Books & Arts

The last film of the Canadian-Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, named “Admiration” is included among the 19 films, which will be competing in the film festival of the Cannes. The film is from drama genre about young people, who are trying to socialize with each other via modern means of communication, specifically through internet and SMS. …

1. Noro2. Vardan Badalyan3. R. P.4. David Minasyan5. Lilu6. Armat Best group of the year 1. Armenoids2. Number 53. VO.X4. Apricota5. Hay Tgherk Best folk album of the year 1. Aida Sargsyan – “Return”2. Hamlet Gevorygyan – “Following the tracks of our song”3. Gevorg Dabaghyan – “Lost songs from Paradise”4. Anna Mailyan – “Ethno Vocal” …

Armenian film producer Tigran Keosyan (42 years old), who lives in Moscow, has been taken to hospital to operate on his heart. According to doctors’ preliminary information, Keosyan has got a heart attack. This information was approved at hospital and a decision was taken to operate on his heart. Currently Keosyan is recovering and his …

The arts council of the culture ministry of Armenia has selected 4 films out of 14 scenarios to be filmed this year. The director of the Armenian national film center, Gevorg Gevorgyan, says that they have selected Armen Vatyan’s “White horse’s summer” film for children, which will be filmed with Russian specialists and film-makers either …

Miclos Harashti, who is in charge of OSCE media independence issues, has expressed his concerns about the fact that Gala TV company of Gyumri may be closed down under the pressure of the authorities. He is also concerned about the fact that the editorial office of “Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” opposition newspaper has been exploded. “The recent …

“Arevik” junior ensemble is already back in Yerevan. Arevik took the second position at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on December 8. Arevik was in the leading position from the beginning of voting however later 11-year old Alexey Zhigalkovich from Belarus became the winner of the song contest. Armenia …

The deputy director of Tretyakov gallery of Moscow, Ekatirina Seleznyova is a very attractive woman. Her manner of speaking, ideas, ability to listen to people attentively remind about the fact that the biggest treasure of the Russians is not the gas and oil, but the people. Namely, the Russian intelligentsia representatives, who can be very …

Yesterday an exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of painter Gevorg Bashinjaghyan was opened in the National Gallery. Museums and private collectors have provided their paintings for the exhibition. Gevorg Bashinjaghyan is the first Armenian painter, who painted the Mother Nature. The painter, who was born in one of the remote villages of Georgia, in …

Mathematician and historian, academician and major Armenianologist Claude-Armen Mutafyan is one of those people, who always do their job with great professionalism and expects the same from his colleagues. Claude Mutafyan has brought to Yerevan his father’s painter Zareh Mutafyan’s exhibition, which was held in the National Gallery. “When my father visited Armenia in 1971 …

According to the last year government decision in the area of Khor Virap about 6 hectare area was given to “Hin Erivan” holding for the construction of “Noyan Tapan” museum complex. The archaeology and demographic institute is trying to prevent this destructive decision of the government and the final decision of the executive is not …