STEPANAKERT, September 1 (Noyan Tapan). This year the NKR Song and Dance and the State Variety Ensembles have been on tour in France, and the pupils of the Stepanakert Musical College in Baltic countries. Armen Sargsian, NKR Minister of Education, Culture and Sport, informed Noyan Tapan that cultural policy carried on in the republic becomes wider year by year. In this context he mentioned that this month work directed to setting up of a Stepanakert symphony orchestra will begin in Stepanakert.

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