Renowned Claudia Cardinale, who co-starred in Henri Verneuil’s Mayrig (Mother) film, will attend the opening ceremony of the festival. The actress will be awarded a silver copy of a thaler made by Sergei Parajanov during the years of his imprisonment.

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian commented on Artsakh defense army’s report on Azeri attempt at subversive attack in the environs of Chaylu settlement, Mardakert region. “Before every summit conference with Armenian President, Baku was attempting to frustrate negotiations through provocative statements and threats of war. This time, Azeri’s failure to gain their end triggered an open provocation after June 17 trilateral meeting.” “Obviously, Azeri side’s actions were pre-planned. Azeri authorities lost no time in organizing subversive operation once they left negotiation hall,” the Foreign Minister emphasized, adding that sudden attacks under the cover of night are characteristic for Azerbaijan.

The recent bulk of incomprehensible and apparently inadequate information in the Armenian mass media, in our opinion, pursues several objectives, the principal of which is to disorient the Armenian society and to assure that there are certain forces crucially interested in the destruction of the Armenian state. All this fits into some Conspirology now discussed by almost everyone who in some way observes the situation in the region.

Education and qualification improvement were in the focus of IT companies’ leaders who gathered for a meeting in Tsaghkadzor. Bilateral contacts should be established to develop industry and education, according Vache Kirakosyan, head of the IT department at the Armenian Economy Ministry. “Enterprises with rich resources are working to this end. Synopsis and National Instruments apply interesting schemes for cooperation, while minor companies have to anchor hopes with badly-educated university graduates Education system should be reorganized to develop technologies in Armenia,” he said.

Boxing: 3 Armenian boxers – Hovhannes Davtyan, Hrachik Javakhyan and Arthur Khachatryan – broke through to the semifinal of the European Championships going on in Moscow, Russia. Vanes Martirosyan (28-0, 17KOs) won the battle of the unbeaten junior middleweights with a unanimous ten round decision over Joe Greene (22-1, 14KOs) to retain the NABF/NABO super welterweight titles. The official scores were 96-93, 96-93 and 98-91.