ACCORDING TO ARMEN JIGARKHANIAN, ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP SHOULD BE OBSERVED AS REGULARITY

Noyan Tapan
Nov 30, 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 30, NOYAN TAPAN. A group of famous Russian art and
cultural figures had a meeting with the students of the Yerevan State
University on November 30. Film producer Grigor Gyardushian, who lives
in Moscow, famous actor and Soviet people’s artist Armen Jigarkhanian,
Mikhail Svydkoi, the Chief of the Federal Agency for Culture and
Cinematography of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Piotrovsky, the
Director of the State Hermitage, actors Igor Kostolevski, Veniamin
Smekhov, Aleksander Shirvindt, the Art Director of the Satire Theatre
of Moscow, and Viktor Loshak, the Editor-in-Chief of the monthly
Ogonek, were included in the delegation , which has arrived from
Russia. It should be mentioned that the premiere of the new film "Rud
and Sam" by G. Gyardushian, with Armen Jigarkhanian in the main role,
was held in the "Moscow" cinema on the eve.

Mikhail Shvydkoi spoke about the Armenian-Russian cultural relations
and stressed that most of the intellectuals of the Russian cinema
have Armenian roots.

Armen Jigarkhanian mentioned in his turn that he is proud of being
an Armenian. He also declared that there is no need to persuade the
Armenian people to be friends with Russians as Armenians know well
both the Russian people and Russia. The Armenian-Russian friendship,
in his conviction, is a regularity.