VOLGOGRAD, JULY 28, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The ceremony of conferring the rank of Professor Emeritus of Vanadzor's Sanahin Management Institute on the Chairman of the Volgograd regional unit of the Union of Armenians in Russia Arman Mkrtchian took place in Volgograd (Russia) on July 15. The A. Mkrtchian received this rank for his public and charitable activities. Yerkramas paper of Russian Armenians reported that since 1992 - the year of the institute's foundation, the rank of honorary doctor and professor emeritus of Vanadzor's Sanahin Management Institute has been conferred on 33 prominent public and political figures, as well as businessmen from various countries. Among them were Charles Aznavour, U.S. Senator Robert Dole, Bill Gates, Rem Vyakhirev, Vladimir Resin and others.

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