OPENING AND CLOSING CEREMONIES OF "GOLDEN APRICOT" FILM FESTIVAL TO TAKE PLACE ON LIBERTY SQUARE
The Fourth International "Golden Apricot" Film Festival is remarkable with the fact that the opening ceremony is to be held on the Liberty Square of Yerevan, July 9. The ceremony is scheduled to start at 10:00 PM and the first film is to be demonstrated right there. Commissions of FIPRESCI and the International Organization of Churches shall take part in the festival. Retrospective demonstrations of films by Leos Karaks, Li Chang-Dong, Frunze Dovlatian and Yuri Yerznkian shall take place. A part of the festival shall be dedicated to the newest French films and another, which is called "Europe-2006", shall be dedicated to the Lars von Trier's "Inner Empire" and Steven Freeze's "The Queen"
On a press conference at Yerevan hotel director of the festival Haroutiun Khachatrian informed that VivaCell Company provides for AMD 2 000 000 award for the festival's grand prix and AMD 1 000 000 award for the winners of the "Armenian Panorama" and "International Documentary Film" contests. A new award - "Tree of Life" with AMD 500 000 is also established this year.
The organizers of the festival provide the students and culture workers the opportunity of attending 20-30 film demonstrations for free.
"AZG" daily, as one of the information sponsors of the festival, through July 9-14 shall be published with a special appendix, providing detailed information on all festival events, films, etc.
- By R. Pogosian
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By Aghavni Harutyunian 3"The possibility of restart of the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan for Nagorno Karabakh is becoming greater", announced the experts of Stratfor analytical center, according to "Azatutyun" (Liberty). ...THE ARMENIAN CAPTIVE WANTS TO GO TO RUSSIA?
Azerbaijani "Day.az" agency informed as if Armenian captive Valeri Suleymanian didn't want to return to Armenia and wanted to go to his relatives living in Russia. According to the Committee of the Issues ...THE LEADER OF THE SKINHEADS "TEOSAK" ARRESTED
Russian law enforcers arrested Maksim Martsinkevich, nicknamed "Teosak", to face a charge of rousing interracial hatred. He is charged under article 282 (incitement of hostility or hatred and humiliation ...OPENING AND CLOSING CEREMONIES OF "GOLDEN APRICOT" FILM FESTIVAL TO TAKE PLACE ON LIBERTY SQUARE
By R. PogosianThe Fourth International "Golden Apricot" Film Festival is remarkable with the fact that the opening ceremony is to be held on the Liberty Square of Yerevan, July 9. The ceremony is scheduled to start ...
ECONOMY OF ARMENIA REMAINS "COMPETITIVE ON THE WHOLE"
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THE INSURANCE SETTLEMENT OF THE HEIRS OF 1915 ARMENIAN VICTIMS CONTINUES
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By Aghavni HaroutiunianOPENING AND CLOSING CEREMONIES OF "GOLDEN APRICOT" FILM FESTIVAL TO TAKE PLACE ON LIBERTY SQUARE
By R. Pogosian
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- 1827 Russian forces occupy the castle of Abas-Abad.
- 1829 Occupation of Baberd (Baiburt, Western Armenia).
- 1882 Birth of academician Levon Orbeli in Dzakhkadzor. He died in 1958 in St. Petersburg (Leningrad).
- 1915 A victim of the Genocide, Grigor Zohrab (writer and political figure) was tortured and murdered. He was born in 1861.
- 1921 The Red Army reaches Ghapan.
- 1923 Soviet Azerbaijan`s Revolutionary Committee unilaterally decides to dismember Artsakh to create the Autonomous Region of Nagorno Gharabagh. Red Kurdistan is created to separate this new territory from Armenia (by means of the new Lachin and Kelbajar Districts). The Kurdish entity is abolished in 1930 but the separation is maintained in the Stalin Constitution of 1936.
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