• Regional and Energy Security
• Informational security

05.02.2015 WAR BY MEDIA AND THE TRIUMPH OF PROPAGANDA
By John Pilger
Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the New York Times and the Washington Post deceive their readers?

08.12.2014 CENSORSHIP ALERT: THE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA GETTING HARASSED BY THE NSA
Author: Christof Lehmann
Google’s Safe Browsing List that blocks websites and flags them as containing malware is increasingly used as mechanism for the censoring of independent media and the falsification of history. It is an alarming development that, left unchallenged, puts the survival of any independent newspaper, blog, TV or radio station at risk.

30.10.2014 PROPOSALS REGARDING CYBERSECURITY OF ARMENIA
Samvel Martirosyan
Day to day Armenia becomes more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Until recently various cyber-attacks were viewed simply as curious media-events, while today, when dozens of websites come under hacker attacks, some cases of deeper impacts are seen. For example, a number DDoS attacks in 2013-2014 (perpetrators of which remain unknown to date) resulted in an overall internet disruption in Armenia.

06.10.2014 HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN AZERBAIJAN TOO BLATANT TO COVER UP
Commenting on the West’s reaction to the human rights situation in Azerbaijan, the political analyst Gagik Harutyunyan said he believes that the international community is thus seeking a kind of information pressure against the country.

12.05.2014 DDOS ATTACKS ON ARMENIA CAUSE CONCERNS
Samvel Martirosyan
The DdoS hacking attacks cause increasing concerns for the global network security. Recently Armenia has also been frequently targeted by such attacks.

07.05.2014 ANOTHER NYT ‘SORT OF’ RETRACTION ON UKRAINE
By Robert Parry
Exclusive: The mainstream U.S. media likes to talk about Ukraine as an “information war,” meaning that the Russians are making stuff up. But the false narratives are actually being hatched more on the U.S. side, as a new New York Times story acknowledges, writes Robert Parry.

06.05.2014 ON SOME PECULIARITIES OF THE “COLD WAR 2”
Gagik Harutyunyan
After the downfall of the USSR only the laziest commentators did not say something along the lines that the cold war is over and soon an era of peace and prosperity will follow. Given the economic and social collapse in all post-Soviet countries, if such era ever happened, then only very few have experienced it.

03.03.2014 HACKER ACTIVITY BETWEEN ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN
Samvel Martirosyan
In January 2014 a number of hacker attacks on Armenian and Azerbaijani websites took place. On one hand, it was a part of the series of attacks traditionally launched every January, and on the other hand it was different in terms of some qualitative and quantitative changes.

03.12.2013 SNOWDEN’S DISCLOSURE: WORLD UNDER THE AMERICAN AND BRITISH SURVEILLANCE
Samvel Martirosyan
The disclosures by the former U.S. National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden, concerning the actions carried out by the U.S. secret services on the Web, changed the visions of the information security. It becomes clear that all the concerns, which were spread by the various conspiracy theories, are more real than one could imagine.

31.10.2013 THE INVISIBLE CYBER WAR
Yiannos Charalambides
The international system is still dominated by sovereign nation states which constitute the main structural actors of the global system. However, nation states are not the only players acting in the global landscape.

04.10.2013 PENETRATION OF INTERNET INTO THE SOUTH CAUCASUS
Samvel Martirosyan
Statistics of the Internet experiences rather serious problems in the South Caucasus. Thus, for example, in Azerbaijan, according to official data 70% of population uses Internet and 50% of population use broadband Internet.

02.09.2013 TRUST OF THE AUDIENCE IN THE MASS MEDIA: TENDENCIES
Arpi Manusyan
Trust of the audience in the mass media is a topical issue for both mass media executives and media experts. Studies of the trust of the audience in different types of media, in both western and post-Soviet countries, follow the same tide: the stance of the audience, factors which influence the choice of media, tendencies of trust are revealed within the context of spreading of internet and growth of the Internet audience.

25.03.2013 DATA PROTECTION ISSUES IN ARMENIA
Samvel Martirosyan
The Republic of Armenia is becoming more and more digitalized country. Only digitization of state institutions, the electronic management systems has considerably developed in terms of quantity and quality in recent two years.

28.02.2013 INTEGRATION PROCESSES AND INFORMATION POLICY
Gagik Harutyunyan
The intention of the presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia to establish Eurasian Union (EAU) and Armenia’s possible joining the union caused eager discussion in the Armenian society. The main subject of these discussions is the political and economic problems and prospects of the integration process. Less attention is paid to the information component and directly connected with it system of values.

04.02.2013 TV SERIES: CONTENT AND SCOPE
Sona Manusyan, Diana Galstyan
The TV series has thus taken a root in the activity of the TV companies and in the life of the TV viewers that it is inevitable not to turn our attention specifically to them while scrutinizing the problems of the TV content.