On February 5 Russian Federation Council hosted an international conference "International Terrorism in the Information Age". President of the Moscow-based "Russian-Armenian Commonwealth'' Yuri Navoyan addressed a speech "Information terrorism in the Caucasus geopolitics". According to him, after the breakdown of the Soviet Union a process of entering into a new world order outlined in the Caucasus. This process has been accompanied by large-scale clashes, including information confrontation. Yuri Navoyan stressed that the stability of the Caucasus is hampered by the ethnic conflicts in the region. The situation is complicated by "energy geopolitics". In the middle of 90-ies of the last century peacekeeping and energy diplomacy started converting. Until the mid 90-ies between the U.S. and Russia the "gentlemen's Conspiracy was followed: conflicts were controlled Moscow and Washington confidently oversaw the oil.
Yuri Navoyan in his report presented issues of information war being waged against Armenia and the Armenian people. In particular, he noted that Armenophobia as the ideology becomes a way of life for Azerbaijan. In Turkey the Armenians were subjected to Genocide, the Armenian cultural heritage has been destroyed. According to him, systemic demonstration of Armenophobia is aimed at distorting Armenian history and discredit the Armenian national ideology, suppress the national spirit, deprive of the historical memory of the Armenian people. That anti-Armenian program is implemented, using in the 21st century of infomation age science and technology.
According Navoyan, the effective means to counter those agression can be networked structure of the Armenian Diaspora.
