Yerevan hosts ceremonial opening of "Armenia 2009 Winter Festival"December 17, 2009 - 18:57 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Today, December 17, Yerevan hosted a concert program dated to ceremonial opening of "Armenia 2009 Winter Festival" to last till January 6. ' I hope the festival will become a good tradition and color the live of Armenians in cold winter days. I'm sure the initiative will provide collaboration opportunity with festival organizers- Kanachastan NGO,'' Yerevan Mayor Hagik Beglaryans' statement said. As Kanachastan NGO director, Raffi Niziblyan informed, the festival will feature a number of events, including New Year trees' exhibit in Lovers Park, winter march, holiday games and national dishes' exhibition. "Armenia 2009 Winter Festival", held for the third time, was organized with the assistance of RA Economy and Culture Ministries, Yerevan Mayor's Office, Bogossian Gardens foundation, and festival co-organizer, Deem Communications. Top stories Ara Aivazian said Azerbaijan continues the traditions of Turkey after seizing territories and forced Armenians out. 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”. Partner news | International cybercrime ringleaders arrested in Armenia, Ukraine Europol, Europe's crime agency, has arrested four ringleaders of several cybercrime networks that used botnets. Armenia skips CSTO Defense Ministers meeting A meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization countries began in Almaty. Armenian, Iranian foreigh policy chief talk over the phone The Foreign Minister of Armenia once again expressed condolences to his counterpart on the death of the President of Iran. Armenia, U.S. customs authorities to boost assistance with new deal The government has approved an agreement with the U.S. government on mutual assistance between the customs authorities. |