YEREVAN. – A famous Bashkir writer is so interested in Armenia that he even wrote our history, summarizing it in three volumes; the first volume is already published, Yerkir daily writes.  

‘“The writer was in Armenia once and he will come again,’ said to us yesterday Viktor Krivopuskov, advisor of Russian Federation’s Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia. But he could not remember the name of the writer. To determine the identity of the Bashkir writer, the Ministry of Education and Science (MES) suggested us to speak with the Ministry of Culture, but the latter sent us back to MES. ‘A Bashkir writer? We don’t know, we have no information. Didn’t Krivopuskov say who it was?’ the ministries said. We hope that [Armenian capital] Yerevan, the 2012 Book Capital of the World would really become as such and know the writers who write about it,” Yerkir writes.