Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has offered condolences over the passing of legendary French-Armenian singer Charles Aznavour.
Legendary French-Armenian crooner, Armenia’s Ambassador to Switzerland Charles Aznavour has passed away at the age of 94, according to France Press.
UNESCO’s committee on the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict held a session September 27 at the UNESCO headquarters where among others, the issue of granting The Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley Enhanced Protection was debated. The Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Armenia, the foreign ministry said.
Armenia will participate for the first time in the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington D.C., USA, due in summer. Participants are currently in the active phase of preparations for the event. Ethnographer Levon Abrahamyan, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, who is in charge of coordinating the country’s participation in […]
The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro has won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards in the US.
Femme au Beret et a la Robe Quadrillee (Marie-Therese Walter)”, a 1937 painting by Pablo Picasso, has fetched £50 million (S$91.2 million) at a London auction in Sotheby’s, Business Times reported.
Film director and scriptwriter Albert Mkrtchyan, the younger brother of acclaimed actor Mher Mkrtchyan, passed away on February 28, just one day after turning 81 years old. The Mher Mkrtchyan Artistic Theater told ARMENPRESS that the filmmaker was battling a long time disease. Albert Mkrtchyan was born in 1937 in Leninakan, present day Gyumri. He […]
As part of an ARMENPRESS Special presenting the most prominent and interesting stories from the life of legendary composer Aram Khachaturyan, this time we present the story behind the acclaimed composer’s meeting with English comedian Charlie Chaplin.
We are excited to launch the third edition of the ADAMI Media Prize for Cultural Diversity in Eastern Europe.
Grammy nomination of Mansurian and Orbelian is the generalization of their creative achievements.
