Author: Kalashian Nyrie

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA CONGRATULATES ARMENIAN PRESIDENT

Tert
Sept 21 2009
Armenia

President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev sent his congratulations to Serzh
Sargsyan on the occasion of Armenia’s Independence Day.

"The development of close friendly relations between Russia and Armenia
is characteristic of mutual understanding, respect, and confidence,"
said Medvedev, reported the President of Russia’s press office.

"The deepening of Armenian-Russian military cooperation contribute
promote help our countries’ social-economic development, serving
Transcaucasian stability and peace."

The Russian president assured Sargsyan that Russia subsequently
intends to "take necessary steps: two-sided political dialogues,
for the development of practical and humanitarian cooperation."

Winnipeg Free Press, Canada
Sept 20 2009

Thoughts on Gay-gate

20/09/2009 10:30 AM

Stu Murray, the former head of the provincial Tories and the new boss
of the Canadian Human Rights Museum is having a rough start in his new
job. He’s come under fire from gay and lesbian groups for voting
against extending adoption rights back in the day, and not having a
particularly well-prepared explanation for how that jibes with being
an international advocate for human rights. In a speedy bit of damage
control, it sounds like Murray and the human rights museum folks are
meeting ASAP with anyone remotely gay to smooth things over, as well
they should.

I think Murray made it pretty clear then and now that he personally
supports gay rights — though, in a nifty interview by CBC Radio’s
Margaux Watt the other day, he refused to say how he’d vote if he had
the chance again today. But the whole episode makes me think three
things:

1.Murray was not well briefed. He should have had a clever and
decisive reply to the gay rights question, because it was
inevitable. And he should have had a better answer to the "what
experience do you have in the human rights field" question. His answer
to that one amounted to: I lived near a reserve and went to Israel
once.
2.When it comes right down to it, Murray got into this pickle not
because he doesn’t know what’s right but because he didn’t lead. He
personally favoured gay rights but caved to the rest of his more
conservative caucus and party base that didn’t. Instead, he should
have recognized, as most governments and courts in Canada had started
to, that gay rights are not only laid out in the Charter but,
politically, voting against them doesn’t help establish you as
anything other than a backwater party with no hope of winning in
Winnipeg. Murray should have whipped his caucus, the way one imagines
Doer does on issues that matter. If he couldn’t manage that, how is he
going to manage when the Turks are REALLY MAD about a exhibit on the
Armenian genocide?
3.If any New Democrats out there are taking any glee in this whole
debacle, I’d like to remind you of your party’s mealy-mouthed record
on gay rights. You only extended pension and death benefits to gays
because the Supreme Court told you to. You only let gays adopt because
you got an avalanche of criticism from inside and outside your party
(and reportedly, a threat by openly-gay cabinet minister Jim Rondeau
to resign). So no gloating.

n/blogs/welch/Thoughts-on-Gay-gate-59936492.html

Le Monde, France
16 septembre 2009 mercredi

A VOIR v;
L’affiche rouge, histoires de sang et sens de l’histoire

Robert Guédiguian raconte l’engagement des jeunes combattants du
groupe Manouchian, symboles de la résistance exécutés en 1944

L’ARMéE DU CRIME

Trois semaines après le premier, un autre groupe de juifs décidés à
tuer des Allemands arrive sur les écrans. Ce n’est pas tout à fait une
coïncidence que L’Armée du crime, de Robert Guédiguian, sorte vingt
jours après Inglourious Basterds, de Quentin Tarantino, après qu’ils
se sont croisés au Festival de Cannes, au mois de mai.

Au moment où meurent les derniers témoins, Tarantino a estimé qu’il
était temps de lever l’interdit historique qui pesait sur la période
et de jouer avec l’histoire de la seconde guerre mondiale (comme un
enfant joue avec sa panoplie de cow-boy). Robert Guédiguian sait lui
aussi qu’une période s’est achevée, mais, face à la débcle générale
des idéaux ou des illusions portés par ceux qui ont combattu
l’Allemagne nazie, il a voulu revenir à la source.

L’Armée du crime est la mise en scène d’un soulèvement, celui des
jeunes combattants immigrés du groupe Manouchian, et de son
écrasement, à partir du souvenir laissé dans la mémoire collective
(celle du mouvement communiste) et individuelle (celle de Guédiguian).

Il est difficile de voir un film dont on a suivi le tournage des jours
durant, comme nous avons pu le faire pendant l’été 2008, sans se
souvenir de la manière dont le réalisateur, les acteurs et les
techniciens y ont travaillé. Les intentions affirmées à l’époque
(politiques, historiques, bien sûr, mais aussi esthétiques) et la
méthode (collective, empreinte d’un sérieux et d’un respect peu
communs sur les plateaux) apparaissent clairement. Ce qui est à
l’écran vient comme l’accomplissement d’une promesse qui, aux yeux
d’un témoin de la fabrication du film, est entièrement tenue.

La trame dramatique de L’Armée du crime aurait pu servir à
Hollywood. Un type fort, intelligent et séduisant qui recrute des
comparses pour accomplir des exploits périlleux, ça a beaucoup servi.

En 1943, Missak Manouchian (Simon Abkarian), réfugié arménien, fut
chargé par la direction communiste de former un groupe armé, sous
l’autorité de la Main-d’oeuvre immigrée, organisation communiste
regroupant les travailleurs nés ailleurs qu’en France.

La bande rassemblée par Manouchian comptait dans ses rangs nombres de
juifs originaires d’Europe de l’Est, mais aussi des Italiens
antifascistes et des républicains espagnols. Dans ces rangs,
Guédiguian a choisi quelques figures pour leur jeunesse, leur
violence. Thomas Elek (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) et Marcel Rayman, un
lycéen doué en chimie et un ouvrier champion de natation, deviennent
des tueurs. Parce que Guédiguian – l’affiche du film en témoigne – ne
fait pas mystère des buts de guerre du groupe Manouchian. Il fallait
tuer des Allemands, les plus gradés possible, à défaut le plus grand
nombre possible, autant pour démoraliser l’ennemi que pour montrer aux
Français que la lutte armée était possible.

C’est la première fois que l’auteur de La ville est tranquille
s’essaie à un film de cette ampleur. Et la seconde (après Le Promeneur
du Champ-de-Mars, chronique des derniers jours de François Mitterrand)
qu’il s’éloigne de Marseille. Mais il n’a pas posé ses bagages en
chemin. Il montre l’exécution d’officiers allemands ou un attentat à
la grenade pour ce qu’ils sont, des moments de violence, de souffrance
et de peur. Et quand l’exaltation saisit l’un des jeunes clandestins,
elle est mise en scène pour ce qu’elle est, une émotion ambiguë qui
sert les buts assignés par le parti mais met en danger l’intégrité de
celui qui se réjouit de la mort de ses ennemis.

La figure de Manouchian est là pour servir le projet politique et
éthique de Guédiguian : un homme capable de tuer tout en continuant à
vivre et à aimer sa compagne Mélinée (Virginie Ledoyen). Sur l’autre
rive, il y a les tristes figures des policiers français qui firent
tomber le groupe.

Jean-Pierre Darroussin (qui déjà jouait le militant du Front national
dans Marius et Jeannette) incarne un fonctionnaire compétent qui
succombe à la tentation que lui met sous le nez le commissaire David
(Yann Tregouët), technocrate de la lutte anticommuniste.

Ce sont eux les exécutants du martyre du groupe Manouchian, tout comme
Vichy se mit à la disposition des occupants pour monter l’opération de
propagande qui fit que l’affiche rouge dénonçant " l’armée du crime "
fut placardée sur les murs de France.

Tout dans le film, y compris les libertés prises avec la chronologie
des événements, tend à exprimer l’essence de cet affrontement, à en
dégager le sens. Les derniers films de Robert Guédiguian, et
particulièrement Lady Jane (2008), mettaient en scène la
désorientation, la colère face à la perte de ce même sens, qui fut
celui de l’histoire.

Alors que Ken Loach, qui montrait les mêmes interrogations dans It’s a
Free World (2007), s’est réfugié dans la comédie fantaisiste de
Looking for Eric, son camarade Guédiguian a remonté le temps pour
retrouver une vérité perdue et la rapporter à ses contemporains.

,

Thomas Sotinel

Film français de Robert Guédiguianavec Simon Abkarian, Virginie
Ledoyen, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Robinson Stévenin. (2 h 19.)

NEW EQUIPMENT WILL BE SUPPLIED TO YEREVAN BIRTHHOUSES

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
17.09.2009 20:42 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today, VivaCell-MTS and BirthLink NGO launched a
large-scale neonatal care project aimed at significantly reduction
of infant mortality in Armenia.

More than 4 million babies in the world die annually in their first
year of life. Not only do a staggering 98% of these deaths occur
in developing countries, but 65% of these deaths occur in the first
month of life, with more than two-thirds happening in the first week,
and of these babies, more than 50% die in the first 24 hours.

Based on WHO statistics, Armenia’s infant mortality rate is more than
four times higher than in countries like the US and UK.

"Being aware of how vulnerable a newborn is and the high and
sophisticated level of care it needs, VivaCell-MTS couldn’t just
watch. This project is yet another commitment in line with our
Corporate Responsibility belief that we are turning into practice. It
is all because we care," stated VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph
Yirikian.

With good facilities and equipment, complemented by a program of
continuing education and a sound medical knowledge, many of these
deaths are preventable.

Kathy Mellor, BirthLink’s Director and founder said: "Our main
objective, in undertaking this project, is to reduce neonatal
mortality over the next five years, in line with the UN Millennium
Goals. Through the provision of essential equipment, specifically
targeting the immediate period after birth, when babies are most
vulnerable, and continued support to neonatal departments in Armenia,
we hope we can have an impact on survival for sick and vulnerable
newborn babies. And this project would not have been possible without
the support and funding by VivaCell-MTS."

With more than 40% of births in Armenia taking place in Yerevan,
this project is supporting ten maternity departments in the city,
as well as one Children’s hospital, which receive sick newborns. A
total of 101 pieces of essential equipment that can ributed to
hospitals including incubators, respiratory support, monitors and
other essential supplies for delivering safe and appropriate care.

The press conference will be followed by a series of training sessions
for medical personnel from target medical facilities in use of medical
equipment. Also there will be follow up visits by the professional
medical team to give ongoing support.

SAMVEL FARMANYAN: PRESIDENT, POLITICAL FORCES HOLD "OFF-THE-RECORD" MEETINGS

Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Sept 18 2009
Armenia

Aram Karapetyan, the leader of the New Times Party broke a preliminary
non-disclosure agreement with the RA President, Samvel Farmanyan,
Press Secretary of the RA President, told NEWS.am.

Under the agreements, the meetings with the Armenian President are held
"off the record." "I find it difficult to explain why Aram Karapetyan
made voiced or actually unvoiced opinions public. You had better know
the answer from him," Farmanyan said. He pointed out it was the third
meeting, but the first case of the agreement being broken.

Yesterday Aram Karapetyan stated that most of the political forces
participating in the meetings with the Armenian President voices
fears about the Armenian Genocide problem and mutual recognition
of borders. According to him, President Serzh Sargsyan shared the
political forces’ opinions and promised them to revise the proposals.

The Armenian-Turkish Protocols were initialed on August 31 and are
to be ratified by the Armenian and Turkish Parliaments.

PARLIAMENTARY HEARINGS ON SUBJECT INITIATED PROTOCOLS AND NORMALIZATION PROCESS OF ARMENIA-TURKEY RELATIONS TO BE HELD ON OCTOBER 1

NOYAN TAPAN
SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 18, NOYAN TAPAN. The RA National Assembly Standing
Committee on Foreign Relations on October 1 organizes parliamentary
hearings on the subject Initiated Protocols and Normalization Process
of Armenia-Turkey Relations.

According to a report by the RA NA Public Relations Department,
the hearings have a goal with participation of representatives of
political organizations and NGOs, political research centers and
experts to hold a many-sided discussion on the process initiated
between Armenia and Turkey.

CONTEST OF TEACHERS OF HISTORY, ARMENIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE HELD IN YEREVAN

PanARMENIAN.Net
17.09.2009 18:28 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Competition of teachers of the Armenian history,
history of the Armenian Church, Armenian language and literature was
organized for the seventh time in Yerevan. The competition is organized
by the RA ministry of education and the Armenian Apostolic Church
under the high patronage of the Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II.

The competition involves tests. 45 teachers, 4 from Yerevan and the
rest from the Armenian regions take part in the competition this
year. There will be three prize-winning places in each subject:
the first place can be claimed by one teacher, the second – by two
teachers and the third – by three participants.

"The competition has already become traditional. The aim of the contest
is to promote Armenological Studies, " key expert in general education
of the Ministry of Education and Science, Program Coordinator Narine
Mnatsakayan said.

The award ceremony will take place in Etchmiadzin and the Catholicos
of All Armenians Garegin II will hand over the "Best Teacher" awards.

HAYASTAN (ARMENIA) FUND INITIATES CONSTRUCTION OF MILK COLLECTION STATION IN AZATAMUT

ARKA
September 16, 2009
Yerevan

YEREVAN, September 16, /ARKA/. The Hayastan (Armenia) Fund has
initiated construction of a milk collection station in the village
of Azatamut, Tavush province, Fund executive director Ara Vardanian
told a news conference today.

He said one of the major problems of farmers in remote areas is how
to sell their produces. That was why the Fund has initiated a set of
measures to solve this and other pressing problems.

Ara Vardanian said the milk collection station will buy milk from
farmers in 11 villages of the province and resell it to a large
dairy company. He said also that the Fund has designed a small credit
program designed to boost agricultural development in remote villages
but credits will be available in five months.

Since its inception in 1992 the Armenia Fund has raised about over
$185 million dollars for large infrastructure development projects
in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. M.M.

TURKEY USES ESTABLISHMENT OF RELATIONS WITH GEORGIA TO STRENGTHEN ITS POSITION IN REGION: EXPERTS

Trend News Agency
Sept 16 2009
Azerbaijan

Strengthening the relations between Turkey and Georgia is driven by
Ankara’s desire to change foreign policy and to take a more active
stance in the Caucasus region, experts believe.

"Georgia and Turkey historically have close relations so it is no
surprise that Turkey is working to build up even closer links as part
of its new assertive foreign policy strategy in its neighbourhood,"
believes Amanda Akcakoca, European Expert on South Caucasus.

Last week, in an interview with the Georgian First TV Channel,
Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davudoglu said the Deputy Foreign
Minister of Turkey will visit Abkhazia in the near future.

"Turkey considers the peoples of the Caucasus as the residents of one
house, living under one roof, and therefore, we want the Georgians and
Abkhazians have lived in the same house in terms of mutual respect. The
forthcoming visit of the Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister serves this
purpose," Interfax quoted Dovudoglu as saying.

On Sept. 11, Georgian President, Mikhail Saakashvili during awarding
the Turkish Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Georgia
Ertan Tezgor the Order of Honor, said that "Turkey is Georgia’s key
ally in the region", GeorgiaTimes reported.

The President stressed that Georgia and Turkey have close political
partnership, and free trade regime, as well as the turnover has
increased several times in recent years.

Experts believe the apparent rapprochement between Turkey and Georgia
in recent times has been dictated by Ankara’s desire to take a more
active stance in the region.

In the Caucasus Turkey is seeking to use the benefit of any vacuum,
every opportunity, and the recent intensification of relations between
Turkey and Georgia is caused by the fact that after the hostilities
in August 2008, Washington has begun to pay attention to Tbilisi,
Azerbaijani Political Scientist, Tofiq Abbasov believes.

"The very military campaign and its consequences showed that the White
House administration makes a pause before beginning to implement a new
policy with respect to Georgia, Azerbaijani Expert at the Leader-TV
Analytical Group, Abbasov told Trend News. "This is in some sense
useful for Ankara which, besides a mediator function, has also its
own interests in the Caucasus."

The analyst believes the uncertainty which President Saakashvili has
faced in the relations with the United States as the main strategic
partner, has created some of the niches that Ankara is trying to
fill in. However, these niches cannot radically affect the regional
geopolitical alignment, said Abbasov.

Ever since Turkey launched its stability initiative for the region
following last years Georgia-Russia war, Ankara has been endeavouring
to find a bigger role for itself in the region as well as contribute
to efforts to increase stability, Expert of the European Policy Centre
(Belgium), Akcakoca wrote to Trend News in an email.

Russia and Turkey in mid-September 2008 launched a plan to create a
"Caucasus Security & Stability Platform", whose establishment was
caused by the desire of Turkey and Russia to rapidly resolve the
territorial conflicts in the Caucasus between Armenia and Turkey and
between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Turkey begins to strengthen its role and strengthen its position in
the South Caucasus, ARMENIA Today quoted Georgian Political Analyst,
Paata Zakareishvili as saying.

He said by using the opportunity of the Russian lull in the South
Caucasus, Turkey has actively taken up the role of regional power.

"Progress in the Turkish-Armenian relations primarily has been dictated
by the Turkish interests," Turkish Political Scientist, former member
of the Turkish Parliament, Mehmet Bekaroglu said to Trend News over
a telephone from Istanbul.

Turkey, he believes, wants to change its previous policy. Previously,
Ankara pursued the pro-NATO policy, the trend has recently changed,
said Bekaroglu.

"The new government of Turkey believes that such a narrow focus of
the policy that Ankara pursued before was not effective, now Turkey
has a much more flexible policy in relation to other countries,"
said Bekaroglu.

Such cooperation, according to observers, is useful equally for Ankara
and Tbilisi.

It should be borne in mind that Turkey and Georgia border, and
currently all transit projects in Turkey pass through Georgia, and,
as Georgia is unstable, Turkey is trying to stabilize the situation
in the region to secure its energy projects, said Bekaroglu.

The Azerbaijani export Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline – the South
Caucasus gas pipeline that delivers gas from the Shah Deniz field to
the Erzurum distribution point passes through Georgia and Turkey. At
present, the Baku -Tbilisi-Kars railway is under construction.

Given Georgia’s current frosty relationship with the big neighbour
to the North it is also clear that it is in Georgia’s interests too
to develop a more strategic and stronger relationship with other big
neighbours ," Akcakoca believes.

"Moreover, it is important for Georgia to cooperate with Turkey,
regarding the two nations are already collaborating in economic,
security, and energy issues," she said.

V.Zhavoronkova and R.Hafizoglu contributed to this article.

OPEN SOURCE ALREADY IN ARMENIA

HULIQ
Sept 16 2009
SC

The expression Open Source Software has been widely used in the
IT-industry recently. Full-scale programs of Open Source, from
operation systems and server solutions up to office applications
and graphics editors, do not need a payment for legal use, and any
specialist can create modified and improved versions of such software.

At the dawn of origination of information science the initial code
underwent changes and was transferred from hand to hand until in
60-70s the right to software product property took a prevailing
position. In the middle of 80s Richard Stallman left the Artificial
Intellect Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT
AI Lab) and founded Free Software Foundation. He and his like-minded
programmers tried to develop a Unix clone fully created on the basis
of Free Software. Although many important programs were elaborated,
such as GCC (GNU Cross Compiler) and EMACS (the world’s greatest editor
project), the clone has not been completed. In October of 1991, a
student of the IT Faculty Linus Torvalds published a message to Usenet
group stating that he introduced Minix kernel on x86 computers. Due to
Internet development, issue of Linux and the inaccessible behavior of
Microsoft, that had a key role in IT-sphere, a stage of return to the
old style of computer interaction started. During the following seven
years Open Source Movement was called Free Software Movement as long
as Erik Raymond initiated the name Open Source in 1998 and compared
the open code and the main right to property of software product with
the method of Software development. Such was the origination of Open
Source Movement. In Armenia the idea of creation of Open Source project
occurred in the autumn of 2002. Correspondent of ARMINFO News Agency
Vyacheslav Khachatryan applied to Director of Open Source Armenia
Armen Shahverdyan for comments on the project.

– How did the idea of the project’s creation occur in the country?

– Approximately a year ago an active group of like-minded-specialists
was formed, including representatives from Armenia, Denmark and the
USA. Jointly discussing the prospects of development of computer
technologies in Armenia, we have arrived to a conclusion that the
most prospective at the moment can become development of Open Source
programming.

– When did the Open Source Armenia (OSA) project’s implementation
start?

– In January, 2003, we officially registered a web-site
and already in February an implementation
of three programs started at the American University of Armenia under
management of President of the Union of IT Enterprises Hovhanness
Avoyan. In March Eurasia Foundation agreed to continue financing the
program. Lycos/Armenia, Enterprise Incubator Foundation, Armenian
High-Tech Council of America, International Executive Service Corps
and the American University of Armenia also contributed to the
project’s implementation. These organizations accepted the proposals
of participation in the given project with a great enthusiasm,
highly appreciating its prospects. After we decided to form a group of
programmers interested in cooperation which would work on the projects
independently from us. We received many responses of the specialists
ready to start working on the project. The work of the programmers
being guided with enthusiasm resulted in a creation of dozens of
projects on creation and development of various types of Software.

One of the most interesting programs of OSA is the Software
localization project Open Office 1.1, the most wide-spread alternative
to Microsoft Office, of course, Open Office has less possibilities
than its analogues, but it has privileges as well i.e. Open Office
1.1 is officially provided free of charge. In case if Microsoft
makes a decision of "pressuring" the piracy market of its production
in Armenia, the country will get an alternative way out of this
situation by using Open Source products. In the nearest future,
after the compilation process, a beta-version of the Open Office
in the Armenian language will be issued in the country. By the way,
many people even from South Africa apply for advises to the forum of
our web-site in connection with the Open Office compilation and our
specialists help them with pleasure.

Besides, under the project a new business-model of Application Service
Provider is created for Armenia, a system of regulation of relations
with clients. As the prices of Software products are rather high, this
business-model will allow connecting the server through Internet. A
definite software product will be saved on this server. And paying for
only monthly leasing of the service, a user will get an opportunity
of a "remote" usage of the software product. The given project is
headed by our compatriots, highly-qualified specialists from Austria.

One of the most successful projects is "NetBeans" SVG Editor which was
elaborated at the American University of Armenia. In the course of the
first month this program was downloaded from Internet by thousands of
users world wide. While the logotype of Open Source Armenia is placed
on the web-site of NetBeans development engineers alongside with such
well-known companies as "Sun Microsystems" and "Hewlett-Packard".

Besides, it is necessary to mention one especially successful project
"Children’s Internet Gateway". Under the given project, teenagers
from the town of Spitak studying the operation system Linux under
management of specialists from the USA work on creation of a Children’s
Internet-portal with wide opportunities of the Content Management
System, naturally, with open source codes which will allow specialists
to modify the program as they thinks best.

– Who are the main "volunteers" in the implementation of OSA projects?

– Specialists having various qualifications participate in OSA
projects. Majority of the program’s participants are students needing
experience, and by working on creation of Open Source software their
receive relevant knowledge and length of service. It becomes very
urgent for them as there are many companies in the country that admit
only employees having length of service. Hence, an exclusive circle
is created, the people having no working experience are not admitted
to job, and it is unknown where from to get this experience. Besides
the students, people wanting to spend their spare time on anything
else besides their main jobs work on the project. The most important
in OSA program is, in my opinion, communication between interesting
people and exchange of experience.

-What consumer circle the OSA-created software is calculated on?

– In my opinion, it is state organization that, first of all,
should take interest in OSA production. Sooner or later, state
organizations will have to change over to legal software production
as, for example, the production of Microsoft often used at these
establishments, to speak softly, is not legal. In succession of
time Armenia faces a choice of either purchasing standard packages of
Microsoft for some $450 or receiving Open Source products, practically,
free of charge. Such a situation was in Bulgaria. Then over 90% of
organizations of that country were deprived of piratical software,
and had to take measures to localize the piratical products, including
software as Bulgaria must join the European Union. Taking into account
the fact that the country cannot ban the use of illegal programs
without providing any alternative, the Bulgarian authorities made a
decision to change over to Open Source production as the purchase of
expensive licensed products proved to be more than it could afford.

– What stage is the project at?

– At present we are at a stage of full-scale work on nine
products. Several of them have been operating for some three-four
months already. I would like to mention the high attendance of
our web-site. To compare, I would say that our web-site one of
the most attended sites among the internet-resources referring the
IT-development sphere in Armenia. In the average, OSA’s web-site is
visited by 4,000 users world wide.

-What are the forthcoming plans of Open Source Armenia?

– We try to contribute to various projects necessarily, in order that
in future specialists could work independently. Quite recently we
have issued a booklet dedicated to the Project, wherein the programs
elaborated under Open Source Armenia are described. The booklet is
distributed to the organizations interested world wide.