St. Minas or the Blue Monastery


Our film crew visited the St. Minas Church in the Kaputan village in the Kotayk region, before and after the war.

St. Hovhannes Karapet


Armenian sanctuaries- St. Hovhannes (Znjrlu) in the Ararat region.

Vahram Papazyan


Vahram Papazyan's "Othello" was recognized as one of the best roles in the world. None of the Armenian actors has achieved such international recognition and fame as Papazyan did. He also left behind five volumes of literary heritage, which are among the best pages of Armenian prose.

 

St. Minas or the Blue monastery


Our filming crew visited St. Minas Church in the Kaputan village in the Kotayk region, before and after the war.

Following another woman-murder case


After another woman-murder case in Gyumri, the Human Rights Defender published statistics that in 2019, 359 cases of domestic violence were not processed. That is about 74% of the total cases. And about 69% of the completed proceedings have been terminated. According to the Human Rights Defender, this means that the state body does not respond properly to the cases of violence.

 

 

Yerevan: Memory and Reality


Vahan Kochar, Narek Duryan, Ara Galoyan, Harutyun Movsisyan, Anna Hekekyan, Hovhannes Yeranyan tell about "Paplovok", "Skvaznichok", "Temurnots", "Kapeyka" - the cafes of Soviet Yerevan, and also the dishes they prefered in those cafes and the cafe culture of Yerevan.

Suren Kocharyan


Some called his art literary estrada, some - reciting. Actually, Suren Kocharyan was the founder of one-actor theatre. 
 

Hakob Mndzuri


Hakob Mndzuri is the latest Western Armenian writer. In 1915, Mndzuri left for Constantinople for a short time, but never returned to the village Armtan. Days after he left, his parents, wives and four children were killed. He wrote about the village Armtan in Yerznka province for all his life. The first book was published when he was very old. His prose was a revelation in Armenian literature. Today, Mndzuri is perceived as one of the greatest Armenian prose writers.
 

Vahan Teryan


A poet, who turned the process of the development of Armenian literature. Vahan Teryan is a great reformer of the Armenian poetry, one of the apexes of the Armenian literature. He brought new topics, language and means of expression. The questions of the peotic methods of Vahan Teryan, his literary views, the national essence of his poems are still subject of discusssions. 

Stepan Zoryan


Stepan Zoryan's works are one of the best pages of the Armenian prose. Stepan Zoryan, as a member of the Teryan’s school of literature, is the bearer and applier of pure Armenian language. The author of the best novels of Armenian literature - "The Armenian Fortress", "King Pap" and "Varazdat" is also a genius representative of a small-scale prose. His other courageous deed was the unsurpassable translation of Lev Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace".
Zoryan is sometimes blamed for not protecting his colleagues during the stalinist violence. Meanwhile, he himself had to be concerned himself ...
 

 

Alexander Myasnikyan


By the efforts of Alexander Myasnikyan, Lori and Zangezur remained within the Soviet Armenia. He never signed the decision of Stalin on leaving Karabakh as part of Azerbaijan. The most prominent Armenian military and state figure came to the homeland exhausted from hunger and typhus, and was able to put the country's economy into development, reconcile those who became hostile because of civil war, invited many prominent Armenian scientists and artists to Armenia to rebuild the country with joint efforts. His life ended with tragic death, in which Stalin and Beria were suspected.

Hamazasp Hambardzumyan


The history of Hambardzumyan family is not presented in historical chronicles.  The legends and myths about their family were transferred by family members, from generation to generation. The first intellectual of the kin was Hamazasp Hambardzumyan. He witnessed the opening of Byurakan Observatory, the glory and recognition of his son – the most acclaimed Armenian scientist in those years, and personally leaving traces in the Armenian culture.