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Armen Arzumanyan, CEO Public Television, told about the new season on the Public Channel in a news conference on September 10. He said in 2008 the Public Channel will focus on film production. He said the company is making some films, including a French-Armenian project with Armen Jigarkhanyan and Pierre Richard. Armen Arzumanyan also said the Public Television is going to produce an Armenian show and has already written the script for 180 episodes. The show will be in the style of Latin American series, and will be shot in a few months.
The Public Channel is also planning to make a show for young viewers. Armen Arzumanyan also said the channel bought the right to show 1500 films. He said there will be more music and entertainment shows in the new season. Armen Arzumanyan said in 2008 the Public Television will try out digital broadcasting in Vanadzor to reveal the problems that may occur in replacing analogical broadcasting with digital broadcasting. The Public Television of Armenia is a member of the European Broadcasting Union, and one of the stipulations of the Union is digital broadcasting.
THREE APPLES FELL FROM THE SKY FOR THE PRIME MINISTER, THE PRESIDENT AND THE SOCIETY
HAKOB BADALYAN
The last poll held by the Gallup Institute was like thunder in the calm home political sky of Armenia. At the moment when everyone said unanimously there is no alternative to Serge Sargsyan, and the opposition ...SECULAR NEWS FROM THE HOLY SEE
The Armenian media reported on a recent disagreement between two generals of Echmiadzin Seiran Saroyan and Manvel Grigoryan. We have learned that the two generals expect to meet tete-a-tete to settle ...ARMENIANS ARE CRYING ALL THE TIME
“In fact, in 2004 poverty was 40-41 percent, in 2006 it dropped to 26-27 percent, and extreme poverty declined as well,” says Aaron Adibekyan, sociologist, who has studied recently the state of poverty ...TRASH DUMP BECOMES LIFESTYLE?
The head of the Commission for Religious and Ethnic Minorities Hranush Kharatyan stated September 10 at the Hayeli press club people in Armenia might not be starving, they might borrow money to buy food ...MAJOR THREAT TO RURAL POPULATION
The rural population of Armenia is exposed to a new surge of poverty, warned Hranush Kharatyan, ethnographer, on September 10 at the Hayeli Club. The program of consolidation of land that the government ...DIGNIFIED SALARY FOR PROFESSORS
The monthly wage of professors at Yerevan State University has gone up by 12 percent from September 1, stated the rector of YSU Aram Simonyan in a seminar on September 8. “Last year the salary of professors ...PRESIDENT PROPOSED REAPPOINTING AGHVAN HOVSEPYAN
The Armenian President Kocharyan proposed to the National Assembly to reappoint Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan. The proposal of the president was included in the agenda of the meeting of parliament ...TIGRAN TOROSYAN DISAGREES WITH ARF CLAIMS
Today Speaker Tigran Torosyan held a news conference and said the only realistic resolution on the NKR status can be that based on the right for self-determination. With regard to a recent statement by ...NOAH’S PARK
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When Noah built the arc and placed his family and the animals in it, he perhaps hoped that the arc would finally land on the Himalayas rather than Ararat. Perhaps because if he landed on Ararat, an Armenian ...ARMENIAN-GERMAN NEGOTIATIONS
On September 11 and 12 the Armenian minister of finance and economy Vardan Khachatryan and the head of the department for the South Caucasus and Central Asia of the German ministry of economic cooperation ...AGHVAN HOVSEPYAN WILL GIVE IRREFRAGABLE ANSWERS
Speaker Tigran Torosyan told reporters today the parliament will most probably reappoint Aghvan Hovsepyan as prosecutor general. Tigran Torosyan said the office of prosecutor general is now undergoing ...POLITICAL PRISONER'S PERSECUTION CONTINUES
The ex-foreign minister of Armenia Alexander Arzumanyan who initiated the Civil Disobedience Movement, held a news conference on September 10 after his release from the isolation ward of the National ...ARMENIA FUND RENOVATES YEREVAN NURSING HOME
Armenia Fund Executive Director Vahe Aghabegians visited Yerevan No. 1 Nursing Home on Wednesday, August 25, where he met with residents whose lives have changed drastically as a result of $135,000 in ...ARZUMANYAN WILL STAY IN POLITICS
“I have been in politics for a long time now, and I am not likely to leave politics,” said the ex-foreign minister of Armenia, the initiator of the Civil Disobedience Movement Alexander Arzumanyan in ...NEW PROJECT WITH JIGARKHANYAN AND PIERRE RICHARD
Armen Arzumanyan, CEO Public Television, told about the new season on the Public Channel in a news conference on September 10. He said in 2008 the Public Channel will focus on film production. He said ...
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- 0 Hori was the second month in the old Armenian calendar (September 10 to October 9). One source identifies it with the Armenian word for "well" because villagers would store their harvest in wells. Academician Malkhasian thinks that the word is derived from "vine-branch" and alludes to the grape harvest that takes place during this month.
- 1826 End of the heroic defense of Fort Shooshee (Artsakh).
- 1869 Birth of cleric and ethno-musicologist Komitas (Soghomon Soghomonyan) in Kutina (Western Armenia). He died in Paris in 1935.
- 1890 Birth of Franz Werfel in Prague (Austrian novelist). He wrote "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" (1933), a best-selling epic tale of Armenian resistance to the Turkish Genocide of 1915. He died in 1945.
- 1896 Armenian massacres begin in Akn.
- 1896 Start of the second defense of Van under the leadership of Vardgehss and Vardan.
- 1898 Andreas Artehruni (scientist) dies in Germany. He was born in 1847.
- 1920 The conference of Armenia's Communist organizations opens in Baku.
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