www.aravot.am had information that Armen Mazmanyan, the rector of Yerevan Institute of Theater and Cinema, and Hasmik Poghosyan, the Minister of Culture, had a joint travel enterprise related to Italy, in particular. During a conversation with us, Armen Mazmanyan confirmed that he really had a share in the Festa Tour [...]
On May 19, at 6 p.m., the Museum Night, which Armenia will also join, will commence all over Europe for the 8th time already. The European Night of Museums has been organized since 2005 on the initiative of the French Ministry of Culture and sponsored by the Council of Europe, [...]
Rapper H.T. Hayko sings a new song about Mashtots Park, the protest of the Bryusov students and generally about freedom fighters. The song is a protest against today’s reality, the lost patience of people and real freedom. During a conversation with www.aravot.am, rapper H.T. Hayko, answering a question why [...]
Hasmik Poghosyan, the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Armenia, who sheltered on the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) list for proportional representation, has recently started to fire or make a set of representatives of the ministerial system to submit their resignations. Sona Harutyunyan, the head of the Modern [...]
Thousand copies of the book “Karabakh Diary, Green and Black” written by Civilitas expert and Journalist Tatul Hakobyan is published in Arabic in Beirut. The book has more than 500 pages and since August 2008 it was published more than five times in Western Armenian (with classical orthography), Russian and [...]
On April 23, at 12:00 the temporary exhibition titled “The Book as a Witness of the Genocide” will be opened in the Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute. The exhibition is organized on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Armenian printing and the proclamation of Yerevan as 2012 World [...]
The Stop Movie Festival planned to be held in Gyumri on April 12 was boycotted and the author of the initiative, the head of the Center of Peacemaking Initiatives, Georgi Vanyan, was beaten up and was declared a traitor. All videos about him on the internet are with cursing comments. [...]
Photographer from London Anastasia Taylor-Lind is awarded a prestigious international prize for the project National Womb: Baby-Boom in Nagorno-Karabakh, the initiator of which is the non-commercial Photographers’ Organization Center inSanta Fe. In her work, Taylor-Lind presented the state program of birth rate encouragement in the NKR, according to which, the [...]
Today presentation of the book The Armenian Genocide in Literature in English took place at the press hall of Noyyan Tapan agency. Author of the book Rubina Peroomian, a researcher and a professor at the University of California, informed journalists that this was her third book. The first one [...]
Today we have gotten a message from the initiative Young People Who Have Served in the Army about Hovhannes Ishkhanyan’s book The Day of Discharge, in which it is assessed as a “big disgrace and clownery.” It is also mentioned that “this story or this work is obsessed with anti-republicanism [...]
Today the presentation of the Armenian Diaspora virtual museum, www.armdiasporamuseum.com, took place at the Ministry of Diaspora of the Republic of Armenia. The project aims at representing the history of the Armenian people, reasserting the idea “Armenians are one nation, regardless of the place of residence and the motherland of [...]
Armenia has withdrawn from the 2012 Eurovision contest, which takes place in May in Azerbaijan, because the two countries fought a bloody war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in the 1990s, which left at least 25,000 people dead. Author of The Eurovision Song Contest: The Official History, John Kennedy O’Connor, [...]
Singer Shushan Petrosyan was pleased with the decision of the Public TV not to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The singer said about that during a press conference at Hayeli (mirror) Club today, “I was at Dorians’ concert yesterday and I was saying every moment, ‘Thank God, these [...]
Today the Armenian Youth Foundation (AYF) organized an action outside the British Embassy in the Republic of Armenia to transfer the remains of goddess Anahit’s statue from the British Museum. They handed the statement on bringing the remains of goddess Anahit’s statue back to the motherland signed by the youths [...]
30 historic and cultural monuments of the city of Yerevan have been destroyed so far, 9 are intended to be transferred and 5 are under threat of suffering the same fate as the above-mentioned. This bad condition of preserving monuments of the capital has urged the Union of Initiatives for [...]
We finally found out today that Armenia would not participate in the Eurovision Song Contest that will take place in Baku. In that regard www.aravot.am tried to find out what the rock band Dorians that had also expressed the wish to participate in the contest thought about this decision. The [...]
A press conference was convened at Azdak Club today on the topic Will Armenia Go to Baku for Eurovision or Not, which Armenian stars Alla Levonyan and Arsen Grigoryan, aka Mro, participated in. The woman singer explained her negative notion in the following manner, “I was against it from the [...]
At the initiative of the Dur (door) multicultural NGO, February has been declared the month of support for Turkish writer, publicist, publisher and human rights advocate Ragıp Zarakolu. The publicist remains in prison for pro-Armenian statements and textbooks. Today Armenian writers and intellectuals collected another stack of books in the [...]
Today the presentation of a catalog in Armenian and Italian called The Saint Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church in Naples took place at the Italian Embassy in Armenia. It is a result of cooperation between the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia and the Italian Embassy in Armenia. [...]
A group comprised of intellectuals, architects and soldiers has decided unilaterally to build the Noyyan Tapan complex on the treeless and grassless hill peak in the vicinity of Haghtanak (victory) Park in front of Mount Ararat. Today Martun Harutyunyan, the president of the ARAME company said about this at [...]
