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 [...]
By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, October 25 — On October 22, in the framework of the Sao Paulo 35-th international film festival, the opening ceremony of works by famous Armenian filmmaker Sergey Paradjanov took place. The opening ceremony was attended by the Armenian Ambassador to Brazil Ashot Eghiazaryan, provincial and municipal government officials, representatives of the [...]
By Eva Sahakyan YEREVAN, March 21 – The Republic of Armenia took part in the 31st International Paris Book Fair (Salon du Livre de Paris 2011), which was held in Paris on March 18-20, the Armenian Ministry of Culture informs. The Armenian delegation was headed by the Armenian deputy Minister of Culture Arev Samuelian. According [...]
By Eva Sahakyan YEREVAN, November 19 — On November 18, famous Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian won the first prize in the World Fast Chess Championship, which was held in Moscow on November 16-18. According to the the official website of the Russian Chess Federation, Aronian gained 24.5 points. Azerbaijani chess player Teymur Rajabov, who won [...]
By Eva Sahakyan YEREVAN, September 7–Armenian archeologists discovered an ancient burial place of a horse during archeological excavations on the territory of the Republic of Armenia. Hakob Simonian, the director of the Research Center of Cultural and Historical Heritage, told the journalists about this. According to him, the excavations were found in the Nerkin Naver [...]
By Victoria Vardanyan YEREVAN, August 25– The legend of Armenian stage and screen Vladimir Msryan died on Tuesday at the age of 72. Msryan was reported to have been suffering from leukemia and died at the hospital. He underwent heart surgery five years ago. Armen Khandikyan, artistic director of the Yerevan State Drama Theater, whose leading actor [...]
