Yerkramas editor Tigran Tavadian: Armenian communities of
Krasnodar territory not well-organized
26-06-2009 18:00:00 | Armenia | Social
YEREVAN, JUNE 26, NOYAN TAPAN. According to official data,
275 thousand Armenians lived in the Krasnodar territory in 2002,
and according to unofficial data, their number was within the
range of 400-600 thousand. As Tigran Tavadian, the Yerkramas
newspaper editor informed at the June 25 press conference,
newspapers are published, dancing groups, Sunday schools act in
order to support preservation of Armenian identity in Armenian
populated areas of the territory. He mentioned at the same time
that the local Armenian communities are not well-organized and
do not cooperate with each other.
T. Tavadian considered the cooperation with the state
structures of Armenia to be unproductive, as well. According to
him, it is necessary that the RA Ministries of Diaspora and
Culture work out a joint program to present the Armenian culture
in the region. In his words, performers of the "rabis" music
(town folklore) mainly come to the territory, and as a result, a
low taste is built up especially among the youth.
Besides, in his words, there are problems of getting
text-books from the RA Ministry of Education and Science. T.
Tavadian mentioned that Sunday schools of the region get those
text-books by overcoming many difficulties, particularly, those
connected with tax clearance. In T.Tavadian's opinion, the RA
government can raise that issue before the RF government.