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14:02 23/03/06

URARTIAN EXHIBITION IN THE HERMITAGE

Today President Robert Kocharyan received the director of the State
Museum Hermitage, member of Russian Academy of Science Michael
Piatrovsky.

The famous orientalist has mentioned that it’s a pleasure for him to
visit his native city where he was born and where he grew up, and that
it has been 15 years since he last came to Armenia. As he said,
`Although lots of things have changed Yerevan hasn’t lost its face and
style and continues to be a city of museums.’

As it has been informed in President’s press service the scientist
introduced the present state of the Hermitage as well as talked about
the expositional changes. He stated the importance of cooperation
between the museums of the two countries.

In the end Michael Piatrovsky also informed that a Urartian exhibition
is expected to be opened at the end of the year in the
Hermitage. /Panorama.am/