Armenian music bands to participate in Batumi's "Golden Fleece" carnivalJuly 28, 2009 - 15:53 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - On August 20-23, Batumi will host the first "Golden Fleece" carnival, under the patronage of Georgian Tourism Department. The event is financed by Conformance company. According to Georgian Tourism Department Chairman Peter Kankava, "Golden Fleece" carnival will promote cultural relations and tourism among participating countries. So far, music bands from 9 courtiers: Romania, Bulgaria, Armenia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Greece, Poland and Latvia agreed to participate. Carnival's prize fund comprises Euro 10 000. The carnival will be conducted annually in a winner country. 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. |