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29 Dec 2007
Azg Daily, December 29
An Armenian culture center is to be opened in Venice in 2008. The center is to specialize in organization and coordination of culture events, science conferences, exhibitions, concerts, etc.
Culture Minister of the Republic of Armenia Hasmik Pogosian said on a press conference on December 28 that Armenian eminent businessmen shall take part in the funding of the center's activities. The Minster said that later the center shall also focus on summarizing the Armenian culture programs in Europe and realizing science researches.
28 Dec 2007
ARKA, December 28
A space station is planned to be installed in Armenia for composing accurate topographic map of the country’s territory, Armenian State Real Estate Cadastre Chairman Manuk Vardanyan said.
“No appropriate official agreement has been signed yet, but negotiations with Roskosmos on the station installation in Armenian territory are under way now”, he said.
In his words, a cooperation memorandum is planned to be signed in early 2008 with Roskosmos, Russian Federal Space Agency.
28 Dec 2007
ARKA, December 28
The opening ceremony of an overpass on the Barekamutyun Square and tunnel on the crossroads of Orbeli-Baghramyan took place today in Yerevan. “I am sure that every year we should realize programs that will make better our capital city,” RA President Robert Kocharian said during the event.
According to the RA President, large-scale construction will continue in Yerevan. “Yerevan is richer than we think,” President Kocharian said.
Barghramyan-Kasyan-Kievyan-Baghramyan-Orbeli was designed in the 1980s, but we were able to implement the project only now,” said the mayor of Yerevan. “Our architects have done a tremendous job and have given the Armenian capital an architectural complex built with great responsibility.”
AMD 1.8bln ($5.9mln) was allocated from the RA state budget for the traffic centre construction. AMD19.
27 Dec 2007
Armenpress, December 27
A new documentary on the Armenian genocide, made in the German language by a film director, Karen Gevorkian, is called “Genocide without comments.”
The Armenian language version will be ready by mid-February. The director said the first intention was to shoot the film in seven languages and screen it in Europe and the US.
He said before shooting the film he studied carefully a string of materials on Armenian genocide kept in German archives. Parts of the film were shot in Western Armenia (now in eastern Turkey).
Karen Gevorkian said the film features a prominent German intellectual Wolfgang Gust, who dedicated many years of his life to revelation and publication of documents evidencing the Armenian Genocide.
19 Dec 2007
Armenpress, December 19
Armenian National Library will post in the Internet a complete list of all Armenian books published in 1512-1850 and also the English-language list of books published between 1512 and 1800.
This is part of a project codenamed as Hakop Meghapart, who printed the first Armenian book in 1512. The website will be at www.meghapart.am.
David Sarkisyan, the director of the National Library, said the list will be useful for researchers engaged in Armenian studies.
He said the online Russian-language version of the Armenian epic poem, David of Sasson, will be also available
18 Dec 2007
Armenpress, December 18
China’s capital city, Beijing, will host Days of Armenian Culture on December 21-27. The event is envisaged by a bilateral agreement on cultural cooperation between China and Armenia for 2005-2010.
The Armenian delegation will be headed by culture minister Hasmik Poghosyan.
The Armenian Days will feature Yerevan pantomime theater, pop and opera singers, acclaimed musicians and ensembles.
In 2007 October a marionette theater from the Chinese Funzian played for Armenian audience in Yerevan.
13 Dec 2007
Armenpress, December 13
An Armenian film director, Harutyun Khachatrian, one of the founders of the Golden Apricot film festival, was selected by a jury to be awarded the Dutch Prince Claus award for 2007.
The certificate and a monetary award of 25,000 euros will be handed to him on December 14 by the Dutch ambassador to Georgia and Armenia.
The Golden Apricot festival office was chosen to receive the award for his contribution to promoting dialogue between conflicting nations.
The film director is the second Armenian to be awarded the prize. Earlier it was given to an Armenian comedian actor Mikael Poghosyan.
The Prince Claus Fund was inaugurated in 1996, named in honor of Prince Claus of The Netherlands. It receives an annual subsidy from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Fund has presented the international Prince Claus Awards annually since 1997 to honor individuals and organizations reflecting a progressive and contemporary approach to the themes of culture and development. Recipients are mainly located in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Honorees are determined by a jury of honorary chairmen who are experts from fields relevant to its mission of culture and development.
The most important consideration of the jury is the positive effect of a laureate's work on a wider cultural or social field.
The Principal Award of € 100,000 is presented during a ceremony at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam in December every year. The additional awards of € 25,000 each are presented in the Dutch embassies in the countries where the recipients live in December and January.
11 Dec 2007
www.panorama.am, December 11
German cultural days are announced from December 11 to 18 in Yerevan. According to the German Embassy in Armenia, the organizer of the ceremonies is by German Federation Republic. It is planned to carry out some exhibitions, reports, and German films with Armenian and Russian subtitles will be shown in National Gallery.
Soon Christmas holidays will start and German - Armenian Christmas party will be organized and special competitions for the pupils. On the last day of the ceremony German and South Caucasus classical music evening will take place in Chamber Music House named after Komitas.
The mission of the German days is to raise interest of the public towards German culture.
10 Dec 2007
Armenpress, December 10
Armenia has scored the second highest points of a runner-up with 8.50 at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Rotterdam, Netherlands Saturday, which saw Belarus winning for the second time with Alexey Zhigalkovich and his song S druzyami.
Armenia is also the most successful debuting country ever reaching second place The other debutants Georgia and Bulgaria also did quite well finishing fourth and seventh respectively while Lithuania finished only 13th.
Countries that have achieved their best results so far are Serbia and F.Y.R. Macedonia while Greece, Portugal and Belgium have reached their worst placings so far.
Belarus has received points from all countries but Cyprus; all the other countries gave at least four points and four times the twelve points. The runner-ups from Armenia were obviously polarizing: they received seven times the twelve, twice the ten, once eight, seven and five - and four times not a single vote.
Although with 17 countries competing it is very likely that a country receives points from all countries (since every country has to give points to ten out of 16 other countries), only Russia and Serbia managed to do so – they finished third and sixth respectively.
05 Dec 2007
ArmInfo, December 5
Museum of Armenian history will take part in exhibitions in Russia, the USA and Greece in 2008.
As director of the museum Anelka Grigoryan told ArmInfo correspondent two exhibitions are scheduled in Hermitage next year. The museum will also take part in the exhibitions in New-York and Athens. Relevant contract has been already made with Hermitage, Metropolitan Museum and Byzantine Museum.
She also added that in 2007 Museum of Armenian History took part in 11 exhibitions within the framework of the Armenia's Year in France.
04 Dec 2007
KarabaghOpen, December 4
The airport of Stepanakert will restart operating by autumn 2008, President Bako Sahakyan said in yesterday's news conference. "Most people we met confessed they do not visit Karabakh often because no planes fly there."
He said he has invited specialists from the Department of Civil Aviation of Armenia and they have already made a conclusion.
The president said as of today the airport of Stepanakert can receive only helicopters. He said soon the available equipment will be installed. The rest of equipment will be brought from Gyumri where the airport has been modernized recently for international flights. New equipment costs millions of dollars, therefore old equipment will be installed in the Stepanakert airport.
There will be no international flights for the time being because the permission of Azerbaijan is required for that. "For the time being, we will launch Stepanakert-Yerevan and Yerevan-Stepanakert flights. Air travel will help revive not only tourism but also life in the country,"
the president said.
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