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    OFFICE OF LITERATURNAYA GAZETA'S CORRESPONDENT OPENS IN YEREVAN

    Noyan Tapan
    http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=117345
    Se p 12, 2008

    YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN. The editor of Literaturnaya
    Gazeta newspaper (Russia) Yuri Polyakov and several members of the
    editorial staff are on a visit to Yerevan within the framework of
    Days of Russian Speech in Armenia organized on the initiative of the
    Society for Friendship and Cooperation with Russia.

    At the invitation of the chairwoman of the Union of Journalists of
    Armenia Astghik Gevorgian, the editor of this newspaper famous for
    its literary and historic traditions met with representatives of
    Armenian mass media on September 11. In the words of Yuri Polyakov,
    in Russia the real admirers of arts and literature have already found
    their viewers and readers.

    "Commercial events are starting to lose their viewers. Real art
    admirers have rediscovered their cultural centers," Y. Polyakov noted.

    Over the past seven years, the circulation of Literaturnaya Gazeta
    has increased from 23,000 to 100,000, with 6,000 copies being printed
    in Frankfort for Russian-speaking readers in Europe. Besides, the
    newspaper is also printed in Vladivostok.

    Y. Polyakov said that some Soviet-time traditions of the newspaper
    have already been restored, including the pages dedicated to national
    literature.

    "I think there were writers in those years, for example, Hrant
    Matevosian, Silva Kaputikian, Chingiz Aytmatov, whose influence on
    the literature of that period was enormous. It would be wrong not to
    publish them," the editor said.

    The office of the Armenian correspondent of Literaturnaya Gazeta was
    opened at the Union of Armenian Writers on the same day.

    Literaturnaya Gazeta was founded in 1830 by the great Russian
    poet Alexander Pushkin. Later, in 1929, it was restored by another
    distinguished writer Maxim Gorky.
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