15 WEEKLY CLIENT ALERTS N N ALERTS CLIENT WEEKLY TK&PARTNERS TABLE OF CONTENT 1. BILLS IN PARLIAMENT 2. GOVERNMENT DECREES 3. TAX LEGISLATION 4. ALEXANDER BAZHBEUK-MELIKYAN #YourSupportTeam BILLS IN PARLIAMENT THE CONSEQUANCE OF OMMISION OF THE DEADLINE FOR THE STATE REGISTRATION OF RIGHTS OF REAL ESTATE The draft, approved on June 11, 2020, proposes to consider the omission of 30 days for the registration of real estate rights under the RA Law “On State Registration of Property Rights” as respectable if the person (applicant) justifies the fact of missing the deadline for reasons beyond their control (in the absence of their fault). The deadline for submitting an application for respecting the omission of the state registration deadline is 15 working days upon the elimination date thereof. In case of non-transaction parties, the deadline for submitting the application is 15 working days upon the day when they knew or were obliged to know about the transaction. The bill has been proposed by the Government and is still in the National Assembly. Find more here. #YourSupportTeam GOVERNMENT DECREES THE STATE OF EMERGENCY CONTINUES It has been resolved to extend the state of emergency declared in the Republic of Armenia on March 16, 2020 and extended until June 13 until July 13, 2020. Henceforth, the activities of certain legal entities and individual 1958. Art Lesson entrepreneurs (including sales by individuals in the markets of agricultural products) at the place (address) may be may temporarily banned by the commandant’s decision if there is a doubt about the presence of infection or in case of detection of infection among the employees. Find more here. AMENDMENTS TO THE LABOR CODE The draft, approved on June 11, 2020, proposes to ban the change of essential working conditions of a person who actually takes care of a child but who is not on a leave, during the entire period of care for a child under one year of age under less favorable conditions (except for the title of the position and (or) modes) in the event of changes in production volumes, conditions for organizing economic, technological and (or) work. Find more here. LARGE-SCALE CHANGES IN THE SPHERE OF SUBSOIL USE The draft of legislative changes, approved on June 11, 2020, proposes to obtain the permission of an authorized body in case of pledging the right of subsoil use, as well as to allow the right of subsoil use to be pledged, if it guarantees obligations arising from the contract of a target loan, and if the funds allocated under this loan agreement are designed to be used to perform the work and obligations of the subsoil user. Also, among other things, the draft suggests that in the event of an appeal against an administrative act on the termination or suspension of the right of subsoil use, the execution of this administrative act should not be suspended. Find more here #YourSupportTeam TAX LEGISLATION ENVIRONMENTAL TAX SHARING It is proposed to make sharing from the environmental tax paid by the companies that have the subsoil use right in the Republic of Armenia, and to reflect such sharing in the budgets of those communities where the business activities of these companies have a harmful impact. The amount of sharing will be calculated by the authorized body in the field of environment. The National Assembly at the second reading adopted the draft amendment to the law. Find more. Circus Performance #YourSupportTeam NEW PROCEDURE FOR CALUCLATION OF REAL ESTATE TAX It is suggested to tax real estate based on the cadastral value of real estate close (similar to) to its market value. The tax amount will be calculated based on the real estate close to the market value cadastral valuation procedure. It is planned to switch to the new tax system within four years and fully establish the system from 2024 on. The draft of amendments to the law has not yet been included in the agenda of the National Assembly. Armenian Women Find more here. #YourSupportTeam ALEXANDER BAZHBEUK MELIKYAN Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan was a Soviet Georgian artist, graphic designer and sculptor of Armenian origin. Alexander Alexandrovich Bazhbeuk- Melikyan was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1903, he began his studies at the School of Art and Sculpture of the Caucasus Society for the Encouragement for the Fine Arts. Here he made the acquaintance of a fellow student, Lado Gudiashvili. In 1910, he travelled to Moscow to begin training in the studio of the artist V. N. Meshkov. The following year, he joined the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. In 1913, Bazhbeuk-Melikyan was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army, and spent the World War I years on the Odessa front. In 1917, he returned to Tbilisi and began his own independent artistic career. Between 1922 and 1929 Bazhbeuk-Melikyan taught at the studio of Mose Toidze, following which he taught at the Georgian Academy of Arts till 1938. In the 1920s, Bazhbeuk-Melikyan was an active participant in the Tbilisi avant- garde, collaborating with Futurists such as the poet Kara-Darvish, and Georgian painters such as David Kakabadze. In 1935, Bazhbeuk-Melikyan became friends with the nationalist poets Yegishe Charents and Titian Tabidze, which led to the attention of the NKVD. When, in 1937, the newspaper Dawn of the East published an article naming him an enemy of the people, he was expelled from the Union of Artists of Georgia. Charents and Tabidze were both executed that same year, and Bazhbeuk-Melikyan lived in fear of arrest. That did not come to pass, and when he painted his Spanish guerrillas in support of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, he was rehabilitated. In 1961, he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. Seated girl #YourSupportTeam His family estimates that Bazhbeuk-Melikyan painted over two thousand canvases, but ruthlessly pruned them down to about a hundred. Given his perfectionism, every time he created a new work, he would go over his old paintings and destroy any that did not meet his uncompromising standard. When his daughter Lavinia created a catalogue of his paintings in 1936, there were 110 pieces. In 1966, after his death, there still were only 110 works remaining. Bazhbeuk-Melikyan is noted for his depiction of the female figure: magicians, jugglers, exotically costumed women, and nudes. Like his friend Gudiashvili, he painted voluptuous women, but his were more intensely executed and more passionate. He led a quiet protest against the prudish Soviet authorities who had a puritanical attitude to sex. Influenced by Böcklin, he created carefully finished canvases; later works, inspired by Rembrandt, were more luscious. His works were executed with dynamic and impulsive strokes and impermeated with colour, following the colorists of the previous centuries. The range of subjects Bazhbeuk-Melikyan painted remained fairly stable. He repeatedly varied his favorite motifs. But over the years the 1965. The Magician nature of the emotional structure of his paintings changed. Romantic mystery and ambiguity gradually gave way in the 1940s to a more immediate, impulsive style. The monochrome colour scheme which corresponded to his first perceptions was replaced by a bright multicoloured palette. In 1919, along with Lado Gudiashvili, he opened an exhibition of his works in Tbilisi. In 1935, he held his first solo exhibition in Yerevan. This attracted much attention among the Armenian intelligentsia, who were still unfamiliar with his work. The exhibition was a huge success. Lilya Brik wrote that it was an unexpected joy. #YourSupportTeam In the 1960s, Bazhbeuk-Melikyan made frequent trips to Yerevan, where he met, befriended and encouraged young Armenian artists, including Minas Avetisyan. Between 1964 and 1966, although in poor health, he continued to work. Bazhbeuk- Melikyan Died on 20 July 1966 in Tbilisi. #YourSupportTeam .