July 1, 2009 - 20:56 AMT
Armenia to participate in creation of CIS Center for Nanotechnology Innovations
The CIS countries intend to set up an international innovation center of nanotechnologies, the press service of the Federal Agency for Running Special Economic Zones (RosOEZ) reports.

According to experts, this center will play the role of a "locomotive" for the formation of a common regional market of nanoindustry in the CIS space.

On July 1-2, an information forum on the creation of this center will be held in Dubna. The Federal Agency for Running Special Economic Zones, the Unified Institute of Nuclear Researches "Dubna," the Russian Scientific Center "Kurchatov Institute," the International Fund of Humanitarian Cooperation of the CIS Member States and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine are the organizers of the forum.

Specialists from Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, as well as international and European companies and organizations will take part in the forum.