{"id":251754,"date":"2024-10-14T12:02:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2024\/10\/14\/251754\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T12:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:02:24","slug":"francofest-the-breath-of-french-literature-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2024\/10\/14\/251754\/","title":{"rendered":"Francofest &#8211; the breath of French literature in Armenia\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, October 14. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Under the general sponsorship of \u2018\u2019Akba Leasing\u2019\u2019, the French book festival \u201cFrancofest 2024\u201d is being held for the second year in a row, promoting the dissemination of French books, literature and culture in Armenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organizer of this unprecedented cultural event was Newmag.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newmag presented 5 new books in Armenian at the French book festival.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Akba Leasing promotes the spread of reading in Armenia and this support is also an expression of appreciation for literature, art, Armenian-French cultural ties and centuries-old friendship between the peoples of our countries. It is very important that financial organizations, in addition to promoting economic development and business financing, also sponsor such cultural events,&#8221; said Sarkis Sargsyan, Deputy General Director of Akba Leasing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director of the Newmag publishing house Artak Aleksanyan noted that \u2018\u2019Akba Leasing\u2019\u2019 traditionally promotes the Armenization of French literature and its dissemination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are very happy that we have a very good partnership with \u2018\u2019Akba Leasing\u2019\u2019, and I hope that this cooperation will be long-term,&#8221; said Aleksanyan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Francofest brings the most significant international literary event in the last 15 years to Armenia. The most prestigious Goncourt Prize in the French-speaking world opens its branch in Armenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All publications of the books of the famous Armenian Charles Aznavour by the Newmag publishing house were carried out with the support of the financial group &#8220;Akba&#8221;, &#8220;Akba Bank&#8221;, &#8220;Akba Leasing&#8221; and &#8220;Amundi-Akba&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akba Bank is a 100% shareholder of Akba Leasing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Akba Leasing is controlled by the Central Bank of Armenia. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the general sponsorship of \u2018\u2019Akba Leasing\u2019\u2019, the French book festival \u201cFrancofest 2024\u201d is being held for the second year in a row, promoting the dissemination of French books, literature and culture in Armenia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}