From Artsvi Bakhchinyan

Artsvi Bakhchinyan

Artsvi Bakhchinyan is a Yerevan-based philologist, writer, historian of art, researcher in Armenian Diaspora, translator, Ph. D. He is author and editor of dozen books. Artsvi conducts interviews and writes articles in Armenian, English and Russian.

YEREVAN-BUENOS AIRES — Photographer Araz Hadjian was born in 1970 in Aleppo, Syria, and in the same year, she moved to Argentina with her family. She received her primary and[...]

YEREVAN/TORONTO — Lara Arabian is a trilingual artist by way of Beirut, upstate New York and Paris. She completed her acting training at the Banff/Citadel Professional Theatre Program and has[...]

YEREVAN/PATZCUARO, MICHOACAN, MEXICO — Vatche Geuvdjelian (born 1956, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is a painter and poet, who divides his time between Canada and Mexico. In 1978, he moved to Ontario,[...]

The following extract is from Yerevan-based Russian author Yan Shenkman’s recently published book, At Home in Yerevan. Shenkman, born in 1973, is a writer, journalist, literary and musical critic. He[...]

YEREVAN/LOS ANGELES — Dancer Gagik Tadevosyan was born in 1993 in the village of Parpi, in Armenia. He started studying Latin American dance when he was 11, later he was[...]

YEREVAN — Foeng Yang Ming, a Chinese student at Yerevan State University, has gained recognition among many people in Armenia for his fluency in Armenian, interviews, and roles as a[...]

YEREVAN/TBILISI — Valerian Markarov, born in 1967, in Tbilisi, is an author and historian from Georgia who writes in the Russian language. After graduating with honors from the History Department[...]

YEREVAN / SANTIAGO, Chile – Ballet dancer, teacher and choreologist Carlos Pablo Aharonian — the only choreologist in Latin America — was born in 1956 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He started[...]

YEREVAN/OCEAN SHORES, Australia — Peter Davidian (born in 1958) is an Australian/Armenian composer and sitar player with a musical career extending for half a century. He has studied music from[...]

YEREVAN/CAIRO — Alla Vats is a renowned Russian dancer, teacher and choreographer. She was born in 1985 in Yerevan. When she was 8, she and her family moved to St.[...]

YEREVAN/HELSINKI — Finnish composer Vladimir Agopov (born 1953, Lugansk, Ukraine) graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1977 after studying with major Soviet composers Aram Khachaturian (composition) and Edison Denisov[...]