YEREVAN, DECEMBER 28, NOYAN TAPAN. A Center of Armenian Culture will be opened in Venice in 2008. Conferences, events, exhibitions, concerts dedicated to different branches of art will be coordinated and organized there. As Hasmik Poghosian, the RA Minister of Culture, said at the December 28 press conference, Armenian businessmen will assist the Armenian Center's opening, as it will function the whole year and to keep a cultural center in the center of Europe requires much expenditures. The Minister said that Armenian cultural programs implemented in European countries will be summed up, studies and analyses will be done in the future cultural center.

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