YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The All-Armenian Literary Fund for the second time held a telethon on February 4 by the Public Television during which about 140 thousand U.S. dollars were gathered. As Levon Ananian, the Chairman of the Writers' Union of Armenia (WUA) informed the Noyan Tapan correspondent, in total, 500 donators both from Armenia and Diaspora participated in the telethon. In L.Ananian's words, Chairman of the Union of Armenians of Russia Ara Abrahamian (68 thousand dollars), businessman living in Ukraine Nver Mnatsakanian (10 thousand dollars) are among the big donators. In his words, Armenian businessmen almost did not donate big money this year. The WUA Chairman also stated that gathering of money is still in process. In L.Ananian's words, the fund's resources will be spent on translation of works of modern writers, development of the publishing sphere as well as on assisting the literary press, improvement of the writers' social state, completing the prize fund of the WUA. To recap, 200 thousand dollars were gathered during the first telethon held in 2003.

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