Yerevan hosted 2009 State Award CeremonyJanuary 21, 2010 - 12:49 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The 2009 State Culture Award Ceremony was held in the presidential residence on January 21. The literature award was bestowed on Vahagn Grigoryan for his "River of Time" novel. Music award was handed to Yervand Yerkanyan for his "Chronicon". Architecture awards were given to a group of architects (Stepan Nazaryan, Levon Christaphoryan. Hayk Ayvazyan, Vahandukht Yegheryan, Grima Hovsepyan, Albert Hayrapetyan and Grigor Azizyan) for projecting the new administrative building of Armenia's Defense Ministry. The authors of "History of Armenian Art" catalogue (Ararat Aghasaryan, Murad Asatryan, Vigen Ghazaryan and Hravard Hakobyan) also received state awards. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |