Playing with Water: A stage from Vardavar in Yerevan

BY CATHERINE YESAYAN

Asbarez writer Catherine Yesayan, who is a one of dual authors of a “Community Links” mainstay spent a summer in Armenia. Throughout her trip, she reported on a engaging places she visited and people she met along her journey. Yesayan had a event to knowledge dual normal Armenian holidays—Vardavar, a feast of water, and a Feast of a Virgin Mary, a blessing of a grapes—in Armenia. In this Year-End Special Issue we underline her initial palm practice of these events in Armenia.

An Escapade in Yerevan

Am we propitious or what? Last year while we was doing a investigate online for a mainstay about a “Water Feast,” an aged Armenian tradition of dousing any other with water, we found cinema taken in Yerevan display kids throwing buckets of water. we wished that one day we could be there in

Article source: http://asbarez.com/107375/experiencing-traditional-holidays-in-armenia/

PanARMENIAN.Net – Current leader, a conduct of a statute Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Serzh Sargsyan has a top ranking among presidential hopefuls, followed by Heritage personality Raffi Hovannisian, a conduct of Freedom Party Hrant Bagratyan and Union for National Self-Determination personality Paruyr Hayrikyan, Sociometer core executive said.

As Aharon Adibekyan told a Dec 29 news discussion in Yerevan, polls uncover that stream personality will benefit 72% during presidential polls, while 21% of votes will go to Hovannisian.

“Hovannisian is doubtful to win a race; however, a 2nd place is also a satisfactory result. Hayrikyan has critical chances to benefit votes; however, he still has most work to do. Bagratyan can benefit a infancy of votes of antithesis supporters,” a consultant concluded.

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PanARMENIAN.Net – South Korea nominated Taeho Bark, a trade minister, to lead a World Trade Organization, creation him a eighth claimant to be put brazen for a tip job, Reuters reported.

Bark’s candidacy was submitted 3 days before nominations tighten and as Pascal Lamy, a tellurian trade body’s stream executive general, prepares to step down on Aug 31, 2013.

Although Lamy has pronounced his inheritor should be selected on a basement of cunning alone, some trade diplomats contend it is a spin of a building nation to reason a job.

Bark is a second claimant from a abounding nation and a third from a Asia-Pacific to apply.

So far, all though one of a possibilities are portion or former trade ministers and several, like Bark, have U.S. doctoral degrees in economics and clever educational credentials.

Apart from South Korea, countries that have nominated possibilities embody Mexico, Indonesia, Costa Rica,

Article source: http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/139912/

On a personal note…

Never before I was able to achieve so many personal To Do-s [some coming back from my teenage years] as I did in 2012. Apparently, dragon loved me. But hey, I was determined, I took the risks, and it was worth it. I fought some of my personal inhibitions [yes, I do have inhibitions too !], and it was so worth it.

I wish readers of my blogs, my friends and family to see at least some of the most important dreams realised in 2013.

May 2013 rock your inhibitions and set you free.

It’s London calling. It’s rock-n-roll.

Have a very happy New Year !!

With love, 


x Mika

Article source: http://unzipped.blogspot.com/2012/12/2013-rock-n-roll-new-year.html

29 Dec 2012 – 8:09am

Interviewed by Jamila Alekperova, Baku. Specially for Vestnik Kavkaza

Member of a Committee on Foreign Relations and Inter-parliamentary Relations of a Azerbaijani Parliament, domestic scientist Rasim Musabeyov, common with “Vestnik Kavkaza” his prophesy of Russian-Azerbaijani relations.

- What is a purpose of Russia in a Nagorno-Karabakh conflict?

-  Azerbaijan hereditary this dispute from a Soviet Union. Taking into comment that Russia considers itself a inheritor of a USSR, and a purpose in a dispute is high. Unfortunately, Moscow is not usually a judge in a traffic process, though it also uses a existent conflicts as collection to safety a influence.

Article source: http://vestnikkavkaza.net/analysis/politics/35411.html

The Yerevan city Mayor Taron Margaryan left New Year greetings, in that he says:

“Dear compatriots, dear residents of Yerevan,

Accept my best wishes for a Happy New Year and Christmas. New Year is a family holiday, and a many acquire and good holiday for us all. we wish that all your good wishes, hopes and expectations come true.

This year has left a symbol on a story of a city of Yerevan. Simultaneously with a developments in a opposite areas of a civic economy, a year was also filled with a accumulation of activities by that Yerevan has once again presented herself to a universe not usually as a city with thousands of years of informative heritage, though also as a universe collateral of a book.

Let all a problems and daily chores sojourn behind, let a New Year holiday be a commencement of new success and new achievements.

Dear compatriots, dear adults of

Article source: http://news.am/eng/news/134528.html

Asbarez Year-End Special Issue

Armenia incited 21 in 2012. By American standards, branch 21 is a miracle that signifies adulthood. It is during 21 that we strew a adolescence and take batch of a future.

The events of final year, however, vigilance that a hurdles confronting Armenia, ensuing from missteps and mistakes of a past 21 years, are formidable and need a impasse of each Armenian to overcome a obstacles and safeguard a healthy future.

The parliamentary elections in May proved, once again, that a authorities are reluctant to disencumber a organisation grip, with that each choosing in Armenia has been manipulated. Oftentimes, it seems that to sojourn in energy is distant some-more vicious that governance and gratification of a country’s citizens. There is no denote that a 2013 presidential elections will chaperon in change that can teach wish in a citizens and rouse a country’s approved standards.

While some government

Article source: http://asbarez.com/107404/editorial-when-armenia-turned-21/

Best new play

Though Dec is so scarcely over, there is still only time to locate a superb two-hander Constellations, personification during a Duke of York’s in London’s West End to 5 January, a send from a Royal Court. Nick Payne’s extinguishing regretful comedy (starring Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins) plays perplexing games with time, toying with a idea of together universes, this being a fractured story of a adore event between an worldly beekeeper and a fanciful physicist. Charming, humorous afterwards greatly poignant.

Top biodramas

Farewell to a Theatre was another unforgettable, beautifully understated premiere. Would that we could see Roger Michell’s prolongation again. Staged with still astuteness during Hampstead Theatre, Richard Nelson’s biodrama about actor-manager and author Harley Granville-Barker – who helped to change British play pre-First World War – took a surprisingly tangential approach, building into a Chekhovian organisation portrait. Adrift in provincial Massachusetts in 1916, with other expat thespians,

Article source: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/review-of-2012-theatre-8433148.html

According to a forecasts of astronomers, in a entrance year a super-comet will accommodate a sun. The comet does not have a name yet, it is reserved usually with a series C/2012 S1 (ISON). At rise times a liughtness of a comet will obscure a moon and it will gleam even in daylight. While a brightest comet before this time was a comet Hale-Bopp, that could be seen in 1997, though a new one will be significantly brighter.

According to a ISON-NM observatory, that initial detected a comet, if it is not broken on a approach, as a comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) was, it will be a brightest comet of a decade, 1PRE.RU writes.

Article source: http://news.am/eng/news/134459.html

PanARMENIAN.Net – The Iranian navy is due to practice their firepower capabilities on a second day of a large wargames underway in a country’s southern waters, a comparison Navy commander, according to Fars news agency.

“Today, we practice opposite forms of shootings,” Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari pronounced on Saturday, Dec 29.

“These exercises embody opposite surface-to-surface and surface-to-air firings, choppers’ alighting and holding off and submarine-related drills,” Sayyari said.

The Iranian Navy started a array of wargames on Friday to exam a capabilities in fortifying Iran’s H2O borders and informal interests.

The wargames, codenamed ‘The Great Naval Wargames of Velayat 91′, will final 6 days and will cover around one million block kilometers from a Strait of Hormuz to a waters adult to a 18-degree latitude.

Sayyari told reporters on Friday that a naval drills will be carried out in a Strait of Hormuz, a Sea of

Article source: http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/139927/