By Vestnik Kavkaza
The Georgian Times reports that the delegation of Georgia will take part in the international summit of the Program of Open Management, which will take place in London on November 1st. 60 countries participate in the program and will send their delegations to the summit. Georgia is presented by the project of Practical Publishing and Electronic Request for Public Information together with six other countries – Chile, Estonia, Indonesia, Montenegro, the Philippines, and Romania. They will compete in the nomination Bright Spots Prize.
At the summit, delegates will present to each other the results which the countries-members of the program have achieved in recent years in the sphere of improvement of state management transparency, management efficiency, reports by the authorities to the population, and so on.
The Georgian project concerns the reform in the sphere of information freedom. The project was called a good example of cooperation between non-governmental organizations and the government, it was recommended by the Institute of Development of Information Freedom of Georgia.
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The Azerbaijani opposition is going through difficult times. The local mass media report that after the victory in the presidential elections of the current president Ilham Aliyev, some politicians decided to leave politics, as they saw no prospects in fighting for power.
“Caspy” Newspaper reports that the leader of Open Society Party (OPS), the former speaker of the Azerbaijani parliament, Rasul Guliyev, resigned from his position and rejected his membership in the National Council of Democratic Forces which was established by the opposition a few months ahead of the elections. Gulyev’s video address was published on his Facebook page.
The current chairman of the OPS, Sulkhaddin Akbar, told Ayna Newspaper that the leader of the party wanted to return to politics in the future and cooperate with all political organizations. Akbar doesn’t exclude more resignations in the party. He also predicts possible financial difficulties of the party, after Guliyev’s withdrawal.
Later it was found out that the chairwoman of the presidium of the same party and the member of the National Council, Zamina Dunyamaliyeva, decided to resign, explaining her decision by the failure in the elections. According to the 525th Newspaper, she said that as the National Council couldn’t use its time in the pre-elections period thoughtfully, couldn’t organize its participation in the elections and couldn’t achieve success, it should dissolve itself.
The other opposition activist, the chairman of the Azerbaijani Democratic Party, Sardar Dzhalaloglu confirmed to Bizim Yol Newspaper that he had no plans to reject his resignation from the position of the leader of his party. Now he is waiting for a decision by the party’s assembly which will take place in upcoming months. Dzhalaloglu explained his resignation by his desire to be responsible for the failure of his part in the elections.
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The Armenian newspaper Voice of Armenia published the article headlined “Twenty Years After.” The article is devoted to the situation over teaching the Russian language and the level of speaking Russian in the republic. The reason for writing the article was agreements between Presidents of Russia and Armenia to open MSU branch in Yerevan and a Russian high school. The agreements caused an ambiguous respond in the society. Some forces began to shout about maintenance of Armenian identity and a threat to one of the main achievements of Armenian independence – its national school.
The author recalled first steps by the Armenian Republic which started its path to independence with declaring a war against everything which was connected with the word “Russian.” The periodical says that even though Armenia realized that anti-Russian hysteria was harmful to the Armenians only and began remedy the situation, by that time there were too many mistakes committed. All Russian schools were shut down as centers of Russophilism, and those who tried to explain the authorities that it was wrong were called “enemies of the nation,” even though they had never denied that learning the Armenian language should be priority. Printing houses had to print enormous numbers of text-books, but still few children got originals, most of pupils had to use copies.
The newspaper states that the majority of students cannot use text-books today because there are no new text-books on fundamental sciences, while the old text-books are written in Russian. Today Armenia has a generation which considers Russian a foreign language; at the same time in Azerbaijan the similar generation perceives Russian as the second native language, and they can use this second native language actively. The author of the article believes that the media war should take place in the language which is understandable to everyone and first of all to your allies. And the force of your arguments depends on a language of your statements.
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North Ossetia Newspaper reports that about 40,000 juvenile fish grown in artificial reservoirs have been released to lakes of the republic. The deputy Director General of “Sevocetingeoecomonitoring” Sergey Ivashchenko said that juvenile carp, grass carp, and silver carp adapted well in natural environment. The work is useful because lakes become clear and maintain their unique microclimate.
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Ingushetia Newspaper reports about an initiative by the cultural-educational center Art-Bos on providing aide to disabled people, including the youth. The organization participated in the all-Russian contest by the National Charity Fund which was established by Vladimir Putin’s initiative. The only social organization of Ingushetia won 3.1 million rubles on implementation of its project “Let’s help all we can.”
The head of the center Art-Bos, Kureish Yevloyev, said that the money would be spent on raising businessmen who were invalids, but wanted to implement their ideas in business. Necessary equipment and materials will be purchased. Those people who lack skills will be sent to educational centers. It is planned to spend 30-40,000 rubles per every person to establish relevant working conditions.
