YEREVAN, AUGUST 10, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Participants of the second stage of the Come Home program got a possibility on August 6 to strengthen at the Matenadaran (Armenian repository of ancient manuscripts) the knowledge got at the courses on the Study on Native Land held these days specially for them at three schools of Yerevan. According to the imformation of the web-site of the RA Ministry of Diaspora, the specialists represented in three languages (Armenian, Russian and French) the contents and history of the old manuscripts kept in the Matenadaran. The Diasporan Armenian young people were filled with admiration and pride, seeing that cultural values and treasures. Celebration of the participants' birthdays at the dinner time has also become one of the Come Home program's traditions. Georgian Armenian Feliks received congratulations on the occasion of his 18th birthday this time. The Diasporan Armenian boys and girls went on the same day to the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) State University. They were met by University Pro-Rector Gagik Sargsian. The young people visited the reading-halls, auditoriums, laboratories, TV studio, sports complex which is being built. Many of them confessed that they are impressed by the University's saturation with technical resources and its rich libraries. Rector Armen Darbinian represented the Diasporan Armenian young people the history of the higher educational institution, its educational system, extracurricular and public, students' and Diasporan Armenian students councils' works. At A. Darbinian's proposal a discussion was started on the theme of importance of the Diasporan Armenians' participation in the affair of strengthening of the Homeland.

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