Sports: Mkhitaryan ruled out for six weeks with broken foot

Goal.com, UK
Dec 24 2018

Sports: Arsenal’s Mkhitaryan out for six weeks

Daily Nation, Kenya
Dec 24 2018
 
 
Arsenal's Mkhitaryan out for six weeks
 
MONDAY DECEMBER 24 2018
 
     
 
Arsenal's Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan crosses the ball during their second leg of the Europa League Round of 32 match against Ostersunds at the Emirates Stadium in London on February 22, 2018. PHOTO | ADRIAN DENNIS |  AFP
 
In Summary
 
Mkhitaryan fractured the metatarsal in his right foot in Carabao Cup defeat by Tottenham.
Arsenal said the Armenian playmaker is "expected to return to full training in six weeks".
Mkhitaryan arrived at the Emirates Stadium almost a year ago.
 
By AFP
Arsenal midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan will be out of action for at least six weeks because of a foot injury, the Premier League side revealed on their website on Tuesday.
 
Mkhitaryan fractured the metatarsal in his right foot in last Wednesday's Carabao Cup defeat by Tottenham and was replaced at half-time. He missed the win against Burnley at the weekend.
 
Arsenal said the Armenian playmaker is "expected to return to full training in six weeks".
 
Mkhitaryan has been a regular under Unai Emery and has scored four Premier League goals this season.
 
The 29-year-old will miss key league games against Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester City as Arsenal continue their pursuit of a top-four place.
Mkhitaryan arrived at the Emirates Stadium almost a year ago as part of the swap deal that took Alexis Sanchez to Manchester United.

Armenian police officers succeeded in neutralizing Iranian who burst into the bank with a knife and electroshock weapon

Arminfo, Armenia
Dec 24 2018
Ani Mshetsyan

ArmInfo. The police managed to neutralize an Iranian citizen who broke into Mellat Bank this morning with a knife and an electroshock weapon, the press service of the  police informs.

According to the source, on December 24, at 10:15am local time, a  young man penetrated into "Mellat" bank on Tumanyan Street in  Yerevan, who began to make some demands on Iranian, then began to  threaten people with a knife and an electroshock weapon. Then the  young man tried to use a stun gun. Police officers on duty at the  bank quickly responded and defused the offender, and then they were  taken to the central police station.

At the central police station, it was found that the driven person is  a citizen of Iran, his name is Morteza Ghorban Joshoar, born in 1982,  and in Farsi he demanded money from a bank employee. In fact, a  criminal case was initiated under Article 175 of the RA Criminal  Code.

It was also found that on December 21, Joshoa entered one of the  pharmacies and demanded money, threatening with an electroshock  weapon. However, he failed to commit a crime. 

Annual Christmas concert held at Armenian church in Springfield

Public Radio of Armenia
Dec 24 2018
Annual Christmas concert held at Armenian church in Springfield

2018-12-24 12:40:48 
                           

 St. Mark Armenian Church held their 9th annual Christmas spectacular Sunday night in Springfield, WWLP reports. 

The concert featured a female vocal ensemble, a saxophonist, and a soloist from Paris.

The concert grows in size every year, with more people attending. Even people who don't belong to St. Mark Armenian Church come to celebrate this time of year.

"So we are noticing that it is a mix, as I'm seeing a lot of unfamiliar faces," concert coordinator Brenda Jermakin said. 

"You know friends or people that see it bring their friends and family, so it really is a nice mix of our community," he added. 

All of the proceeds from the Christmas concert benefit the ministries of St. Mark Armenian Church.

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Exhibition of Guros artwork to open at Zvarnots historical-cultural museum

Panorama, Armenia
Dec 24 2018
Culture 14:42 24/12/2018 Armenia

The exhibition of the artwork by Armenia painter Guros will be opened at “Zvartnots” historical-cultural museum-reservation on December 25, the Service for the protection of historical environment and cultural museum-reservations affiliated with the ministry of culture reported in a release. The exhibition will feature both the paintings and the photos taken by the Armenian artist.

Born in 1905 in the town of Goris, Guros (Gourgen Paronyan), entered the sphere of art as a photographer at age of 21. Focusing on ethnographic, historiographic and landscape themes, Guros diligently recorded the lifestyle, customs and the historical-architectural environment of his native city and the Syunik region. Thanks to his photographs, we are today able to form a clear visual idea about the daily life and rich traditions of Syunik region’s inhabitants.

His great love for painting motivated him to abandon photography in 1938 and fully dedicate himself to the fine arts. Despite being self-taught, the artist achieved considerable success in this field, becoming a member of the Artists Union of Armenia (in 1939) and in 1965, an Honoured Artist of the Armenian SSR. The nature and culture of Syunik continued to dominate his painting as a subject.

Besides its undeniable documentary value, Guros' photographic legacy can, therefore, be considered as one of the more original oeuvres in the early stages of documentary photography’s emergence in Soviet Armenia.

Sports: Marcos Pizzelli named Armenia’s Footballer of the Year 2018

Public Radio of Armenia
Dec 24 2018


Marcos Pizzelli named Armenia’s Footballer of the Year 2018

2018-12-24 12:31:38 

                            

Marcos Pizzelli has been named Armenia’s Footballer of the Year 2018.

Pizzelli, who currently plays for Aktobe (Kazakhstan), received 171 points from sport journalists and clubs. 

Arsenal's Henrikh Mkhitaryan came second with 119 points. Sargis Adamyan from Jahn Regensburg  followed him in third place with 32 points.

 Pyunik's manager Andrey Talalayev was named Coach of teh Year. 

CNF to allocate at least 700,000 euros to finance environmental projects in Armenia

ARKA, Armenia
Dec 24 2018

YEREVAN, December 24 /ARKA/. The Caucasus Nature Fund (CNF) will allocate at least  700 thousand euros in 2019 to finance environmental projects in Armenia, CNF  national coordinator in Armenia Arman Vermishyan said at a press conference on Monday.

He said the budget for the next year is still under discussion, however, part  the direct financing is determined, while the amount of indirect funding is still unclear, but at least 700 thousand euros will be provided.

The coordinator also said that since 2009 a total of 1.761 billion drams (approximately $360,000) have been spent on CNF events in Armenia.

According to him, more than 40% of the funding is spent on extra cash payments to employees, whose average salary is about 170 thousand drams now. 

Vermishyan also said  that a significant part of the funding – about 400 million drams- is spent on acquisition and servicing transportation means. He said a total of 26 vehicles were provided to the protected areas, including 8 vehicles to the Khosrov Reserve.

According to the coordinator, photovoltaic panels were installed in the Khosrov Forest and Arpi Lich National Park and greenhouses were built in both places.  ($ 1 – 484.31 drams). –0–

Person close to MP Aram Harutyunyan gives testimonies against him, ex minister to be arrested after January 14

Aysor, Armenia
Dec 24 2018

Armenian National Assembly lawmaker Aram Harutyunyan, charged with taking big amount of bribe, will more probably be arrested in 2019, after January 14 when the National Assembly of 7th convocation will hold its first session and the NA of 6th convocation will be considered dissolved.

The NA session convened for discussion of the prosecutor general’s petition to deprive the MP of immunity and arrest him did not take place due to lack of quorum agreed with pre-election campaign.

According to the criminal case, the former nature protection minister demanded $14million from businesswoman Silva Hambardzumyan for providing her licenses to carry out non-ferrous metal mining activity. The ex minister said the licenses would be provided with 5 year term but would be extended for another two to give her an opportunity to make necessary financial investments in the mines. Silva Hambardzumyan agreed to the proposal and expressed readiness to periodically sent money to Harutyunyan in parallel with the process of getting the licenses.

As a result of arrangement in January-November 2008, Hambardzumyan’s companies received 10 special licenses for mine examination.

In parallel with the processes, Hambardzumyan was passing the demanded money to Harutyunyan through his assistant.

The last part of cash payment – 400,000 USD was sent to Harutyunyan in late September as a result she acquired Hankaburg company with Gyoz-Gyozi gold mine license.

The other part of the demanded bribe 8 million USD Hambardzumyan gave to the ex minister via bank transfers.

According to the criminal case, Hambardzumyan sold 100% of shares of her company to an Arabic company in February 2008.

Name of Araks Dilanyan, a UAE-based Armenian, is being circulated in the case. She provided her bank accounts for Aram Harutyunyan to get the money. The ex minister received the sums through his acquaintances – A. Khachatryan, V. Martirosyan and G. Karapetyan. The three are being accused of assistance in getting big amount of bribe.

The investigation has proved that the lawmaker demanded and received in a mediated way a big amount of bribe then legalized the big property received in a criminal way – that is – ensured bank transfers on behalf of different people to hide the criminal source of the sum.

A. Khachatryan gave testimonies saying that with the instruction of Harutyunyan he left for Dubai in 2008 opened a bank account and provided the necessary documents to Harutyunyan after arriving back. Khachatryan said that in 2009 he left for Dubai again and withdrew from bank account $250,000, bought construction equipment, brought to Armenia and registered on behalf of company belonging to Harutyunyan.

The criminal case also contains documents seized from the Nature Protection Ministry.

The Armenian law enforcers have also received documents from the United Arab Emirates proving that in 2008 their customer  Arax Dilanyan received $8million on her bank account and on the same day transferred them to three individuals registered in Abu Dhabi N1 bank – Khachatryan, Soghomonyan and Karapetyan.

The General Prosecutor’s Office has claimed it has enough grounds to charge Harutyunyan and arrest him.

Bill on Government’s restructure to be discussed on January 14

Aysor, Armenia
Dec 24 2018

The Armenian government has put into circulation the bill on making changes in the Armenian law on the structure of the government and its activity which proposes cutting the number of ministries from existing 17 to 12.

The government proposes to have the following ministries:

Labor and Social Affairs Ministry
Health Ministry
Justice Ministry
Emergency Situations Ministry
Foreign Affairs Ministry
Nature Protection Ministry
Education, Science, Culture and Sport Ministry
Defense Ministry
Territorial Administration and Infrastructures Ministry
High Technology and Military Industry Ministry
Economic Development and Agricultural Ministry
Finance Ministry.

The post of first deputy PM is being withdrawn. The PM will have two deputies.

According to the bill, territorial administration and development ministry, state property management committee, water committee unite with energy infrastructures and natural resources ministry. In its turn energy infrastructures and natural resources ministry renames into territorial administration and infrastructures ministry.

Culture, education and science and sport and youth affairs ministries will become one ministry.

Agriculture ministry unites with economic development and investments ministry and will be named economic development and agricultural ministry.

Military industrial committee unites with Transport, Communication and IT ministry and will be named high technology and military-industry ministry.

According to the bill, the Diaspora ministry stops functioning.

If adopted, the bill will enter into force from January 1, 2019. The bill has not been put for wide discussion yet. It is expected to be discussed at the first session of the new parliament on January 14.
 

Consumer rights activist says municipality can unilaterally terminate contract with Sanitek Armenia

Panorama, Armenia
Dec 24 2018

The Yerevan Municipality has strong legal grounds to cancel its contract concluded with Sanitek Armenia, a branch of Sanitek International Group – a multinational waste management company headquartered in Lebanon, if the latter continues to provide poor garbage disposal services in capital Yerevan, a consumer rights activist says. 

Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Babken Pipoyan, Chairman of the Informed and Protected Consumer NGO, stressed the city hall only needs to carry out consistent work by documenting the improper waste removal cases in the capital and unilaterally terminate the contract after the deadlines set for eliminating the shortcomings expire. 

“I want to inform the mayor that if he really wants to terminate the contract, he has all the possibilities. He can give [Sanitek] ten days and 15 employees, providing his personal guarantees for dissolution of the contract with Sanitek,” Pipoyan said. “If the company cannot work, let it pick up its stuff and leave.” 

He added the funds allocated to the waste management company should be given to the community.

As part of the contract, the Yerevan Municipality has fined Sanitek twice for failing to fully meet its obligations.