Humorist Aramais Sahakyan dies at 77March 14, 2013 - 16:44 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Renowned Armenian writer, poet and humorist Aramais Sahakyan died on March 14 at the age of 77. PanARMENIAN.Net learned the news from Yerevan’s Kanaker-Zeytun medical center, where Sahakyan spent the past several days. Aramais Sahakyan was the editor-in-chief of satirical "Vozni" (Hedgehog) newspaper, author of “Tsitsaghi tun" (House of Laughter) TV-program. His works were translated into more than 30 languages. 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 | 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. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |