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New Online Cultural Platform Launched in Armenia

staff — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:54:30 +0000

A new Armenian website for culture — arteria.am — was launched at the Khnko Apor Children’s Library in Yerevan today. Armenian Book Center NGO is the organization responsible for the site, which was developed with the assistance of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Eurasia Partnership Foundation

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“Return”: International musicians arrive in Armenia to perform at festival

staff — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:56:18 +0000

Musicians from Germany, Belgium, Denmark and USA will perform during the fifth “Return” Classical Music Festival ongoing since October 4, through October 24. The name chosen for the festival “Return” is to symbolize the aim of the festival - to bring together under one roof those Armenian classical musicians who have left for other countries during the last two decades. “Music is the revelation of life, love, kindness and the divine

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‘I Thought that Armenian Heros Don’t Humiliate Unarmed, Defenseless Men’

staff — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:01:37 +0000

The civil hearing. or people’s court, titled “Preaching violence and racism under the auspices of the informational war — Who does it harm?” organized by the South Caucasus Court of Human Rights in Armenia began on Friday with a screening of two short clips comprised of found and edited footage and one cartoon. One of the films was a clip showing scenes from the Nagaorno-Karabakh War, accompanied by music.

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“Civil Feast”: ANC vows seven-day sit-in at Freedom Square

staff — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:52:54 +0000

In the latest of by its efforts to regain the widespread popularity it enjoyed beginning in the autumn of 2007, the radical opposition Armenian National Congress has called for a seven-day sit-in, or as the party calls it, 24-hour rallies, in Freedom Square. Several tents have been pitched, under the eyes of a token police presence, on the site where an early morning raid by police of an opposition encampment sparked a day of clashes that led to 10 deaths on March 1, 2008. Supporters of ANC leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan filled the Opera House yard and chanted “It has started”, “Now”, “Struggle, struggle, until the end” under pouring rain while the former president called for discipline during the “civil feast-sit-in rally”

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Aznavour to visit Armenia with Nicolas Sarkozy

staff — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:17:08 +0000

the course of his visit to the South Caucasus region, French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be accompanying the renowned French-Armenian singer and song-writer, and Armenia's ambassador to Switzerland, Charles Aznavour, ITAR-TASS reported. Commenting on the great singer's recent concert in Paris, the Russian news agency lists the names of the French singers and musicians (Julienne Claire, Benabar, Helen Segara, Andre Manoukian, opera singer Hasmik Papyan, pianist Vardan Mamikonyan) who performed at the event.

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JOAN AND THE VOICES – Armenian Film Will Debut at Busan International Film Festival!

staff — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:10:00 +0000

JOAN AND THE VOICES, a feature film by Mikayel Vatinyan, a participant of DAB 2007, is selected to have a World Premiere at Busan International Film Festival, in Flash Forward world cinema competition. It’s a film debut by director Mikayel Vatinyan, produced by his co-writer and lead actress of the film, Armine Anda. In October 2007 after the participation in DAB, JOAN AND THE VOICES was selected by Asian Project Market (former PPP) to be the 1st Armenian project to be presented in APM.

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Armenian Independence Day Fallout: Reactions to Sept. 21 celebrations range from admiration to anger

staff — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:55:57 +0000

The celebrations of the 20th anniversary of Armenia’s independence have given rise to numerous assessments ranging from utter admiration and enthusiasm to skepticism and anger.

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Armenia Expands Famous Manuscript Repository

staff — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:39:53 +0000

President Serzh Sarkisian and the top leaders of the Armenian Apostolic Church inaugurated on Tuesday a new, more sprawling building of Armenia’s world-famous Matenadaran repository of ancient manuscripts. The Matenadaran, officially called the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, was founded in 1959 to house and maintain one of the world’s richest collections of handwritten books spanning a broad range of subjects, including history, philosophy, medicine and literature

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Armenian musician says better to live abroad

staff — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:02:53 +0000

Prominent Armenian jazz player Tigran Hamasyan has said it is better to live outside Armenia and help the country from abroad. At a press conference in Yerevan on Thursday, he said that it would be impossible to live and create in Armenia. “I cannot live in Armenia permanently.

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Québécois and Armenian Artists Take the Stage in Montreal

staff — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:26:01 +0000

From 8 to 10 pm on Oct. 1, Québécois and Armenian artists will be coming together for a gala concert in Montreal, Canada, according to the concert site . According to the website , Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay paid a visit to Armenia in Oct

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