The French Senate passed the bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide with 127 votes for and 86 against. The executive body voted for the bill whereas the Law Committee of the Senate voted against. The discussion lasted about 7, 5 hours during which senators made speech speaking for and against the bill. However, […]
Hollywood best music in Armenia
Armenian Youth Symphonic Orchestra already has an overloaded concert schedule till 2014. 2012 will also be full of concerts both in Armenia and abroad. On January 26, 2012 the Orchestra had a concert joint with London Symphonic Orchestra (Director- Valery Gergiev). Sergey Smbatyan, head of the Symphonic Orchestra informed that there is a concert on […]
The monument will be reconstructed
Still in 1834 a monument devoted to memory of 1131 Russian soldiers dead during Russian -Persian war was built in village Oshakan, Armavir region. The monument is in the list of state historic and cultural monuments of Armavir Region of the Republic of Armenia. During March-April, 2011 on the initiative of Ministry of Culture of […]
Martiros Saryan House-Museum to be repaired
In 2011 12000 people visited famous Armenian painter Martoros Saryan’s House-Museum. Ruzan Saryan, Director of the Museum, mentioned that compared with 2010 number of visits in 2011 increased with 1000. The most interesting visitor of 2011 was Sezh Sargsyan, president of Armenia. During his visit the same issues regarding the Museum were presented. Ms. Saryan mentioned: […]
Parajanov had inborn talent
“If I were to mention the best 50 films of the world the first would be Sergey Parajanov’s “The Color of Pomegranates”, mentioned Gevorg Gevorgyan, Director of Armenian National Cinema Center. Today is eminent film director Sergey Parajanov’s birthday: an artist who was banned to shoot films and whose works undergone Soviet censorship. G. Gevorgyan […]
Stepanakert Airport… opening soon
News coverage on the Stepanakert Airport, has recently drawn everybody’s attention, and mass media’s particularly; hence, the employees of “Tourinfo” magazine had left for Nagorno-Karabakh to find out some details just on the spot from head of department of civil aviation, Mr. Atbashyan. According to the “Stepanakert Airport Construction and Development” project handed to us, […]
Wine Festival in Areni Village
From immemorial times wine has been symbolic for Armenians and now it is the ornament of Armenian tables. Praise to wine which helps us to come back to the roots of mankind and reclaim the wisdom of our grandfathers. Armenia can easily be called the homeland of wine. Armenian wine has over 3000 year old […]
Junior Eurovision 2011 in Armenia
This year Armenia hosts “Junior Eurovision 2011” Song Contest which will be held in Sport and Concert Complex after Karen Demirchyan in Yerevan. Junior Eurovision Song Contest was created in 2003 by European Broadcasting Union (EBU) who also produced the Eurovision Song, Eurovision Dance and many other contests. We should remember that last year Vladimir Arzumanyan brought victory […]
Opening the Ropeway from Halidzor to Tatev Monastery
One of the very first emotions that is awakened in us for the Armenian highland is the admiration of nature, though having an experience in working with tourists we must say that they are attracted by the places of interest than in nature, as once an Australian tourist, Ruth Forbes said: “I am much interested in […]
Conference on “Vishap” stone monuments took place
Conference on issues of “Vishap” stone monuments and carrying investigations launched at National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia on October 28. During the Conference scientists presented their reports on what worships were the monuments devoted to, their era and what they represent. Pavel Avetisyan, Head of Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of […]