Forty Days of Musa Dagh performance to be staged in KarabakhMay 21, 2011 - 13:34 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - On May 21, President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan met with a group of cultural workers and actors who arrived from the Republic of Armenia and the USA to organize a literal-musical performance drawing on Franz Werfel’s “The Forty Days of Musa Dagh” novel. At the meeting the President stressed the importance of joint efforts of Armenia, Artsakh and the Diaspora for mass coverage of the pan-national events, as well as increasing ionternational community's awareness of the history of the Armenian people. Minister of culture and youth affairs Narine Aghabalyan and head of the NKR Writers' Union Vardan Hakobyan partook in the meeting, the Central Information Department at Artsakh President' Office reported. Top stories 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”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |