“Artsakh FA” football team will hold a training camp on February 11-23 in Tengiz Sulakuvidze sports academy in Tbilisi, Georgia. The press service of the club reports.
During the camp, “Artsakh FA” will hold 4 friendly matches with the top teams of Georgia, and the games are scheduled for February 13, 16, 19 and 22.
To add, “Artsakh FA” has left for Tbilisi today with its own new bus.
The Speaker of the Armenian parliament Ararat Mirzoyan received on Thursday of the Ambassador of Lebanon to Armenia Maya Dagher. As the parliament press service reports, highly assessing the current level of the two countries’ friendly relations, Ararat Mirzoyan underlined the important role of Lebanon’s Armenian community in the political, public life of the country, as well as in deepening of bilateral relations. The Speaker noted that the Parliamentary Friendship Group is formed in the newly elected legislative body and most of the newly elected deputies are concerned over the strengthening of the relations with Lebanon.
Maya Dagher, in turn, attached importance to the role of the Armenian community and the six Armenian MPs in the Lebanese Parliament and two ministers. Maya Dagher also emphasized the two peoples’ centuries-old and firm friendship and expressed readiness for promoting the steps to be taken in enlivening of the activity of the Parliamentary Friendship Groups and the expansion of the two countries’ cooperation.
The sides touched upon the development of democracy, the protection of human rights and freedoms, the improvement of the legislative field and other issues of bilateral interest, the release said.
Former Mayor of Yerevan Vahagn Khachatryan thinks that the amendments to the Tax Code are dictated by a strict, fiscal policy.
The economist believes that the Tax Code would be good if it was compiled by businessmen, not as always, the Finance Ministry and the State Revenue Committee.
Khachatryan also thinks justice and equality are not the same thing.
According to Mr. Khachatryan, although democratic reforms are in the right direction, they are not satisfied with the pace. Of course, Khachatryan also realizes the objective reasons for the slow pace.
At this week’s Critics’ Circle Awards Neil McPherson, the long-serving artistic director of the Finborough, deservedly won the Special Award for services to theatre.
The Finborough, one of the tiny jewels in London’s theatrical crown, is especially skilled in the field of timely revivals, with its astute selections of unjustly neglected gems from the 20th century. Beast on the Moon (1995) is just such a play; Richard Kalinoski’s drama is a powerful exploration of family, memory and legacy, as it follows two young survivors of the Armenian genocide to new lives in America.
Another factor in favour of Jelena Budimir’s production is a sparkling lead performance from Zarima McDermott, an actress about whom we are surely destined to hear considerably more. McDermott plays Seta, a 15-year-old who arrives in Wisconsin in 1921 as the “picture bride” of 19-year-old photographer Aram (George Jovanovic).
He selected her photo from those sent by the Mission in Istanbul and they married “by proxy”, but a well-intended muddle means that Seta wasn’t the woman he thought he’d picked. It’s the first blip of many in an uneasy relationship, burdened as it is by so much undiscussed trauma on both sides.
McDermott’s open, expressive, worried face sparkles with life and inquiry, and sometimes rage. Mr Tomasian, as Seta refers to him for many years, has fiercely traditional expectations of a wife, and these do not include cuddling a homemade doll instead of concentrating on “marital relations”. Their sparse living room is dominated by a family portrait with the faces of all the figures cut out. Only late on do we, and Seta, learn the terrible fate that befell Aram’s family at the hands of the Ottoman Central Committee.
The second half takes a different tack, with the arrival of an orphan boy called Vincent (adult actor Hayward B Morse). The play loses its way a little here, as we miss the powerful scenes between husband and wife, but what this section demonstrates so movingly is Seta putting down roots and blossoming in a place that welcomes hard-working immigrants of all nationalities. If that doesn’t have something to say to us today, I don’t know what does.
Until February 23
Lara SarkissianPhotography Azha Ayanna Luckman
On , an extraordinary session of Yerevan Council of Elders will be convened.
The agenda of the session is the privileges on taxes and duties.
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FRANCO-HARMENIANS VISIT TO HIS ENORMOUS FATHER
Today, two French-Armenian Armenian scholars
Clot Mutafia and Remon Georgia visited H.E. Aram A. to the Catholicos.
During the meeting, reference was made
to the revealed presence of Armenology. His Holiness emphasized the Armenian studies region
His Holiness expressed the need to give special importance and within this context,
that the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia continues on the path of various works
contribute to the development of Armenian studies.
Let us know that prof. Q:l:oht:Mutafia and Remon Georgia to them
they occupy an important place in the field of Armenian studies. They are located in Antilias
from the mainland to participate in the conference dedicated to “Metaxe Chambu”.
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The Literary Museum in the Russian city of Voronezh is hosting on 12 January an event titled “Osip Mandelstam’s Armenian frescoes” dedicated to the 128th birthday anniversary of the renowned Russian poet, translator and literary critic, Russian media said.
Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the eight months of his stay he rediscovered his poetic voice and was inspired to write poems and an experimental meditation on the country and its ancient culture.
During the cultural event, the students of the Voronezh Armenian Sunday School will present the writer’s poems dedicated to Armenia and his “Journey to Armenia” travel narrative.
An exhibition titled “Mandelstam in Voronezh” will conclude the cultural meeting.
A permanent exhibition dedicated to the poet’s life and creative activity opened in the Voronezh Literary Museum in 2011.
More than $38 million to be invested in Armenia’s airports
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YEREVAN, DECEMBER 27, ARMENPRESS. The government of Armenia has approved the 2018-2022 master plan of Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport and Gyumri’s Shirak airport.
Caretaker minister of transportation, communication and IT Hakob Arshakyan said at the Cabinet meeting that the master plan gets updated once every five years in accordance to the contract.
The plan envisages nearly 38,2 million dollars investments that will result in ensuring ICAO standards, reach IATA service C level, improve security and conform with new international standards.
A 2800 meter-long section of the Zvartnots airport’s runway will be renovated, among others.
Reconstruction will also take place in Shirak airport, which will enable to ensure conditions for the operations of Airbus A-320 and Boeing B 757-200.
Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan