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  • Re: Armenia: Future Projects and Developments

    Here is a great example of how dim witted and unimaginative our diaspora is.

    Diaspora representatives want to erect world's largest cross in Armenia

    13:45, 06.01.2015


    YEREVAN. - Armenian authorities will help to choose location if
    Armenian communities agree to install the world's largest cross in
    Armenia, Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan toldArmenian News-NEWS.am.

    The Armenian communities of France and Lebanon have an intention to
    install the world's largest cross.

    "The authors of the project will decide on the amount of investments
    by themselves, but the Diaspora representatives should first
    coordinate the projects with Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II,"
    she said.

    Asked about her attitude towards the initiative, the Minister said she
    cannot have negative opinion on something "that is related to
    Christianity, will promote tourism in Armenia and will make Armenia
    popular in the world".


    Armenia News - NEWS.am
    Hayastan or Bust.

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    • Re: Armenia: Future Projects and Developments

      YEREVAN. - Armenian authorities will help to choose location if
      Armenian communities agree to install the world's largest cross in
      Armenia, Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan toldArmenian News-NEWS.am.

      The Armenian communities of France and Lebanon have an intention to
      install the world's largest cross.

      Originally posted by Haykakan View Post
      Here is a great example of how dim witted and unimaginative our diaspora is.

      Diaspora representatives want to erect world's largest cross in Armenia

      I am trying to work out who more dimwitted tha Armenian authorities or diaspora "good doers".

      Maybe both !!
      Politics is not about the pursuit of morality nor what's right or wrong
      Its about self interest at personal and national level often at odds with the above.
      Great politicians pursue the National interest and small politicians personal interests

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      • Re: Armenia: Future Projects and Developments

        Originally posted by londontsi View Post
        I am trying to work out who more dimwitted tha Armenian authorities or diaspora "good doers".

        Maybe both !!
        You make a good point but unfortunately this is not math where two negatives equal a positive..this is two negatives equals a unmistakable lack of knowledge, taste and imagination.
        Hayastan or Bust.

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        • Re: Armenia: Future Projects and Developments

          yeah I'm not too excited about the concept either. I doubt the tourism draw is going to be enough to justify the cost which is bound to be over 5 million. More if you don't want a basic design. That money can be used to complete the Martakert-Vardenis Road this year. Armenia already has more than enough religious attractions, I doubt this is going to be the difference maker. Not to mention its bound to get surpassed by another one somewhere else a few years after its erected.

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            Gazprom Armenia to invest $49.3 million in construction of new sport and education complex in Yerevan

            YEREVAN, April 14. /ARKA/. Gazprom Armenia CJSC will invest $49.3 million in construction of a new sport and education complex in Yerevan, the press office of the city municipality reported on Tuesday after the city council's session, where the council members approved the construction project.

            The complex will be built in the suburb of Yerevan, in Tsarav Akhbyur Street.

            The complex will consist of a school, kindergarten, an indoor swimming pool, a gym, a playground for mini football, an indoor artificial ice rink, an underground car parking place and leisure zone.

            The project is estimated to create 236 new jobs. Gazprom Armenia CJSC, a subsidiary of Russia's Gazprom, is the sole importer and distributer of Russia's natural gas in Armenia. ---0-----
            - See more at: http://arka.am/en/news/sport/gazprom....ZHimC11n.dpuf
            Azerbaboon: 9.000 Google hits and counting!

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            • Re: Armenia: Future Projects and Developments

              Just shut down Metsamor already, the last thing Armenia needs is a nuclear disaster. If something terrible happens, my pleas to nuke Armenia and put the people out of their misery are gonna come true..

              Id rather Armenians live without electricity than see the whole damn region, our homeland, be destroyed by this plant. Its a danger to Armenia, Turkey, and probably the whole damn world.
              Armenian colony of Glendale will conquer all of California!

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              • Re: Armenia: Future Projects and Developments

                Very true, its a disaster waiting to go off......it must be shut down and decontaminated.

                Talking about nuclear power.....how about acquiring nuclear bomb. Imagine, Armenia has nukes but Turkey has not. We can talk to them then.
                Russia should give us a few.
                B0zkurt Hunter

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                • Re: Armenia: Future Projects and Developments

                  Originally posted by Chubs View Post
                  my pleas to nuke Armenia and put the people out of their misery are gonna come true
                  Its a danger to ... Turkey
                  Is this the start of an another anti-Armenian rant? Your statements are really beginning to call into question your motivations and allegiance. With that danger to Turkey part, your either just spreading disinformation or you've been reading too many Turkish sponsored articles.

                  As a structural engineering, I can assure you Metsamor is fine, and is far ahead in terms of safety compared to other facets of Armenia's infrastructure. The IAEA already approved Armenia's extension of the life of Metsamor beyond 2016 and claimed with the proper work, which Armenia is investing $300 million into, its more than fine to extend the life of the plant to 2026 and beyond. The IAEA would know more about Nuclear safety than the fascist Turks, or the technocrats in Brussels. The plant is working in perfect condition and with safety. There's no need to get melodramatic.

                  If an earthquake were to strike, there are far bigger concerns such as Yerevan's poorly built gray Soviet apartment complexes housing hundreds of thousands which, even excluding poor construction due to corruption, were not designed for an earthquake above 6.0 (7 or 8 on MVD scale). That should be our collective concern as Armenia. Not some Nuclear Power plant 30 km outside the capital whose breakdown might cause cancer to 12 people 40 years later.

                  Also, I don't know how much you know about Nuclear Plants, but there's no magic turn off switch on Nuclear Plants. Decommissioning a power plant takes years, and in the case of Metsamor would cost over $300 million dollars. Building a new identical one would cost about 2 billion dollars.

                  Metsamor might have been a top concern if Armenia was some wealthy Western European Nation with a big budget and not much to worry about. But given the fact that Armenia has many more significant and urgent challenges that need to be addressed immediately, the Nuclear Power Plant is pretty low on the list.

                  In the Energy Sector, Armenia's biggest concern should be becoming energy independent to not be a pawn and so easily manipulated by foreign powers, specially Russia when it comes to energy. A big part of this is developing Renewable energy, and making the most of Hydro Power Energy.

                  Overall, the most urgent current Infrastructure topics for the Armenian state are:


                  Opening of the Abkhaz Railway
                  Iran-Armenia Railway
                  North-South Highway
                  Energy Independence
                  Replacement of Soviet apartment complexes
                  Development of Gyumri and Vanadzor
                  Martakert-Vardenis Highway
                  Last edited by Mher; 04-16-2015, 09:05 PM.

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                  • Re: Armenia: Future Projects and Developments

                    Medzamor Adequately Safe, Say Nuclear Experts

                    YEREVAN (RFE/RL)—Armenia’s Medzamor nuclear power plant poses an “acceptable” level of risk to environment and can “in principle” operate beyond its design life span, international nuclear safety experts said on Thursday following a two-week inspection conducted there.

                    While identifying several “good plant practices” at the Soviet-era facility, the experts working under the aegis of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recommended specific measures which they said would further boost its operational safety.

                    “There is no industrial activity that does not pose any risk, but I think the results of our inspection show that this risk [at Medzamor] is acceptable,” Gabor Vamos, head of the IAEA’s ad hoc Operational Safety Review Team (OSART) for Armenia, told a news conference in Yerevan.

                    The Armenian government solicited the OSART mission about two months ago, citing the need to learn lessons from the grave accidents at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. It also hoped to ally renewed domestic and international concerns about Medzamor’s safety.

                    Like Japan, Armenia is situated in a seismically active region prone to powerful earthquakes. Local environment protection groups say the Fukushima disaster should be a wake-up to the authorities in Yerevan to shut down the Medzamor plant as soon as possible.

                    Armenian government officials and nuclear experts dismiss such concerns. One of their arguments is that the plant has undergone numerous safety upgrades since one of its two reactors was reactivated in 1995.

                    The OSART mission that arrived in the country on May 15 comprised 11 experts representing the IAEA, the European Union, as well as eight individual countries, including the United States, Britain and France. They spent two weeks inspecting Medzamor’s reactor and other facilities, assessing the plant’s safety and maintenance procedures and interviewing its personnel.

                    Vamos, who is from Hungary, said his team has submitted its preliminary findings to the Armenian government and will release a final report within three months. He said they contain three dozen proposals and recommendations and seven “good plant practices” that will be recommended to the nuclear industries of other nations for consideration.

                    According to Vamos, one of those examples is the fact that the Medzamor staff take wide-ranging safety measures on their own without relying on private contractors, as is the case in many nuclear plants.

                    The IAEA stressed this fact in a separate statement issued on Thursday. “This unique approach resulted in staff acquiring deep knowledge and skills to successfully operate and maintain new equipment,” it said.

                    The statement also said, “The plant has developed a specific, comprehensive system supported by procedure to mitigate the consequences of a station blackout by providing power to systems and components necessary for cooling the reactor in emergency conditions.”

                    On the downside, Vamos noted that Medzamor technicians do not quickly identify all equipment deficiencies that require urgent repairs. The Armenian authorities should work out a more rigorous mechanism for keeping the plant’s equipment in an “ideal state,” he said.

                    “The [Medzamor] administration expressed a determination to address all the areas identified for improvement and requested the IAEA to schedule a follow-up mission in approximately 18 months,” read the IAEA statement.

                    The Vienna-based nuclear watchdog also stressed that the OSART mission to Armenia was not a full-fledged “regulatory inspection.” “Nor is it a design review or a substitute for an exhaustive assessment of the plant’s overall safety status,” it said.

                    Medzamor’s sole functioning reactor generates about 40 percent of the country’s electricity. The EU classified VVER 440-V230 light-water reactor in the 1990s as one of the “oldest and least reliable” of 66 such facilities built in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

                    The Armenian government has pledged to decommission it by 2017, in time for the construction of a new and more powerful nuclear plant at the same site over 30 kilometers west of Yerevan. Work on that ambitious project was supposed to start in 2012.

                    However, the head of Armenia’s State Committee on Nuclear Safety, Ashot Martirosian, indicated last August that the construction could be delayed by several years, suggesting that the existing reactor will function longer than planned.

                    Asked to comment on such possibility, Vamos said, “There are examples in the world of nuclear reactors, including VVER-440 reactors, having their life spans extended, but to our knowledge, there is no official plan yet to prolong the exploitation of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant,” “Therefore, that issue was not considered during our inspection.”

                    “But in principle, there is such technical possibility,” added the Hungarian nuclear expert.

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                    • Re: Armenia: Future Projects and Developments

                      Is this the start of an another anti-Armenian rant? Your statements are really beginning to call into question your motivations and allegiance. With that danger to Turkey part, your either just spreading disinformation or you've been reading too many Turkish sponsored articles.
                      Actually it was more or less a sarcastic reference to the rant i made when under the influence of prescription medication.

                      Your statements are really beginning to call into question your motivations and allegiance
                      TRAITOR TRAITOR GET HIM HATE GET HIM YEA TRAITOR GET HIM NOW HATE!!!1


                      Okay guys, Im coming clean. Im actually Azerbaijani. My name is Enver TORKGAGLULGUGLU...I am from Ganja, I live near the border with Ermenistan. I was assigned by Aliyev himself to head the Azerbaijan Internet Defense Force. I have infiltrated this website, I am a paid shill

                      Forgive meee!!!1


                      I am well aware of the approved extension, massive upgrades, safety approvals, the new plant for 2026, etc. There are skeptics, and their arguments are valid and need to be considered, but I do sincerely believe regardless of how many upgrades, that plant is still a danger to the region due to its location. The fact that the Tork-Monkey-Donkey pipeline leaves no room Armenia shouldn't force the country to rely so much on nuclear energy, especially a fairly risky source. Hopefully Armenia does begin to diversify its energy sources, and the new plant can be constructed without any issues...

                      I agree that structure of Armenian cities and living areas are of the utmost concern. If only Armenia wasn't just a country made up of a city and a lake...If only it was just a little more, with a little more resources to make it a viable state for Armenians


                      Lets invade Turkey. /s (There, I put the sarcasm mark)
                      Last edited by Chubs; 04-16-2015, 09:22 PM.
                      Armenian colony of Glendale will conquer all of California!

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