Category: 2020

The tents and the New year tree installed in the yard of Stepanakert Vallex Hotel are being dismantled, Deputy Mayor of Stepanakert Suren Tamrazyan informed on his Facebook page. The tents were set up to host Artsakh children for celebrating the New Year at the initiative of  Armenian PM's wife Anna Hakobyan. 

"The decorated tents and the New Year tree are being dismantled now, our people are against this initiative," the deputy mayor said. 

To note, Anna Hakobyan's idea to organize New Year celebration in Artsakh has triggered anger among many people in Artsakh who called on Stepanakert residents to boycott the event. 

The National Cinema Center of Armenia informs that by the decision of the experts of the prestigious Swiss Visions Sud Est, financial support was provided for seven international film projects, including an Armenian full-length documentary "Five Dreamers and a Horse" directed by Vahagn Khachatryan and Aren Malayan. The film was funded by the National Cinema Center of Armenia.

The Swiss fund visions Sud Est supports film productions from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe and guarantees their distribution in Switzerland. It was initiated by the Foundation trigon-film Baden and the Fribourg Film Festival, with the collaboration of Nyon's Visions du Reel and the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

Since its creation in spring 2005, the fund has supported 159 projects from different parts of the globe. 126 of these films have already been completed and many have been invited to numerous festivals around the world, 

"Five Dreamers and a Horse" – a coproduction of Armenia and Germany – is about the dreams of people. Five protagonists try to fulfill their dreams. An elevator conductor in a hospital dreams of traveling into space. An old unemployed Stalinist dreams of a trip to Paris before he dies. A young farmer dreams of the perfect woman, one that he can choose himself without the limitations of his village community. While these protagonists dream of escaping their present lives, two others, a young lesbian couple, play a very special role: they try to live out their dreams everyday. They hang out on the rooftops of Yerevan and get married with a doll as their pastor. They live free, without any borders, and define their own world. 

The former Director of Armenia's National Security Service (NSS) has been appointed to a new post, which raises numerous questions," the Head of 'Henaket' analytical center Tigran Abrahamyan wrote on Facebook, commenting on Pashinyan's latest decision to appoint Argishti Karamayn as the Deputy Head of Armenia's Investigative Committee. 

To remind, Karamyan was dismissed as Director of the NSS during the recent Karabakh war. 

"Authorities should come up with explanations why they replaced the head of one of the key structures in the middle of the severe war and what is  now the justification for his new appointment. You have turned the security of the country  into a festival of frivolity  and then justify with a serious face why this or that event ended in a tragedy for our state," Abrahamyan added. 

Servicemen of the Russian Centre for Humanitarian Demining in Nagorno-Karabakh held a lesson Peacemaker for the students of secondary school No. 3 in Stepanakert, Artsakh during which they told the students about the peculiarities and specifics of the peacekeeping activities of Russian peacekeeping forces.

As the Russian Defense Ministry reported, the peacekeepers conducted classes on observing safety requirements when detecting explosive objects. The schoolchildren were told about the classification of explosive devices and actions when explosive objects are detected. Also, experts demonstrated the rules of first aid.

The servicemen of the mine action centre demonstrated samples of the equipment of the Russian servicemen – the OVR-2 combined-arms demining kit designed to protect the sapper from the damaging factors of the explosion, the IMP-S2 mine detectors and the INVU-3M Korshun portable explosive device finder, which detects explosive devices based on electronic components and schemes.

In total, more than 80 middle and high school students, teachers and parents of schoolchildren took part in the classes, the source said.