Center analyst Marat Atovmian addresses meeting of the Rotary Club on “Human Rights: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.”

Center administrator Karapet Kalenchian attends Russian Embassy reception on the occasion of Victory Day, confers with Russian Ambassador Anatoliy Driukov.

Center research director Tatoul Manasserian gives interview to Armenian Public Television on Center activities.

Chinese Embassy Counselor Dong Chunfeng visits the Center, confers with Center analysts Sergei Shakariants and Vahagn Aglian.

Center research director Tatoul Manasserian attends and addresses Iravunk roundtable on internal developments in Armenia.

Analyst Artsvi Bakhchinian’s book review on “Napoleon Bonaparte and the Armenians” is published in Orran daily.

Karapet Kalenchian attends Chinese Embassy reception, bids farewell to outgoing military attaché Colonel Yui Syauyi and welcomes newly-appointed attaché Yui Chzhigan.

Rashpal Malhotra, director of the Center for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) and Indian Ambassador Deepak Vohra visit the Center, confer with research director Tatoul Manasserian, analysts Sergei Shakariants and Artsvi Bakhchinian; Rashpal Malhotra and Tatoul Manasserian sign Record of Discussions.

Center analyst Vrej Jijiyan attends and addresses public discussion on “Poverty and Survival: Stratification Processes in the Republic of Armenia.”

Center analyst Marat Atovmian attends and addresses in Tbilisi an international conference on Women’s Rights Advocacy.

Tatoul Manasserian’s interview on the privatization process in Armenia is broadcast by Armenian Public Radio.

Manasserian’s comments on the upcoming parliamentary elections are broadcast by AR television.

Center analyst Sergei Shakariants gives interview to Mir radio on NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson’s visit to Russia, Georgia, and Armenia.

Analyst Stiopa Safarian’s comments on political parties in Armenia are broadcast by AR television.

Center analyst Sergei Shakariants’s interview on Iranian-American relations is broadcast by Mir radio.

Center founder Raffi K. Hovannisian receives US Ambassador John Ordway; head of the OSCE Election Observation Mission Ambassador Robert Barry; Linda Duffield, director for Wider Europe of the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and British Ambassador Thorda Abbott-Watt.

Hovannisian’s meetings are reported by Noyan Tapan, Arminfo, and Orran daily.

Raffi Hovannisian comments for the international and local press corps on Richard G. Hovannisian’s accomplishments, the 85^th anniversary of the first Republic of Armenia, and the past parliamentary elections.

Analyst Marat Atovmian attends training session on Security of Prisons, organized by OSCE and OSI.

Center analyst Sergei Shakariants gives interview to Russian television on Armenian independence and Karabagh self-determination.

Center analyst Stiopa Safarian gives interview to AR television on the possible scenarios for formation of a new government.

Center analyst Sergei Shakariants gives comments to Mir television and radio on the CIS summit in St. Petersburg.

The Center releases its monograph publications for 2003.

The presentation of Center publications is covered by Kentron, HaiTV televisions, Armenian Public Radio, the Noyan Tapan, Arminfo news agencies, Hayastani Hanrapetutiun, Azg, Haikakan Zhamanak, AybFe, Hayots Ashkarh and Orran dailies.