Books & Arts

On October 15-18 the Ukrainian Nemiroff company, which has a very good position in the European market of Vodka, organized an info tour for journalists from CIS countries. The tour program included visits to the company factories and Nemiroff town of Vinnica region. The name of this town is translated as “non-quiet” even though the …

In May 2002 an agreement was executed between the Armenian government and the Cafesjian Family Foundation, according to which Gerard Cafesjian would sponsor and build the Cafesjian Museum [in Yerevan]. The deadline of finishing the construction was 2007. According to the agreement, during these five years the foundation would be exempted from all taxes. The …

Famous artist Alexander Kalyagin, who has played the roles of Charley aunt, Lenin, played as a clear clown, mask with the Et Cetera theatre led by him in Yerevan. He was a hooligan in Alfred Jearre’s Ubyu King staging, who comes to power easily and ruins everything. Alfred Jearre (who lived his short life drinking …

On September 25 in the Sports and Musical Complex after K. Demirchyan the concert of the Russian pop star Alla Pugachyova will take place. This unprecedented show is taking place in the framework of the singer’s last concert cycle. Prior to that, however, the organizers of the show had several great occasions of getting astounded …

The duduk is an amazing musical instrument; it seems that the duduk itself decides for whom it opens its universal secrets. Of course, anyone can learn to play the duduk, but not all are gifted to pass on the thoughts and emotions of the duduk. From that aspect, duduk player Vahan Harutyunyan is one of …

– My love to films started due to my father, who was Henrik Malyan’s pupil in Yerevan and dreamt of making films. In our house in America filmmakers were always respected and since my childhood I listened to the names of Beknazarov and Malyan. – Had you taken the film recordings with you? – We hadn’t …

At the Golden Apricot Georgi Ovashvili’s tragic movie “The other side” was showed, the hero of which is a young refugee boy, who became victim as a result of the Georgian – Abkhazian – Russian conflict. Tedo decided to go to his family village despite everybody’s warnings that it’s very dangerous and he may die. …

The Foundation of Independent Information Means (Armenia), the Three Million monthly magazine (Armenia) and the 168-Zham newspaper (Armenia) are presenting the “Unprecedented Armenia” photo contest. The title of the contest is the name of the photo project, on which the famous photo journalist Ruben Mangasaryan used to work on during his whole lifetime. He used …

For a person who self-expresses through art the bottom-line is freedom. This thought is incessantly emphasized in various contexts by a professor of the Beautiful Arts Academy of Naples, theorist of art Francesco Gallo, who has arrived in Armenia on these days with a very beautiful purpose. He wishes to hold an exhibition of pieces …

The Golden Apricot movie festival, which will start its work on July 12, has already publicized the composition of the juries, which will be judging various nominations. As the project manager Stamboltsyan said the composition of the jury proves the respect of the festival. Besides the participants of the festival the composition of the jury …