27.04.2015 POTENTIAL MODELS OF INTERNET GOVERNANCE AND ARMENIA’S APPROACHES
Samvel Martirosyan
The matters of internet governance are among the most complicated problems today, as quite often there are no ready solutions to them. There are several internet governance models today. One of them is complete state monopoly over internet, whereby the government ignores the opinions of other stakeholders in the society. This approach is currently gaining foothold in many countries: China adheres to this approach.
15.04.2015 CAN WE MOVE TOWARDS A MULTIPOLAR WORLD DESPITE HEGEMONY IN THE MEDIA?
by Roberto Quaglia
States struggling against imperialism are probably not sufficiently aware of the importance of having non-aligned media. Yet, obviously, Russia Today, Press TV, Telesur and Al Mayadeen are better at defending freedom than other weapons. For these are indeed weapons we are talking about.
01.04.2015 AMERICAN INFORMATION WEAPON USED AGAINST EUROPEAN POLITICIANS
by Georgy Voskresensky
Anonymous first appeared in 2003 on Internet image boards as a group of hackers espousing the freedom of speech and operating as an «anarchist global digital brain». It is an instrument or a weapon designed to be used in information warfare. It has an advantage - in many cases it is extremely hard to define who exactly used it.
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.
21.01.2013 AZERBAIJANI SOCIAL MEDIA
Samvel Martirosyan
Like the rest of the world Azerbaijan is also under the influence of explosive growth of the influence of the social media. More than a half of the population is Internet users there.
24.12.2012 SOCIAL NETWORKS IN ARMENIA
Samvel Martirosyan
In 2011-2012 the number of the Internet users in Armenia has shot up dramatically, and in consequence more than a half of the population uses the Internet.
13.11.2012 EU OFFICIALS: WE WERE HACKED DURING CONFERENCE ON INTERNET SECURITY IN AZERBAIJAN
A European official says her staff members were hacked when they joined her for a conference on Internet security in Azerbaijan. European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes said in a blog post Saturday that her advisers’ computers were compromised as they attended a meeting of the Internet Governance Forum in Baku, the Azeri capital.
01.10.2012 HACKER ATTACKS AGAINST ARMENIAN SEGMENT OF THE WEB: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Samvel Martirosyan
The Azerbaijani and Turkish hacker groups continue to constitute menace to the Armenian segment of the Internet. Hackers regularly arrange attacks on Armenian web sites. Emails and social network profiles of the individuals are also being hacked.
30.07.2012 DEVELOPMENTS OF ARMENIA’S SEGMENTS OF THE INTERNET
Samvel Martirosyan
Over the last years the Armenian segment of the world web shot up dramatically. An unprecedented increase in numbers of users brought to the situation when Armenia took leading positions among the CIS countries.
17.07.2012 DEMOGRAPHICS IN INFORMATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE: SOUTH CAUCASUS
Ara Marjanyan
Currently South Caucasus region is in an ongoing information and psychological warfare. One of its characteristics is the systematic misrepresentation of demographic statistics and wide use of distorted data to carry out psychological warfare.
17.05.2012 THE IMAGE OF THE INTERNET USER IN ARMENIA
Samvel Martirosyan
A number of the Internet users in Armenia have risen sharply for the recent three years. According to the latest data, for June 2011 Internet is available to 796550 people, i.e. 47.1% of 2 million 967 thousand population of Armenia.
27.02.2012 DEVELOPMENTS ROUND SYRIA
Artashes Ter-Harutyunyan
In the recent period a definite change of the stance of Russia on Syrian issue has been the most remarkable among the developments round that country.
20.02.2012 A FAILED PROJECT. DEVOTED TO THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CIS
Sergei Grinyaev
This year the 20th anniversary of establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States is marked.
16.02.2012 BRYZA CONFESSES HIS LOVE FOR TURKEY, CONFIRMING HIS ANTI-ARMENIAN BIAS
By Harut Sassounian
It appears that my prediction about Matt Bryza leaving the State Department and working as a lobbyist is coming true.
13.02.2012 GANDZASAR MONASTERY
Eduard L. Danielyan
The book is devoted to the past and the present of the Gandzasar monastery and its significance in the history of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
13.02.2012 IN AFGHANISTAN, A SOVIET PAST LIES IN RUINS
By Graham Bowley
As poignant in its imperial ambition as in its otherworldliness, the Soviet-era swimming pool atop Swimming Pool Hill here is as good a symbol as any of the doubtful legacy of empires.
09.02.2012 DEVELOPMENTS AROUND IRAN
Artashes Ter-Harutyunyan
Though in prior years, tension around Iran – intensifying and weakening, was not considered to be unusual, over the recent period it can be observed that the developments concerning the Southern neigbour of Armenia has changed their character.
02.02.2012 FRANCE SHOULDN’T ALLOW TURKEY TO MEDDLE IN ITS DOMESTIC AFFAIRS
By Harut Sassounian
For nearly a century, Turkey’s leaders have tried to hide the monstrous crime of the Armenian Genocide by covering up what really took place in the killing fields of the Syrian desert, then part of the Ottoman Empire.
01.02.2012 TURKEY DROPS HEAVILY IN PRESS FREEDOM RANKINGS
Turkey drops dramatically in press freedom rankings in 2011, losing 10 places to be 148th out of 178 countries.
30.01.2012 ARMENIA IS BECOMING VULNERABLE TO CYBER-ATTACKS
Samvel Martirosyan
An unprecedented upsurge of the number of Internet users has been observed in Armenia for recent one or two years and it is conditioned by both slashing of the prices for Internet connection and the fact that computers and mobile devices became more affordable.
26.01.2012 IRAN AND DEVELOPMENTS IN SYRIA
Sevak Sarukhanyan
Today Iran experiences one of the gravest consequences of the “Arab spring”: the anti-governmental movement, which started in Syria in spring, more and more resembles civil war and president B. Assad is losing his ground.
23.01.2012 NOT TIME TO ATTACK IRAN
By Colin H. Kahl
In Time to Attack Iran (January/February 2012), Matthew Kroenig takes a page out of the decade-old playbook used by advocates of the Iraq war.
19.01.2012 THE AGE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS: CHANGES IN THE INFORMATION FIELD
Samvel Martirosyan
The prevalence of social networks on the Internet and in the media space in general causes even more drastic changes of the information environment.
12.01.2012 AZERBAIJAN AND OBAMA SUFFER SETBACKS AS AMB. BRYZA’S SERVICE IS CUT SHORT
By Harut Sassounian
As a result of successive political blunders by the Obama administration, Matthew Bryza was forced to abandon his ambassadorial post in Azerbaijan last week. Pres. Obama ignored repeated warnings that the candidate he was nominating as Ambassador to Azerbaijan in May 2010 had serious flaws. Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee accused Bryza of having a pro-Azerbaijani bias and questionable ties to Azeri officials.
22.12.2011 THE CLERICAL AND CHURCH ISSUES OF THE ARMENIAN CATHOLIC COMMUNITY IN RUSSIA
Arestakes Simavoryan
One of the confessional communities retrieved in the Diaspora over the recent century is the Armenian Catholic community in Russia. Its organizations take special place in Russia and it is an integral part of the Armeniancy of Russia. The history of the Armenian Catholic Community in Russia is rich in tragic pages in history.
19.12.2011 US COURT TO RULE ON TURKISH BANKS’ MOTION TO DISMISS ARMENIAN LAWSUITS
By Harut Sassounian
Two separate lawsuits were filed last year in US Federal Court in Los Angeles against the Republic of Turkey and two of its major banks demanding compensation for properties confiscated from Armenians after the 1915 Genocide.
12.12.2011 ARMENIANS OF OTHER RELIGIONS AND CONFESSIONS: CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES
International research and practical conference
On December 9-10, 2011 in “Picasso” Hall at Congress Hotel in Yerevan research and practical conference on “Armenians of Other Religions and Confessions: Challenges and Possibilities” was held. The conference was organized by the Ministry of Diaspora of Armenia, “The Hyksos” Foundation and “Noravank” Foundation.
08.12.2011 THE ISSUE OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN THE TURKISH PARLIAMENT
Ruben Melkonyan
It is known that the issue of the Armenian Genocide has it certain place on the Turkish political and academic agendas, and the “academic” circles work by the order of the state.
05.12.2011 ON REGIONAL ENERGY DEVELOPMENTS
Sevak Sarukhanyan
Over the recent period the developments around the implementation of the regional energy projects, in particular around building of the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline and profound disagreements, which emerged in the Russian-Turkish energy issues, stirred up.
01.12.2011 TENSION ROUND IRAN
Artashes Ter-Harutyunyan
On November 4, 2011 the president of Israel Shimon Peres made a statement that in the solution of the Iranian issue the Jewish state was tending towards the military option.
17.11.2011 ON SOME TENDENCIES OF CONTEMPORARY TURKISH HISTORIOGRAPHY
Ruben Melkonyan
For many decades Turkey has been struggling against the recognition of the Armenian Genocide not only on political but also on academic levels.
10.11.2011 GEOPOLITICAL MEANING OF THE US ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENCE
Artashes Ter-Harutyunyan
On September 14, 2011 in Ankara the deputy-Minister of Foreign Affairs Feridun Sinirlioglu and the US Ambassador to Turkey Francis Richardson signed a memorandum on deployment of radar in Turkey.
31.10.2011 EDUCATIONAL ISSUES OF THE ARMENIAN COMMUNITY IN CZECH REPUBLIC
Tigran Ghanalanyan
The Armenian community in Czech Rep. was established in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Today the number of the Armenians in Czech Rep. is about 10 thousand.
27.10.2011 DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATIONS AND CREATIVITY IN THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROSPECT
Sona Manusyan
Knowledge has been a basic value in all cultures and at all times. In modern societies, which are called information, the connection between knowledge and social processes has become direct and tangible.
19.10.2011 THE ARBITRAL AWARD BY US PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON ON TURKISH- ARMENIAN BOUNDARY (NOV. 22, 1920) - FULL REPORT
On October 6, 2011 at Rutgers University (the State University of New Jersey) the presentation of a book “The Arbitral Award by US President Woodrow Wilson on Turkish- Armenian Boundary (Nov. 22, 1920) - Full Report” by Ara Papyan took place.
18.10.2011 NICOLAS SARKOZY GIVES TURKEY TILL YEAREND TO RECOGNIZE GENOCIDE
On the sidelines of his visit to Armenia, French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial, where he addressed the issue of 1915 massacres in Ottoman Empire.
19.09.2011 MOBILE CIVIL JOURNALISM: OPPORTUNITIES AND PROBLEMS
Samvel Martirosyan
A parallel development of social media and mobile technologies caused serious changes in the information field.
25.07.2011 “ARAB SPRING” AND RUSSIA
Artashes Ter-Harutyunyan
The American and European expert circles has already began presenting their first general analyses of what the “Arab spring” gave to the West and to what extent the current dynamics is in tune with the strategic interests of the American and European powers.
21.07.2011 POLITICAL PROCESSES IN IRAN: IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE
Sevak Sarukhanyan
Though the speculations about possible revolution in Iran stirred up after the 2009 presidential elections and Arab revolutions, over the recent 6 years really revolutionary changes has taken place in the domestic political and public life in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
14.07.2011 WASHINGTON POST’S VIEW OF ARTSAKH
In a series of articles in the Washington Post, reporter Will Englund puts the Karabakh conflict into perspective.
11.07.2011 NAGORNO-KARABAKH BALANCES BETWEEN PEACE AND WAR
By Haykaram Nahapetyan
Despite an agreement among the U.S., Russian and French presidents at the G-8 summit in Deauville, France, that it is time for a peaceful settlement to the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev failed to make much progress when they met in Kazan, Russia, last week.
23.06.2011 THE POLITICAL IMPLICATION OF THE TURKISH-GEORGIAN “CULTURAL” DIALOGUE
Tamara Vardanyan
Recently the issue of poor condition of the cultural monuments on the territory of Turkey and Georgia and the necessity of their restoration has stirred up.
27.05.2011 ANALYTICAL CENTERS IN AZERBAIJAN
Diana Galstyan, Varujean Geghamyan
In developed countries the so-called Think Tanks (TT) play important role in making decisions on state and social levels.
23.05.2011 CONTENT ANALYSIS AS A METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY OF MEDIA-TEXTS
Anna Zhamakochyan
The way of expression of thoughts (ideas) usually has a kind of settled characteristic which on the one hand characterizes the author or source and on the other hand it becomes his style.
16.05.2011 RUSSIAN-ARMENIAN COOPERATION AND TURKISH FACTOR
Gagik Harutyunyan
Armenian-Russian cooperation (which has stirred up after the meeting of the presidents S. Sargsyan and D. Medvedev in August 2010) has several strategic planes.
10.05.2011 SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THE ARMENIAN SEGMENT OF THE INTERNET
Samvel Martirosyan
The Armenian social networks has recently had greater impact on the formation of the information fields on the Internet and not only. Alongside with the growth of the number of the social network users in the republic the influence of the social networks also increases.
07.04.2011 REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN ARAB WORLD AND ACCOMPANYING INFORMATION FLOWS
Samvel Martirosyan
The processes in the Arab world are accompanied by large-scale, global information flows in which not only the larges world mass media are involved but also huge masses of social networks’ users which try to participate in the informational and propaganda confrontation.
17.03.2011 INFORMATION POLICY OF THE AZERBAIJANI ARMENIAN-LANGUAGE TV CHANNELS
Anna Zhamakochyan, Diana Galstyan
Since October 2009 Azerbaijani propaganda obtained new mechanism by opening ATV International (ATV-INT) satellite TV channel which is broadcasting in four languages (Russian, Armenian, Iranian and English).
10.03.2011 THE WEB TURNS INTO THE MAIN SOURCE OF INFORMATION
Samvel Martirosyan
The Internet wins position on the information field in the world with an incredible pace. Printed media lose their grounds as a source of information and now television follows their example of losing the role of the main informer.
03.03.2011 ON FORECASTS
Gagik Harutyunyan
One of the prior purposes of the states and national formations is the comprehensive evaluation of the current situation and formation of definite ideas about future developments. Currently forecasts and scenarios, which has become an important component of the political culture, are in requisition in the leading countries
17.01.2011 ON THE CYBER-SECURITY
Artashes Ter-Harutyunyan
In November 2010 new NATO Strategic Concept was adopted at the Lisbon summit. Paragraph 12 reads: “Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent, more organized and more costly in the damage that they inflict on government administrations, businesses, economies and potentially also transportation and supply networks and other critical infrastructure; they can reach a threshold that threatens national and Euro-Atlantic prosperity, security and stability.
02.12.2010 ALTERNATIVE AND TRADITIONAL MEDIA IN ARMENIA
Samvel Martirosyan
Current development of the Internet brought on the one hand to competition between the alternative and traditional media and on the other hand to supplementing each other. Global experience of the recent years came to prove that the so-called civil journalism (which includes bloggers, the users of the social networks and other similar civil resources) in some situations appears to be more efficient than the traditional media.
23.11.2010 INTERNET STRUCTURES IN THE CONTEXT OF POST-DEMOCRACY AND ISSUES OF INFORMATION SECURITY
Gagik Harutyunyan
Internet, which was initially created for the communication of the professionals, has become available to billions in just several decades (and according to other criteria of counting in incomplete 20 years), and there have been social structures of different load created in it. All this is another phase of permanent information revolution with all the ensuing consequences of positive and negative character.
29.10.2010 ARMENIAN ENERGY SECURITY AND ARMENIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS
Sevak Sarukhanyan
The agreement on prolonging the term of deployment of Russian military base in Armenia took central place in the discussions during the August visit of the president of the RF to Armenia. But the agreements concerning the energy sector are of no less importance.
27.10.2010 AZERBAIJAN: SEARCHING NEW FOREIGN POLICY BALANCE
Sergei Sargsyan
Before the war in South Ossetia the unsolved status of the issues of military and political character, which were faced by Azerbaijan and which were, first of all, connected with the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict (NKC), within the system of the existing balance of the geopolitical powers in the South Caucasus, was considered as a cause for some shift of the foreign political priorities.
14.10.2010 SPECIFIC SITUATION OF THE AZERBAIJANI ANTI-ARMENIAN PROPAGANDA
Sona Manusyan
In recent period, after some delay, the specialists of informational influences from Armenia studied in detail the characteristics of the information policy of Azerbaijan; some counteractions have been elaborated. Though in the initial stage of this process there was a concern that the reaction to the increasing Azerbaijani propaganda is a bit belated, today one may state that the later is recognizable and predictable for both the specialists and variety of people.
06.10.2010 “ARMENIAN RESOURCES” in the USA
The US Armenian Studies centers have many peculiarities which are conditioned by various historical, geographic, political, social, cultural, educational factors. Today the Armenian community in the US faces many challenges. The most characteristic problems are the issues of preserving national identity, consolidation of the Armenian community, making it more powerful as a political factor and etc.
06.09.2010 CYBER TROOPS: NECESSITY DICTATED BY TIME
Samvel Martirosyan
Cyber-terrorism and other cyber-threats to the modern state where information systems and communications take more and more dominant infrastructure role and become a serious strength test.
01.06.2010 SUPERFLUIDITY OF INFORMATION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
Samvel Martirosyan
The appearance of the new technologies of the information spreading makes the possibility of the filtration more complicated not only for the common reader but also for the editor of the periodical who uses the alternative sources. And today the availability of the alternative information sources – blogs, social networks, microblogs – is the factor that the traditional mass media must take into consideration in their everyday work.
19.04.2010 INCREASING OF THE ROLE OF THE SOCIAL NETWORKS ON THE MEDIA FIELD
Samvel Martirosyan
Today the conceptual change of the network media connections is taking place. In recent years the search engines, which, in fact, became dominant in the sphere of the information dissemination, have been the key factor for spreading information. For the owners of the web-sites the main factor of entering the information field was and is the dominance in the search engines on the relevant request. At the same time the tendency is exhibited towards the re-formatting of the information field and shift of the dominance in favour of the social networks.
25.03.2010 YEREVAN-ANKARA: NEW STAGE OF POLITICAL MANOEUVRES
Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan
The actualization of the RA-Turkey relations stirred up Armenian analytical community and today you can rather often meet the studies and comments connected both with those relations and with issues regarding Turkey. This tendency enriches our political thinking and thus promotes conducting current diplomatic processes. At the same time there are approaches which are inadequate to the realities and here we do not speak about the political approaches or non-professional analyses.
08.02.2010 PROPAGANDA MACHINERY OF AZERBAIJAN: NEW TENDENCIES
Samvel Martirosyan
Azerbaijani propaganda actively continues to use the elaborated theses which have been used against Armenia and Armeniancy in general over the whole conflict period. At the same time in the recent period several main trends, which became definitely prior, are elaborated actively. And today a definite tradition has been established: the main theses, the instructive directions for media, analytics, “information front fighters” working on the Internet are programmed through the addresses of Ilham Aliyev.
21.12.2009 INFORMATIONAL CONTEXT OF THE POSSIBLE OPENING OF THE TURKSIH BORDER
Samvel Martirosyan
The current dynamics of the Armenian-Turkish relations may change the format and the content of the information field in the RA and NKR as well as in the Diaspora. Today Azerbaijan and Turkey are the main rivals of Armenia on the information field. Meanwhile the developments round the conclusion of the Armenian-Turkish protocols have deformed the information field to a certain extent.
07.12.2009 ACTIVITY OF SOME OF THE AZERBAIJANI RESEARCH CENTRES
Diana Galstyan, Araks Pashaian
Azerbaijani research centers or the so-called “think tanks” work in the format of foundations, NGOs, as well as academic entities. The centers mainly work in two directions: social-economic and social and political. They attach special importance to the studies directed to the development of Azerbaijan as well as researches devoted to the study of the regional developments. A lot of attention is paid to the problems connected with the RA and NKR.
26.11.2009 WAS THERE AN ARMENIAN GENOCIDE? Geoffrey Robertson QC’s opinion
In recent years, governments of the United Kingdom have refused to accept that the deportations and massacres of Armenians in Turkey in 1915-16 amounted to genocide. The Armenian Centre decided in 2008 to refer this matter for the expert opinion of Mr Geoffrey Robertson QC, who had served as the President of a UN War Crimes Court and is recognised as an authority on this aspect of international law and its history. Mr Robertson was instructed by solicitor Bernard Andonian to reach his own independent conclusions on all legal and factual issues, without being influenced by the concerns of the Centre. Mr Robertson advised at the outset that an application should be made under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain all the policy documents which have informed the UK government’s position and...
09.11.2009 ANTI-ARMENIAN INFORMATION POLICY OF AZERBAIJAN
Anna Zhamakochyan
It is necessary to study the types of the anti-Armenian information attacks, to elaborate the research methodology and to inform the society about the results in order to provide the informational security of the Armenian society. The formation of the ideas of Azerbaijani information attacks, which have gained abruptly growing tendency recently, is especially important and we shall try to present it in our article. Without touching upon the dynamics of the development of the anti-Armenian mood let us observe what main approaches have been used by the architects of the anti-Armenian mood in the neigbouring country.
22.10.2009 PUBLICATIONS IN AMERICAN PERIODICALS CONCERNING NAGORNO-KARABAKH IN 1918-20
Haykaram Nahapetyan
On March 29 of this year on Azerbaijani day.az portal the publication appeared, according to which in the archive of “New York Times” the article was found where Karabakh and Zangezur were mentioned as parts of Mousavatist Azerbaijan. As Artsakh neither in the mentioned years nor ever has been a part of Azerbaijan it remains to find out the backgrounds of another disinformation.
01.10.2009 BRAND OF THE STATE AND THE NECESSITY OF ITS FORMATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA
Vardan Atoian, Karen Babajanyan
In the article the essence of the brand is presented, the main problems which come forward during the formation of the brand are discussed, as well as the complex of the measures, which implementation allows raising the rate of the country, are presented. Those measures and proposals are based on the best international practice and they can be very useful in the elaboration of the strategy of the position of the Republic of Armenia. The article also touches upon such vital for the RA issues as the state authority, the investment attractiveness, the development of tourism industry, the quality of the exported goods and measures directed to the demand increase.
03.08.2009 FORMATION OF THE FUTURE
Gagik Harutyunyan
Divination has always been one of those issues, which exited humanity. Almost in all the societies we know, oracles had special status and were held in high estimation. Back to the second millennium B.C. the prophetic priestess of Apollo in Delphi were known in the Ancient world for their gift of divination and before taking any initiative the kings and the warlords necessarily visited the temple. A part of “Delphic divinations” preserved and the analysis, carried out in present days evidence that the most part of the prophecies (41%) proved known realities, 32% were the orders-instructions, (i.e. do this or that step), 22% were the direction-taboos, 3% - wrong divinations, while only 2% of the divinations came true.
24.07.2009 “THINK TANKS” AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Gagik Harutyunyan
In modern age the security of civilazational-national and state structures, mainly their efficiency and compatibility, is more than ever determined by the quantity and the quality of intellectual resources of those systems, their capabilities on organization and reasonable usage in accordance with their interests. It is also known that besides traditional scientific-educational structures, institutes of academic character and higher education institutions the special research centres are also considered to be important factor of intellectual resources’ organization. It is remarkable that in the West those “think-tanks” are often called “thought fabrics”, organizations “generating national interests” or “creating ideologies” and thus they acquire more dynamic sense.
11.06.2009 NATIONAL SECURITY AND IDEOLOGY
Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan
Due to ongoing system changes alongside with the reconsideration of some notions (globalization, controlled chaos and etc) there is a necessity to rethink at some extent the perceptions and connections between national security (NS) and ideology. In this context one of the most dynamic and fast changing components of the NS – informational component, which at the current stage acts as a bearer and the “spreader” of the main provisions of the national ideology, worth special mentioning.
21.05.2009 FROM APPLIED TO CONCEPTUAL: POSSIBLE APPROACH TO THE FORMATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF INFORMATIONAL SECURITY OF ARMENIA
One of the directions in the elaboration of contemporary concepts of asymmetrical warfare is the impact on the backbone infrastructures of the rival-state. Those structures are otherwise called system forming infrastructures, which underline their determinant meaning for the minimal necessary level of national security protection of the country-bearer of such infrastructures.
19.05.2009 ARMENIA AND ARMENIANS
18.05.2009 CONTEMPORARY INFOGENIOUS CHALLENGES
Samvel Martirosyan
The development of informational technologies and their implementation both in everyday life and in the system of management of strategic state and interstate structures brings to the growth of infogeneous risks and the critical parts, which are submitted to the extreme influence. Corresponding to the global development, the infogeneous threats for the RA and the NKR also grow. The problems connected with the non-linear growth and implementation of the means of telecommunication imposes many countries to resort to an unprecedented informational security measures.
28.04.2009 ARMENIANS IN AMERICAN POPULAR FICTION
Written at the height of the Cold War, “The Pigeon Project” (1979), tells the fictional story of the British-American scientist Davis MacDonald who has discovered the key biological factor determining human longevity. The novel opens with MacDonald celebrating his discovery in his laboratory in Suchumi, Soviet Abkhazia, where he has been studying the underlying reasons for the unusual longevity of the locals. (Interestingly, and perhaps prophetically, never once in his book does the author mention Georgia). In the best traditions of Cold War era political thrillers, the local KGB agent gets a whiff of the discovery and reports to his superiors who immediately appear on the scene trying to keep it for the Soviet Union.
23.04.2009 THE RELENTLESS MEMORY OF AMERICA & THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Hayk Demoyan
The current turmoil within Turkey’s politics renders this an excellent opportunity to ask whether the recognition of the Armenian genocide at the hands of Ottoman government is important simply for the sake of establishing historical justice or proving a series of events that establish historical facts. Neither US House of Representatives nor Senate should believe any harm could befall the US-Turkish strategic partnership or even escalate Armenian-Turkish relations to a much-anticipated detente in the future. The very problem lies within the representation and interpretation of the issue.
23.04.2009 AT THE ORIGINS OF COMMEMORATION: THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY DECLARING APRIL 24 AS A DAY OF MOURNING AND COMMEMORATION OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
A special committee was formed in Constantinople, in March 1919, by a group of Ottoman Armenian intellectuals who survived the Armenian Genocide. The main goal of this committee was the organization of commemoration ceremonies dedicated to the 4th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
16.04.2009 ISSUES OF ORGANIZATION OF ARMENIANCY
Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan
We can meet both pessimistic and optimistic and sometimes even “realistic” forecasts, which are formed by a simple combination of “bad” and “good” scenarios, on the informational field regarding the current “crisis”. Anyway it is difficult to evaluate those scenarios. The crisis processes change our notion of the system of values, and this, in its turn, makes the notion of what is “good” and “bad” rather relative.
03.04.2009 MULTIPLE-VECTOR GLOBALIZATION AND PERMANENT CHAOS
Gagik Harutyunyan
The ongoing system changes should inevitably bring to the revaluation of definite ingrained perceptions. This regards, for example, to such a foundational notion as globalization, which started to be used extensively in the end of the last century and is supposed to be one of the main terms, which characterize the realities of world order. In the context of political comments the term “chaos” is used incomparably rarely in the mass media (more often one can meet “controlled chaos” expression). However, in expert literature it is considered to be the axial, because just notion “chaos”, allows us, as far as possible, to understand and explain complex phenomena and processes.
27.03.2009 SYSTEM CHANGES
Gagik Harutyunyan
Everything that happens in the world today is characterized by the expert community as a system crisis. This wording is reasonable, because considerable changes, accompanied by economical recession, expansion of terrorism, creation of new seats of instability, take place almost in all areas of life activity. The main process going on in the political space is the creation of multi-polar world order. The geopolitical outlines of this new system are very dim and the rules of the game are not laid down yet. This dictates terms to the international actors, who have to clarify their current policy and to elaborate new tactics. The foregoing tendencies are reasonable.
12.03.2009 NEARLY A MILLION GENOCIDE VICTIMS, COVERED IN A CLOAK OF AMNESIA
According to a long-hidden document that belonged to the interior minister of the Ottoman Empire, 972,000 Ottoman Armenians disappeared from official population records from 1915 through 1916. In Turkey, any discussion of what happened to the Ottoman Armenians can bring a storm of public outrage. But since its publication in a book in January, the number — and its Ottoman source — has gone virtually unmentioned. Newspapers hardly wrote about it. Television shows have not discussed it. “Nothing,” said Murat Bardakci, the Turkish author and columnist who compiled the book.
08.03.2009 “OUR VICTORIES”
The viability of any civilization, alongside with other factors, is determined by the high level of the military thought and, of course, by the will and the ability to fight and to win. In this context the history of Armenian civilization is not an exception; it is also the continuous integrity of military art and victories. Meanwhile, it should be accepted that in spite of the valuable historical evidences and separate contemporary researches, the systematized analytical history of our victories had not been covered and presented to the Armenian and international community. In our opinion, this is the omission not only from the point of view of Armenian historiography.
05.03.2009 “AUCTION OF SOULS” OR “MEMORIAL OF TRUTH”
“Ravished Armenia”, one of the first documentary memoirs of an eyewitness of Armenian Genocide was published in 1918, in New York. In this book Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian, a girl from Chmshkatsag, Armenian populated town in the Ottoman Empire, gave a detailed account of the terrible experiences she endured during the deportations. At the age of fourteen Arshaluys was beaten and tortured in harems of Turkish officials and Kurdish tribesmen.
26.01.2009 THE FIRST MEETING OF THE GROUP WORKING ON INFORMATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY DOCTRINE OF ARMENIA
On December 22nd the first meeting of interagency working group, which is to work out informational security strategy doctrine of Armenia, took place under the chairmanship of the secretary of National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan. In accordance with the press-service of National Security Council, Baghadasaryan mentioned the importance of country’s informational security and offered basic principles to that issue. The working out of the informational security doctrine is covered by national security doctrine and also by the program of the Council of Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) for 2009.
26.01.2009 CHALLENGES OF MULTI-POLAR WORLD
Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan
Amid the world system crisis the main ideological provisions are revaluated. As a result essential changes take place in political sphere and the most essential of those changes is the creation of multi-polar world order. The geopolitical outlines of this new system are very dim and the rules of the game are not laid down yet. This dictates terms to the international actors. They have to specify their political tactics and to produce basically new strategy. The foregoing tendencies are reasonable. The political philosophy of the United States turned out to be plain and many countries reacted adequately on it. Today there are several centers of global power; their relations comply with the logic of new cold war and turn into military (local wars), diplomatic and informational conflicts.
19.01.2009 FORMATION OF THE “POLYIDEOLOGICAL” SOCIETIES
Gagik Harutyunyan
Everything that happens in the world today is characterized by the expert community as a system crisis. This wording is reasonable, because considerable changes, accompanied by economical recession, expansion of terrorism, creation of new seats of instability, take place almost in all areas of life activity. It should be mentioned that the forecasts of these developments are contradictive. The current situation contains risks for all the actors of international community, whether they are superstates or “common” countries. Threat and chance. The emergency situations suppose coordinated strategy and centralization of all resources of state and society.
25.12.2008 SYSTEM SECURITY AND INFORMATION SECURITY OF ARMENIANCY
Gagik Terteryan
The information factor within the current period has acquired a crucial role in nearly all fields of personal, communal, governmental, and national activities. It is the management of information that makes it possible to monitor and duly register the rapidly changing world events. Diverse information activities and wars today moved into a political plane, having become one of the most important instruments of world politics, economics and ideology. With regard to the system security of Armeniancy, this new political information situation carries a hazardous challenge as well as new opportunities. However, those urgent questions of the information domain of Armeniancy remained unheeded by the scientific analytical community.
13.11.2008 ON THE ISSUES OF SCIENCE
On November 5, 2008 in the Committee for Science and Educational of the National Assembly were held hearings devoted to science problems in the context of national security. A talk was given by “Noravank” Foundation Director, political scientist Gagik Harutyunyan. In the context of today’s global systematic crisis occur changes of not only geographical and geopolitical character; first of all is changed global system of values. Virtual, speculative perceptions prevailing in the past have a tendency to turn into real values. In this sense knowledge is more than a real resource: it is noteworthy that some experts suggest accepting currencies named INFO or INTEL instead of dollar or euro. Another characteristic trait of up-to-date processes is the raise of state factor in all the fields which grounds application of not only liberal but first of all state-institutional approaches.
27.10.2008 STATE – CHURCH – SOCIETY: ISSUES OF SPIRITUAL SECURITY
Gagik Terteryan
As it is known the first and foremost task of national security is preservation of national system of values, and, first of all, its spiritual component. At the same time, real spiritual values are universal, and, accordingly, much significant than the national ones, that’s why their preservation is the matter of national security. While considering the issue from this standpoint, it is worth taking into consideration that spiritual security of Armenia is not only conditioned by mere “Armenian” motives. The considerable part of our spiritual values has a character common to all mankind and, in that way, makes a part of the world civilization system.
13.09.2008 INFORMATION SUPPORT TO THE SOUTH OSSETIAN WAR
Samvel Martirosyan
The war in Ossetia became significant from the standpoint of taking information measures by the side of all the parities involved in the conflict. Taking into consideration the fact that the military operations became quite unexpected and lasted for only several days, the strength of information war turned up to prove itself which resulted involving huge resources. As a whole, the Georgian party worked more efficiently for the foreign recipient whereas, Russian propaganda by its form was more targeting the internal recipient.
21.07.2008 SOME ISSUES OF “INFORMATION SOCIETY”
Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan
The terms “information society” or “society of knowledge” are more and more often used in the Armenian mass media or by social-political figures. This tendency has come to prove the fact that at the present stage of development in our society are again forming positive attitude to information and its main component - knowledge.
17.07.2008 AZERBAIJANI MASS MEDIA: TECHNOLOGIES OF INFORMATION ACTIVITY
Suren Movsisyan
In the article is spoken about information activity carried out in the Azerbaijani mass media classified by their main directions and the names given to them conventionally. It is especially accentuated the fact that a seriously prepared, far reaching information warfare is being waged against Armenia not yielding to open military operations and even posing serious dangers. «Factor of priority.» The forefather of this principle may be considered one of the outstanding leaders of Nazi Germany – Doctor Gebels.
10.07.2008 ISSUES OF ARMENIA’S CYBER SECURITY
Samvel Martirosyan
Year by year Azerbaijan strengthens its positions in the information front. It is connected with the fact that official Baku has begun devoting more attention and finances to this issue. In its turn Turkey traditionally demonstrates the state approach to the very question.It is already the fourth year that the Azerbaijani country has been waging a war against the Azerbaijani segment of internet. Azerbaijani hackers are periodically joined by the Turkish ones. Thus, in February 2007 were hacked the sites of the ombudsman, “De Facto” agency and the one of the National Statistic service under test.
23.06.2008 INFORMATION WARFARE AND NAGORNO-KARABAKH REPUBLIC
Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan
It is obvious that the NKR information security (IS) issues have their specificity: according to many objective indices, this second Armenian Republic is in the fore part of the information warfare front. At the same time it is to be stressed up that the IS issues of the NKR should always be considered in the context of Armenia’s IS (RA, NKR and from the informational standpoint - Javakhk) and the Armenian people. Separate, discrete perception of IS of the mentioned subjects is methodically wrong and counterproductive.
19.06.2008 DISCUSSIONS ON THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION DAY IN TURKISH MASS MEDIA
Haykaram Nahapetyan
Like every year, this year as well, the commemoration of the Armenian Genocide was in the center of attention of mass media, various analytical centers, politicians and governmental system. Special attention is to be devoted to the analysis of events held in the RA and Diaspora on the occasion of the anniversary, placed in the web page of the Institute for Armenian research of Ankara (IAR) (www.eraren.org) on April 21.
06.06.2008 THE WORLD-SPREAD ARMENIANS’ ORGANIZATION ISSUES Information-network-centric system
Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan
While discussing relations among different segments of Armenians, are usually studied mutually exclusive approaches. As a rule, the politicians and experts representing Armenia say that these approaches must be “Armeniacentric,” and the Armenians must be consolidated in their native land. Our compatriots from other countries express themselves more reservedly: they point out the specificity of Diaspora and hint at today’s not that favorable situation in Armenia. Such a difference in opinions is more conditioned by mental peculiarities of the representatives of different segments of Armenians than by realistic, expert approaches.
28.04.2008 ON THE ARMENIANS’ ORGANIZATION PROBLEM
Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan
During the past decades the information factor has acquired a decisive role in almost all the fields of activity of an individual, society, state and nation. In the changing world only the one having information has a chance to follow, coincide with and respond the new realities. The information actions today have been transferred to the political plane and are considered to be one of the most important geopolitical tools. The competitiveness of nations in up-to-date world is considerably conditioned by conceptual approaches they have to information security (IS).
24.03.2008 ON THE ELECTIONS AND POST-ELECTION PROCESSES IN ARMENIA
Gagik Harutyunyan
The well known events following the presidential elections in Armenia are being discussed on quite different levels. In this context the following observations are probably quite relevant. According to us, electoral and post-electoral processes in the RA first of all need distinct definitions which are still lacking both in the Armenian information field (considered to be one of the numerous omissions in this sphere) and in official appearances (the reason of which can be understood).
28.02.2008 ON THE ISSUES OF THE RA INFORMATION POLICY
Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan
One of the primary characteristic traits of up-to-date global processes is the formation of a world information-communication overall field. As a result, so called “technical protection” of the boarders of national-state information field faces serious difficulties, in spite of the attempts made in some countries. Thus, complete information security (IS) of a state and public may be solely conditioned by the potential of its own information resources (mental, spiritual and technical) and the systemized declination the information filed formed through those resources.
31.01.2008 ON THE PROBLEM OF THE INCREASING NUMBER OF AZERBAIJANI WEB-SITES IN THE INTERNET
Haykaram Nahapetyan
The number of anti-Armenian sites on Karabakh issue, which are mainly created in Azerbaijan and Azerbaijani communities settled in other countries, are increasing year by year. The sites of anti-Armenian character are focused on denying the Armenian Genocide, falsifying the Armenian history, the activity of ASALA organization are also being created by the initiative of Turkey, however, today Baku is more active than its “elder brother.”
29.01.2008 AZERBAIJAN DEVELOPING INFORMATION WAR
Samvel Martirosyan
In Azerbaijan is continuing active work directed to the internet information war against Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. Not long ago the Azerbaijanis put into operation an Armenian language information site. As a matter of fact, network broadcasting in the language of the enemy has its influence, however, the amount of financial and human resources involved in it in the very case were not justified. Yet, today are also used methods of more secret character, in particular, creation of pseudo-resources under the Armenian flag, in reality being controlled by Azerbaijanis. As an example one may bring the so called information portal Xronika (www.xronika.com).
24.01.2008 ON RA SECURITY ISSUES
Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan
Discussing the Republic’s attainments of the previous year, the analytical community attaches special importance to drawing up of the “RA National security strategy” fundamental document. At the very end of 2007 was also ratified the “RA military doctrine.” Thus, one may state as a fact that at present there are two conceptions with the force of the law in the republic, which are called to become a milestone in the processes of ensuring security of Armenia and Armenians.
25.12.2007 ON THE GENOCIDE OF ARMENIANS: A NEW PUBLICATION IN ARABIC
Not long ago in Beirut was published the Arabic language monograph of the Argentinean researcher Pascal Carlos Sahakyan “Human rights protection and Genocide perpetrated by the Turkish state to the Armenian nation” (63 pages). The publication of the book was realized by the Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide under the RA National Academy of Science. The book has been translated by Nanor Mikaelyan-Kaklikyan (Aleppo), using the Yerevan published English translation from the Spanish original. The patrons of the publication are Armen and Mimi Harutyunyans from Beirut. The introduction to the book (“A voice of truth from Argentinia”) has been written by the prose writer Toros Toranyan (Aleppo), and the epilogue (“On defining the conceptions “human rights” and “Genocide” more precisely)...
20.11.2007 ON SOME ISSUES RELATING TO ARMENIANS
Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan
It is a well known fact that at present for about the two-third of Armenians live abroad. Besides, it is not the subject of dispute that the Armenians spread all over the word are our most serious resource. At the same time, such a status of a nation supposes different inward and outward challenges, the lack of equivalent responses to which is sure to cause undesirable developments. The revelation of the essence of these challenges and elaboration of counter-action mechanisms is one of the most urgent problems of the Armenians. At that, a common impression is created that at present our national elite has no such social scientific knowledge and political technologies to solve such kind of national problems.
04.10.2007 ON THE COMPLEX OF INFERIORITY AND “TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEM”
Gagik Terteryan
In our days we can’t avoid facing the self reproaching moods, even reaching to national self-humiliation prevailing in our society. Such tendencies of complex of inferiority are sometimes grounded by “historical” references. It is especially stressed up lack of “state” thinking, betrayal in decisive situations and continuous defeats. Even the victories are sometimes presented as mere “moral”, with shade of uselessness attributed to them. We are far from only glorifying and extra coloring the Armenian history. We are also sure that self-reproach is one of the preconditions of development.
03.09.2007 ON PURPOSEFUL DISINFORMATION ACTIVITY IN AZERBAIJAN
Haykaram Nahapetyan
Disinformation activity carried out by Baku to RA has acquired well-grounded and more systemized character. There is obvious governmental approach, in the country is little by little forming “state information policy,” the component part of which is mass disinformation on Krabakh issue and on the subjects connected with RA. It is quite possible that the work carried out in this direction is systemized in Azerbaijan’s press-cutting service of Foreign Ministry as it is called Management of press and information policy (stressed up by us).
26.07.2007 SOVEREIGNTY AND GLOBALIZATION
Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan
One of the most actual political-social scientific problems today is the issue of the future of national, sovereign states. Taking as a basis the formation of the common global political-legal and economic-information field as well as the raising role of transnational companies and various organizations, some of them think that the sovereign states have no perspective to develop as a result of globalization. According to this approach, already in the near future the whole humanity will be ruled by some supranational structure or structures.
21.05.2007 Key players seek to maximize election gains in Armenia
Liz Fuller and Richard Giragosian
The May 12 Armenian parliamentary elections resulted in a victory for Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian's Republican Party of Armenia (HHK) and the eclipse of two opposition parties represented in the outgoing parliament. But the division of mandates raises questions about the composition of a new coalition government, which may hinge on the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutiun, a junior coalition partner since 2003. The May 12 vote was hailed by international election observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as a "clear improvement" demonstrating "progress" compared with earlier ballots, and as largely meeting international standards for democratic elections.
16.05.2007 The dynamic of carrying on the Azerbaijani lobbing
Haykaram Nahapetyan
The budget of the Committee for the work with Azerbaijanis living abroad systemizing the work of Azerbaijani “Diaspora” made up 80$ thousand for the year 2005; in 2006, however, it was amounted to $500 thousand. This year as well, according to mass media, it has been added. In 2006 took place the following noteworthy events to “mobilize” the Azerbaijani Diaspora: On March 16 was held the second congress of World Azerbaijanis...
26.04.2007 The process of the making of Azerbaijani lobbing: general data
Haykaram Nahapetyan
Year by year one can become the witness of more purposeful and systemized work of the Azerbaijani authorities directed to organize Azerbaijani communities and its “own” Diaspora abroad. It goes without saying that these steps are first of all aiming at struggling against the Armenin Diaspora, hindering the lobbing favorable for Armenians organized by the Armenian Diaspora in the US, Russia and European countries as well as their propagandistic...
19.04.2007 Collective and historical memory in the context of Armenian identity
On April 10, 2007 the expert of “Noravank” Foundation H. Marutyan defended his doctoral thesis (Collective and historical memory in the context of Armenian identity/basing on XX century historical-ethnographic materials) in the specialized council working in the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. H. Marutyan’s official opponents were RA NAS correspondent member N. Hovhanisyan, Doctor of Historical Science, professor, RA NAS correspondent member B. Harutyunyan, Doctor of Philological science V. Svazlyan. The leading organization was the department of historical-ethnographic faculty of the Yerevan State University.
06.04.2007 Armenia: Prime Minister
Richard Giragosyan
While such political change is neither especially new nor particularly surprising for Armenia, it has injected a new sense of tension and upheaval. These changes culminated on April 4, with Armenian President Robert Kocharian's appointment of long-time Defense Minister Serzh Sarkisian to serve as the country's acting premier, following the sudden death from heart failure on March 25 of Andranik Markarian, who had served in that position since May 2000. Although a temporary appointment, which expires with the election of a new parliament and the subsequent formation of a new cabinet, the move may end, or at least defer, the recent political upheaval sparked by Markarian's death.
21.03.2007 On the problems of information security
Gagik Harutyunyan
According to the “principle of interconnection”, making the basis of national security (NS), the reliability of national security is conditioned by how harmonious are represented the security issues of all the fields of state and nation existence in conceptual provisions and NS systems based on them. In this sense one should except that “RA NS strategy”, adopted not long ago and being of utmost importance...
15.02.2007 Armenology in the context of national security
Gagik Ter-Harutyunyan
It is known that development and competitiveness of civilizations and separate states are mostly conditioned by the ideological tenets they are leaded by. Comparative analyses reveal that only those ideological conceptions, which harmonically combine liberal, friendly and national approaches, are efficient in up-to-date world. And if the first two are traditionally called universal conceptions, then the national element is a unique category: It expresses military-political and social-economic potentiality of a nation with collective intellectual and spiritual-cultural potential in its basis. It is also important and urgent that in the era of up-to-date “multipolar cold war”, the conflicts of political character, universalization and globalization have elements of spiritual-cultural confrontation and expansion.
18.10.2006 Internet as a field of information war against Armenia
Samvel Martirosyan
The Azerbaijani party makes an active use of internet in an information war against Armenia and Republic of Nagorni Karabakh. In connection with the fact that internet-mass media influence becomes more and more dominant in the world, significance of information net on Karabakh conflict also increases. Besides, various internet-communities become more and more influential on public opinion shaping. Karabakh conflict has been followed by a stream of disinformation from the very day it began.
09.10.2006 Information implication of the war
Gagik Terteryan
It is difficult to give estimation to the role of information operations in Middle East developments. According to the director of Middle East program of Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), information, propaganda and political technologies are the main weapons of the war escalated in July-August 2007. In this field the west has lost its privileged position.
09.09.2005 On some informational security problems
Gagik Harutyunyan
In accordance with up-to-date ideas the conception of national security (NS) is a single whole of three constituent parts - military-political security, social-economic security and informational security. Disregard or underestimation of any of these parts makes any NS conception incomplete. Parallel with it, today military-political, social-economic and informational fields are integrated, that’s to say the boarders between NS constituent parts are often strictly relative.
13.07.2005 Applied Armenology as a component part of national security
In the present-day world the precondition to secure competitiveness for Armenia and Armenians and self-reproduction is the problem of self-knowledge, that’s to say deep knowledge of our own country’s history, geography, language, culture and other components of spiritual and material identity. Armenology is a complex of sciences investigating that field: It forms a complete ideology concerning to cognition, preservation and enrichment of Armenian political values. In the present processes of mutual exclusion and interosculation is formed a competition of “nation-values” and a new informational reality reflecting the struggle among the civilizations.
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