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VivaCell-MTS supports revealing new names
  • Culture
  • 2013-06-06 17:24:11

The “New Names” 3rd International Festival closed this year with new achievements. The representative series of concert, which passed with full house, facilitated to the revealing performance mastery of

This year again VivaCell-MTS is the General Sponsor of the “New Names” festival
  • Culture
  • 2013-06-03 17:07:17

On June 2, the opening of the “New Names” Young Performers 3rd International Festival took place at the Komitas Chamber Music Hall. The Festival has been initiated and organized

Today, the Ministry of Culture hosted the first press conference dedicated to the Golden Apricot” 10th Jubilee International Film Festival
  • Culture
  • 2013-05-24 15:20:48

Today, the Ministry of Culture hosted the first press conference dedicated to the Golden Apricot” 10th Jubilee International Film Festival. The joint press conference was presided by the Minister

VivaCell-MTS sponsors the new “Anthology of Armenian Chamber Music” project by “Ars Lunga” duo
  • Culture
  • 2013-05-21 16:35:55

On May 21 the Arno Babajanyan Concert Hall hosted a press conference devoted to the release of the “Anthology of Armenian Chamber Music (Part 1: Works for Cello and

Ministry of Culture hosted a joint press conference presided by the John Heffern, Ralph Yirikian, Pogosyan and Armen Smbatyan
  • Culture
  • 2013-05-13 18:34:48

  Today, the Ministry of Culture hosted a joint press conference presided by the United States Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern, VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian, Deputy Minister of Culture

VivaCell-MTS became the General Sponsor of the “Hazaran Blbul” second national contest-festival
  • Culture
  • 2013-05-13 15:54:24

“Hazaran Blbul” contest of the children’s musicals is just another means of discovering talented young people and to encourage their creativity. The annual festival of musicals is organized for

Black Sabbath guitarist Toni Iommi asks his fans to vote for Dorians in Eurovision semi-final
  • Culture
  • 2013-05-13 11:56:57

Legendary British rock musician, Black Sabbath guitarist Toni Iommi recorded a video asking his European fans to vote for Armenian Dorians rock band in the semi-final of Eurovision song

Bako Sahakyan participated in the solemn ceremony of opening art center in the town of Shoushi
  • Culture
  • 2013-05-03 17:07:45

On May 3, Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan participated in the solemn ceremony of opening art center in the town of Shoushi in the jubilee exhibition of famous sculptor

President sent a congratulatory letter to the People’s Artist of Russia and Ukraine Valeri Gergiev on his 60th birth anniversary
  • Culture
  • 2013-05-01 15:26:22

  President Serzh Sargsyan sent today a congratulatory letter to the People’s Artist of Russia and Ukraine, artistic director of Mariinsky Theater and Chief Conductor of the London Symphonic Orchestra

VivaCell-MTS is the sponsor of the joint Armenian-French project of staging Anoush Opera
  • Culture
  • 2013-04-27 13:24:09

Newly-interpreted opera's opening night took place in the National Academic Theatre after Sundukyan  Cannes Film Festival award-winner Serge Avedikian and French choreographer Nicolas Musin have given ‘fresh breath’ to the

What are you keeping silent about, Lamb of God – AGNUS DEI
  • Culture
  • 2013-04-20 07:57:21

Since the Armenian Genocide, we Armenians have come a long way in reinstating the historical truth: historiography, diplomacy, lobbying. Being well aware of the power of culture, we have

The U.S. Embassy Brings the American “Bad Boys of Dance” to Armenia for joint performances with the Armenian National Ballet
  • Culture
  • 2013-04-18 18:24:27

  On April 18, U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John A. Heffern will open a joint performance of the Bad Boys of Dance, an American dance company, and the National Ballet

The “Renaissance” Fifth International Contest-Festival launched
  • Culture
  • 2013-04-12 04:13:11

The “Renaissance” Fifth International Contest-Festival launched in Gyumri. The General Sponsor of the Festival is VivaCell-MTS. The Festival is held in the frames of “Gyumri, the cultural capital of

VivaCell-MTS sponsors Jazz Parking project's presentation
  • Culture
  • 2013-04-02 11:59:27

  Yerevan’s Yans club hosted the presentation of famous Moscow project Jazz Parking. The presentation of the project was sponsored by VivaCell-MTS.   The project which has acquired exclusive franchising rights will

Cooperation memorandum between Yerevan State Armenian-American Medical College ''Erebouni'' of the Ministry of Health of RA, MPI Union and “GXP” Centre of Excellence
  • Culture
  • 2013-03-26 16:52:32

Ahead of the second international nursing congress of Armenia (18-20 September 2013), a cooperation memorandum was signed between the representatives of Yerevan State Armenian-American Medical College ''Erebouni'' of the

Gruber’s Journey-Romanian contribution to the international film festival
  • Culture
  • 2013-03-16 15:43:37

International Film Festival "Conflict and Reconciliation in the Central-Eastern European Cinema" which was organized by UN Office in Armenia, by EU Delegation and by different European embassies, is in motion. On

Meeting with Georgian Armenian writers who write in a foreign language
  • Culture
  • 2013-02-18 13:36:09

“Armenian writers, who compose in a foreign language, are not strangers to us” - that was the title of a literary soiree, which was held on February 16 at

The international seminar dedicated to the author's rights kicked off in Yerevan
  • Culture
  • 2012-11-12 09:30:11

In frames of the 6th International Forum of Translators and Publishers and UNESCO announcement about selecting Yerevan as 2012 World Book Capital City a seminar entitled "The Role

Armenian culture is of the oldest and richest cultures in the world
  • Culture
  • 2012-10-16 14:35:52

On 16 October Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan sent an address to the participants of the International Poetry Festival launched in the city of Stepanakert. The address runs as

Best of Hollywood Music in Vanadzor
  • Culture
  • 2012-10-10 21:13:59

The State Youth Orchestra of Armenia (artistic director and principal conductor Sergey Smbatyan) and the Embassy of the United States of America in Armenia present “Youth for Youth

VivaCell-MTS sponsors another celebration of genuine art in Yerevan
  • Culture
  • 2012-09-10 11:25:58

VivaCell-MTS sponsors another celebration of genuine art in Yerevan A «Gran Concerto» performed by the Italian Orchestra «I Solisti Veneti» was held in Yerevan, on the occasion of the

Bako Sahakyan received director and conductor of the Armenian State Youth Orchestra Sergey Smbatyan
  • Culture
  • 2012-08-28 13:04:31

On 28 August Artsakh Republic President Bako Sahakyan received director and conductor of the Armenian State Youth Orchestra Sergey Smbatyan. A number of issues related to the development of culture

I, CULTURE Orchestra and the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia
  • Culture
  • 2012-08-09 14:04:30

The I, CULTURE Orchestra is a project launched in 2011 by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as one of the key elements of the Cultural Programme of the Polish Presidency

World Cinema under the Skies of Capital Yerevan
  • Culture
  • 2012-07-09 12:46:51

VivaCell-MTS once again undertakes the general sponsorship of the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival July 8th, 2012, Yerevan, Armenia VivaCell-MTS, a subsidiary of Mobile TeleSystems OJSC, announces

The Cafesjian Center for the Arts Presents New Educational Program
  • Culture
  • 2012-07-04 20:29:17

On July 7, 2012 the Cafesjian Center for the Arts will launch Art Family new educational program. Each session of the program will host 3-4 families, with at

The NKR State Ensemble gives concerts in France
  • Culture
  • 2012-07-04 17:59:41

The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic State Dance Ensemble will participate in the scheduled for July 6-14 Festival of the Ethnographic Dance in the Castle Gombert inMarseille. On the threshold

8th Aram Khachaturian International Competition
  • Press release
  • 2012-06-02 13:36:19

From 6-13 June in Yerevan will be held 8th Aram Khachaturian International Competition. This year it will be open for “violin” specialty. Organizers of the competition are RA Ministry

The Endless creator
  • Culture
  • 2012-05-28 14:26:54

If a person has creative ideas and spirit, fitted from God, he looks with another eye upon everything. A potter - painter Vardan Ayvazyan is a creator of this

Armenian and Turkish Young Filmmakers Met in Istanbul
  • Culture
  • 2012-05-14 17:43:01

Ten young filmmakers from Armenia and Turkey participated in the Armenia-Turkey Cinema Platform (ATCP) workshop held in Istanbul on April 12-13, 2012 on the sidelines of the 31st Istanbul

Golden Apricot 9th Yerevan International Film Festival promises a rich and interesting program again
  • Culture
  • 2012-05-11 19:00:24

For the 7th year in a row VivaCell-MTS becomes the general sponsor of the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival The joint press conference held today at the Ministry of

Golden Apricot Fund is pleased to announce Call for Applications for the 6th DAB Regional Co-Production Forum
  • Culture
  • 2012-04-13 12:11:19

Golden Apricot Fund for Cinema Development is pleased to announce Call for Applications for the 6th DAB (Directors across borders) Regional Co-Production Forum to be held within the framework

The English Photographer’s Work about Artsakh is Awarded a Prestigious Prize
  • Culture
  • 2012-04-11 10:56:22

Photographer from London Anastasia Taylor-Lind is awarded a prestigious international prize for the project National Womb: Baby-Boom in Nagorno-Karabakh, the initiator of which is the non-commercial Photographers’ Organization Center

From now on Fiori has his box in Mezzo
  • Culture
  • 2012-04-02 12:56:44

The famous French singer Patrick Fiori (Chouchayan) will give a concert at the Mezzo Club in Yerevan on March 31. "I am proud of being an Armenian. The Armenian

Expo Beauty 2012 - an event not to be missed
  • Culture
  • 2012-03-27 11:50:40

by Marianna Martynova Yet another spectacular exhibition timed to coincide with Day of Beauty and Motherhood, which will conclude the Month dedicated to Armenian women, took place

Best of Hollywood Music in Yerevan Universities
  • Culture
  • 2012-03-14 17:04:10

The State Youth Orchestra of Armenia and the Embassy of the United States of America in Armenia present “Youth for Youth,” a joint music initiative to be held

Armenia not to participate in Eurovision 2012 song contest
  • Culture
  • 2012-03-07 16:16:07

Armenia will not participate in the "Eurovision 2012" international song contest. The Armenian Public TV informed about it to the Union of European Broadcasters, Armenpress reports citing

Heavy metal band makes headway in Turkish-Israeli cultural exchange
  • Culture
  • 2012-03-02 12:46:27

Israeli heavy metal band Orphaned Land's charity conference on February 25th in Istanbul raised money for victims of the October 23rd 2011 earthquake in the Van province of eastern

Assyrians Ready to Open Genocide Memorial
  • Culture
  • 2012-03-01 16:55:15

The expatriate Syriac Christian community in Europe has rolled into action to create greater public awareness of the alleged Syriac genocide of 1915 with plans to erect a genocide

Bako Sahakyan partook at the presentation ceremony of the documentary film “Karabakh: a Hidden Treasure”
  • Culture
  • 2012-02-29 20:57:54

On 29 February President Bako Sahakyan partook at the presentation ceremony of the documentary film “Karabakh: a Hidden Treasure” which was produced on the request of the department

Grand celebration of Mother Language in the Netherlands
  • Culture
  • 2012-02-28 13:47:25

After its establishment last year, the Platfrom for One-Day Armenian Schools in the Netherlands organized an event dedicated to Mother Language Day at the Van School in

Mona Lisa copy goes on show in Prado
  • Culture
  • 2012-02-25 11:53:58

A copy of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, believed to have been painted at the same time as the original, has gone on display at Madrid's Prado Museum,

Steven Spielberg in Negotiations to do Armenian Genocide Film
  • Culture
  • 2012-02-13 20:40:38

Both renowed producer-director Steven Spielberg and Schindler's List writer Steven Zaillian are in negotiations with the Armenian National Cinema Center to develop a full-length feature film on the

The music legend Whitney Houston has died
  • Culture
  • 2012-02-12 12:58:11

Two loud booms jolted awake the music industry executive in her fifth-floor room of the Beverly Hilton hotel. The time was 3:30 p.m. Saturday. The thuds seemed

The music legend Whitney Houston has died
  • Culture
  • 2012-02-12 12:58:11

Two loud booms jolted awake the music industry executive in her fifth-floor room of the Beverly Hilton hotel. The time was 3:30 p.m. Saturday. The thuds seemed

Armenians to build the largest church of Europe
  • Culture
  • 2012-02-07 21:55:13

According to plan, the church will have a height of 50 meters and will occupy a territory of 1 hectare, Armenpress reports citing http://society.lb.ua. An Armenian cultural center will

Armenian singer Ruben Matevosyan celebrates 70th birthday anniversary
  • Culture
  • 2012-02-07 21:00:54

“I’m only looking ahead. Otherwise, I will cease to be a singer. But my wish is to breathe life into the songs that I have not yet sung,” Matevosyan

RA Ministry of Diaspora: Best Organization of the Year
  • Culture
  • 2012-01-31 15:18:20

For the past 10 years, the Davitian and Mariamian Educational Institution of Glendale has been organizing Annual Appreciation and Homage Awards in several categories, including Man of the

S. Karapetyan "In order to save the Church of the Holy Seal first and foremost the destroyed column has to be restored"
  • Culture
  • 2012-01-30 16:37:52

The Armenian Church of the Holy Seal (Surb Nshan) in Old Tbilisi, Georgia, caught fire twice this year on Jan. 2 and 9. Georgian authorities assert the