The current year brought practically nothing new to Armenia: all of the old conflicts smoothly passed into 2011, and judging by the processes in the region, they may also pass into 2012, unless a force majeure situation occurs. The latter may well occur for reasons beyond the situation in Yerevan. Generally, it should be noted that nothing depends either on Armenia or on the South Caucasus countries, no matter how hard the presidents of Azerbaijan and Georgia try to pass themselves off as “masters of destinies” in the region.

The project was approved by heads of state.

The grandmaster has played for Slovakia so far.