Tuesday 23 December 2014

Armenian News


CNN about Armenia - Video
20 Dec 2014


Today the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia
posted in its Fаcebook page CNN's `On The Road' program telling about
Armenia. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb8LnwBzYJE


lragir.am
SENSATIONAL STATEMENT BY BELARUS DEPUTY MINISTER
19 December 2014, 15:18

Introducing the agreement on the membership of Armenia to the
Eurasian Economic Union, the deputy foreign minister of Belarus
Alexander Mikhnevich announced that after the membership of Armenia
Nagorno-Karabakh will not be part of the Union.

"We were concerned that the territories which are not part of Armenia
could appear within the Customs Union. The Armenian side understood
this requirement, this provision. There was a note attached to
the agreement that Nagorno-Karabakh is not part of the Republic of
Armenia. There was an official oral announcement by Armenia," he said.


arminfo.am
Expert: In 2015 the situation over Nagorno-Karabakh will not be better
than in 2014
by David Stepanyan
December 20, 12:32


In 2015 the situation over Nagorno-Karabakh will not be better than in
2014, Tom de Waal, a senior associate in the Russia and Eurasia
Program at the Carnegie Endowment, told ArmInfo on Saturday.

According to the expert, this year's tension was a logical result of
the parties' last years' efforts to militarize their contact line.

The Azerbaijani authorities, according to de Waal, deem it necessary
to remind the world from time to time that some of their territories
are occupied, and they do it by breaking the cease-fire regime and
causing certain instability. In their turn, the Armenians see it
proper to demonstrate their military strength to the enemy.

All this, according to the expert, is bad for the cease-fire regime
and the peace talks, especially as this is happening amid the
geopolitical crisis in Ukraine.

According to de Wall, the Minsk Group is on its last legs, so, the
best the parties can hope for in near future is periodic meetings of
the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents - something that has little to
do with real peace talks.


arka.am
Access to education expanded in Armenia in 2014 - minister


YEREVAN, December 20. 2014 became a year of expanding access
to education in Armenia, minister of education and science Armen
Ashotyan said at a 2014 summarizing press conference on Saturday.


 New educational initiatives were launched in the country during the
year, he said.

Five priority educational programs included a student support project
that provided social aid from the government to about 2,000 Armenian
students.

Under the second program, $3.2 million was provided to some ten
Armenian higher schools to introduce innovative and competitive
curricula.

The third program has been really a pioneering one and aimed at
introduction of a new general education curriculum, the minister said.

In May Armenia's parliament passed, in the first reading, the
amendments to the law about education that sets the 12-year education
as a requirement, as compared to the current 9-year compulsory
education.

The new law about general education has been another step toward full
transfer to inclusive education, according to the minister. Under the
law passed in September, all secondary schools and kindergartens in
the country will be providing inclusive education services.

And the last achievement was the nineteen medals won by Armenian
schoolchildren in international Olympiads, the minister said.

Ashotyan also said the introduction of "Chess" study groups in
secondary schools has been completed.

The number of inclusive schools in the country increased to 139 this
year, the minister said. -


armenpress.am
More than 110 Armenian children were born in Aleppo this year
20 December, 2014


YEREVAN, 20 DECEMBER, ARMENPRESS. Ahead of the New Year,
representatives of the Armenian community of Aleppo gathered and
celebrated the New Year. At the vestibule of the St. Mary Church,
leader of the Armenian Diocese of Aleppo, His Grace, Archbishop Shahan
Sarkisian congratulated the 110 Armenian children born in Aleppo this
year and their parents by giving them special gifts, as Gandzasar
Weekly of Aleppo reports to "ArmenPress", His Holiness emphasized that
they will overcome the difficulties facing the country by joining
hands and supporting each other.


asbarez.com
YEREVAN PHYSICS INSTITUTE INAUGURATES NEW CYCLOTRON

YEREVAN--The Alikhanyan National Laboratory in Yerevan (Yerevan Physics
Institute) will soon take delivery of a new 18 MeV (million electron
volt) cyclotron for a modern diagnostic center funded by the Armenian
government. The cyclotron is purchased from a Belgian Company (IBA)
and the plan is to start installation of the new 18 MeV cyclotron in
January of 2015. The cyclotron will be placed in a newly constructed,
specially designed building on the grounds of the laboratory. The
new cyclotron, the Cyclone 18, is one of the most modern cyclotrons
produced today in the world. The cyclotron will produce negative
proton beams of 18 MeV and deuteron beams of up to 10 MeV energies.

The new cyclotron, in addition to providing short-lived radioactive
isotopes for positron-electron tomography, will also be used to expand
the capability of the Yerevan Physics Institute in nuclear physics
research and the applications of nuclear science to society. The
science questions explored at Yerevan Physics Institute will range
from studying the stellar nuclear reactions which are essential to
the formation of the solar system and to understanding the conditions
responsible for life on earth, as well as applying the techniques
and tools of nuclear science towards understanding early human
development. This science is also applicable to environmental science
and the dating of art and archeological artifacts. This will expand the
capabilities of Armenia in medical treatment and diagnostic techniques.

The accelerator building

This type of cyclotron is being implemented worldwide to produce
radio-isotopes for hospitals and research centers all over the world.

The production of radio-isotopes in Yerevan will provide services
that presently do not exist to patients in Armenia and potentially
provide sales to neighboring countries. The cyclotron will place
Armenia amongst a select list of the world's countries with their own
production of radio-isotopes that can be used in medical diagnostics
and therapy. The cyclotrons are also very versatile and can be used to
carry out basic nuclear research. Some recent proposals by scientists
at the Yerevan Physics Institute, and approved by the Ministry of
Science and Education, include using the proton beams to study the
"Hoyle" state, which is the resonance state that captures an alpha
particle to make Oxygen and hence facilitated the origin of life
in our cosmos. The state was discovered more than 50 years ago, but
remains a challenge in physics worldwide. Scientists at the Institute
propose to measure the decay of the Hoyle state.

Another example of the kind of research that can be done at the
Institute with the new C-18 Cyclotron is the conversion of the proton
beam into a neutron beam for use for a broad class of studies and
experiments. Neutrons are fundamental particles that make up the
atomic nucleus along with protons. The properties of neutrons such
as their charge neutrality makes them ideal probes to peer inside
all types of matter, including properties of nuclei and various
types of dense matter. Wavelengths of neutron are about the same as
the distances between atoms making them an ideal tool to the study
of engineering of materials, as well as biological, chemical, and
physical systems. Neutrons and the likelihood of various materials
to absorb neutrons (cross-sections) are important to answering a
broad range of open questions from astrophysics, nuclear physics,
and material science. The production of a neutron beam at the Yerevan
Physics Institute will be an important experimental tool for the
country of Armenia. Other societal applications of Nuclear Physics
include energy, climate physics, physics of art, and archeology. 


ecolur.am
Dilijan Forests Kept on Being Fell Down and Fell Down
18 December 18, 2014


From 2 to 16 December the security employees of 'Dilijan' National
Park SNCO detected and drew up 7 acts of forest violations - illegally
cutting 29 trees and 2 cum firewood. The acts of the forest violations
were sent to the Tavush Territorial Division of State Environmental
Inspection of Nature Protection Ministry to estimate the damage caused
to nature and forest.


STORIES OF ARMENIAN SURVIVORS OF 1915 COMPILED IN 
NEW BOOK
Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
Dec 19 2014
ISTANBUL


The stories of Armenians who survived the mass killings of the late
Ottoman era have been gathered in a book titled "100 years... Real
Stories."

The 47 stories inside the book - which were collected as part
of the "Turk Who Saved Me" project supported by the U.K. Foreign
and Commonwealth Office 
and realized by the Armenia-based Armedia
Agency and the European Integration Non-Governmental Organization -
are presented in the words of the survivors with minimal editing,
bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos has reported.

The book has been translated into Armenian, English and Turkish,
and will be distributed free of charge as part of the project.

Lilit Gasparyan, who translated the book into Turkish, said they
had selected 47 stories for publication but received many more after
initially calling for contributions.

"We deliver the verified, real stories of the people who survived the
genocide thanks to the efforts of their Turkish neighbors, friends
or ordinary Turks," said Gasparyan.

Journalist Aris Nalcı, who coordinated the project, said similar
projects also needed to be conducted in Turkey.

The year 2015 marks the centenary of the 1915 Ottoman Armenian mass
killings during World War I. While Armenia and some countries legally
refer to the incidents as "genocide," the Turkish state does not
accept the term and says the issue should be reviewed from a wider
perspective.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' police overview, published on its
website, states that Turkey "does not deny the suffering of Armenians,
including the loss of many innocent lives, during the First World War.

However, a greater numbers of Turks died or were killed in the
years leading up to and during the War. Without belittling the
tragic consequences for any group, Turkey objects to the one-sided
presentation of this tragedy as genocide by one group against another."

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