Armenia's Sargsyan honors author Peter Balakian with presidental awardMay 26, 2016 - 17:56 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - President Serzh Sargsyan on Thursday, May 26 awarded author Peter Balakian for his efforts to raise awareness of the Armenian Genocide, the presidential press office reports. During the ceremony, Sargsyan hailed Balakian's work, noting that In his documentary “Who Killed Armenians?”, the author revealed the Armenians' pain through artistic power. The 2015 President’s Award took place Thursday at the Presidential Palace. Sargsyan and the representative of the Robert Pogossian and Sons Foundation, philanthropist from Diaspora Albert Pogossian presented the awards to the winners for their significant contribution in a number of fields. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. 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 | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |