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Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   29 March 2024

Deputy PM has “positive opinion” on Vazgen Manukyan’s Vernatun

Deputy PM has “positive opinion” on Vazgen Manukyan’s Vernatun

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 20, ARMENPRESS. Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan says he has a positive opinion about the newly founded “Vernatun” Social-Political Club.

“I have a positive opinion, I think  [they] will convey new freshness to our political life,” Avinyan told reporters.

Vernatun is founded by Vazgen Manukyan, the former Chairman of the Public Council. The name of the club is a reference to the original Vernatun, an informal club of intellectuals founded by writer Hovhannes Tumanyan in 1899. Writers, poets and others from the intelligentsia would gather at Tumanyan’s apartment in Tbilisi, which was a penthouse-type flat on the top floor of a building, hence the name vernatun, roughly translated as upper house.

On November 15th, Manukyan’s Vernatun held its inaugural meeting. Members of the club include outspoken critics of the incumbent government.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan








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