Armenian Diaspora from the very beginning of its existence has been rather a strong and cohesive social institution, whose role especially increased after 1915. In fact, branches of the oldest Armenian political parties and, above all, those of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun served as a government for the Armenians, who did not recognize the Sovietized Armenia of 1920 as the homeland they had been dreaming of. Everything changed after collapse of the USSR , and the Diaspora began to act on behalf of independent Armenia . But very soon the situation changed.

A couple of years ago I had a chance of an interview with Robert Sahakyants and one could not assume at that time that he would leave the world so soon. We all knew he was ill, but no one suspected how serious the illness was. He was one of those without whom, in his opinion, everything would sink in sweet syrup. All that you'll read further are his direct words, as we thought no one could speak of Robert Sahakyants and the world surrounding him better than he himself. For some reason he always spoke Russian, although he knew his native language perfectly well. Call it freak of a genius if you like, but now that he is gone words, however beautiful they might be, are needless.

For the past month the focus of Internet-users and IT specialists around the world has been on three main events, namely the completion of the new operating system Windows 7 - the product of Microsoft Corporation, the release of the fast browser Chrome by Google and the work on our own operating system (OS).