Surb Khach Monastery to become Crimean ethnographic museum department?November 28, 2009 - 17:51 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Starting December 1, 2009, Surb Khach Monastery will be registered as Crimean ethnographic museum department, Analitika.at.ua reported, citing the head of the National Security and Defense Committee of Ukraine's Supreme Rada, Anatoliy Hrytsenko. Armenian clergymen hope for Ukrainian Eparchy of the Armenian Apostolic Church not to be deprived of Surb Khach Monastery. Surb Khach Monastery, a medieval Armenian monastery located on the Crimean peninsula, has for centuries been an Armenian spiritual center and a place of pilgrimage. ![]() ![]() As a result of floods in Armenia’s northern Lori and Tavush provinces, 17 bridges, including five large ones, have collapsed. David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has met with Stephan Schütz, Executive Partner at Gerkan, Marg and Partners. The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. ![]() ![]() Partner news | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |