The old-age events still attract historians' attention. Various versions of the events that took place at the beginning of the 20th century in Ottoman Turkey, Soviet Russia and Armenia can be heard nowadays. The map of the region could be quite different now PanARMENIAN.Net requested specialist on Turkic peoples, Director of the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University Professor Mikhail Mayer for some comments.

The International Crisis Group (ICG) new report titled Conflict Resolution in the South Caucasus: The EU's Role says that "With its reputation as an "honest broker", access to a range of soft and hard power tools, and the lure of greater integration into Europe, the EU has a greater role to play, and offers added value to compliment the UN and the OSCE. To avoid instability on its borders, the EU seeks a ring of well-governed countries around it," the ICG believes. At the instance of PanARMENIAN.Net, Chair of the Standing Commission for Defense and Security of the Supreme Council of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic in 1992-1995, Chairman of Tradition NGO Valery Balayan comments on the ICG new report.