05.02.2014

“NORAVANK” FOUNDATION’S SUMMARY REPORT FOR 2013 AND WORK PLANS FOR 2014

INTRODUCTION

In 2013 three reports on CSTO and Customs Union were published with participation of the Noravank Foundation (see Annex 1), five international conferences and seminars were organized together with partners (see Annex 2). Four books (see Annex 3) were published, as well as 24 journals, of which 12 issues of “21st CENTURY” and 12 issues of “Globus” (total 49 books, 251 issues of journals and special issues were published by Noravank since inception), and also 76 articles were published (see Annex 4).

The Foundation’s staff participated in 18 international and 6 domestic conferences, with total 26 presentations (see Annex 5). Special and scientific/applied trainings/courses (see Annex 6) were organized and implemented. Seven seminars were organized in the Foundation (see Annex 7).

In the reporting year the number of views of Noravank’s website (which has 2,000 permanent subscribers) exceeded 1.5 million, and a Google search for the phrase “Noravank scientific educational foundation” in three languages brings about 50,000 results.

Four staff members of the Foundation were awarded government medals and commemorative medals.

The staff members of the Foundation have given dozens of interviews to local and foreign media.

The Foundation cooperates with the following organizations and structures:

• RoA Ministry of Diaspora;
• RoA Ministry of Defense;
• RoA National Assembly;
• ArmRusGazprom CJSC;
• CSTO Analytical Association;
• European Geopօlitical Forum (Brussels, Belgium);
• Center of Strategic Assessments and Forecasts (Moscow, Russia);
• Integration and Development NGO;
• Center of Economic Research NGO;
• National Congress of Western Armenians NGO.
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Annex 1

Reports on CSTO and Customs Union

1. Public Report of the CSTO Analytical Association: “The Collective Security Treaty Organization and the Security of Eurasia”, Moscow, 2013
2. Sociological study: “The Stance of Armenia’s Society on Eurasian and European Integration”, October 5-11, 2013, Yerevan.
3. Armenia and the Customs Union: Assessment of the Integration Economic Effects, St, Petersburg, Report No 20, 2013.

Annex 2

International conferences and seminars

1. Round table discussion with Turkish intellectuals regarding the property expropriated from Armenians in Turkey and human rights, April 27-28, 2013.
2. CSTO and Security in Caucasus, June 26, 2013, Yerevan, Noravank Foundation (with Participation of N. N. Bordyuzha, General Secretary, CSTO and I. N. Panarin, Coordinator, CSTO Analytical Association).
3. CSTO and Eurasian Security, October 23-25, 2013, Yerevan (together with CSTO Analytical Association).
4. CSTO and Modern Challenges to Security, November 19, 2013, Yerevan (together with CSTO Analytical Association, CSTO Institute Yerevan Branch and Russian-Armenian Cooperation NGO).
5. Security and Cooperation in South Caucasus, December 18-20, 2013, Yerevan (PolitContact Political Technologies Centre (Russia))

Annex 3

Published books

1. Ideologemes in the Information Space of Armenia, by a group of authors led by Gagik Harutyunyan, Yerevan, 2013.
2. Ara Marjanyan, Socio-Economic System of the Azerbaijani Republic, Yerevan, 2013.
3. Harutyunyan G., Simavoryan, A., Hovyan, V., Ghanalanyan, T., Scientific and Analytical Community of the Armenian Diaspora: Organizational Matters and Cooperation Prospects, Yerefvan, 2013.
4. Hovhannes Zatikyan, Karin Province in the Second Half of the 19th Century, Yerevan, 2013.