The most significant achievement of 2009 in the culture was Armenia's inclusion in the countries running international festivals, to a large extent thanks to cultural workers headed by director Yervand Ghazanchyan, the director of Stanislavskiy Russian Drama theatre Alexander Grigoryan told NEWS.am.

He also underlined that Russian Drama theatre bestowed an award after Kirill Lavrov at the international theatre festival in St. Petersburg. “No one in Armenia got higher award ever,” the director said.

As to the neglects, Grigoryan ruefully outlined that theatre after Sundukyan still has no art director. “On the whole it is difficult to mention one or two neglects as there are a lot in cultural field though with fault of ours,” director concluded.

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