By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, January 27 — At the meeting with Tigran Sarkisian, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, the future of Armenian writer Hovhannes Tumanyan’s memorial apartment in Tbilisi, Georgia was discussed. Armenian Minister of Culture Hasmik Poghosyan, Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan, Chairman of the Writers Union Levon Ananyan and Hovhannes Tumanyan’s [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, January 24 — Armenian Representative Louisa Aghajanyan won the international beauty and talent contest “Miss Grandma Universe 2012,” which was held on January 22 in Sofia, Bulgaria, the head of World League Beauty and Fashion, “Miss & Mister World” International Organizational Committee Ashot Khachatryan informed. According to Ashot Khacahatryan, grandmas of [...]

By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, January 16 — Famous Armenian boxer Arthur Abraham captured the WBO European super middleweight title in a fight with Argentinean Pablo Farias. A combination to the head and body put Farias down early in the fifth round. Soon a second knockdown followed, which put Farias down for a third and final [...]

By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, January 9 — On January 9 is the 88th birthday of the famous Armenian scriptwriter and film producer Sergei Parajanov. Sergei Parajanov was born in Tbilisi, Georgia and graduated from Moscow Institute of Cinematography. He shot a number of films, but is was “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” that made Sergei Parajanov [...]

By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, December 28 – Famous Armenian chansonnier, Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to Switzerland Charles Aznavour addressed a letter of thanks to French President Nicolas Sarkozy after National Assembly’s adoption of a bill penalizing Armenian Genocide denial. “You repeatedly urged Genocide condemnation, reminding that the freedom of speech exludes distortion of [...]

By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, December 12 – Famous Armenian singer and Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to Switzerland Charles Aznavour said his career as a diplomat is developing successfully. Before his Moscow concert that is scheduled for Monday, famous singer spoke about his career of a singer and a diplomat with a Russia-based newspaper. [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, October 27 — Yesterday Former Foreign Minister of Armenian SSR and retired Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Anatoly Mkrtchyan passed away at the age of 80, the press office of the Republic of Armenia reports. The government of the Republic of Armenia expressed condolences to the family of the popular state figure [...]