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Currently Turkey vigorously destroys monuments of Armenian architecture or, what makes it worse, appropriates them.

09.03.2010 GMT+04:00

Even the “hottest” news lasts no more than three days. Elections in Iraq, accompanied by explosions, wiped out from the headlines of world media Resolution 252 on the Armenian Genocide. As always, Armenians found themselves caught up in captivity of false ‘truths’ and illusions. Sometimes it even seems that all the “theoretical bases” for the legitimacy of claims of the Armenian people on certain territories are made up for two basic reasons. The first reason, unfortunately, is self-advertisement of the author of just another unreal idea. The second reason is further leaving in dark the Armenian people about the possible normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations. Both of them are a crime against a nation...

Internal political review, February 27 - March 6, 2010.

06.03.2010 GMT+04:00

Last week, the internal political life in Armenia has been very active. On March 1, Monday, the Armenian National Congress (ANC) coordinator Levon Zurabyan addressing a rally in Yerevan on behalf of ANC voiced six steps to get out of the ‘March crisis’. According to Levon Zurabyan , those steps should be implemented before the next meeting of the PACE Monitoring Committee. "First of all, it is necessary to release all political prisoners, the second, to recover until April an independent body investigating killings on March 1 and 2. Third, to review the law on holding rallies and marches in April and re-shape it. The fourth, to open the A1 + TV station by May, the fifth, to reform the Armenia’s electoral code by late May and the seventh – to hold early parliamentary and presidential elections between June and September, " Levon Zurabyan said. The Congress will present these issues to the Council of Europe representatives on March 16 in Armenia...

Turkey is well conscious of all the negative consequences that may arise in case any resolution on the Armenian Genocide, adopted by the U.S. Congress becomes a law.

05.03.2010 GMT+04:00

Voting in the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs is now over. As expected, the Resolution is approved, Diaspora is more or less satisfied, political analysts and experts have spoken on the subject. Whether it will come to voting in the House or not depends on the further behavior of Turkey. If Ankara is able to strike an attitude and turn the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq into a big problem, U.S. administration will immediately retrace its steps. On the other hand, the assumption that Turkey would gamble on the air base Incirlik was justified even without the resolution. If you add to this also the "threat" to freeze normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, it becomes clear that Ankara goes for broke, realizing that every year the imputation of genocide is going to become more evident...

February 22-28: main cultural events of the week.

05.03.2010 GMT+04:00

The Sergei Paradjanov Festival in London and Bristol was opened with Yuri Mechitov’s photographic exhibition at the National Theatre Monday, February 22. The exhibition was composed of rarely seen photographs taken by Georgian photographer Yuri Mechitov during his 11 year friendship with the director. The Sergei Paradjanov Festival in London and Bristol was the first major celebration of the legendary artist and filmmaker whose talent transcends religious and political boarders, drawing on the cultural traditions of Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine and Russia. The Festival aimed to present the life and works of Sergei Paradjanov to UK audiences through a series of diverse events that include: a film season; a moving image installation; a symposium and a workshop at the BFI Southbank; a photographic exhibition at the National Theatre; screenings and talks at Pushkin House; a concert at St. Yeghiche Armenian Church; a film retrospective at Arnolfini (Bristol); and a photographic exhibition at The Bristol Gallery...

The ballyhoo used in the American and Turkish press aims to prepare Armenia for the inevitable.

02.03.2010 GMT+04:00

It has become a tradition for Turkey to begin a fight against United States’ recognition of the Armenian Genocide every year before April 24. She may succeed this time too, taking into consideration the fact that existence of the Turkish state depends on recognition or non-recognition of the Armenian Genocide. However, voting in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will not change anything, like it was in 2007...

Review of telecommunications and information technogy events from February 20 to 27.

02.03.2010 GMT+04:00

The government announced plans to connect most of Armenia’s general and secondary schools to the internet and join them into a unified network by 2011. The director of National Center for Educational Technologies Areg Grigoryan said 624 schools are already connected to the world wide web with plans pending to connect 750 more schools to the internet once work on building the dedicated network is completed as part of a World Bank funded project...

Children die in Armenia due to shortage of money for the treatment.

28.02.2010 GMT+04:00

February 15 is International Childhood Cancer Day. New cases of cancer in Armenia account for 7000 annually, including about 100 children under 15. The figure is terrifying, although they don’t differ much from the world statistics. Cancer is a very insidious disease without marked initial symptoms. In most cases, the latent period of the disease is durable and it can hardly be detected in the initial stage...

Review of February 18-25 sports events.

28.02.2010 GMT+04:00

Freestyle Wrestling: Armenia's Ruslan Basiev (w/c 120) and Mihran Jaburyan (w/c 55 kg) won silver at the 2010 Takhti Cup freestyle wrestling tournament which ended in Isfahan (Iran) on February 19. Zhirayr Hovhannisyan (w/c 66) and Edgar Yenokyan (w/c 96) won bronze. Armenian freestyle wrestling coach Araik Baghdadyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter that he is satisfied with the performance of his sportsmen...

February 15-22: main cultural events

27.02.2010 GMT+04:00

Armenian entry for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest was selected in a national final Sunday, February 14. The winner, Eva Rivas, was picked by a combined vote of the TV public (SMS voting) and an expert jury...

Home policy review for 22-28 February 2010

27.02.2010 GMT+04:00

Monday, February 22, Armenian Parliament postponed discussion of the Armenian-Turkish Protocols. The formal reason for postponement was the request of Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly Armen Rustamyan, who claimed the commission had not yet prepared a conclusion on the Protocols...