Kardashian Family Making First Trip to Armenia

April 5, 2015 By administrator

YEREVAN. – NEWS.am STYLE has ascertained details about famous American Armenian TV personality Kim Kardashian’s forthcoming visit to Armenia.

We have learned that Kardashian will arrive in Armenia in the coming weeks, and stay in the country for about a week. First, however, the members of her staff—comprising several dozens of people—will come to Armenia, and make preparations for the Kardashian sisters’ visit to the country.

We also have learned that Kim Kardashian and her staff will stay at a luxury capital city Yerevan hotel, where they already have booked all the rooms of two floors.

Also in the lead-up to the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, the National Archives of Armenia (NAA) is preparing a databank comprising the names of the genocide victims. And reflecting in the recent Daily Mail information with respect to the forebears of famous American Armenian television personality Kim Kardashian, Amatuni Virabyan noted that the Kardashian family had two branches.

“One part lived in the Kars Province [in modern-day Turkey]; they were Protestants. People used to call them Molokan; Armenian Molokans. And the other part, [lived] in [the] Erzurum [Province in modern-day Turkey]. “We found the Kardashians’ traces in Karakale village of the Kars Province. Their family moved to America before the Genocide, but the others, who stayed and survived the slaughter, found shelter in [Armenia’s] Gyumri [city], which at the time was called Alexandropol.

“There are Kardashians in Gyumri, who are the distant relatives of the famous Kardashians. Their representatives were here [, in Armenia]. They are shooting a film now; they need to come here again, and I will read, show them those Karakale documents,” Virabyan noted.

Poland’s President to Visit Armenia on April 24 #ArmenianGenocide commemoration

March 19, 2015 By administrator

Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski

WARSAW—Poland’s President Bronislaw Komorowski will visit Armenia on April 24 for the commemoration of the Armenian Genocide’s centennial anniversary, Vice-President of the European Parliament Ryszard Czarnecki said in an interview with Zhoghovurd daily.

“Yes, Serzh Sarkisian has sent an invitation, and the honorable President will be present in Armenia on that day,” he said.

Czarnecki, who is visiting Armenia to participate in the 4th Ordinary Session of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, said he hopes to represent the European Parliament on April 24.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and France’s President Fançois Hollande have also announced that they will be in Armenia for the commemorations.

Armenia president, Karekin II and Aram I to visit Washington in May

March 12, 2015 By administrator

President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II and Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I will visit the United States in May for the events dedicated to the Armenian Genocide Centennial.

The events will commence in Washington on May 7 and will last three days, the Voice of America Armenian service reported. The events are organized by the committee set up by the Armenian community, the church and Armenia’s Embassy in Washington.

Four French lawmakers meet Assad in Syria: MP

February 25, 2015 By administrator

PARIS – Agence France-Presse

President Bashar al-Assad

Four French lawmakers who say they are on a private visit to Syria, despite a breakdown in diplomatic ties between Paris and Damascus, met with President Bashar al-Assad Wednesday, one of them told AFP.

“We met Bashar al-Assad for a good hour. It went very well,” Jacques Myard, an MP who belongs to the conservative opposition UMP party, said in a telephone interview. He refused to reveal the content of the talks.

The group of lawmakers include MPs and senators from both the left and the right.

“It’s a personal mission to see what is going on, to hear, listen,” Myard said earlier.

The French foreign ministry has said the visit has nothing to do with the government.

“The lawmakers do not carry any official message,” said spokesman Alexandre Giorgini.

Georgian nation stands with Armenian people both in sadness and in joy

February 17, 2015 By administrator

David Usupashvili of the Parliament of Georgia

YEREVAN. – The Georgia delegation which is on a two-day official visit to Armenia, and which is led by chairperson David Usupashvili of the Parliament of Georgia, on Tuesday paid a visit to the Armenian Genocide Memorial in capital city Yerevan.

The Georgian delegation was accompanied by National Assembly (NA) of Armenia Vice-Speaker Hermine Naghdalyan, and Vladimir Badalyan, a member of the interparliamentary committee on cooperation between the Armenian NA and the Georgian parliament.

The guests laid a wreath and placed flowers to the monument that eternalizes the souls of the genocide victims, and stood a minute of silence in their memory.

Usupashvili, on behalf of the Georgian people, once again expressed condolences to the Armenian nation in connection with the tragedy that occurred 100 years ago.

“We need to do everything so that such tragedies not solely do not repeat, but there would be no wars, and peace reigns in the world,” the Georgian parliament leader said.

David Usupashvili added that the Georgian nation stands with the Armenian people both in sadness and in joy.

PEOPLE: According to the “New York Post” the visit of Kim Kardashian in April in Armenia is not related to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide

January 17, 2015 By administrator

The “New York Post” reported that the global star of reality TV, the Armenian-American Kim Kardashian will be in Armenia with his sister in April. The famous newspaper also wrote that the visit of the Kardashian sisters in Armenia has no connection with the centennial of the Armenian Genocide.

“Our father would have been proud of us,” said Kim Kardashian to “Page Six”. His agents also confirmed that his visit to Armenia is not related to the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Phil Valotski spokesman of the Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of America, however, said that the visit of such a media star in Armenia is very important and has great significance. “I think all Armenians want to be today -There in Armenia and this is very important, “he said. Kim Kardashian is going to visit Armenia in order to realize the shooting of some sequences of his reality show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”

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Kim, Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian to visit Armenia in April

January 13, 2015 By administrator

According to EOnline, Khloé Kardashian, Kim Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian are planning to travel to their paternal ancestral homeland in April.

The specifics are still being worked out for their family milestone journey, but Kim is set to take daughter North West with her, while Kourtney will be traveling with kids Mason,Penelope and Reign as well. Several cousins are also expected to be along for the continent-crossing ride.

Kim’s hubby, Kanye West, will make the trip if his upcoming touring schedule allows.

“Visiting Armenia has been on Kim’s bucket list forever,” a family insider tells us. “They are all so excited! They want to learn about their heritage.”

Syrian president visits front on New Year’s Eve

January 1, 2015 By administrator

Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare visit to the front line of his country’s civil war, spending New Year’s Eve with his troops in a tense eastern Damascus neighborhood.

Assad’s office said in its Twitter account that the visit took place in Jobar, northeast of Damascus, on the occasion of the New Year. The district came under heavy Syrian air force strikes on Wednesday according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the nearly four-year conflict.

“If there was an area of joy which remained in Syria, it is thanks to the victories that you achieved in the face of terrorism,” Assad told troops, according to the Twitter account.

Pope and patriarch condemn Mid-East ‘persecution’

November 30, 2014 By administrator

Pope Francis (left) and Patriarch Bartholomew I in Istanbul on Sunday

Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians have condemned the treatment of many Christians in the Middle East.

In a joint declaration, the Pope and Patriarch Bartholomew I said they could not resign themselves to a “Middle East without Christians”.

On a three-day visit to Turkey, the pontiff discussed divisions between Catholics and Orthodox Christians.

In Istanbul, he and the patriarch also called for peace in Ukraine.

Patriarch Bartholomew is the spiritual leader of the world’s 250 million Orthodox Christians, whose Church broke with Rome in 1054 in a schism that divided the Christian world.

Constantinople, as the modern Turkish city of Istanbul was once known, was the centre of Orthodox Christianity until the Ottoman conquest in 1453.

Only around 120,000 Christians remain in Turkey, where the vast majority of the 80 million citizens are Muslims.

Pope Francis also called for an interfaith dialogue with Muslims to counter fanaticism and fundamentalism when he visited the Turkish capital, Ankara.

‘Indifference of many’

Christians have been targeted by Muslim hardliners in Iraq and Syria in recent years, with a violent campaign of persecution by Islamic State militants this summer when they captured the Iraqi city of Mosul.

In their joint declaration, the two Church leaders said: “We express our common concern for the current situation in Iraq, Syria and the whole Middle East…

“Many of our brothers and sisters are being persecuted and have been forced violently from their homes. It even seems that the value of human life has been lost, that the human person no longer matters and may be sacrificed to other interests. And, tragically, all this is met by the indifference of many.”

The violent conflict in Ukraine this year has accentuated differences between its large Orthodox and Catholic communities.

The Pope and the patriarch said: “We pray for peace in Ukraine, a country of ancient Christian tradition, while we call upon all parties involved to pursue the path of dialogue and of respect for international law in order to bring an end to the conflict and allow all Ukrainians to live in harmony.”

As his visit draws to a close, Pope Francis is also due to meet Turkey’s chief rabbi, whose flock has diminished to just 17,000 people.

The Pope then visited Hagia Sofia – which for almost 1,000 years was the most important Orthodox cathedral, then for nearly five centuries a mosque under the Ottomans, and is currently a museum.

For Istanbul, a city that passed from the Byzantines to the Ottomans, a place where religions, empires and cultures collided, the Pope’s message of interfaith dialogue has profound resonance, says the BBC’s Mark Lowen in Istanbul.

Source: BBC

Why POPE Visit the Occupied & Genocide land So Called Turkey?

November 28, 2014 By administrator

ISTANBUL — He’s championed austerity, condemned greed and been dubbed “The People’s Pope.” But during a visit to Ankara on Friday, Pope Francis is scheduled to visit a new $615-million palace seen by many Turks as a symbol of excess and their president’s autocratic rule.

The pontiff will become the first foreign dignitary to visit the 1,000-room presidential residence that’s been nicknamed Ak Saray — or “White Palace.” Some of the building’s critics have urged him to cancel his visit for fear it would condone a construction project they deem not just extravagant, but illegal.

The palace is the largest presidential residence in the world. It is 30 times the size of the White House.

Not only does the lavish structure appear at odds with the pope’s frugal philosophy, it was constructed on environmentally protected farmland. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ignored a court injunction ordering its construction be halted.

“We don’t want the pope to legitimize the construction, which is illegal according to international laws,” Tezcan Karakuş Candan, head of Ankara’s Chamber of Architects, told NBC News. “We are fighting to preserve the Atatürk Forest Farm and will try to stop every foreign dignitary from going there.”

Atatürk Forest Farm was donated to the state in 1937 by the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, whose mausoleum the pontiff will visit earlier Friday. The land has been an environmentally protected site for more than two decades.

An administrative court ordered construction to be suspended earlier this year. But Erdoğan ignored the ruling. “Let them tear it down if they can,” he said, according to Al-Monitor. “They ordered suspension, yet they can’t stop this building. I’ll be opening it, I’ll be moving in and using it.”

Defending the construction at recent budget talks, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said economic conditions were better today than when large amounts of public money were spent on palaces in the past. According to Hurriyet, he said it was more accurate to call the complex a “service building” rather than a “palace” and said there had been a “smear campaign” against the project.

The pope’s commitment to a relatively humble life has seen him take the name of a saint known for a life of poverty and simplicity. He also refused to take up residency in the official papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace in favor of a modest room within the Vatican.