Post-Soviet space: 20 years on

Post-Soviet states are facing new challenges: informational vulnerability, absence of development ideology, as well as the rupture between generations

Kiev does not acknowledge sovereignty of Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Ukraine will not acknowledge the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Constantine Grisheno said in an interview to Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper.He added that Ukraine is planning sectoral agreements on cooperation with Russia and will participate more actively in the work of CIS, but will not become a member of CIS.

Sargsyan, Aliyev will not meet in Moscow

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has no plans to meet his Azerbaijanicounterpart Ilkham Aliyev in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports, citing theArmenian president's press-secretary.An informal summit of CIS and CSTO countries will take place on May 8 in Moscow.Azerbaijani media report that the presidents plan a meeting within theframework of the summit.

Interreligious council of CIS to get board of trustees

During the session of the Interreligious Council of the CIS in Baku, a decision to create a board of trustees was made on Sunday. It will raise funds for organising conferences and creating and maintaining an internet site for the council. The proposal was put forward by the new president of the council, Moscow Patriarch Kirill, and was supported by its members, Trend reports.

Polad Bülbüloğlu is elected president of the Intergovernal Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Collaboration of CIS

This was communicated by the chief executive officer of IFESCCO, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Armen Smbatyan, as a finalresult of the common session of CESSC and IFESCCO. He has also specified that Polad Bülbüloğlu will start his duties on May 22nd.

Azerbaijani delegation will visit Saint-Petersburg to take part in PA CSI meeting

Azerbaijani delegation will visit Saint-Petersburg to take part in PA CSI meeting“Regular PA CSI session, 34-th panel-session of Assembly, sessions of interstate relations departments, defense department, human rights and social policy department, science and education department will be hold on April 5th-9th,” – reports Trend, citing press service of Milli Medjlis. During the meeting will be discussed problems of social protection of the Great Patriotic War veterans, common principles of local governing; besides draft laws of “intellectual p

Moscow to hold meeting of CIS member-states defense ministers

Scheduled 48 of CIS member-states defense ministers’ council will take place in Moscow in April 14. It is expected that delegations from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan will take part in the meeting, reports Armenia Today.More than 20 questions of defense interstate cooperation are at agenda. A plan of joint activity in military-memorial sphere by 2015 year will be discussed and probably passed.