputies. The commission handed parliamentary mandates to eight of them. Tsarukian said through a spokeswoman last month that that all of those men had formally pledged ahead of the elections not to take up parliament seats if they fail to get a particular number of votes in various constituencies across Armenia. In the event, three of the deputies representing the Tsarukian Bloc -- Harutyun Gharagyozian, Khachik Manukian and Artyom Tsarukian (no relation) -- agreed to resign from the parliament. They formally ceased to be members of the National Assembly on Tuesday. The five other lawmakers refused to follow suit, while remaining affiliated with the second largest parliamentary force. Tsarukian's press secretary, Iveta Tonoyan, downplayed the three resignations, denying that there are disagreements within the bloc. "There were political agreements," she told reporters. "This is a political process." Tonoyan also did not confirm reports that Tsarukian has fallen out with Ishkhan Zakarian, the man who managed the bloc's election campaign and was also elected to the National Assembly. Asked to comment on rumors that Zakarian too will resign from the parliament, she said: "I have never heard about such an intention from Ishkhan Zakarian." OSCE Vows Continued Engagement In Armenia After Office Closure . Sargis Harutyunyan Armenia - OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier speaks at a news conference in Yerevan, 30May2017. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will continue to promote wide-ranging reforms in Armenia despite the closure of its Yerevan office forced by Azerbaijan, OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier said on Tuesday. "The closure of the office does not mean that we will conclude our cooperation with Armenia," Zannier said during a visit to Yerevan. "There are many important issues on our agenda." "We will therefore try to find various ways of working together and ensuring that the closure of the office only means that one chapter of our cooperation has been closed but other avenues of joint work have opened up," he told a joint news conference with Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian. The OSCE office has implemented projects relating, among other things, to human rights, tax and police reforms, gender equality and press freedom ever since it was opened in 2000. Azerbaijan vetoed late last year a further extension of its mandate, objecting to a humanitarian demining program sponsored by it in Armenia. It claimed that the program could "strengthen" the Armenian military in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Armenia has repeatedly shrugged off those allegations. It says that Baku is simply keen to force the closure of the Yerevan office after having a similar OSCE office in Baku shut down in 2015 in line with its poor human rights record. OSCE decisions on opening such missions and extending their activities have to be unanimously approved by all 57 member states of the organization. Baku did not drop its objections even after the Armenian government agreed in January to exclude demining from the wide range of OSCE activities in Armenia. Its uncompromising stance prompted a stern warning from the United States, with a senior U.S. diplomat saying in February that the office closure would "reflect poorly on Azerbaijan." A representative of Austria, the current holder of the OSCE presidency, told the OSCE's Permanent Council in Vienna on May 4 that the Azerbaijani government remains adamant in demanding the shutdown. The issue seems to have dominated Zannier's separate meetings with Nalbandian and President Serzh Sarkisian. The OSCE secretary general described the talks as "useful" in a written statement issued later in the day. "I would like to see the achievements of the Office preserved and built upon as far as possible," he added. Armenian-Azeri Summit `Unlikely For Now' . Sargis Harutyunyan Armenia - Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian at a news conference in Yerevan, 30May2017. A fresh meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents is still not on the cards despite international mediators' efforts to reinvigorate the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian indicated on Tuesday. "Armenia has never objected to meetings at the level of [foreign] ministers or presidents," he said. "If conditions are ripe, such meetings are possible. But this kind of meetings, especially at the high, presidential level, have to be properly prepared for. Ministerial meetings are aimed at ensuring that as well." "For the time being, we can only talk about a meeting at the ministerial level," Nalbandian told a joint news conference with Lamberto Zannier, the visiting secretary general of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Presidents Serzh Sarkisian and Ilham Aliyev most recently met in Saint Petersburg last July for talks hosted by their Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The Karabakh peace process has remained essentially deadlocked since then. Richard Hoagland, the U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, expressed hope in March that Nalbandian and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov will "prepare the ground" for a fresh Aliyev-Sarkisian encounter. The two ministers met in Moscow in late April. A Russian Foreign Ministry statement on their talks said nothing about the possibility of an Armenian-Azerbaijani summit. Nalbandian also announced on Tuesday that Hoagland and his fellow Minsk Group co-chairs from Russia and France will visit Yerevan and Stepanakert next week. Press Review "Zhoghovurd" says the opposition Yerkir Tsirani party's decision to take up its five seats in Yerevan's newly elected municipal council means that its sessions are promising to be dramatic and heated. The paper says that Yerkir Tsirani leader Zaruhi Postanjian's presence in the council may have a "somewhat positive impact" on the work of the legislature and make life harder for Mayor Taron Markarian and his aides. But, it says, the party's decision not to boycott the council is not consistent with its tough anti-government stance. "Zhamanak" is highly skeptical about a new anti-corruption body that will be set up soon by the Armenian government. The paper predicts that the authorities will use the body to get rid of "undesirable" officials that will fall from their grace. "In other words, what is being created in Armenia is not a truly independent anti-corruption body # but an institution of, so to speak, intra-governmental inquisition," it claims. "The authorities will thus solve two issues. On one hand, the new structure will enable them to elevate their anti-corruption dialogue with international bodies to a new level # On the other hand, the intra-governmental inquisition will allow them to make the [government] system more manageable in the current period of transition." Interviewed by "168 Zham," Vadim Dubnov, a Russian political analyst, plays down the significance of a recent statement by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs that essentially held Azerbaijan responsible for the latest escalation of tensions in the Karabakh conflict zone. Dubnov argues that just a few months ago the Russian, U.S. and French co-chairs issued another statement that was more favorable to Azerbaijan. "I think that in or two or two weeks it will be forgotten in both Baku and Yerevan," he says. Dubnov also believes that the Azerbaijani leadership is presently "not quite interested in a de-escalation of the conflict." "And I am not fully convinced that Yerevan is interested in that," he adds. "Chorrord Ishkhanutyun" comments on the Karabakh Armenian military's decision to issue statements on truce violations on a weekly, rather than daily, basis from now on. General Movses Hakobian, the chief of the Armenian army's General Staff, is quoted as defending the decision on security grounds. The paper dismisses this speculation, saying that daily reports on the situation along the Karabakh "line of contact" would not reveal any military secrets to Baku. (Tigran Avetisian) Reprinted on ANN/Armenian News with permission from RFE/RL Copyright (c) 2017 Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Inc. 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036. www.rferl.org

Category: 2017

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RFE/RL Armenian Report – 05/30/2017