Yerevan ramps up funding for chess schools

Emil Lazarian 2020

Save

Share

 14:22, 8 February, 2020

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 8, ARMENPRESS. Yerevan has increased funding for the city’s chess schools for 2020, Yerevan Chess Federation Chairman Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, who is also a parliamentary majority lawmaker and head of the Parliamentary Committee on Science, Education, Culture, Diaspora, Sport and Youth Affairs said in a statement on social media.

In 2020, coaches at the chess schools will get 60% higher salaries, while the wages of administrative staffers have been raised 25%.

A total of 285,000,000 drams is allocated by the City of Yerevan to the chess schools for 2020.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan




Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS