  Armenia’s Areni to host wine festival on October 8   September 18, 2011 - 18:16 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia’s village Areni on October 8 will host Areni Wine Festival. This year the organizers promise participants more sorts of wine and a variety of competitions . Nune Manukyan, Areni Fest Foundation director told a PanARMENIAN reporter, that a competition, addressed to tourists, will be held within the festival, “In the competition called Armenia through your eyes” the attending tourists will present labels for wine, drawn by themselves. The best one will win a prize.” In addition, this year a separate competition of home-made wine will be held. The winner will be selected by the participants. At the same time the best wine factory will be selected by the professional jury, which includesf professional sommelier Serzh Ghukasyan, invited from France.  Top stories The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says. Defense Minister Suren Papikyan has visited the southern Armenian province of Syunik, the Defense Ministry reported on March 18.   Partner news |  Latest news Russia to begin assessing migrant workers' speaking skills  Rosobrnadzor is planning to change the Russian language exam for migrant workers and include an assessment of speaking skillsArmenian, Saudi Foreign Minister meet in Riyadh The two commended the positive dynamics of the development of political dialogue between Armenia and Saudi ArabiaPashinyan: Azerbaijan’s proximity shouldn’t worry border residents At the same time, he said that he “does not guarantee [the security of villagers] one hundred percent”.U.S. doesn’t see Russia as contributing to peace in Caucasus Patel made the remarks when asked about the implications of Russia’s withdrawal of peacekeepers from Karabakh. |
