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Postby Armanen on Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:58 pm

Articles that are positive/patriotic, but don't fit anywhere else.


I WILL NEVER RETURN TO KARABAKH AS A TOURIST

KarabakhOpen
01-08-2007 10:10:19

Hayduk and Aida Shamlian met in the late 80s in Canada, in a meeting
devoted to Arstakh.

But this was not the reason for their "adoration" of Artsakh. For
three years now Hayduk and Aida sponsor the children's camp in Shushi.

They say they wait impatiently for the summer to arrive in
Shushi. "When I first came to Shushi, I was taken with the other
tourists to the sights, took part in interesting events held for
us. But when I saw the children living in half-ruined houses, I
decided never to come back here as a tourist. I returned to Canada,
and my husband and I worked out a project to set up a summer camp
here," Aida says.

This year thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Shamlian 150 children rested at the
Narekatsi cultural center of Shushi. Aida says the children played,
sang Armenian songs, danced Armenian dances and got emblems with
Mount Ararat and the Armenian flag.


CHILDREN FROM ARTSAKH WILL REST IN ATHENS

KarabakhOpen
21-08-2007 17:03:01

21 children from Karabakh aged 10 to 16 leave for Athens on August 23
for a fortnight. The head of the department of youth of the ministry
of education Marianna Hakobyan told Karabakh-Open.com children of
killed soldiers, including 12 from Stepanakert, will spend their
holiday in Athens.

The holiday is financed by Khachik Khachatryan, benefactor, citizen
of Athens, who supported this project all through its ten years
of existence.

Every year a group of teenagers rests in Athens in the framework of
this project. By the way, some more groups of children from Karabakh
are taken to Cyprus every year. Last year four groups of schoolchildren
left for Cyprus, this year only one group was sent.


CATHOLICOS OF ALL ARMENIANS RECEIVES GROUP OF ARGENTINA TAKING PART IN ALL ARMENIAN GAMES

Noyan Tapan
Aug 21, 2007

ETCHMIADZIN, AUGUST 20, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Supreme
Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II received the
group of Argentina on August 18, which has arrived in Armenia in
order to take part in the All Armenian Games with Armando Tiraturian
at the head.

According to the information provided to Noyan Tapan by the
Information Service of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, the
Supreme Patriarch attached importance to the role of All Armenian
Games in the strengthening of relations between the Diaspora and the
Homeland. According to His Holiness, this is a fine occasion for our
sons of the Diaspora to visit their homeland, become acquainted with
our national values and daily problems and be ready to make their
contribution in the development and strengthening of our homeland.
It's a custom of the human condition for the masses to remain ignorant. It's what they do. In fact, that IS how "the peace" is kept. Whatever democracy we have here is a spectator's sport.
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Postby Armanen on Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:03 am

ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVERED ANCIENT ARMENIAN FORTRESS IN TIGRANAKERT

KarabakhOpen
24-08-2007 18:06:40

Dr. Hamlet Petrosyan, the head of the expedition of the Institute of
Archeology and Ethnography, held a news conference on August 24 near
the ruins of the ancient Armenian town of Tigranakert discovered near
the village of Surenavan in the region of Martakert.

It became known that during the excavations the archeologists
discovered an ancient Armenian fortress. The digging of the wall of
the fortress and the church continue, the southern gate was cleared
of the layer of sand. A great number of exponents of ancient and
medieval culture were discovered.

"In exploring the site we discovered a new fortress. We think it was
also built under King Tigran but the study continues. We continue
digging the citadel, the fundament of the fortress, the terrace and
the church. We hope to get a full idea of the main compound by the
end of the excavations.

I also hope to find writings near the church. We found some
fragments but I cannot state yet they are Armenian lithographs,"
Hamlet Petrosyan said.

The archeologist said the excavations are impeded by financial
problems. He said unfortunately this year the Yerkir Union which
supports the excavations provided less funding. "Unfortunately, we
got no help from innumerable Armenian organizations and agencies,
not even the government of Armenia and the Academy of Sciences. Only
the government of Karabakh provided 3.5 million drams in July after
we turned to the prime minister. Meanwhile, the excavations finish but
we haven't got the money yet. Yesterday they promised to transfer the
money today, I hope they will. This is the first time the government
of Karabakh has helped us, I commend them," Hamlet Petrosyan said.

"In Azerbaijan they say this is political excavations. I want to state
officially this is not political excavations because the political
bodies pay no attention to us. This is an academic initiative. I
haven't noticed any politics on behalf of the government so far,"
the scientist said.

By the way, the excavations of Tigranakert started in 2005. In the
first year the location of the town was identified, afterwards in 2006
part of the wall of the citadel, the wall of one of the neighborhoods
and part of an early Christian basilica were discovered.

Hamlet Petrosyan is hopeful that the excavations will continue next
year and new buildings and objects will be discovered.
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Postby Armanen on Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:53 am

Washington Post
Aug 26 2007


War-torn region gets a lift from Armenian exiles

By Hasmik Mkrtchyan
Reuters
Sunday, August 26, 2007; 7:38 PM

STEPANAKERT, Azerbaijan (Reuters) - The unrecognized Caucasian
statelet of Nagorno-Karabakh, almost completely penned in by a
military and economic blockade, is enjoying an unlikely boom thanks
to the patriotism of Armenia's foreign diaspora.

Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave inside Azerbaijan with a majority ethnic
Armenian population, declared independence in 1991 as the Soviet
Union fell apart. It drove out Azerbaijan's troops in a war that
claimed 35,000 lives over six years.


Today, it runs its own affairs but has no international recognition.
Under blockade from Azerbaijan, with which it is still technically at
war, its only practical connection with the outside world is through
the Lachin Corridor -- a strip of a land with a single major road
linking it to Armenia.

But its situation has struck a chord with the millions of ethnic
Armenians in France, the United States and Australia, who feel it is
their vocation to help.

"I swore an oath to help my motherland and my conscience is clear
because I am doing my duty," said Jack Abolakian, a 74-year-old from
Australia, who first came to Nagorno-Karabakh seven years ago on a
four-day holiday with his wife.

He struggled to find anywhere to stay, and when he did, conditions
were primitive. He decided to open a hotel in the capital,
Stepanakert.

A few months later, the Hotel Nairi opened on the site of a
kindergarten destroyed in the war. With 46 rooms offering Internet
access and satellite television, and a tennis court, it provided a
level of luxury unheard of in Stepanakert.

Abolakian, who divides his time between Nagorno-Karabakh and his
construction firm in Australia, is now planning to build a housing
development in the city.

"We're happy with our business. If you compare it with the amount of
money we put in, it's a success," said Abolakian, who was born in
Syria after his family fled what is now Turkey.

BROADER STRUGGLE

But most of the investors who come to Nagorno-Karabakh are seeking
more than just financial gain.

The region has a powerful pull for the Armenian diaspora because many
see it as part of a broader struggle for survival by a tiny, ancient
Christian nation surrounded by Muslim neighbors.

Among those tying their lives to the region is Vardeks Anivyan, from
San Francisco, who has opened a dairy plant.

An entrepreneur from Russia has opened a wood processing factory
while Armond Tahmazyan, a 41-year-old ethnic Armenian born in Iran,
has set up a chain of gift shops.

Investors such as these have helped Nagorno-Karabakh notch up annual
economic growth averaging 15 percent in the past five years.

Because of its isolation and precarious legal status, the region of
about 140,000 people is unlikely to become a major business magnet in
the near future. It depends on an annual loan of about $60 million
from Armenia to stay afloat.

About 1.5 million Armenians were killed in Ottoman Turkey early last
century in what Armenians call a genocide, although Turkey rejects
the term.

Most of the Armenian diaspora around the world can trace their
origins to ancestors who fled the killings.

Many of them saw the war over Nagorno-Karabakh, known in Armenian as
"Artsakh," as a continuation of that conflict: an Armenian community
fighting for survival against Azeris, who have close linguistic and
cultural ties to the Turks.

Azerbaijan denies the region was historically Armenian. It says the
fighting drove out about a million Azeris from Nagorno-Karabakh and
surrounding districts. Many still live in refugee camps.

"Any actions by any companies or organizations on the territory of
Nagorno-Karabakh have no legal force," said Hazar Ibrahim, press
secretary in Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry.

"Their work in the occupied territories contradicts the norms and
principles both of international law and Azerbaijan's legislation."

That has not dissuaded diaspora Armenians. A handful of them fought
with the separatists in the war. Since a 1994 ceasefire, the region
has become a place of pilgrimage for Armenians from around the world.

A telethon last year in Los Angeles raised $13.7 million for
development and infrastructure projects in Nagorno-Karabakh from
communities across the United States and elsewhere.

Tahmazyan, the Iranian-Armenian businessman, moved to Stepanakert
eight years ago. Married to an Australian woman, he now runs the
successful Nreni chain of souvenir shops, and has no plans to leave:

"We are staying here ... God willing."
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Postby Armanen on Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:23 am

It's a custom of the human condition for the masses to remain ignorant. It's what they do. In fact, that IS how "the peace" is kept. Whatever democracy we have here is a spectator's sport.
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Postby Armanen on Sun Sep 09, 2007 12:24 am

It's a custom of the human condition for the masses to remain ignorant. It's what they do. In fact, that IS how "the peace" is kept. Whatever democracy we have here is a spectator's sport.
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