• Regional and Energy Security
• Informational security

18.05.2015 PECULIARITIES OF MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES IN POLITICAL TEXTS
Nvard Melkonyan
The language used for political communication, as integral part of the political culture of the given society, has its peculiarities. There is a common understanding that political language can be viewed as a natural code of the political culture, which allows accessing almost all of its areas and layers. In addition, the language works to some extent as a tool to provide for and maintain the necessary information level of the society.

15.05.2015 TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY OF ARMENIA IN 2014
Samvel Martirosyan
Telecommunications industry of Armenia continues its dynamic growth. Mobile communications develop vibrantly.The number of mobile service subscribers in Armenia reached 3,424,236 in the fourth quarter of 2014, growing by 75,437 subscribers in a half-year period.

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.