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Movie Reviews Armenian quest By DEIRDRE SWAIN JOURNEY TO ARMENIA (Robert Guédiguian). 125 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (April 13) at Canada Square. Rating: NNN Anna ( Ariane Ascaride ) is a brusque French cardiologist whose ailing father ( Marcel Bluwal ) disappears to his homeland of Armenia before he can undergo heart surgery. Anna follows him, visiting the country for the first time. As quests go, Anna's is vague and unfocused, but it and a subplot involving black-market meds, an exotic dancer and a former general ( Gérard Meylan ) are really just a pretext for gorgeous scenery and history in thistravelogue about beleaguered Armenia. The dialogue is pretty exposition-heavy. The locals are continually explaining things to Anna (although it's refreshing to hear the merits of communism, capitalism and other "isms" discussed in an even-handed way). Anna is imperious and hard to like, so Ascaride, who also co-wrote the film, deserves credit for making us care about what happens to her. As the story unfolds, Anna and the audience are drawn in by the history of a country, once the nexus of all the great European empires, that's currently recovering from Soviet-style communism and yet retains its character and language. Maybe that's the reason for Anna's Gallic version of the ugly American tourist: Armenia and its people seem even more beautiful by contrast. http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-04-1...ie_reviews5.php

Вот и развитие конфликта перешло в сферу эпидемеологии. На международной конференции посвященной птичьему гриппу проводившейся в Габоне, был нанесен реальный удар обороноспособности Азербайджана. Bird flu kills five in Azerbaijan Wednesday March 22, 2007 By Stephanie Nebehay Bird flu GENEVA - Bird flu has killed five young people in Azerbaijan, the World Health Organisation said today, adding it was investigating whether some of the victims could have been infected collecting feathers from dead swans. Confirmation of the deaths in Azerbaijan, which lies at the crossroads between Europe and Asia, takes the WHO toll from the virus to 103 since it reemerged in late 2003. Egypt reported its fourth suspected human case over the past week. The Egyptian authorities have said that one of the patients died of bird flu last week, but that has not been confirmed by the WHO. Pakistan today became the latest country to confirm bird flu in poultry, saying the virus found in two poultry flocks late last month was the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain. Bird flu has spread with alarming speed in recent weeks as it pushes deeper into Africa, Europe and Asia. The United States says it is likely to arrive on its shores before the end of the year. Fears are growing the H5N1 flu virus will mutate and pass easily from one person to another but for the moment it remains hard for people to catch it from infected birds. "We don't see any human-to-human transmission (in Azerbaijan). The exact source of exposure to the deadly virus is under investigation, which is focussing on defeathering of birds," WHO spokesman Dick Thompson said. Four of those who died came from a settlement of around 800 homes in the Salyan region in the southeast of the country. Three were related and the fourth was a close friend of the family. The fifth victim came from Tarter in the west. The WHO said an investigation in Salyan had found some evidence that carcasses of swans, dead for some weeks, may have been collected by residents for their feathers. Adolescent women and young girls usually pluck birds in the affected community, the WHO said. The feathers are used in pillows. Four of those who died were young women aged between 17 and 21, while the other was a 16-year-old boy. Egypt reported a fourth suspected case of bird flu in humans today, in a 17-year-old boy whose father had an outbreak of the disease on his chicken farm in the Nile Delta. Health Minister Hatem el-Gabali, quoted by the state new agency MENA, said the boy was taken to hospital in the town of Tanta and was being treated with Tamiflu, the drug used to fight bird flu in humans. His condition was "good and stable", he added. Of the first three bird flu victims, one has died, one has recovered and the third is receiving treatment. Officials were meeting in Gabon in West Africa for a summit on how to combat bird flu on the poorest continent. Donors pledged $1.9 billion in January to help developing countries strengthen health and veterinary services and boost global surveillance measures, but David Nabarro, senior UN coordinator for avian influenza, said few had paid up so far. In Pakistan, Livestock Commissioner Muhammad Afzal said there had been no other cases of bird flu since the outbreak was first reported on February 27 at farms in the North West Frontier Province. Samples from two farms were sent to a laboratory in Britain, and the flocks -- totalling around 23,000 birds -- were culled. "I can only confirm that the H5N1 type of virus was found in chickens from both the farms," Agriculture Ministry official Mohammad Akhlaque told Reuters. "We have conducted tests on the people who worked on both the farms and they are healthy. There is no sign of any bird flu in those people. We have already culled all chickens so there is not much more we can do," he told Reuters. - REUTERS http://subs.nzherald.co.nz/location/story....jectID=10373895

жжжуть не могу к конфликту Азербайджан-Габон вполне предсказуемо подключились Гамбия и Гана, которые также используют домен .ga правительства Ботсваны, Бутана и Бурунди заявили, что всячески поддерживают своих братьев и заявляют, что если Азербайджан попытается зарегистрировать домен .bu прибегнут к жестким мерам. www.bbc.co.uk.

Armenia aims at key markets with its participation at GLOBE Thursday, March 22, 2007 European countries, such as Italy, Spain, France, Germany and UK, identified as key markets with a great potential for growth, are at the centre of the promotional activities carried out by the Armenian Tourist Development Agency (ATDA). The Armenian tourist board is exhibiting with six major Armenian tour companies at GLOBE, the new international trade show in Rome, to promote the country in the Mediterranean and European areas. Syuzanna Azoyan, ATDA’s marketing director, is presenting news and promotional plans to press and trade operators at the Armenian stand from Thurday 22nd to Saturday 24th March. Armenia is getting growing attention by international media and tour operators, who observe the country’s rebirth with great interest. After the transition period which followed independence in 1991, Armenia has made important investments in infrastructure and promotion of the economic development. Tourism is one of the industries which are getting major investments. In fact, Armenia has it all to emerge as a new and important tourist destination: safety, stableness, good structures, affordable prices, geographic proximity, cultural affinity, good air connections, impressive cultural heritage and artistic traditions, fantastic natural environment and a welcoming population. American, French, German, English and Japanese visitors already realized this and represent the largest slice of Armenia’s travel market, thanks also to effective commercials broadcasted on CNN and Euronews. Armenia is offered mostly within religious and cultural tours focusing on its great cultural and artistic heritage, the ancient sites on the Silk Road, the original Christian architecture of the imposing medieval buildings and UNESCO World Heritage sights, such as the monastic complexes of Sanahin and Haghpat. According to Syuzanna Azoyan, Armenia has much more to offer: adventure and trekking holidays, nature and sport holidays, bird-watching, camping, farm holidays, cycling tours, horse-riding, rafting and many other activities. Michael Verikios - Thursday, March 22, 2007 http://www.traveldailynews.com/new.asp?new...category_id=098

Good luck to a new Armenia Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 18/03/2007Page 1 of 3 Essentials It has a tragic past but Douglas Rogers predicts a change in fortune for this fascinating country. It was after the third glass of 50 per cent proof vintage Armenian brandy that my host for the evening, a garrulous Armenian-American property developer by the name of Vahak Hovnanian, suggested a game of golf. Usually, after a few glasses of top-shelf cognac, I'd be up for a round, but it was 9pm, we were in the basement of his mansion on a half-built residential village on the outskirts of Armenia's dusty capital Yerevan, and the chances of finding a floodlit golf course in the vicinity seemed pretty slim. I shouldn't have been so sceptical. "We are the Jews of the Caucasus," Vahak told me five minutes later as he smacked a drive straight down the fairway of his floodlit golf course, a short walk from his home. In the distance, the outline of Mount Ararat shimmered in the moonlight, while in a clubhouse decked out with leather chairs emblazoned with the Hovnanian family crest, a dozen members of his family cheered and ordered more brandy. On a barren field of rock and stone in central Armenia, a New Jersey property tycoon was building his own Jerusalem. It is easy to see Armenia as the Israel of the Caucasus (even though it's actually the oldest Christian nation on earth, having adopted Christianity in AD 310, a decade before Rome). It is surrounded by Muslim countries on three sides - Turkey, Iran and Azerbaijan - and war-torn Georgia to its north. In 1915 Armenia suffered its own holocaust: the slaughter of 1.5 million people by the Turks, a genocide the Turkish government still refuses to acknowledge. From 1917 to 1991 Armenia was part of the Soviet Union, which protected it from the Turks but did little for its independence or devout Orthodox religious observance. Not for nothing is Armenia known as the land of "1,700 Years of Bad Luck". And yet, partly as a result of this tragic past, Armenia, more than any other country in the Caucasus, is now finding its feet fast. The Diaspora, descendents of those who escaped the genocide, now number three times the 2.5 million population of Armenia itself, and they not only dominate the country's fledgling tourist industry, but the wealthiest of them, men such as Vahak Hovnanian and Kirk Kirkorian, the owner of MGM studios in LA, invest US$1 billion a year in Armenia, funding everything from airports, roads and radio stations, to universities, museums and hotels. It was because of one of these investors that I was in the country. Two months earlier, I had heard about an Armenian-American interior designer named James Tufenkian, a reclusive 40-something New Yorker who had made his fortune in the luxury Armenian handmade carpet industry. In 1995, four years after the end of Communist rule, Tufenkian had set up hand-weaving carpet factories in his ancestral homeland, reviving the ancient art of Oushak carpet making - finely textured, earth-toned Armenian rugs that had virtually disappeared during 75 years of Soviet rule. Ten years on, Tufenkian not only had luxury showrooms in New York and Los Angeles, where his exquisite rugs were snapped up by the likes of Dennis Quaid, Donna Karan and Ben Stiller, but he had just branched out into the travel industry. Under a new company, Tufenkian Heritage, he had created Armenia's first design hotels: three properties set in restored ruins or close to religious sites that form a perfect cultural triangle for a visit to Armenia. History hangs heavy in Yerevan. The starting point of any visit to Armenia, the one million-strong city lies in a dusty valley rimmed by rugged, rock-strewn hills that are more Arizona than Asia Minor. Its potholed streets and drab cement tower blocks were depressing reminders of the Soviet era, and even the spectacular view of snow-capped Mount Ararat, 30 miles distant, had a weightiness to it. It has been Turkish territory since 1915, a permanent, taunting reminder of the genocide. Yet, sweep away the dust, and Yerevan, an eighth-century fortress town, reveals itself like a lost icon. On the wide expanse of Opera Square in the centre, opposite a new Marriott hotel, the National Opera House had been restored and the Yerevan Philharmonic was performing works by the great Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian. Nearby, in what looked like a stone church, a handful of French-Armenian tourists queued up at the Parajanov Museum, a monument to the Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov (1924-1990), whose work was banned by the Soviets but inspired Fellini, Antonioni and Godard. Pride in its artistic heritage runs deep in Armenia - almost as deep as memories of the past. Outside the museum I met Gilda, a painter from Paris. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jht...a118.xml&page=1

танцуем над трупом неубитого зверя. смех

у Армении и Арцаха

мысленно убираем русскую армию, а ночью начинается кариес

парень, по моему ты немного опоздал с прошлогодней информацией.

Sergei, Израиль и евреи не то, что мне родные или чужие, просто я к ним отношусь с симпатией и считаю, что у них нам армянам, и нашему государству - Армении, можно мнгому научиться.

Sergei, Мой пост не относился к Ирану :shljapa:. Возможно я его не там запостил, не в ту тему. Просто мой пост относился к близоруко самонадеянным не терпящим инакомыслия комментариям и постам многих юзеров форума, и не только в это теме. Просто такой крик души . И при чем тут Израиль? Я не еврей, покрайней мере, так считалось до сегодняшнего дня.

мне же стала понятна, какова основная проблема армян по истории и сейчас - близорукая самонадеянность не терпящяя инакомыслия в худшем смысле этого слова

Таронеци, вы как инженер также наверное имеете представление о том, что производило ереванское предприятие "Электрон" в советское время и что оно производит теперь? все течет, все меняется и "Улдуз" с "Азон" могут производить совсем другое нежели раньше.

холодный душ, для тех, кто верует в нейтральность Ирана и его доброседство.

а меня удивляет самонадеянность нас - армян

Как мне надоели попытки представить российский пресс как благодеяние. Может хватит уже.

чта за хрень вы тут развели, патриция на вас нет.

заднепроходное отверстие - это есть анус

по моему место этой темы не в разделе история, а в разделе политика.