"NAGORNO KARABAGH: FACTS AGAINST LIE" BOOK PRESENTATION IN MOSCOW

Panorama.am
14:54 26/05/2009

Presentation of the book "Nagorno-Karabakh: Facts against
Lie. Information-Ideological Aspects of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"
by Arsen Melik-Shakhnazarov took place in Moscow, at the Republic of
Armenia’s Embassy to the Russian Federation.

The presentation ceremony was attended by employees of the RA Embassy
to the RF, NKR Permanent Representation in Moscow, and numerous guests,
among them prominent Russian political scientists, representatives of
the Russian Institute of Strategic Researches, CIS States Institute,
Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Moscow State
Institute of International Relations, Fund of Strategic Culture,
Armenian Institute of Political Science and International Law in
Moscow, and other scientific establishments and foundations.

The ceremony was also attended by Inessa Burkova, Andrey and Galina
Nuykins – representatives of the "Karabakh" Russian Intelligentsia
Committee (KRIC) created in 1991, in the period of state of emergency
in the region, in response to the attempts of forced suppression of
the Artsakh Liberation Movement by the forces of the USSR and AzSSR
Interior Ministries.

Numerous public and Armenian organizations’ representatives of Moscow
participated in the ceremony of presentation of the large-scale
and comprehensive research of the Karabagh issue and the liberation
struggle of the Artsakh people against modern imperialism published
for the first time in Russia.

Adviser of the RA Embassy to the RF Ruben Azizbekian and NKR
Permanent Representative in Moscow Albert Andrian introduced the
book and its author to the guests, noting the work’s significance
and timely publication.

Their impression of the book expressed former USSR Minister of Geology
Gregory Gabriyelyants, prominent historian, long-term Deputy of the
RSFSR Supreme Soviet and RF Gosduma (State Duma) Victor Sheynis,
Chairman of the Russian-Armenian Friendship Society, author of the
book "Mutinous Karabakh" Victor Krivopuskov, Deputy Director of
the Caucasus Researches Center of the Moscow State Institute of
International Relations Vladimir Zakharov.

On behalf of the introduced-by-him Cossack organization, member of
the Cossack World Congress Presidium, First Deputy Chairman of the
International Council of Atamans Sergey Madatian decorated Arsen
Melik-Shakhnazarov with the order "In the Name of Humanity".

The book is issued in 3.000 copies. The NKR Permanent Representation
in Moscow is distributing the book telling the Russian people the
truth about Artsakh and its people’s fair struggle for the right to
free life on its own land.