YERKRAMAS EDITOR TIGRAN TAVADIAN: ARMENIAN COMMUNITIES OF KRASNODAR TERRITORY NOT WELL-ORGANIZED
Noyan Tapan
June 26, 2009
YEREVAN, JUNE 26, NOYAN TAPAN. According to official data, 275
thousand Armenians lived in the Krasnodar territory in 2002, and
according to unofficial data, their number was within the range of
400-600 thousand. As Tigran Tavadian, the Yerkramas newspaper editor
informed at the June 25 press conference, newspapers are published,
dancing groups, Sunday schools act in order to support preservation
of Armenian identity in Armenian populated areas of the territory. He
mentioned at the same time that the local Armenian communities are
not well-organized and do not cooperate with each other.
T. Tavadian considered the cooperation with the state structures of
Armenia to be unproductive, as well. According to him, it is necessary
that the RA Ministries of Diaspora and Culture work out a joint program
to present the Armenian culture in the region. In his words, performers
of the "rabis" music (town folklore) mainly come to the territory,
and as a result, a low taste is built up especially among the youth.
Besides, in his words, there are problems of getting text-books from
the RA Ministry of Education and Science. T. Tavadian mentioned that
Sunday schools of the region get those text-books by overcoming many
difficulties, particularly, those connected with tax clearance. In
T.Tavadian’s opinion, the RA government can raise that issue before
the RF government.