Happy New Year - Armenian interlocutor. New Year in Azerbaijani style Carving champion from Shostka

Oleg Yesayan
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to Russian Federation

Dear friends! WITH great pleasure and I gladly congratulate the readers of the newspaper “Interlocutor of Armenia” on the upcoming New Year and Merry Christmas. The passing year was marked by new and important political, economic and cultural events in the life of our countries and in the relations between them. Thanks to the personal efforts of the Heads of two states - President of the Russian Federation D.A. Medvedev and President of the Republic of Armenia S.A. Sargsyan, our fraternal countries have risen to more high level strategic cooperation, which fully corresponds to the interests of the peoples of Russia and Armenia. Together with you in the new year, we have to do much more to results achieved were multiplied. In the New Year 2012, I wish you and your families happiness and prosperity, dynamic development of Armenian-Russian relations, and growth of power, prosperity and peace to our countries!

Ong>Ara Abrahamyan
President of the Union of Armenians of Russia and the Higher Attestation Commission, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador

Dear friends!

The past year has been very eventful with interesting and important events for our diaspora. For the Union of Armenians of Russia, it became a year of implementation of large-scale goals and objectives that contributed to even closer unity of our communities and expansion of the scope of the UAR’s activities in new regions of Russia. No matter what part of the Earth we live in, for us, Armenians, Amanor is the most beloved and most family holiday. I wish the staff and readers of the “Interlocutor of Armenia”, all our compatriots, to meet New Year With good mood and warmth in the soul. May 2012 be generous with good events and deeds and bring peace and mutual understanding to our society, and happiness, warmth and comfort to our families!

Shnoravor Amanor! - Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!

Suren Hayriyan
President of UNISTREAM

Dear Friends,

On behalf of the international money transfer system UNISTREAM, I would like to congratulate the readers of this respected publication and the staff of the newspaper “Interlocutor of Armenia” on the upcoming New Year and Merry Christmas.

I am especially pleased to make this congratulation, because being an Armenian and today heading an international business in Moscow, I am pleased to say how much I personally and my business connect with a beautiful and sunny country, where many people close to me live. I especially carefully follow the release of each issue of the Armenian Interlocutor. I enjoy reading it. I am pleased that our country has such a respected and professional publication, which makes a serious contribution to the unity of the country and to the progress of society as a whole. Happy New Year and Merry Christmas. May 2012 bring you only joy, happiness and good mood!

Ruben Harutyunyan
President of the Group of Companies "HENDERSON-RUSSIA"

Dear friends!

Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!

We are confident that in this life you can plan and dream, achieve your goals, love and be loved, understand and be understood, recognize and comprehend the beauty of the world and feel how the world opens doors to new opportunities. To quote the words of the great writer Mark Twain: “Avoid those who try to undermine your faith in yourself. A great person, on the contrary, inspires the feeling that you can become great,” we wish you and your loved ones that these wise words will inspire you at different moments of your life and help your endeavors, and that you will be surrounded by amazing and wonderful people.

Metso Igityan
President of the Foundation for the Development of Armenian Culture, President of the Karot Festival

Dear friends!

New Year is one of the most favorite holidays. He is kind and, despite the winter weather, a truly warm holiday. It unites us around our main values: love for children, for parents, for our loved ones, for our home, for our homeland. As you celebrate this wonderful holiday, I wish you to remember all the good things that happened in the past year and enter 2012 with new plans and aspirations. Happiness, health and good luck to you and your loved ones! Happy New Year!

Where can I sell cigarette ashes? The story that cigarette ashes are very valuable, and pharmacies and some enterprises are willing to pay a lot of money for the ashes, has migrated from real life to the network. And the gullible Buratins have no idea that if cigarette ash were worth the money they offer for it, then cigarette manufacturers would simply burn their products! So where did the legend of priceless cigarette ash come from?
It's all due to ordinary human greed and the desire for easy money. And if there are naive people who believe in wonderful and easy ways to make money, then there are also enterprising people who are ready to make money from naive simpletons. Moreover, the scheme that scammers use is very simple: an advertisement is placed for the purchase of completely useless nonsense such as cigarette ash, or some other tempting offer, in general - the main goal is to interest a person in something.

What if you don’t have a corkscrew at hand, but you need to open a bottle of wine? Eat different ways solutions to this problem, I will tell you about them below:
Method number 1. The simplest and most effective. To open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew using this method, you simply need to hold the bottle horizontally with one hand and gently tap the bottom of the bottle with the palm of your other hand.
If possible, wrap the bottom of the bottle with a towel. (otherwise the bottle may break!), and lightly tap the wall. With a successful combination of circumstances, in a few minutes the wine will be ready to be poured into glasses. It is extremely rare, but it happens that this method takes too much time, so we move on to the next method. I warn you again! There is no need to use excessive force or hit the bottom of the bottle with hard objects, otherwise the bottle will break.

Method number 2. You can simply push the cork inside the bottle with any object, for example, the back of a fork or spoon, a marker, a pen, or a pencil. Attention! Ub...

Surely almost every active RuNet user knows about the online legend about incredibly expensive coins, which, nevertheless, can end up in everyone’s pocket. Of course, I want to write about the legendary 10 kopeck coin from 2001.
As befits a modern legend, despite numerous refutations, a rumor of this kind persists: “Market the cost of a 10 kopeck coin from 2001 is from 29,000 to 40,000 rubles. The price depends on the condition of the coin. For example, 10 kopecks from 2001 sold for 50 thousand rubles at auction! And you just have to imagine how much it will cost in a few years! The number of coins is decreasing, the price of the remaining ones will increase every month, so hurry up!!!"

Hearing Happy New Year greetings at the end of March - beginning of April is quite strange for Sumy residents. However, for those for whom Ukraine, and specifically the city of Sumy, is a second homeland, and the first one remained in distant sunny Azerbaijan, such congratulations are the norm. Indeed, since March 21, the families of the Azerbaijani diaspora have heard New Year's greetings and wishes for happiness, peace and prosperity.

As the head of the Sumy Azerbaijani Public youth organization“Ilham” Novruz Veliyev, this holiday called Novruz Bayram is the brightest of the year. The New Year among Azerbaijanis is associated with the arrival of spring, the vernal equinox; it symbolizes the renewal of nature and is expected with special feeling by Azerbaijanis. And, as you know, there are more than 500 thousand of them living in Ukraine.

According to custom, on this day there are seven dishes on the Azerbaijani table, the names of which begin with the letter “s” (sumac - seasoning, sud - milk, sirke - vinegar, sabzi - greens, etc.). But the main dishes are festive pilaf, khashlama, kebab, as well as national sweets: shakyar-bura, baklava, gogal. It must be said that this holiday always begins with sweets - in the morning you need to eat something sweet (usually honey) so that the whole year is just as pleasant. Relatives are also treated to sweets, which should be prepared in abundance in every family. There should also be an abundance of songs, and here, of course, one cannot do without the national instrument zurna and the especially popular song “Gaitagy”. Dancing, sports competitions, and theatrical miniatures are required.

And at the end of the holiday the girls national costumes, while dancing, they bring the national dish ash, from which flames come out, to the festive table. Another attribute that no Novruz Bayram can do without is a fire. As older Azerbaijanis recall, according to ancient traditions, each village lit a fire on the highest place, and from the bright flame it was clear that in this village, in the neighboring one, and throughout Azerbaijan, the holiday began, since everyone celebrated at the same time time. This fire is captured in the sayings and songs of Novruz as a symbol of new life and the reborn sun. So this is the New Year for Azerbaijanis living in Sumy.

Evgenia Nevskaya

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