An Armenian promoted to Obama’s victory
January 31, 2008
In the preliminary elections held on Saturday in North Carolina 55% of the votes were given to the US Democrat Presidential Candidate elected a Congressman from Illinois Barrack Obama thus giving him victory in that State. According to the opinion of the US media the victory of Obama was mainly promoted by the head of the state campaign Richard Ara Harputlyan, an Armenian descent. According to the Radio Liberty the mentioned Armenian Democrat politician, 58,, who has been the leader of the democrat’s campaign in North Carolina, a few days prior to the voting gave an interview to the MSNNC TV. He blamed the other leading democrat leader Hillary Clinton’s team of using unfair methods of campaign against Obama. Harputlyan insisted that the supporters of Clinton during their debates and meetings with voters first of all bring up the racism issue, by trying to convince the American voters that the African-American candidate has almost no chance to have victory in the race. “Clinton should tell his... [full story]
Ice of neutrality broken
August 17, 2008
Till yesterday Armenia has been neutral over the conflict between Georgia and Russia, which was definitely the best choice in this hard situation. However, the ice of neutrality was broken yesterday and as the president’s office informs the president had a phone conversation with Russian president Dmitri Medvedev and expressed condolences for the peaceful civilians and Russian victims resulted from the war. It is clear that the problem is not whether he would tell those words to Medvedev but whether he would tell those words just directly to Medvedev. If the conflicting parties are our strategic ally and our strategic neighbor, then it is logical that we had to also express condolences to Georgia as well. This would be the only option that would comply with the principles of good policy and humanism. During the war in South Ossetia not only Russian people died, but Georgians as well. Even many of those who died there did not know whether they were bombed by Russians or Georgians. Whatever is said the Armenian...
Putin has chosen Russia’s next president
December 14, 2007
Yesterday the President of Russia Vladimir Putin announced the name of his “successor”. Putin said that he would like the current deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitri Medvedev become his successor. Putin made this announcement during his meeting with the representatives of four pro-president parties. By judging from the status of democracy and the activities of the media in Russia experts and analysts have no doubt that Medvedev will surely be elected on March 2 2008. Moreover, they mention that this position would be occupied by anyone, whose name Putin would mention because the level of control and reputation of the latter is very high. The analysts believe that in the event of the victory of Medvedv Putin will always maintain his levers of power and can be elected President any time he wants to. As of the choice of Medvedev the politician has a reputation of more or less liberal actor and can be acceptable by the west. In fact, in case of being elected liberal Medvedev will continue leading the...
Operation worked out
Babken TUNYAN | December 6, 2007
On Sunday Parliamentary elections were held in Russia. Although the final results will publicized in a few days the general picture of the composition of the Parliament is clear even now. This picture is not unexpected at all. The Yedinaya Rossia (Joint Russia) Party had a destructive victory headed by the Russian President Vladimir Putin (over 63% of votes). Three more parties were able to overcome the required 7% threshold - the Communist Party of RF (11.7% by preliminary results), Vladimir Zhirinovski’s Liberal Democratic Party (8.5%) and Fair Russia Party (8%), which is headed by the President of the Upper Chamber of the Parliament Sergey Mironov. After the publication of preliminary results nothing unexpected happened. Yedinaya Rossia received congratulations, Zhirinovski is not dissatisfied, neither is Mironov. Communists and all the parties, which didn’t go to Parliament, complain, such as the Union of Leftists and the Yabloko. They speak of various electoral violations and are going to appeal...
Ankara is not giving lands
Yuri SIMONYAN | July 19, 2007
Last week Turkish deputy candidate Erbashar Ozsoy accused PM Rejeb Erdogan of planning to hand Erzrum over to Armenia. According to the Turkish “Haber” agency, Ozsoy claims that on one of the maps of the multi-faceted, cosmopolitan “Great Middle East” plan, which is co-authored by the prime minister, Erzrum is included as part of Armenia. Ozsoy called on the people to pay attention to that and refuse to support the ruling party in order to avoid the collapse of the state. Ozsoy’s speech in Turkey didn't go unnoticed. It is presupposed that the authorities will make their announcement, and it is not excluded that they will demand an explanation from the political activist. Politician and journalist of the well-known Turkish “Milliyet” newspaper, Sami Koen, believes that Erbashar’s Ozsoy’s accusations are only after one thing - to discredit the ruling “Development and Justice” party chaired by Rejeb Erdogan. “One would have to be crazy to...
“The ones attacking me were Turkish fascists”-says Taner Akcham to “168 Hours”
Artak ALEXSANYAN | July 15, 2007
According to Turkish writer and publicist Taner Akcham, the books on the Armenian Genocide that have been published until now include the episodic or Western sources regarding the Armenian Cause. In his new book entitled “Shameful Act - the Armenian Genocide and Turkey’s responsibility”, Akcham has first tried to use the archives of the Ottoman Empire and, secondly, approach the issue from the perspective of Turkish national security. The Armenians were massacred under the name of national security and much later, according to Akcham, Ataturk was ready to recognize the Genocide for the same reason. Even open trials had begun. “However, after the moment when it became clear that the Treaty of Sevres was inevitable and, especially after the signing of the treaty, public and official apology were seen simply as a sign of defeat,” writes Akcham, who adds that even today there is a special subdivision in the Turkish Security Council on the Armenian Cause. The Armenian Cause remains...
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Diplomatic note
December 22, 2009
The foreign affairs ministry of Azerbaijan has sent a protest note to the US Department of State concerning the draft law on providing a financial support of $8 million to Nagorno Karabakh. The diplomatic note was delivered by Yashar Aliev, the Azeri Ambassador in the US. According to the Azeri side, any project in Nagorno Karabakh and the “occupied lands” on part of the US without preliminary consultation with Azerbaijan abuses Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity and the policy officially adopted by the US....
Kasparov’s new apartment in New York
December 10, 2009
According to the New York Times a former chess champion sold his previous apartment in New York and had bought a new apartment in the same city with mortgage at 3.4 million USD. The apartment was designed by a world-known architect Robert Stern FAIA. The apartment designed by Stern is located on 76 street of Amsterdam Avenue. The new apartment of Kasparov, the space of which is 162 square meters, consists of three bedrooms. The apartment was sold with a 10% discount - approximately 350 thousand USD and with 1.25 million USD loan. As it’s known his previous apartment with a space of 81 square meters was bought in 2005 at 320 thousand USD. He sold this apartment in October of the current year at 630 thousand USD. According to American analysts Kasparov made a great deal by selling it at double price. By the way, according to the newspaper, Kasparov conducts master classes of chess in New York and here lives her ex-wife Maria Arapova and his daughter Polina. In this new apartment Kasparov will live with his...
Help call to the colleague
April 11, 2009
On Tuesday US President Barack Obama had a good telephone conversation with President Aliyev. Obama reaffirmed U.S commitment to a strong relationship with Azerbaijan and to supporting progress toward a resolution of the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict. The President also underscored the importance of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, which will lead to greater peace and security in the region....
Ignorant and insane
March 14, 2009
“I just can express some sort of regret for the president’s statements,” said the chairwoman of the “United Georgia” democratic movement party Nino Burjanadze during an exclusive interview and evaluated the statement made by the President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili “not accurate and silly” regarding the economy of Armenia. “The President of my country has made an inaccurate and wrong statement regarding not only the neighbor country but a relative country also. A normal president should not make such announcements regarding the economy of the neighbor countries. I think that Mikhail Saakashvili’s statements are critically inaccurate and silly ones. But to tell the truth we have got used to Saakashvili’s statements regarding both our country and other countries,” said Burjanadze. “I think that a president of a country should always be correct during his evaluations and especially if those relate to a neighboring state,” said the leader...
Russia’s fault
March 12, 2009
President of Georgia Mikhail Sahakashvili participated in the opening ceremony of Copala hotel of Tamaz Copeliashvili on March 7 in Tskneti and announced that Armenia is in deep crisis because of being strongly dependent from Russia’s market. “When the Russian market collapsed, the Armenian market was faced with the same problem,” said Sahakashvili. The president of Georgia assures that the economies of the neighboring countries are in bad situation but Georgia will stay stable. “Georgia will stay stable, Georgia will be saved even during the hardest times, if we have political stability,” said Sahakashvili and pledged that the primary goal of the Georgian government is preventing the economy from collapsing. ...
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