 Nizhny Novgorod hosts International Stroganoff Festival of designers from CISOctober 22, 2009 - 20:52 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - International Stroganoff Festival of designers CIS member states opened on Thursday in Nizhny Novgorod. Works of about 300 students and graduates from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine are presented at the qualifying stage of the festival. The festival is organized by the Union of Designers International Association, Russian Academy of Arts, with support Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Fund of CIS member states. As the press secretary of Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Fund of CIS member-states, Alexander Kalugin told a PanARMENIAN.Net one of the purposes of the festival is to promote a common cultural space in the Commonwealth. The results of the qualifying round will be summarized on Friday, September 23. The solemn ceremony of awarding the winners and laureates of the festival will be held on November 26 in Moscow.   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 |  Related sections Latest news Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights  The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 11 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine.Second round of Armenia-Azerbaijan talks set for May 11 The second round of negotiations between the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will take place on May 11.About 32,000 rally in Yerevan to deman Pashinyan’s resignation About 31,700 people attended an opposition rally on Thursday, May 9 in Yerevan demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.Armenian, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister to meet in Almaty Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov will meet in Almaty. |
