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ARMENIA INDEPENDENCE EXHIBITION OPENS IN SAIN RAFAEL

PARIS, JANUARY 12, ARMENPRESS: An exhibition
titled Armenia: Fifteen Years of Independence, opened
in the French town of San Rafael. It will be on
display until the end of February. The exhibition has
on display around 100 photographs taken by Armenia’s
ten most prominent photographers telling about how
Armenia was being established as an independent and
sovereign state- from the national liberation war in
Nagorno-Karabakh, sever energy crisis to stability and
peaceful development of today.
The exhibition initiated by Armenpress news agency,
was already displayed in Moscow as part of the Year of
Armenia in Russia.
The exhibition is part of a vast range of about 700
events marking the Year of Armenia in France. An
exhibition depicting Armenia’s 12 capital cities
opened last December in Paris. It will run until March
18.
Next month a post stamp symbolizing French-Armenian
friendship will be issued and Louvres will host an
exhibition of Armenian cross stones, old manuscripts
and other artifacts. It is titled Sacred Armenia.