April 25, 2005 - 09:08 AMT
CENTER OF ARMENIAN CULTURE TO OPEN IN RYAZAN
A Center of Armenian Culture will be founded on the basis of the Ryazan State Pedagogic Institute after S. Yesenin (RSPI). The decision was made during the meeting of Adviser of the Armenian Embassy in Russia Vladimir Gyurdzhinyan and head of the economic department of the RA Embassy with the teaching staff and students of the RSPI. The meeting was held within the frames of the delegation visit to the Ryazan Oblast initiated by the Armenian community of Ryazan. As editor of Aragatu newspaper Albert Poghosyan informed the Center was initiated by the Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Bryusov and the RSPI with the purpose to restore cultural ties between the institutes of higher education of the Ryazan Oblast and Armenia. The idea received the support of the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of Russia and the government of the Republic of Armenia. Presently the official documents are being prepared, Regions.ru reported.