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RA NA Speaker Mr Hovik Abrahamyan sent congratulatory message on International Day of Theatre, where it says:

“Centuries ago during the reign of the King Artavazd the capital Artashat became the founding place of the Armenian theatre. And today, it has been more than 10 years of Artavazd theatrical award-giving ceremony, during which in different nominations awards are given for the services rendered to the theatrical art.

The theatrical life in Armenia continued irrespective of ups and downs of public life. Otherwise our theatrical life and culture should not survive in the conditions, which during certain periods were not rather favorable. The thing that today in Armenia different international festivals are held speaks about our cultural attractiveness and our viability of our creative gene.

Today lively events take place in our theatrical life: beginning from the repertoire of the performances up to the life in the theatre. Before we had wonderful provincial theatres, which, by the way, today need support. The population of the provinces should more actively take part in the theatrical, in general, cultural life.

On the occasion of the International Day of Theatre I congratulate all the figures of the theatre world, including also those, whose work we see, but they don’t appear on the stage. I wish them cultural limitless zeal and longevity, solidarity and welfare.”