Japanese Government to allocate restoration equipment to Armenian National GalleryDecember 22, 2009 - 17:58 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - RA Ministry of Culture and Japan International Cooperation Agency signed Tuedsday a program on re-equipping and restoring the collection of Armenian National Gallery. Under the document signed, Japanese Government will provide National Gallery with up-to-date restoration equipment with a total cost of 27 million and 900 Yens. The program is aimed restoring paintings and opening a workshop for wooden exhibits. So far, the Japanese Government has provided modern equipment to Armenian State Philharmonic Orchestra, Matenadaran-Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre after Alexander Spendiaryan and Sports and Concert Complex after Karen Demirchyan. 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. |