On The Road: Armenia Featured In CNN Documentary

ON THE ROAD: ARMENIA FEATURED IN CNN DOCUMENTARY

News | 15.12.14 | 12:42

CNN has taken a glimpse into the life of modern-day Armenia as part
of its latest On the Road series broadcast over the weekend.

A documentary presented on CNN International on Saturday attempted
to explore Armenia from different aspects, including the innovative
brainpower of its young people, the nation’s love of chess, the
difficult history of Armenians and their traditions.

Yerevan’s Tumo Center for Creative Technologies is featured as one
of the great learning environments for young Armenians facilitating
the nation’s innovation drive. The CNN crew also visited the Chess
Academy in the Armenian capital where parents were witnessing their
kids “matching wits” in a competition, emphasizing the fact that
chess is included in school curricula in Armenia.

The authors of the documentary took trips to the monastery in Geghard
and the country’s only surviving pagan temple in Garni as part of
their quest for the spirit of Armenia, emphasizing that Armenia was
first to adopt Christianity as its official religion back in 301 AD.

They also tasted traditional Armenian khash with a young political
satirist.

Emphasizing the fact that Armenia is home to only 3 out of some
10 million Armenians who live in the world today, the documentary
showcases the Birthright Armenia experience of several young Diaspora
Armenians visiting their historical homeland as part of the program.

When showing Tsitsernakaberd in Yerevan the authors of the documentary
emphasize that it is a memorial to the Armenian Genocide in which 1.5
million Christian Armenians were massacred in Ottoman Turkey. Footage
of the Tatik-Papik (“We Are Our Mountains”) statue, one of the most
recognizable symbols of Nagorno-Karabakh, also appears in the film
for a moment.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress