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'Electric Yerevan' Leaders Issue Ultimatum 22 YEARS The Noah’s Ark #27 (1067) 06 July 2015 Published Since 1993 Weekly Newspaper HIGHLIGHTS ÜáÛÛ³Ý î³å³Ý ß³μ³Ã³Ã»ñà (³Ý·É. / ýñ³Ýë.) 'Electric Yerevan' Leaders Issue Ultimatum see page 3 In This Issue Russia 'Negotiating' On New Missile Noyan Tapan Video Studio Supplies To Armenia p.2 is offering professional video and photography for indoor OSCE Minsk Group trying to organize and outdoor events such as weddings, birthday parties, a meeting of Armenian, Azerbaijani official events, seminars and conferences. Tel: 060 27 64 62 Presidents p.5 Address: Isahakyan 28, 3rd floor, Yerevan 0009 Armenian school to open in Alfortville p.7 Noyan Tapan Printing House "VivaCell-MTS: 10 Years of Friendship" - is offering coloured and black and white offset and digital Celebrating the First Jubilee... p.p.12-13 printing of books, brochures, booklets, journals, etc with high quality and low prices Tel: 060 27 64 62 Recent News from Armenia's Youth Address: Isahakyan 28, 3rd floor, Yerevan 0009 Orchestra p.14 06 July #27 (1067) 2015 2 www.nt.am The Noyan Tapan Highlights POLITICS Russia 'Negotiating' On New Missile Supplies To Armenia Russia is reportedly holding negotia- tions with Armenia on supplying it with sophisticated Iskander-M missiles that would significantly boost Armenian defense capabilities in the unresolved con- flict with Azerbaijan. "A contract has not been signed yet; negotiations are still going on," the official TASS news agency quoted an unnamed source in the Russian defense industry as saying late on Thursday. The source gave no further details, saying that "all information about such contracts is secret." The Armenian Defense Ministry refused to comment on the report. Serzh Sargsyan told a group of soldiers in Russian-owned power distribution The TASS report came as the December 2013. monopoly. The nonstop protests seem to Armenian parliament formally allowed the "We will have longer-range systems have raised fears in Moscow of the kind of authorities in Yerevan to receive a $200 very soon," Defense Minister Seyran Western-backed revolution that toppled million Russian government loan that will Ohanian said for his part in September Ukraine's pro-Russian government last be used for financing more Russian arms 2014. year. Observers have suggested that the supplies to Armenia. Deputy Defense The Armenian army is currently Russians are now trying to placate dis- Minister Ara Nazaryan told the National equipped with less advanced Scud-B and gruntled Armenians and shore up Assembly that the "export credit" will Tochka-U ballistic missiles that have President Sargsyan's positions. enable the Armenian military to obtain ranges of 300 kilometers and 120 kilome- The latest Russian loan disbursement new and advanced weaponry which it has ters respectively, putting Azerbaijan's vital might also be linked with growing not had in its arsenal until now. Nazaryan oil and gas installations within their reach. Armenian criticism of Russia's 2009-2011 refused to elaborate on those weapons. It also reportedly purchased in 2011 defense contracts with Azerbaijan worth A military source in Yerevan told Chinese AR1A multiple-launch rocket more than $4 billion. The resulting RFE/RL's Armenian service systems with a range of up to 130 kilome- Russian arms deliveries to Baku have (Azatutyun.am) that the money will be ters. included around 100 tanks, over two spent on various types of "offensive and Armenia makes no secret of its readi- dozen combat helicopters and dozens of defensive" weapons. ness to use such weapons against artillery systems. An Armenian media outlet, 1in.am, Azerbaijani oil facilities if Baku attempts Armenian politicians, pundits and claimed on Thursday that Yerevan could to forcibly reconquer Karabakh and even some officials have denounced these specifically get hold of Iskander-M sys- Armenian-controlled territories surround- arms deals, saying that they run counter to tems, one of the most potent weapons of ing it. Russia's military alliance with Armenia. its kind that could have important implica- The Azerbaijani military has dismissed Russian officials have denied any wrong- tions for the military balance in the such threats, implying that it can neutral- doing, insisting that Moscow has not dis- Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. ize Scud-B strikes with S-300 surface-to- rupted the Armenian-Azerbaijani military The surface-to-surface precision-guid- air missiles purchased from Russia in balance. ed missiles were designed in the mid- 2010. Some Armenian military experts Thanks to its massive oil revenues, 1990s and first acquired by Russia's claim that the Russian missiles sold to Azerbaijan has increased its annual mili- Armed Forces in 2006. With a firing range Baku can only be used for anti-aircraft tary spending by almost 30 times during of up to 500 kilometer, they are thought to purposes. President Ilham Aliyev's more than be able to overcome any of the existing Whatever the truth, S-300s would decade-long rule. It is projected to total missile-defense shields. almost certainly be unable to intercept $3.6 billion this year, more than Armenia's Armenian leaders have repeatedly Iskander-Ms. Hence, the significance of entire state budget. hinted at the impending acquisition of the missile deal reportedly discussed by By comparison, Armenia's 2015 Iskander-Ms in recent years. "In one or Yerevan and Moscow. defense budget will be equivalent to only two years, you will be able to proudly say News of the Russian-Armenian talks about $500 million. Yerevan has been try- that the Armenian army possesses emerged amid continuing street protests in ing to offset this huge spending gap with weapons which other states 20, 30 or 40 Yerevan against a controversial electricity Russia weapons delivered at knock-down times our size do not possess," President price hike initiated by the Armenia's prices or free of charge. 06 July #27 (1067) 2015 POLITICS The Noyan Tapan Highlights www.nt.am 3 'Provocative' EU Flags Anger Yerevan Protesters protesters for the past 11 days. This ernment-controlled TV channels as well as angered some of those activists, who start- some commentators from alleging that the ed booing and chanting "Provocateur!" West is behind the "Electric Yerevan" and "Go away!" movement. Hayrikyan and the men accompanying No To Plunder, a youth group that him agreed to remove the EU flags after an launched the protests, and the current ensuing argument and brief scuffle with protest leaders have gone out of their way several dozen protesters. to deny any geopolitical motives behind Hayrikyan condemned their "shameful their campaign, saying that its sole aim is conduct" and defended his actions after- to reverse a more than 17 percent rise in wards. He said that the flags were meant to energy tariffs in Armenia. Paruyr Hayrikyan, a veteran Armenian support lawsuits that have been filed with Davit Sanasaryan, one of those lead- politician and Soviet-era dissident, scuf- the European Court of Human Rights by ers, denounced Hayrikyan, saying that the fled with angry youth activists in Yerevan 16 participants of the June 23 protest on protest organizers are against displaying late on Thursday after joining their non- Marshal Bagramyan Avenue broken up by any foreign flags at the scene of their con- stop demonstration against an electricity riot police. tinuing standoff with riot police deployed price rise with European Union flags. Hayrikyan also said that Europe is a nearby. Sanasarian also criticized those They accused him of giving more symbol of "civilization." "This flag doesn't protesters who responded to Hayrikyan's weight to Russian claims that the ongoing offend anyone except Russian fascist "provocative" behavior with violence. "Electric Yerevan" movement is part of a fanatics and their servants," he told Hayrikyan, who will turn 66 on Western conspiracy to trigger another RFE/RL's Armenian service Sunday, had spent more than a decade in "color revolution" in the former Soviet (Azatutyun.am). Soviet prisons in the 1970s and 1980s Union. Hayrikyan and his loyalists similarly because of campaigning for Armenia's Hayrikyan and about a dozen of his carried EU flags when they joined thou- independence. He has repeatedly and supporters waved EU and Armenian flags sands of people in their first march to the unsuccessfully run for president since the as they made their way into a section of avenue on June 22. Organizers of that Soviet collapse. His Self-Determination the city's Marshal Bagramyan Avenue that march convinced them to put down the Union party was represented in Armenia's has been blocked by the mostly young flags. But that did not keep Russian gov- parliament in the 1990s. 'Electric Yerevan' Leaders Issue Ultimatum Leaders of the protesters continuing A senior police officer at the scene, percent energy price hike. The use of to occupy a central Yerevan avenue on Colonel Valeri Osipyan, was quick to force only caused more Armenians to July 4 threatened to advance further approach Sanasaryan after his speech and march to the avenue later on June 23. The towards the presidential palace if the warn him against escalating their standoff police have since avoided any attempts to Armenian authorities fail to formally with the government. break up the nonstop demonstration. revoke a controversial rise in electricity Speaking to reporters afterwards, Attendance at the protesters declined prices. Osipyan accused the protest leaders of dramatically after Sargsyan announced They gave the authorities until seeking to provoke clashes with riot on June 27 that the government will Monday evening to meet their demands police units deployed nearby in a bid to cover the cost of the price hike for the or face a new, "decisive phase" of their attract more people to their campaign.
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