2019 April 24
Anti-Corruption Daily
Anti-Corruption Apr/24/2019: Colorado recognizes Karabakh independence............ Armenian Genocide........... Genocide organizer's grandson expresses condolences......... Panama Paper suspects is seeking asylum in Russia......... other stories
by ar_david_hh
Disclaimer: All the accused are innocent until proven guilty by the court of law, even if they may sound as being guilty. Currency in Armenian Drams unless specified otherwise.
Update: Panama Paper suspect and former MP Mihran Poghosyan was earlier arrested in Russia at the request of Armenian prosecutors. The court agreed to detain him for 40 days.
He is now seeking asylum in Russia. The Kremlin-reporting institution will discuss his asylum request.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/159845
The US state of Colorado becomes the 9th state to recognize the Artsakh Republic. The legislative unanimously voted for the resolution, which also condemned the cultural atrocities of Armenian cross-stones in Jugha by the Azeri mobs, and commemorated the Armenian Genocide.
http://yerkirmedia.am/1political/kolorado-arcaxi-ankaxutyun/ ---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esaU7anITG4
http://asbarez.com/179521/colorado-senate-recognizes-artsakh-commemorates-armenian-genocide/ ----- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zREzuq4YcU
Update: The North-South highway project participants were busted last year with a massive multi-dozen billion embezzlement. Over 50 companies and public officials are currently being investigated. The investigators are auditing the project works from the beginning.
https://hetq.am/hy/article/103094
On this գյոզալ օրով. Who are you to utter his name 2.0
"Ինքը շատ փոքր մարդ ա, թող գնա լրագրությամբ զբաղվի."
BHK chief Gagik Tsarukyan says QP MP Hayk Sargsyan is a little man and should go back to doing journalism, after the MP criticized BHK and said the party should either do politics or business. Tsarukyan later softened his tone, saying one can be good at journalism but bad at economy.
Context: QP MP is unhappy that BHK party was using its Parliamentary powers to lobby for cement tariffs which would benefit BHK chief Tsarukyan. The latter says the tariffs are beneficial for local business and workers.
Video https://factor.am/144633.html
The first batch of four SU-30SM Russian fighter jets will arrive on early 2020, said Defense Minister Tonoyan. They will purchase more afterwards.
Earlier, Russia announced that they'll replace their MiG jets with 18 SU-30SM jets in the military base located in Armenia. It is unclear whether the ownership of some of these jets will be transferred to the Armenian army, or it'll be a separate shipment.
Turkish Foreign Ministry denies the rumors that Russian S-400 defense systems, purchased by Turkey, will be [temporarily] sent to Azerbaijan. The rumors begun when a Turkish political analyst expressed a hope that they would be sent to Azerbaijan.
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
Hassan Jamal, the grandson of Jamal Pasha who was one of the organizers of the Armenian genocide, wrote a tribute Tweet remembering late Armenian writer Hrant Dink, and expressed sorrow for the genocide.
"Սիրելի Հրանտ, գիտեմ որ շատ հեռուներում ես, բայց կրկին կիսում եմ ապրիլի 24-ի ցեղասպանության ցավը"
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/159827
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Turkish president Erdogan has condemned the countries which recognized the genocide, calling them perpetrators of historical atrocities, and denied the 1915 events being a genocide.
He also welcomed the deportations of Armenian civilians, saying it was necessary to protect ethnic Turks.
He send a letter to Armenian church in Turkey, expressing condolences "for the Armenian victims of the world war."
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/159824 --- http://panarmenian.net/m/arm/news/268072
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A member of Turkish İyi party said there was no genocide, but that doesn't mean there can't be one in future. When later confronted about the threats, he apologized to the Armenians living in Turkey and said he was only referring to "Dashnaks living in Armenia".
http://panarmenian.net/m/arm/news/268063
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108 year old Genocide survivor Yepraqsya Gevorgyan went to Tsitsernakaberd to lay flowers. She and her family escaped from Kars to Oshakan. Her story is in article...
Her grandkid took her to Tsitsernakaberd to lay flowers.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/972489.html ----- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTi5kLFNqhY
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Mayor Marutyan met 108 year old Andranik Matevosyan and 111 year old Mari Kirakosyan, survivors of the genocide. Andranik has 77 grand and great-grand kids. http://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/159849 --- https://armtimes.com/hy/article/159815
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Video of the 111 year old survivor recalling the events
https://www.facebook.com/Yerevanofficial/videos/313847085958769/
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PM Pashinyan condemned the genocide of Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians, calling it a crime against the humanity which changed the cultural face of the region.
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One of Paris suburb cities renamed a public square after Charles Aznavour and installed a cross-stone. The city administration and prominent Armenian figures like Youri Djorkaeff were present.
Aznavour's son Nikola laid flowers in Tsitsernakaberd.
Today France marks the Armenian Genocide remembrance day, for the first time, since it was signed into law very recently by president Macron. For the first time, Prime Minister Eduard Philip will commemorate it in Paris on front of Komitas statue.
https://hetq.am/hy/article/103104 ---- https://hetq.am/hy/article/103098
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Turkish authorities have shut down a Genocide remembrance march planned in Istanbul. They allowed people to walk silently, but no posters or press conference were allowed (press interviews partially succeeded with disruptions). The organizers of the march, including several European Union and French politicians, were upset over the censorship.
The ban was placed not by the newly elected CHP mayor of the city, but by federal authorities, says Turkish-Armenian MP Garo Paylan.
European MP said the human rights situation is rapidly worsening in Turkey, and that Europe should place sanctions. He urged the Turkish government to face the reality and accept its history.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/159819
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Garo Paylan has proposed a bill in Turkish Parliament to investigate, find and properly bury the remains of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals, who were among the first victims on April 24th 1915.
http://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/159859 ---- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Armenian_intellectuals_on_24_April_1915
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Garo Paylan's HDP party has released a statement recognizing the 1915 events as an organized genocide, and expressed condolences. "1915թ. ապրիլի 24-ին սկսված Մեծ եղեռնից, որը այլ բան չէր, քան ծրագրված ցեղասպանություն էթնիկ և կրոնական հողի վրա...". HDP condemned Erdogan's policies of continuing to suppress the minorities.
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Garo Paylan has cursed the perpetrators of the Armenian genocide on Facebook. He paid respects to the Turkish politicians, such as Kutahya governor Faik Ali Ozansoy, who refused to implement Turkish authorities' request to "deport" the Armenian population. Ozansoy was later summoned to Istanbul for explanation.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/159833 --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faik_Ali_Ozansoy
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European Democratic Party leader J. Dole has condemned the genocide and offered prayers for Armenians.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/972482.html
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Canada PM Justin T. statement: https://armtimes.com/hy/article/159841
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Instagram has censored a genocide remembrance and condemnation photo posted by Armenian-Russian producer Sarik Andreasyan.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/159840
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Donald Trump: “Today, we commemorate the Meds Yeghern and honor the memory of those who suffered in one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century. Beginning in 1915, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in the final years of the Ottoman Empire.".... "We stand by Armenian people"....
He used the term Mets Yeghern as in previous years, but not "genocide", for political reasons. On 1981, president Ronald Reagan used the term genocide. He did so after being asked by Kenneth Khachikian, who was a White House staff member and genocide survivor's son.
https://armtimes.com/hy/article/159839 --- https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article229622634.html --- https://www.amerikayidzayn.com/a/4888927.html
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Arsenal ⚽ player Henrikh Mkhitaryan has thanked all the nations who have recognized the Armenian genocide.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/972473.html
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Kardashyan sisters will "Never Forget"
http://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/159881 --- https://armtimes.com/hy/article/159870
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Armenian community in Georgia protests in front of Turkish embassy, asking for genocide recognition. https://armtimes.com/hy/article/159836
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Amsterdam and 2 other Dutch cities held a genocide commemoration event. MPs were also present.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/972506.html
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Bairut and Ukrainian Armenians commemorate the genocide.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/972495.html ---- https://armenpress.am/arm/news/972511.html
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Israeli MPs from two non-ruling parties, including the leader of Yesh Atid party, have called for the Parliament to officially recognize the Armenian genocide and not cave to Turkish pressures anymore. They plan to introduce a bill for a vote.
https://armenpress.am/arm/news/972496.html
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Foreign Policy contributor Yossi Melman:" Israel’s Refusal to Recognize the Armenian Genocide Is Indefensible"
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The Armenian population's defense battles in Van, Mush, Sasun and other cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z361OUt4nqE
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Armenians in Ottoman Turkey defied Sultan's ban on sports and continued to develop it (before the genocide). They became the first ones to publish a sports-related daily newspaper, and represented Ottoman Empire in international sports events and Olympics.
Stories and photos: http://www.armtimes.com/hy/article/159863
Link to original report: https://www.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/bgz113/anticorruption_apr242019_colorado_recognizes/
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