St. Petersburg festival to host Yerevan’s Stanislavski TheaterMarch 25, 2011 - 15:56 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Meetings in Russia, 13th international theater festival in St. Petersburg will host Yerevan’s Stanislavski Russian Dramatic Theater, the art director of the theater stated. As Alexander Grigoryan told a news conference in Yerevan, on April 29, the theater will stage Classmates performance, which draws on a play by Yuri Polyakov who’ll be present in person at St. Petersburg premiere. Meetings in Russia, St. Petersburg-hosted international theater festival was launched in 1998. Through its history, the festival featured almost every Russian-language theater from former USSR. 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 | Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan. Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”. 41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience. Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. |