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July 08, 2009
2009 AGBU Garbis Papazian Award Presented to Tsvetana Paskaleva
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Razmik Hartunian-Tamrazian, member of the AGBU Garbis Papazian Award committee, presents Tsvetana Paskaleva with the AGBU Garbis Papazian Award. -
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AGBU Central Board member Yervant Zorian presents a special crystal award to Tsvetana Paskaleva on behalf of the AGBU Central Board of Directors. -
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Tsvetana Paskaleva with her son Davit on stage during the July 3 AGBU Garbis Papazian award ceremony at Aram Khachaturian Hall in Yerevan, Armenia.
Watch a Video Report of the Awards Ceremony HERE (01:01)
In an awards ceremony at the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan on July 3, the AGBU Garbis Papazian Award was presented to Bulgarian reporter, documentarian and cinematographer Tsvetana Paskaleva for her unwavering devotion to the truthful presentation of the Karabakh liberation struggle.
Established in 1988, the AGBU Garbis Papazian Award is annually bestowed on non-Armenian scholars and intellectuals, who, through their scholarly research and publications, contribute to the dissemination and understanding of Armenian history and culture, as well as the Armenian Question.
Past recipients of this prestigious award have included Polish public figure Msgr. Stanislaw Pindera, Spanish intellectual Gonzalo H. Guarch, German scholar Wolfgang Gust, UCLA Professor Peter Cowe, Baroness Cox of the British House of Lords, Russian intellectual Kim Bakshi and Austrian archivists Helmut & Heide Buschhausen.
Paskaleva worked in Karabakh during that enclave's war of independence from Azerbaijan, presenting the battles and politics of the conflict to an international audience. As a foreign journalist, she reported on the mass deportations and atrocities against the Armenian citizens of Azerbaijan. She is the director of seven documentaries about the Karabakh war. She has also prepared reports for CNN, NBC, Antene-2 and other European media agencies.
The July 3 ceremony began with a screening of Paskaleva's 1993 documentary, "My Dears, Living and Dead," and continued with a speech by Ruben Gevorkiants, chairman of the Republic of Armenia's Union of Cinematographers, who spoke about Paskaleva's war coverage. Razmik Hartunian-Tamrazian, member of the AGBU Garbis Papazian Award committee, and Levon Kebabdjian, honorary member of the AGBU Central Board of Directors, presented Paskaleva with the award money and certificate.
AGBU Central Board of Directors member Yervant Zorian spoke about the wide range of cultural and educational activities of AGBU and read AGBU President Berge Setrakian's congratulatory message. Zorian also presented Paskaleva with the special AGBU crystal award for her outstanding achievement.
After accepting the awards, Paskaleva expressed her gratitude to AGBU and the Garbis Papazian Award committee for their gift. She spoke passionately about the Karabakh liberation struggle and her urge to tell the world about the atrocities in Karabakh, "I witnessed human truth during the war...which needed to be revealed and protected. It was my duty to come and shoot the severe reality of the people of Karabakh."
The award ceremony was followed by a performance of Avet Terterian's Symphony No. 3 by the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra under its artistic director and principal conductor Eduard Topchjan.
The AGBU Garbis Papazian Award was established in 1988 through the initiative and with the financial resources of Garbis Papazian, for the purpose of recognizing non-Armenian intellectuals who contribute to an increase in awareness of Armenian history, culture and the Armenian Question.
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