The paper presents the first ever demographic scenarios for the regions of Russia. Scenarios are developed for 49 ohlusts (regions), six kruys (territories), 21 republics, one autonomous oblast and two national cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg. Five scenarios are considered: two optimistic scenarios, two medium scenarios and one pessimistic scenario. The scenarios are combinations of three mor...

This paper examines the European Union’s interaction with civil society organizations in Armenia through the European Neighbourhood Policy as a potential example of normative socialization. Through examining the EU’s interaction with domestic NGOs in Armenia, this paper offers an evaluation of the socialization mechanism coupled with a general critique of the EU’s democratization policy in rela...

USAID/Armenia one year ago responded positively to a UNDP request that we participate financially in a COAF (Children of Armenia Fund) initiative to develop the town of Karakert, in Armavir marz. The approach that COAF proposed and implemented was a form of “integrated rural development” (IRD). This COAF-led, multi-donor program celebrated its first anniversary in the fall of 2005, and COAF is ...

" From time immemorial malaria has been a widely spread disease amongst the population of Armenia, and now it is the most menacing epidemic threatening them ; 15 per cent, of the population are subject to that disease." The committee recommend that in malaria centres sanitary stations should be established, that if possible 1,000 kilos of quinine should' be distributed free to the people, that ...

The Ising spin S model on recursive p polygonal structures in the external magnetic field is considered and the general form of the free energy and magnetization for arbitrary spin is derived. The exact relation between the free energies on infinite entire tree and on its infinite ”interior” is obtained. e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Permanent address: Ye...

experience of double revolutionary upheavals in russia during the 20th century which produced a new socio-economic regularity on one hand and changed the political system from monarchial to democratic republic and then soviet state and finally presidential republic at the end of 20th century on the other hand are treated as democratic movements. in this regard, crumbling of ex-soviet regime and...

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which erupted in the late 1980s and passed into military stage 1991, had been frozen for many years. sudden hostilities unleashed September 2020 led to regional destabilization South Caucasus. Unlike previously, this time conflict saw active role of Turkey that primarily affected Russia’s national interests issues its geopolitical power post-Soviet space. West, fa...

Armenia as a developing country has a very severe need to integrate and collaborate with the international Geospatial community in order to build a reliable and efficient geospatial infrastructure. Moreover, the availability of such an infrastructure could foster the availability of geospatial data, could facilitate the development of a data sharing policy at national level, and could help to e...