STEPANAKERT, JULY 29, ARMENPRESS: July 27-28 with the support of the NKR Ministry of Culture and Youth Affairs and the National Assembly of Armenia, world famous violinist Sergey Khachatryan was in Stepanakert with a concert program. “I enjoyed the warm reception of the Artsakh spectator, and Artsakh nature just astonished me, it seems there is an inner tie between that marvelous nature and my inner world,” the distinguished musician told Armenpress. 

YEREVAN, JULY 29, ARMENPRESS: In the first quarter of 2010 the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute had 130 225 visitors. Deputy director of the museum-institute Seda Barsamyan noted that this year the number of visitors has increased as compared with the same span of the past year when 129 906 people visited the museum. The majority of visitors are foreigners. 

YEREVAN, JULY 28, ARMENPRESS: The end of the first exhibition of Arshile Gorky will be held August 1 in Gafesjian Art Center, Yerevan, on the occasion of which the center has organized a two-weak free entrance to the exhibition hall. On July 31 and August 1 a day of open days will be announced, and the participants will be comprehensively presented Gorky’s works. Program Coordinator of the center Astghik Marabyan told Armenpress that Arshile Gorky’s exhibition has been open since the opening day of the Art Center – from November 9, 2009. 

YEREVAN, JULY 28, ARMENPRESS: The 31st republican conference of the young oriental studies specialists launched today at the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. 

STEPANAKERT, JULY 27, ARMENPRESS: President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan today in capital Stepanakert partook at a solemn ceremony of opening personal exhibition of Paravon Mirzoyan, painter, Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia, Central Information Department of the Office of the Artsakh President reported. 

YEREVAN, JULY 27, ARMENPRESS: The excavations of the Shengavit were accomplished today. Director of the Historic-Cultural Heritage Scientific-Research Center affiliated to the Armenian Culture Ministry Hakob Simonyan told Armenpress that all the expectations and hopes connected with the excavations were justified at their best. 

STEPANAKERT, JULY 27, ARMENPRESS: About 30 young people from Artsakh, Yerevan and Diaspora will participate in the excavations of Tigranakert August 10-15. “Our goal is to invite such young people who are aware of history, are majoring in archeology or are political analysts or international scientists. That is to say our prior issue is to invite the interested circles,” head of the Youth affairs department of the NKR Culture and Youth Affairs Ministry Tigran Atanesyan told Armenpress. 

YEREVAN, JULY 26, ARMENPRESS: The Culture and Youth Affairs Ministry of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic has summed up the results of the photo-contest of “Artsakh through my Eyes”; 15 year-old Hayk Mayilyan has been recognized a winner. The latter presented an extract from the every day life of Artsakh villages. Head of the NKR Culture and Youth Affairs Ministry Tigran Atanesyan told Armenpress that the contest had distinct standards – literary quality, peculiarity of work, etc. 

YEREVAN, JULY 26, ARMENPRESS: Culture consultant of the Iranian embassy to Armenia Mohammad Shakiba visited today “Erebuni” historic-archeological reserve-museum. 

YEREVAN, JULY 26, ARMENPRESS: An NGO studying Armenian architecture will start new calculation of historic monuments in Artsakh in the first quarter of 2011. Chairman of the NGO Samvel Karapetyan told Armenpress that the first studies in Artsakh he made still in 1980s and the second one after the war which ended only in 1998. “At that time I was working alone and it was very hard work. Now we are an organization which a bit facilitates the work. We are planning to again conduct calculation but because of being busy it is being postponed,” Karapetyan said. 

YEREVAN, JULY 23, ARMENPRESS: The Yerevan History Museum in the first half of the running year had more than 6 000 visitors. Director of the museum Armine Sargsyan told Armenpress that the museum has no issue of acquiring new materials, during the recent period every time new materials are being received mainly as donations. The donations are being made by Yerevan people, diaspora Armenians. They provide different documents, photos, personal things. The museum cooperates with archeologists and the materials found as a result of the excavations in Yerevan are also being provided. The samples are being presented both during temporary and permanent expositions. The museum keeps 89 000 samples. 

YEREVAN, JULY 22, ARMENPRESS: Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan met with the 30 scholarship holders of the “Louys” Foundation. Director of the educational programs of the foundation Zhaklin Karaaslanyan told the reporters that the vision of the “Let’s Develop Armenia” program was discussed with the Armenian president, issues on applying the acquired knowledge in Armenia has been discussed. 

YEREVAN, JULY 22, ARMENPRESS: In the fall of the running year Armenian culture will be presented in the Novi Sad town of the Republic of Serbia. Press service of the Armenian Culture Ministry told Armenpress that the ministry is carrying out a great number of partnership programs the one of which will be implemented in Serbia. As part of the event, exhibitions, film showings and book presentations will be organized. 

LOS ANGELES, JULY 20, ARMENPRESS.Jerry Bruckheimer, of all people, shouldn't have to worry about maintaining a production deal. And Disney says he doesn't have to, with executives labeling the prolific filmmaker's lucrative arrangement with the studio as secure despite a recent string of theatrical misfires, Armenpress reports citing Reuters. 

YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS: Within the framework of the ‘Armenian Panorama’ competition of the 7th ‘Golden Apricot’ International Film Festival Lithuanian-Armenian film director Marat Sargsyan’s ‘Lernavan’ short film was awarded two prizes- The Hrant Matevosyan Award and the prize by the British Council. 

YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS: The results of the book gathering, announced February in Beirut, were concluded today at the Armenian National Library. 

YEREVAN, JULY 19, ARMENPRESS: National Armenian Educational and Cultural Union’s Students forum kicked off in Yerevan with the participation of 35 Armenian students from different communities of Diaspora (the USA, Lebanon. Iran, Syria, Brazil, Britain, Australia, Canada, Armenia). The goal of the event is to gather Armenian students studying in different countries of the world. 

YEREVAN, JULY 17, ARMENPRESS: Allen Hughes, who is on a visit to Armenia within the framework of the 7th ‘Golden Apricot’ International Film Festival, is famous for his films, shot in association with his brother- Albert Hughes. 

YEREVAN, JULY 16, ARMENPRESS: The Arte French-German TV channel showed July 14 a 42-minute film about Nagorno-Karabakh. An official from the Permanent Representation of the NKR to France told Armenpress that the shown film is a part of the cycle of films under the heading “The Mountains of the World”. The director of the picture is Jean-Marie Barre. 

YEREVAN, JULY 15, ARMENPRESS: The origami collection exhibition, dedicated to the memory of the 1945 nuclear bombs victims of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was launched today in the UN Armenia Office within the framework of the Armenian-Japanese “Peace Lantern” Project. The exhibition was directed to the promotion of the Armenian-Japanese relations and rise in the level of public awareness about peace.