AZG Armenian Daily #186, 30/09/2006

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ENGLISH-ARMENIAN INTERNET DICTIONARY WINS IN EL-LANGUAGE NOMINATION

For three years in a row, a pan-Armenian contest with 8 nominations in
electronic technologies is being held in Armenia. The contest of this
year that was included in the list of a month of IT events took place
yesterday at "Moscow" cinema.

"Spyur" business directory was the winner in el-business nomination,
the website of the Council of Support to IT Development won in
el-management nomination, the website of "Golden Apricot" 2d Film
Festival won in el-culture nomination, English-Armenian internet
dictionary (Prof. Eduard Manukian) won in el-language nomination, the
website of the National Fund for Science won in el-science, the
website of IP Planet Color won in el-education nomination and the CD
of Grigor Narekatsi’s "Book of Mournful Songs" was the winner in
el-armenology nomination.

A special prize was given to the website of Ararat Diocese. The
winners in first 8 nomination received 500.000 drams and the other
eight nominees received 250.000 drams.

To remind, last year’s contest on el-content was dedicated to 1600th
anniversary of Armenian alphabet. Winners of that contest gained the
right to take part in IT summit in Tunisia. "Aram Khachaturian. Life
and Works" and "Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923" CDs won international
prizes in Tunisia.

By Ruzan Poghosian