The U.S. Embassy organizes jazz days in Armenia. The celebration is titled «Jazz Appreciation Month» (JAM). This year a full schedule of jazz concerts, activities and events will be presented. {BR} Jazz, though born in America, is truly an international phenomenon. In celebration of this, the Embassy has invited the Otar Magradze Trio from Tbilisi to perform on April 11. From April 9-14 Armenia's...

17 138 scripts are kept in Matenadaran. 14 000 of them are written in the Armenian language and about 3000 – in foreign languages. Matenadaran is the biggest institute-depository of the Armenian scripts. {BR} In the words of Director of Matenadaran Sen Arevshatyan, the scripts are either purchased with the funds of a sponsor or gifted. On the occasion of the 1600-th anniversary of the invention...

Philip Kirkorov agreed to give concerts in Yerevan almost without honorarium, the arrangers of the concert tour, David Manukyan LTD administration stated at today’s press conference. {BR} When replying to the question why the tickets are so expensive, the arrangers said that the city administration will receive a profit from the concerts and the sum will be conveyed to the Yerevan Foundation....

Today in the Press house the rewarding ceremony after the famous publicist Tigran Hayrapetyan took place. The grand prize was won by Edgar Araqelyan charges with the case of April 12-13. Nikol Pashinyan, editor of the newspaper “Armenian Times” who was giving the prize to him, said they had been thinking long how to formulate the prize. {BR} Finally they have decided to give him the prize “for using the empty bottle for what it was supposed...

On March 5, 2005 the Film Programs Department of the National Gallery of Armenia with the support of the Public Affairs Section of the US Embassy in Armenia, will launch a Billy Wilder film retrospective. The purpose of the program is to present the artistic heritage of one of Hollywood’s most consistent and endurable filmmakers. 16 different films directed by Billy Wilder will be screened during...

According to the map issued by the center of the environment examination and preservation of the American University of Armenia, the forest area, which made 2848 square kilometers in 1991, will be reduced to 1168 square kilometers by the year 2010.{BR} Head of the department for the foreign affairs of the Academy of Agriculture, lector of the silviculture faculty, candidate of geographic sciences...

”Some years ago the book “Armenians in Turkey” by Tsatour Aghayan was published where the author told about his meetings in Turkey. There is an event in this book about Hakob Martayan, chief editor of the Turkish encyclopedia, whom Ataturk had called “dilachar”, that is – “key of to tongue”, while he himself had called Ataturk “Father if Turks”....

The annual TV contest-festival of children and youth songs “Arevik” will be held in the theater after Gabriel Sundukyan on March 9. On this occasion the administration of the Arevik group rendered a press conference in the House of Journalists. {BR} Arevik contest-festival was founded in 2000 on the initiative of Armen Divanyan. It is a contest open for all the interested from Armenia...

“Beauty of an individual within art – this is the way the images I create can be characterized’’, florist Nadezhda Oganesova said at the exhibition of her works in the UN Yerevan Office. {BR} She doesn’t use a pencil, a brush or aquarelle in her work. She creates images with the dried leaves of different flowers. Let us note that being a biologist she devotes her free...

The Head of the Church of Denmark, Bishop Erik Norman Svendsen visited the Catholicosate of Kilikia on the 8th of February and held a meeting with His Holiness Aram I. The two spiritual leaders discussed issues related to Christian education and inter-church relations.{BR} His Holiness expressed his belief about the importance of renewing the ecumenical movement and making it relevant to people's lives....

After 11 years of “wandering” the Yerevan History Museum will at last aquire its own roof, to be more precise – its museum building. The museum, which has been situated in the building of the former executive committee after A. Spandaryan since 1997, will hence be situated in the new building of the Yerevan City Hall. According Museum Director Armine Sargsian, the move will...

The Head of the Russian Fashion House Vyacheslav Zaytsev will represent his collection of women's clothes for the first time in Armenia in fall. {BR} It has been 2 years since Zaytsev's Fashion House under the trade mark «Rivelex» has been creating only clothes for men. During the press conference in the hall of Armenpress, Mr. Zaytsev announced that there will also be clothes for stout women....

January 27 the Armenian official delegation headed by Prime Minister Andranik Margarian will depart for Krakow, Poland, to take part in the ceremony dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Oswiecim concentration camp. Official representatives of other states are also expected to take part in the measure. On the evening of January 26th the heads of the delegations are invited to a formal...

This Saturday, the Armenian Church remembers St. Sarkis the Warrior and his son, St. Mardiros. It is a moveable feast day that generally occurs between January 11 and February 15. It follows the five-day Fast of Catechumens. Although the Fast is not connected to St. Sarkis, it has become to be associated with this saint who enjoy a special popularity among the Armenians. Sarkis lived during the fourth...

Zaven Khachikyan’s We Come from Childhood photo exhibition opened Wednesday in Yerevan’s Moscow cinema.{BR} 30 pictures of Armenian children were exposed there. Among them were those who have witnessed the 1988 devastating earthquake and Karabakh war. Through his photographs, Khachikyan shows his world vision and his attitude toward reality. “I deal with real life”, he says.

Famous Armenian songstress Gohar Gasparyan who enjoys “Nightingale of the Armenian Song” title is celebrating her 80th birthday today. It’s the first anniversary in her life she celebrates without husband – Tigran Levonyan. By a strange coincidence today is the birthday of Tigran levonyan, too. {BR} The official measures devoted to the 80th anniversary of Gohar Gasparyan will...

”Split and breakdown of people’s will endanger Armenia like the other post-Soviet states”, writer and publicist Armen Hovanisyan thinks. {BR} Representatives of various social unions have today gathered in the hall of National Academy of Sciences. They are alarmed for the attitude of state towards culture in Armenia. Both in the Constitution in force and in 3 constitutional bills...

Alan Hovhanness chamber orchestra is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. A free concert is to be held Tuesday night in Yerevan Chamber Music House. “I accomplished as conductor after working with this orchestra. We have performed more than 50 musical compositions, 30 of which were premiered”, the orchestra conductor Meruzhan Simonyan said. Russian American piano player Arton...

The first international visual exhibition “Art Expo-Art Caucasus” was held in Georgia on November 1-3. Painters from Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan partook in it. 30 artists of Armenia took part in the exposition. Canvases of painters kept in 6 museums were represented to the exhibition. {BR} ”For the first time the artists of South Caucasus states assembled for a joint exposition...

A press conference on premiere of ”Macbeth” performance took place in Dramatic Theatre after Hrachya Ghaplanyan in Yerevan. Armen Khandikyan, chief producer and director of theatre, performer for Macbeth Arthur Utmazyan and stage manager Karen Gigoryan etc were present. {BR} Khandikyan was asked why he had decided to stage “Macbeth” exactly. He said it corresponds with the...

There will be no surprise during “Erebuni-Yerevan” festival. Everything will be fulfilled under the old stereotype.{BR} The organizers and the producers of the festival invited to Municipality said with pleasure that their enthusiasm is the same, only one thing changed – during USSR period a chief organizer of the festival alone was paid to a wage whereas the organizers and producers...

Now, when prominent Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho is in Armenia, nobody remembered the fact that his Fifth Mountain book was translated from Portuguese to Russian by Muscovite Anahit Emin, Armenian famous poet Vahan Teryan’s great-granddaughter and poet Gevorg Emon’s granddaughter. Anahit, 28, has been graduated from Moscow Institute of International Relations. She knows five languages....

Librarian Day is celebrated today. There were 1082 libraries in Armenia in 2003, 10 of them in districts, 34 are territorial, 134 municipal, 858 rural and 43 are for children. In comparison with 2002 the number of libraries decreased by 22. Mainly village libraries reduce year by year. {BR} ”The building for Gegharquniq library is in a sad state. Conditions fall short of today’s standards....

This is the second day Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho is in Armenia at the invitation of Hamazgayin culture organization. It was not so easy to get into Writers Union’s building Wednesday to see the famous Brazilian writer. A huge crowd gathered outside the building. {BR} A man in black looked like a priest sat in the corner of the stage. It was Paulo Coelho. The writer’s books have...