Harut

ser@ sut a, sexov zbaghvi...

i dont' understand what's so great about tamzara... i never liked it... it's one of the most boring dances that armenians perform... i've yet to see a tamzara performance which has soul and passion it... plus, "if there is a dance that's synonimus to armenian dance, that's tamzara"??? i REALLY don't think so...

i don't know if this has been posted before... this is the "reply" i received to my e-mail to jane harman... Thank you for contacting me about H. Res. 106, the Armenian Genocide Resolution. Please find below the letter I sent to the Chairman Tom Lantos and Ranking Member Illeana Ros-Lehtinen of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, explaining my decision to oppose the resolution. October 3, 2007 Dear Chairman Lantos and Ranking Member Ros-Lehtinen: I write to urge you to reconsider your decision to mark-up H. Res. 106, the Affirmation of the United States Record on the Armenian Genocide Resolution. My father was a refugee to the United States from Nazi Germany. I understand the consequences of ethnic and racial persecution, and am committed to fighting and condemning acts of genocide wherever they occur. That is why I agreed to cosponsor H. Res. 106. I am convinced that a terrible crime was committed against the Armenian people. That crime should be recognized and condemned. However, following a visit to Turkey earlier this year that included meetings with Prime Minister Erdogan, the Armenian Orthodox Patriarch and colleagues of murdered journalist Hrant Dink, I have great concern that this is the wrong time for Congress to consider this measure. Due to my security focus in the House, I have made 18 trips to the Middle East region over the past 14 years and am persuaded that Turkey plays a critically important role in moderating extremist forces there. Given the nature of the threat, I believe it is imperative to nurture that role – however valid from the historical perspective, we should avoid taking steps that would embarrass or isolate the Turkish leadership. Modern Turkey is a moderate Islamist state that recently elected a new government and Parliament, and has begun to reevaluate many of its policies and practices. Indeed, just yesterday, the new Turkish Foreign Minister met with his Armenian counterpart to discuss, among other things, normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia. I understand and sympathize with the sentiments expressed by H. Res. 106. However, in my view, the passage of the resolution at this time would be destabilizing not only to Armenian–Turkish relations but also to our efforts to create stability in the greater Middle East. I urge you to delay the markup and I continue to hope that no vote will occur. But should it occur, I will oppose the resolution.

i'm glad no one got beheaded...

european team chess championships 2007 final results men Rk. SNo Team Team Games + = - TB1 TB2 TB3 1 1 RUSSIA RUS 9 8 1 0 17 25,0 180,5 2 4 ARMENIA ARM 9 6 2 1 14 21,5 175,0 3 3 AZERBAIJAN AZE 9 6 1 2 13 20,5 183,5 women Rk. SNo Team Team Games + = - TB1 TB2 TB3 1 1 RUSSIA RUS 9 6 3 0 15 25,0 184,5 2 6 POLAND POL 9 5 3 1 13 23,5 179,5 3 10 ARMENIA ARM 9 5 3 1 13 21,0 176,0 silver medal for men, bronze medal for women

no

es mark@ 10 tari arraj mi hat debil ban a hnarel, um brrntsnum a, het@ yergatsnum a...

ara hayi boz@ mi urish boz a eli...

why don't you move to armenia?

skzbits gretsi, heto mtatsetsi kneghanas, jnjetsi...

payqani imast@ ay che, vor mahanas qo hayreniqi hamar, ayl tshnamid mahana ir hayreniqi hamar... aysinqn, chdarrnas zohvats azatamartik, ayl zohes tshnamud yev tanes fizikakan haghtanak... aysinqn, chenq gnum paterazm zohvelu npatakov, aly spanelu, yev haghtanakats veradarrnalu...

so... LTP is now officially a condidate for presidancy in 2008... i don't necessarily disagree with his idealogy or vision, but have a couple of points to make... 1. it is constitutionally illegal for him to become president... (i think i could stop here and not go on with other points as we cannot circumvent this point and nothing justifies illegality, but still...) 2. someone who states in his resignation speech in front of his people that he is resigning against his will under "certain" pressures is not a president material... what other pressures is he going to give in next?

"the point is not to die for your country, but to make the one in front of you die for his..." -chem hishum

it says at the end of the article on the 2nd page: "Bruce Fein is a resident scholar with the Turkish Coalition of America"

Armenia 0 - 0 Serbia ...

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_dai...how/index.jhtml click on "This Armenian Strife" on 10/11/2007

Aqua dancing: Square’s fountains return with an even more graceful dance By Suren Deheryan ArmeniaNow reporter The dancing fountains have re-opened to rave reviews. For the past two weeks Yerevan’s Republic Square has been crowded nightly with families and tourists gathered to watch water. After a long lay-off for repairs, the Dancing Fountains returned on Independence Day, September 21, with two hours worth of splashes and sprays and spouts accompanied by colored lights and the music of Armenian and European classical and pop music. Yerevantsis enjoy the play of spray According to Frunz Basentsyan, head of the municipality’s urban improvements and utilities department, this combination of water, light and sound is achieved through 87 pumps installed in the pool in front of the National Gallery. The “peacock’s fan tail” effect on the water is achieved through two cylinders installed in the center of the pool and special monitors placed atop them to carry various visual pictures. The repairs were carried out jointly by the “Gohar” building company and the French Aqua Show organization. The mayor’s office had allocated 129 million drams (or some $370,000 at that time) for the work. City officials say the Armenian side had completely changed the tiles and the pipe system of the pool, leaving the external look unchanged, while the French installed the color-and-sound systems. The Aqua Show company built fountains on the same technologies in a number of countries, with all of them different from each other. In Yerevan it was projected with the features of Republic Square taken into consideration. This fountain complex, which is part and parcel of the main square’s architectural ensemble and was built still in 1939 according to the design of architect Alexander Tamanyan, was last repaired 21 years ago. The dancing fountains remind elder Yerevantsis of the 1970s. In the 1970s, a group of Armenian engineers led by Professor Abraham Abrahamyan turned the square’s fountains into a light and music show, which was the only such fountain complex in the whole Soviet Union and was considered a real miracle of the combination of light, water and sound. Fascinated by this wonder, members of the Central Committee of Armenia’s Communist Party in 1978 awarded a state prize in the field of science and engineering to the creative group that worked on the project. The fountain does its magic each night except Monday, from 9-11 p.m. until the soon-approaching cold weather closes the show for the season. http://www.armenianow.com/?action=viewArti...ef0617a81378fdb

the tickets at ticketmaster are much chipper... http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/09003EED...p;minorcatid=52

http://hyeforum.com/index.php?s=&showt...st&p=178353

why?

thanks... actually that's what i meant...

i didnt' understand what you mean... see my point 4... as you mention, there was too much death around tumanian, and that could've been the main insiration for him... although, this particular poem was written in 1894, when the times were not as bloody yet... however, i don't recall tumanian writing too much about death... and if you analyse this particular poem, you can see that he is not really embrasing or accepting death... in fact, i see the opposite... i see a lot of remorse and fright in it... i see a lot of regret that one day too soon he will die without having expressed all the things he wanted to say... on the other hand, see my point 5... maybe he wrote it just for the heck of it... he was talanted writer.... he could write about anything and everything he wished... and on that particular day he wished for death... who knows what goes on in the minds of freaky poets... it's a spinning circle... it doesn't matter which side you approach it... it sucks you in...

The Presidential Plot Thickens: LTP makes first public overtures at return to politics By Gayane Mkrtchyan ArmeniaNow reporter The moment Armenia’s ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosyan broke his decade-long silence at Marriott Hotel in Yerevan during an event dedicated to the 16th anniversary of Armenia’s Independence, his speech has become a subject for discussions and debates within political circles. Ter-Petrosyan did not state his certain participation in next year’s presidential election, but instead he said that he would welcome anyone who would purport to become the single candidate and who would manage to rally all forces around himself. “As for me, I’d say: today I am still studying, I am still weighing it up, I am still discussing. My approach is purely political. I cannot be guided by emotions. Adventurism is alien to my character. Unless I know how effective my future steps will prove, I won’t make a step,” Ter-Petrosyan said. The first president’s once-in-a-decade speech provoked his opponents to rake up the past Nevertheless, it was enough for discussions to become hotter for those who are awaiting the first president’s nomination and for those who also oppose such a move. Talking to the media, President Robert Kocharyan said that he has not ever said anything about the first president for ten years. “I think that the first president should be in some circumstances connected with the establishment of our statehood with certain solemnity. If the first president enters a political struggle, then he will become an ordinary opposition figure, and we will have to remind him of many things. For example how many streets were lit in Yerevan in 1993, etc.,” Kocharyan said. Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF-Dashnaktsutyun) Bureau member, Deputy Parliament Speaker Vahan Hovhannisyan says that the presidential election will be more ideological if Ter-Petrosyan is nominated and from being tactical the election will turn into a strategic one. But, anyway, Hovhannisyan did not like the circumstance that the first president spoke only about negative phenomena in the country turning a blind eye on the positive things. Ter-Petrosyan said in his speech: “Today, we are standing at the fork, facing a big dilemma. We have two paths ahead of us. The first is to preserve what exists today, that is a corrupt, criminal regime from top to bottom of the state, or more precisely of the authorities, whose relations are settled not by laws, but by the rules of the underworld. “It’s a totally Mafiosi regime structured to the last nuance which has relegated us to similar regimes of the third world.” According to the first president, the existence of such authorities does not promise that the country can ever get out of this condition. He sees a solution to the problem today in dismantling the system, getting rid of the system. In response to Ter-Petrosyan’s criticism, Robert Kocharyan said that from the previous administration he had inherited a $300 million budget in its expenditure pattern and about a $40 million budget gap. “Next year’s budget in Armenia will be about $2.5 billion. This means that the country’s budget will have increased eight times. A person has to isolate himself so much in order not to see these successes,” Kocharyan said. Secretary of the Heritage faction in parliament, political analyst Stepan Safaryan thinks that Kocharyan’s response to Ter-Petrosyan’s speech was improper and not becoming of the president. “Despite their differences, that response was not becoming of the country’s president. It was cutting and cheap. An outgoing president should have particularly welcomed his predecessor. Cowardice is not becoming of the authorities. Meanwhile, Ter-Petrosyan’s speech obviously and noticeably stirred turmoil in the pro-government wing of the political field,” Safaryan says. Responding to Ter-Petrosyan’s estimations of the current authorities and their system, the leader of the National-Democratic Union (NDU), Vazgen Manukyan, says: “Speaking of that, he must remember that the very same accusations were made against him as well during his time as president. Consequently, he could not construct his speech as if he is a newcomer and sees and criticizes all that. He should have given explanations why it was like that during his time, what was his share of responsibility in that, whether it was possible to do it differently back then.” National-Democratic Bloc Party Chairman Arshak Sadoyan says that Ter-Petrosyan considers only the efficiency of his entry to politics, that is about his security. “As to how easily he [Ter-Petrosyan] will again be on the top. Under these conditions it sounds like a scorn. It’s like – I don’t care about what happens to the country, if it involves risks for me, why should I join in the game?” Sadoyan says. Safaryan says that he considers Ter-Petrosyan’s speech, which also contained a political assessment, to be a civilized return to major politics. “The first president enjoys great prestige, experience of many years. With his entry to politics he will make the election struggle hotter. However, I should also say that with his speech Levon Ter-Petrosyan also left room for a step back,” Safaryan says. And the NDU leader says that regardless of his opinion of Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s political activities, he welcomes his return to politics. “I have always called for his return to politics,” Manukyan says. In his speech, Ter-Petrosyan mentioned a Karabakh problem settlement as a paramount issue for the country, but stopped short of suggesting an option for solving the problem. “The biggest offense of the current authorities is in here. The settlement of this problem has reached a hopeless state during these ten years,” he said. Dashnaktsutyun’s Vahan Hovhannisyan was astonished by the first president’s failure to offer any solution in connection with this problem. “A question arises in this case: with what new things is he coming back, what is he coming to do?” Hovhannisyan says. Member of parliament Victor Dallakyan says regarding Ter-Petrosyan’s strong-worded assessments and his position on the atmosphere created in the country: “It is logical that Levon Ter-Petrosyan should be nominated. But it is his problem, and he stated that he doesn’t have a decision yet. I think that Levon Ter-Petrosyan can pick himself up and form a pole of right-wing liberal forces.” According to Dallakyan, the nominations of the republic’s first president and a candidate from Dashnaktsutyun will make the election struggle interesting in terms of ideology and programs. At the end of his speech Levon Ter-Petrosyan once again mentioned that he doesn’t have a decision yet, and when he makes up his mind, he is convinced that he will be able to give his convincing explanations to the public. During his official visit to Moscow early this week, Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan, responding to media questions, announced his possible participation in next year’s presidential election. Speaking of the possible single candidate from the opposition, he said: “I am little interested in them and to be frank we will not invent any new thing, we will continue the policy that we started during the parliamentary elections, we will work in the name of something and not against someone. The success of the Republican Party in the parliamentary elections does not mean that competition for the leaders of other political parties will become pointless.” http://www.armenianow.com/?action=viewArti...ng&IID=1153

"avlem tapem poshin avlem tapem poshin gisherner@, yaro jan xlvlam qo doshin..."

i think there are different reasons why people write about death... 1. it is known that most writers, unless a commercial writer, are hopeless losers or mentally instable people, especially poets... so, it is just natual that they are looking for a way out, a solution... and death is the easest way out from the apperent misery... 2. poets like to be unique, different from others, from ordinary people... as discussed here before by nairi, a lot of them compare themselves with god... they like to think of themselves as above the rest... so, it is just natural that they talk/write about things that are not so common with the rest of the people, that are taboo... they just like to prove that they are different, that they can tackle questions that ordinary people can't... plus, the god syndrome makes them want to prove that they are above all, that they are not afraid of death, that they know things that others don't... 3. a lot of poets starve for recognition and attention... so, it is just natural that they write about controvertional and disturbing topics to attrack that so much wanted attention... 4. there are a lot of arenas of writing... some people write out of their imagination, some write about their daily reflections on life, etc. etc... but it every case writer's life experience has a great impact on his writing... and death is part of that life experience... and some people experience death a lot more than others... so, it is just natural that they at one point or another will have so much built-up inside about death that they will put it on paper... 5. it comes naturally to some people for an unexplanable reasons... as you see from above, it just natural that poets will write about death...