YEREVAN, OCTOBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. The 4th Highfest international performing arts festival started on October 4 at the Hovh.Toumanian Puppet Theater with the performance entitled "Everything about Money" of the Moscow "Practice" theater. Before that the journalists met with Levan Khetaguri, the Pro-Rector of the Tbilisi State Theater and Cinema University, the Chairman of the "Caucasian" foundation, Maarten Regouin, the Chairman of the European League of the Institutes of Arts, and with Eduard Boyakov, the "Practice" artistic head. In the guests' words, Highfest is the 4th in the world in its type, after the festivals of Edinburgh, Avignon and Sibiu. This festival being held already for the 4th year became known and is every time presented to spectators with new names and unprecedently increasing number of participants. They mentioned that culture develops in all the post-Soviet countries, icluding Russia, in the same way as in Armenia. They especially attached importance to the master's courses being held during the festival days as well as to seminars dedicated to ways of organizing art management.

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