FUND AFTER ANATOLY SOBCHAK TO PROMOTE EDUCATIONAL SPHERE IN NKR

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
June 1 2007

A member of Russia’s Federation Council, Chair of Federation Council
Commission for Information Policy Lyudmila Narusova arrived in the
NKR on a one-day visit.

The Russian Senator met with the professorial staff and students
of the Artsakh State University, DE FACTO own correspondent in
Stepanakert reports.

Touching on the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict settlement, Lyudmila Narusova
noted 15 years of the Nagorno-Karabagh Republic’s independence was
a long period, however, she doubted if the problem would be settled
in one or two years. She added the conflict should be resolved in a
peaceful way.

Answering the students’ questions on the development of relations
between educational institutions of the Nagorno-Karabagh and Russia,
she spoke up for the necessity of such cooperation and promised to
contribute to it. The issue of opening a Russian school in Stepanakert
was also considered.

Today the NKR President Arkady Ghoukassian received Lyudmila
Narusova. In the course of the meeting the interlocutors touched upon
the issues referring to the development of the Nagorno-Karabagh’s
education sphere and cooperation with the Russian colleagues in
this field.

Lyudmila Narusova said the Fund after Anatoly Sobchak she headed
was to promote the development of the Nagorno-Karabagh’s educational
sphere and organize the education of the Nagorno-Karabagh students at
the Russian educational institutions. In her words, the Fund is to
establish a grant after Anatoly Sobchak for the students of Artsakh
State University.