AZERBAIJANI ANTI-ARMENIAN INFORMATION SYSTEM
Foreword

24 September 2009
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The issue of the information provocations carried out by Azerbaijan
and its allies in regard to the RA, NKR and Armeniancy in general is a
topic of constant discussions in Armenian society. But till recently
these problems has not been taken as a serious challenge to our
national security. Probably, it was conditioned by the fact that
Azerbaijani information operations, by their content, were made-up and
far from any political, factual and scientific realities.

Meanwhile, it is known that the appropriate interpretation and
psychological perception of the events in the modern age is often more
important than the essence and the content of what had happened. Let
us also mention that information policy of Azerbaijan serves to
self-affirmation of the society formed in that country and it
implements in that society the aggressive revanchist
ideology. Understanding the problems under the aforementioned
conditions, it is necessary to state that the active presence of
Azerbaijani information factor in the global information space is a
serious challenge to the Armenian states and Armeniancy.

The tendency of making a point of the informational factor and the
threats to our state system clearly outlined after the programme
declaration of the president of the RA in 2008. As a result the
Security Council of the Republic attached to the president set a new
commission on the study of the issues of the informational security
(IS), which not only elaborated the IS conception of the RA but also
actualized it in state and political plane. Let us mention that this
work is also mostly conditioned by those developments.

It is also remarkable that the given study is a result of the
collective inter-agency work, in which experts of the Ministry of
Defence’s Institute for National Strategic Studies after Drastamat
Kanayan, the Chair of Sociology of the ESU and `Noravank’
educational-research foundation took part. Such an inter-agency style
of work is especially efficient in the IS sphere researches.

It is obvious that the challenges and the problems directed against
our society are not only restricted by Azerbaijani factor. At the same
time, the theme chosen under such conditions is, undoubtedly,
topical. It is necessary to mention that the current information war,
just like the military conflict against the RA and the NKR in the
past, was initiated by the neigbour republic. It is also obvious that
Azerbaijan, which has no necessary historical and civilization
traditions and sufficient spiritual and intellectual resources, will
be defeated in that information war, just as it was in the `hot war’.

At the same time the knowledge of the enemy’s strategy is a guarantee
of success. In this context the study of the Azerbaijani information
system is more than topical. The complex of such studies will even
more allow comprehending and coordinating our own actions.

The purpose of the given work is to reveal the peculiarities of the
methodology implemented by Azerbaijan in the information sphere as
well as the presentation of the current condition of the information
resources of that country.

In the first chapter the modern theoretical conceptions of the
information security and information war as well as the tasks of IS of
Armenia in the context of the Azerbaijani informational policy are
presented. In the second chapter the system of Azerbaijani
anti-Armenian information policy and the methodology implemented in
the informational actions are discussed. In the Chapter 3 the
technologies and methods used by Azerbaijani media to form the image
of the `enemy Armenian’ are presented on concrete examples. The
peculiarities of the `electronic hacker’ attacks carried out by
Azerbaijan are discussed in the forth chapter. In the last chapter
some information about Azerbaijani centres, which play active role in
the informational sphere, are presented.