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Armenia joins Moscow International Army Games

July 24, 2017 By administrator

The second International Army Games taking place in Russia’s capital, Moscow, have attracted a 1,238 military personnel from 22 countries, including Armenia, Lenta.ru reports, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense.

This year’s annual event is set to take place from July 29 until August 12. Some 22 polygons of Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan and China have been selected as training sites.

The participant countries’ teams (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Serbia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, South-African Republic) have been moved to the playgrounds for field competitions (Tank Biathlon, Reconnaissance, Military Medical Relay Race etc).

 

The second International Army Games were held between June 30 and August 13, 2016.

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Armenia has the 15th Rio Paralympic Games with 2 sports

September 8, 2016 By administrator

armenian-paralympicArmenia participates with 2 athletes at the 15th Paralympics which the opening ceremony was held Wednesday, September 7 at the Olympic stadium in Rio (Brazil). The delegations-including the Armenia-marched on stage in Rio applause from the audience.

Until September 18, 4342 Sports 161 nations will take part in these competitions in 22 sports.

Both sportsmen representing Armenia are swimmer Margarita Hovakimyan (21) and weightlifter Greta Vardanyan (30 years). They had also taken part in the Paralympic Games in London (2012). Greta Vardanyan will enter the women’s weightlifting 55kg competition Saturday, September 10. Margarita Hovakimyan will take part in turn to swim 50m freestyle contest September 10 and 100m breaststroke September 11.

Krikor Amirzayan

Filed Under: Articles, Events Tagged With: Armenia, Games, Paralympic, rio

Armenian tech studio to unveil new games after Apple award winning project

August 8, 2015 By administrator

f55c5f44199038_55c5f44199073.thumbTriada Studio’s director, who was recently the United States, says the company has plans to launch new, more challenging computer games after the recent project that brought it an international prize. Report Tert.am

“I don’t think it is worth undertaking anything less significant than that. Anyway it will be in the game industry,” Ara Adamyan said in an interview with Tert.am.
He added that the Apple Design Award, which the team won for the game Shadowmatic, brought the company an international recognition, opening more perspective for new interesting initiatives.
Asked about the Armenian IT products’ competitiveness on the world market, Adamyan said he very often finds them to be smart inventions, challenging for any user in any part of the world.
“On the international market, it doesn’t matter at all if the product is Armenian or Chinese. If it is a quality product, it is always praiseworthy. In Singapore, for instance, if someone wishes to sit back and enjoy a game, it is all the same to him or her whether that’s an Armenian or Scottish game. I think that the Armenian [IT] companies manage at times to realize challenging projects, though I would rather we heard more of that success in real life.”
Adamyan said he expects a stronger government attention to the sector to increase the advantages of  IT companies, contributing to their further development.
“I would like the government to be more attentive and mitigate the legislation – especially the taxes – for IT companies. That would be part of the efforts to encourage more organizations to come into existence.”
Asked whether he finds the salaries of Armenian IT specialists satisfactory, Adamyan replied, “In developed countries, of course, the salaries are much higher, but being in Armenia, I think that those working in the IT sector earn enough to afford a high quality life. ”

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: apple, Armenia, award, Games

6th pan-Armenian GAMES Magical opening ceremony in Yerevan yesterday

August 3, 2015 By administrator

arton114685-480x272Last night in a Republican stage invaded by thousands of enthusiastic spectators ran magical opening ceremony of 6th Summer Pan Armenian Games. Delegations from nearly 200 cities marched into the stadium under the audience’s applause. The ceremony was broadcast live in the direction of more than a hundred countries by the public chain of Armenia. This is the gymnast Albert Avariant, triple Olympic champion who entered the stage with the flame of Pan Armenian Games lit it. These pan-Armenian games dedicated to 100th anniversary of Armenian genocide are those records. Most participants, with 6352 Armenian sportsmen from five continents. Most of sports with 17 disciplines. These games taking place from August 3 to 13 in Yerevan but also in Stepanakert (Nagorno Karabakh), in Gyumri, Abovyan, Vanatsor, Ardachat and Echmiadzin. Tens of thousands of tourists from the diaspora are present in Armenia on the occasion of the 6th pan-Armenian Games which bring together the Armenian youth around the world of sports and games. Finally, note the presence of several mayors and elected Turkish cities such as Diyarbakir and Van. News.am Photos (partly).

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Krikor Amirzayan

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Armenian president honors participants of Pan-Armenian Games

August 3, 2015 By administrator

f55bf5eab90add_55bf5eab90b16.thumbPresident Serzh Sargsyan on Monday conferred awards upon the organizers, sponsors and honorary guests of the Sixth Pan-Armenian Summer Games.

The ceremony was held at the Presidential Palace prior to a reception held in honor of the guests, says a statement on the official website of the Armenian leader.
Under presidential decrees, several awardees were honored with the Medal of Gratitude for their significant contribution to event.

Several others received the president’s acknowledgement award for active participation in organizational activities.

 

 

Source: tert.am

Filed Under: Articles, Events Tagged With: Games, pan-armenia

Pan-Armenian Games 2015: 6,200 Armenian Athletes from 36 Countries

July 29, 2015 By administrator

GamesPan-Armenian Games 2015: 6,200 Armenian Athletes from 36 Countries

Armenianow – More than 6,200 Armenian athletes from 36 countries of the world will have another opportunity to compete with each other in different sports in August when Armenia is due to host the sixth Pan-Armenian Games – an event held once every four years.

On August 2-13, a number of cities in Armenia are going to see sporting competitions as part of the Games that according to Chairman of the World Committee of the Pan-Armenian Games (WCPAG) Ishkhan Zakaryan are going to be “unprecedented”.

“These Games will be unprecedented not only in terms of the number of participants, but also in terms of their geography. These Games will be held in Armenia’s capital Yerevan, Karabakh capital Stepanakert, in Armenia’s cities of Gyumri, Vanadzor, Abovyan and Artashat,” Zakaryan said.

The first Pan-Armenian Games were held in 1999 in Yerevan. At that time, a total of 1,141 athletes from 23 countries participated in the Games that included seven sports. The fifth Games that were held in 2011 already brought together 3,244 athletes from 33 countries competing in as many as 10 sports.

This year seven sports have been added and now athletes are going to compete in the following sports: soccer, mini soccer, basketball, volleyball, field athletics, tennis, table tennis, chess, badminton, swimming, beach volleyball, sports dancing, golf, handball, arm-wrestling, cycling and shooting.

A torch for the 6th Summer Pan-Armenian Games was ceremonially lit on May 8 at the altar of Surb Ghazanchetsots Church in the Karabakh town of Shushi.

Nagorno-Karabakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan said in his remarks that the Pan-Armenian Games stand out by the fact that there are no losers in these Games, while the victories are victories for the entire Armenian nation.

“The Games are a good way of once again presenting ourselves to the world as a civilized and consolidated people that relies on its own forces, that, despite being scattered around the globe, is inextricably linked to its historical homeland, and is working to develop and strengthen the independent Armenian statehood,” Sahakyan said.

Besides going around the regions of Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, the torch was also taken to large Armenian communities abroad. And already on July 27 a ceremony of Pan-Armenian Games torch blessing took place at Holy Echmiadzin, conducted by His Holiness Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians.

Three torches – lit at different Armenian churches in Karabakh, Diaspora and Western Armenia – were brought together to light one torch for the Games symbolizing the Armenia-Karabakh-Diaspora unity. 1988 Seoul Olympic Games weightlifting champion Ogsen Mirzoyan participated in the ceremony and carried the torch.

“We have no doubt that the Pan-Armenian Games will continue to strengthen the unity of our nation’s children to become a powerful force with which we will be able to cope with national and local problems and challenges in our lives,” His Holiness Karekin II said at the ceremony.

WCPAG head Zakaryan, for his part, described the Games as a bridge for the Armenia-Karabakh-Diaspora unity and the best way of uniting Armenians around their historical homeland.

On August 2, the torch of the Games will reach Yerevan to signal the start of the 6th Pan-Armenian Games.

The Games’ chief referee is Honored Master of Sports, International Referee Derenik Gabrielyan, the chief director is Aram Sukiasyan and the television director is Hrach Keshishyan.

Source: http://www.horizonweekly.ca/news/details/70786

Filed Under: Events, News Tagged With: armenain, Games, pan armenian

Azerbaijan European leaders ignore opening of Baku games

June 12, 2015 By administrator

EU-ignore-olympicLeaders of the European countries ignored opening of the first European Games in Baku.

The opening ceremony will be attended by the presidents of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Montenegro, Turkey, chairman of the presidium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Regents of San Marino, Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, Prince of Monaco Albert, contact.az reported.

UK sent to the ceremony its Foreign Secretary for Relations with Parliament Tobias Evlud, and the Czech Republic will be represented by the head of the House of Deputies Jan Gamacek.

Thus, the leaders of the countries of Western Europe, except the leaders of dwarf states, have ignored the ceremony of the European Games.

Filed Under: Articles, Events Tagged With: Azerbaijan, Baku, European, Games, ignore, leader, opening, Regional War Scenario. NATO-US-Turkey War Games Off the Syrian Coastline

Armenian Wrestlers Balk At Baku Games

June 5, 2015 By administrator

By Tony Wesolowsky

"No matter how much they say that there will be equal conditions, it is one thing to say it and another thing to do it," says Armenian wrestler Arsen Julfalakian (right), an Olympic silver medalist.

“No matter how much they say that there will be equal conditions, it is one thing to say it and another thing to do it,” says Armenian wrestler Arsen Julfalakian (right), an Olympic silver medalist.

Critics accuse Baku of using the event to try to whitewash the country’s poor human rights record.

“No one should be fooled by the glitz and glamor of the international show Azerbaijan is putting on to portray a squeaky-clean international reputation and attract foreign business,” said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International’s director for Europe and Central Asia.

Some 100 political prisoners are believed to be held in Azerbaijan and many more activists and journalists face harassment and travel bans.

Azerbaijan is pulling out all the stops to ensure the games are a success. President Ilham Aliyev has spent a reported $10 billion on stadiums and infrastructure. His government has also promised to pay the travel and accommodation expenses for all 6,000 competing athletes.

Armenia’s decision to take part in the first-ever European Games in Azerbaijan, which take place this month, was a victory of sorts for sport diplomacy.

The two countries have been feuding for 25 years over the fate of Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway and predominantly ethnic Armenian region within Azerbaijan. More than 30,000 people were killed there in a war in the early 1990s.

So there was cheering when Armenia’s National Olympic Committee (NOCA) announced in March that it planned to send athletes to the games. Among the most vocal supporters of the move was the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE), which has been involved in two decades of diplomacy to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

But not everyone in Armenia was pleased, and two high-profile athletes and a coach from the country have since announced that they will boycott the event, mainly for what they say are security concerns.

The two athletes staying away are both Greco-Roman wrestlers and both medal winners from the 2012 London Olympic Games: silver medalist Arsen Julfalakian and bronze medalist Artur Aleksanian, whose father and coach, Gevorg, is also joining the boycott.

In an interview with RFE/RL’s Armenian Service, Julfalakian said his decision was based on the bad experience he had in Baku in 2007 when Azerbaijan hosted the Greco-Roman wrestling world championships.

Julfalakian said he and his teammates felt like “prisoners” and were shadowed constantly, he claims, by Azerbaijani security forces.

“Even going to the bathroom was done under a tight security watch,” the 28-year-old wrestler said. “A security guard checked it in advance and only after that could we use the bathroom. We were separated from the public; we couldn’t go into the city.”

Julfalakian said he’s convinced things will be the same at the European Games, despite Azerbaijani assurances that Armenian athletes will be treated like everyone else.

“No matter how much they say that there will be equal conditions, it is one thing to say it and another thing to do it,” Julfalakian said. “I say this not just because I think so — I’ve seen it.”

Julfalakian went on to explain that in 2007, when the Armenian athletes arrived to compete in the Greco-Roman championships, they were taken to their hotel on a bus with a Turkish flag on it and were told it was “to avoid any attack.”

“No vehicle could come close to our hotel. Only Armenians and ethnic Armenians from foreign countries lived in that hotel, with the exception of, I think, Switzerland,” he added. “The whole beach was cordoned off by police. There was one fully armed soldier every 15 meters.”

Some 6,000 athletes from 50 countries are due to compete in 20 sports at the athletic gala in the Azerbaijani capital, which starts on June 12 and ends on June 28. The games are a scaled down, European-only version of the Olympic Games.

Armenia is sending 25 athletes to compete in six disciplines ranging from tae kwon do and judo to boxing and Greco-Roman wrestling.

Boxer Hovhannes Bachkov told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service that he’s used to the hostile crowds in Azerbaijan, having performed there twice in the past.

“The whistles and screams used to bother me, but it shouldn’t bother me now since I experienced it there before,” Bachkov said in a recent interview.

Another boxer, Samvel Barseghian, sees the games as a chance to defend Armenia’s national honor, especially on Azerbaijani soil.

“We realize that it is going to be difficult there,” Barseghian said. “But in some sense it is also a great opportunity, a chance to have the flag of our country raised in Azerbaijan, a chance to uphold the honor of our nation.”

Many in the international community welcomed Armenia’s decision to go to the games, viewing any interaction between the two rivals as positive.

James Warlick, the U.S. diplomat who co-chairs the OSCE Minsk Group mediating talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, called the decision “good news” in a tweet back in March.

 

Filed Under: Articles, Events Tagged With: Armenia, Baku, Games, Wrestlers

Azerbaijan: Sports Body Defends Baku Games Amid ‘Devastating Clampdown’

May 14, 2015 By administrator

By RFE/RL

May 06, 2015

1E8EE6A8-A788-4462-947B-E087C7B988F1_w640_r1_s_cx0_cy16_cw0BRUSSELS — A senior European sports official has defended plans to hold the first-ever European Games in Baku next month amid what rights groups say is a growing crackdown on the media and civil society by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s government.

Speaking at the European Parliament in Brussels on May 6, European Olympic Committees (EOC) Vice-President Janez Kocijancic indicated that the organization will not act on the basis of political concerns, saying the EOC “cannot accept political engagements.”

Rights defenders have questioned plans to hold the inaugural European Games on June 12-28 in Azerbaijan, where several journalists, activists, and government critics jailed in the past year are widely considered to be political prisoners targeted in a campaign to silence dissent.

The long-ruling Aliyev is “forging ahead with the most devastating clampdown on human rights in 24 years of post-Soviet independence,” said Minky Worden, director of global initiatives at the New York-based Human Rights Watch, at the same panel in the European Parliament.

“He has arrested many of the Azerbaijani human rights advocates and journalists who could have brought scrutiny and transparency to the conduct of these games if they were not in jail,” Worden said.

Rasul Cafarov, an activist who was arrested in August after announcing plans for a campaign to draw attention to the rights situation ahead of the European Games, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison last month after a trial on financial crimes charges he says were politically motivated.

Worden said that the EOC, which groups 49 national Olympic Committees in the region, “has the power and the leverage to tell Baku to release prisoners and to stop threatening journalists before the games begin.”

Kocijancic said that the organization expects that it will help “democratize every society where we will go” and use “whatever influence we have to make this society better and more open,” but that EOC cannot accept responsibility for changing political matters as this is not within the scope of its activity.

He noted that Azerbaijan chaired the Council of Europe for six months last year, and said that the oil-producing Caspian Sea coast nation has increased trade with the European Union “tremendously.”

Based on reporting by RFE/RL’s Rikard Jozwiak in Brussels

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Azerbaijan, Baku, Clampdown, Devastating, Games, Regional War Scenario. NATO-US-Turkey War Games Off the Syrian Coastline

LOS ANGELES, NCAA Certifies Navasartian Games

May 22, 2014 By administrator

LOS ANGELES—Already the largest amateur athletic tournament in the state of California, the Navasartian Games just received a massive boost from non-other than the ncaanavasartianNational Collegiate Athletic Association.

Known as the nation’s college sports authority, the NCAA issued Homenetmen certification allowing athletes that play college sports under its umbrella to participate in the 39th Navasartian Games. This would allow Armenian athletes that play Division 1 College sports the right to participate in this year’s Navasartian Games, hence, raising the standard of the competition in the games.

Homenetmen Western US Regional Athletic Council Program Coordinator, Sevag Garabetian, stressed the importance of this landmark achievement by saying, “It’s a proud moment!”

“This pretty much elevates the level of competition and heightens the expectations at this year’s Navasartian Games, and it definitely accentuates the many positives that this tournament has had for the past 39 years,” added Garebetian.

Homenetmen Western US Regional Executive Chairperson, Garnik Abrahamian, proudly stated, “This confirms what we’ve always known about the games. That a venerable organization like Homenetmen possesses the innate ability to put together a tournament like the Navasartian Games, is something that was always bound happen, and for it to scale new heights and be recognized in a way it was always destined to.”

“This is a massive public relations boost for Homenetmen and its centerpiece event, the Navasartian Games. I never had any doubt that this day would come,” said the Navasartian Organizing Committee’s public relations director, Aram Chobanian,

“This raises the bar!” said the 33rd. Honorary President of the games and Navasartian Organizing Committee Member, Vahagn Thomasian.

The NCAA’s certification of the Navasartian Games comes at a time when the tournament officially began its games last Saturday at Birmingham High School. With 220 teams destined to partake in this year’s tournament, basketball was the first sport that was scheduled to start the games officially. The other sports competitions will follow suit in the coming weeks and as we get deeper into the tournament.

To keep you connected, the Navasartian Organizing Committee encourages everyone to follow the games on social media outlets including Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, the Homenetmen mobile app., as well as the Navasartian Games webpage.

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