04.06.2007Caucasus – 2006
One of these days in the Caucasian Institute of CMI was held an international scientific conference on the following subjects: what was the year 2006 like for the North and South Caucasus, what kind of political, social and economic developments were there to be traced in the North Caucasus and South Caucasian countries, how the developments of the previous year influenced on the region’s security problems?
The conference was held by the participation of scientist, journalists and public figures from Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia and the US.
At the meeting reports were given by Alan Kasaev (Drector of the general board of CIS countries and Baltic-Russian information agency “News”, the subject of the talk was “Caucasus in the international CMI”), Sergey Markedonov (Head of the Department of Ethnic Relations, Institute of Political and Military Analysis; subject – “Russia’s policy in the South Caucasus in 2006: in search of prospective and basic directions”), Arif Yunisov (Department of Conflict Studies and Migration, Institute of Peace and democracy; subject – “Azerbaijan in 2006, some results” ), Sergay Arutyunyan (Correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Science, Department of Caucasus, Institute of Ethnography and Anthropology, subject – “The North Caucasus in 2006”), Marina Muskhelishvili (Director of the Center for Studies, Subject “Georgia and Russia: new realities”), Richard Giragisian (Analyst of the radio “Freedom” and Jane’s Information Group; subject – “the presence of the west in the Caucasus: forced cooperation or strategic rivalry? ”), Aleksandr Iskandaryan (Director of the CMI Caucasian Institute; “The problem of the regional security in the South Caucasus in 2006”), Sergey Minasyan (heads the Yerevan based Caucasus Media Institute (CMI) Caucasus Studies Department; subject – “the problem of regional security in the South Caucasus in 2006”), David Petrosyan (analyst of the information agency “Noyan Tapan”; the subject – “Not recognized states of the South Caucasus in 2006; closer and closer to the point of irreversibility”), Ashot Yeghyazaryan (research worker of the analytical center “South Caucasus”; the subject – “The main results of the social economic development of the South Caucasus in 2006”), Gagik Harutyunyan (Director of “Noravank” Foundation; the subject - “Armenia in the global world of 2006 ”), Arsen Avagyan (Docent of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations in the Yerevan State Univerity, the subject – “Turkey’s policy toward Caucasus in 2006”).
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