Armenia and the information war

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Armenian government bans enter the “Justice for Khojaly” campaign website

[ 22 Jul 2009 13:01 ]
Baku - APA. The government of Armenia banned the local users to enter the official website of the “Justice for Khojaly” campaign (www.justiceforkhojaly.org), OIC Youth Forum told APA.

A young Armenian Internet user said on the campaign’s Facebook page that he couldn’t enter the website because it was banned. “Justice for Khojaly” Campaign said on Wednesday that the problem the Armenian users faced was a violation of the freedom of information and human rights commitment by the government of Armenia.
“Justice for Khojaly” Facebook administrator Elmaddin Mehdiyev commented the situation. “We investigated the problem and found out that enter this site (www.justiceforkhojaly.org) was really banned in Armenia. Even they spread rumor on the Internet space of Armenia that we banned the site. Following facts proved that it is the next lying propaganda by the Armenian authorities. The site was established by the campaign activists in the United States and 15 000 people form 101 countries have visited the site and learned the materials there since February, 2009. It is technically impossible to ban enter the site in Azerbaijani territory. According to the ICT experts, the present Armenian authorities, who committed massacres in Khojaly, banned enter the site in the country to prevent spread of true reports about the Khojaly tragedy in Armenia”.
The “Justice for Khojaly” campaign call on the human rights defenders and its supporters to protest the Armenian government and to attract the attention of the international organizations to this fact. The campaign’s coordination center said they were searching for relevant ways to provide the Armenian users to access the website.

http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=105322

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Economist.com corrects mistake related to Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity
22 July 2009 [11:54] - Today.Az


Day.Az earlier reported that map of pipelines posted to the Economist.com Web site wrongly marked administrative borders of the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan creating an impression as if Nagorno Karabakh is an independent state.

The Web site has already corrected the mistake.

The similar mistake related to Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity has been made also by Wikipedia online encyclopedia, Mail.ru portal and Google search system.

The corrected map can be accessed at the following link.

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URL: http://www.today.az/news/politics/54017.html

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Armenian government bans enter the “Justice for Khojaly” campaign website

[ 22 Jul 2009 13:01 ]
Baku - APA. The government of Armenia banned the local users to enter the official website of the “Justice for Khojaly” campaign (www.justiceforkhojaly.org), OIC Youth Forum told APA.

A young Armenian Internet user said on the campaign’s Facebook page that he couldn’t enter the website because it was banned. “Justice for Khojaly” Campaign said on Wednesday that the problem the Armenian users faced was a violation of the freedom of information and human rights commitment by the government of Armenia.
“Justice for Khojaly” Facebook administrator Elmaddin Mehdiyev commented the situation. “We investigated the problem and found out that enter this site (www.justiceforkhojaly.org) was really banned in Armenia. Even they spread rumor on the Internet space of Armenia that we banned the site. Following facts proved that it is the next lying propaganda by the Armenian authorities. The site was established by the campaign activists in the United States and 15 000 people form 101 countries have visited the site and learned the materials there since February, 2009. It is technically impossible to ban enter the site in Azerbaijani territory. According to the ICT experts, the present Armenian authorities, who committed massacres in Khojaly, banned enter the site in the country to prevent spread of true reports about the Khojaly tragedy in Armenia”.
The “Justice for Khojaly” campaign call on the human rights defenders and its supporters to protest the Armenian government and to attract the attention of the international organizations to this fact. The campaign’s coordination center said they were searching for relevant ways to provide the Armenian users to access the website.

http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=105322

its funny how they complain when Armenia does something but they take every opportunity to attack the Armenian Genocide. I wouldnt be surprised if all Armenian Genocide websites or other websites depicting massacres committed by azeris have been banned in azerbaijan.

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National Geographic shows Nagorno Karabakh as a disputed territory separately from Azerbaijan

[ 23 Jul 2009 11:56 ]
Washington. Zaur Hasanov – APA. National Geographic showed the Nagorno Karabakh, the integral part of Azerbaijan, as a separate territory.

According to APA US bureau, the magazine described the Nagorno Karabakh on an informative page about Azerbaijan http://travel.nationalgeographic.com...rbaijan.htmlas a disputed territory, but showed its center Khankendi.

National Geographic didn’t describe separatist South Ossetia and Abkhazia on the Georgian page of the magazine.

Recently British The Economist published a map showed Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline passing via Armenia. After the protests of multiple Azerbaijani readers, the magazine corrected its mistake on July 20.

http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=105357

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Today.Az » Politics » Armenian Web sites not hacked by Azerbaijani, Turkish hackers: Armenian expert

23 July 2009 [16:32] - Today.Az

“Hacker attacks on Armenian Web sites that took place earlier last week were not organized by Azerbaijani or Turkish hackers,” expert on information security Samvel Martirosyan said at a news conference.

“The sensation is due to the fact that the Web site of the Armenian government was hacked. Maybe, I am mistaken, but I think Web site was hacked by hacker groups who are simply trying to test their power or want to have the governmental Web site in their collection of hacked Web sites,” Martirosyan said.

He attributed his confidence to the fact that while the hackers had an access to hack Armenian government’s Web site, they did not make any “significant changes” which is not a thing that Azerbaijan would do.

He said such attacks on Web sites will occur consistently and become frequent.

Technical director of Arminco provider Grigor Sagiyan found it difficult to answer which group hacked Armenian Web sites. He also noted that information technology is constantly being improved and methods of protection are developing alongside with the methods of attack.

“Fortunately, we prevented a massive attack in time. The main actions were aimed to destroy passwords. Today, modern technology makes use of special dictionaries and change names with their help,” Sagiyan said.

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why is it when something happens in azerbaijan the azeris jump at the chance to blame Armenia and yet when something happens in Armenia we dont take advantage?

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Azeri soldiers shot their officers dead
23.07.2009 23:18 GMT+04:00 Print version Send to mail

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On July 22, soldier Emin Rakhimov from Gyandja and his fellow serviceman opened fire at five officers in a military unit based in Fizuli region. As a result, one warrant officer and one senior lieutenant were killed. The warrant officer is reported to have been wounded by 30 bullets.

Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry makes no comment upon the incident.

In the meantime, local media representatives found out from their own sources that soldiers had actually opened fire at eight officers. There was also a Major among the people killed. The offenders are under arrest.

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Today.Az » Politics » Euratlas.com calls Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity into question

24 July 2009 [12:21] - Today.Az



Day.Az has received a letter of discontent from a regular reader which says that http://www.euratlas.com indicates Nagorno-Karabakh as being a part of Armenia on country’s map at http://www.euratlas.com/Atlas/armeni...f_armenia.html.

Day.Az has already revealed similar cases related to Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity on Wikipedia online encyclopedia, Mail.ru portal and Google.

We want once again emphasize that Nagorno-Karabakh is an inalienable part of Azerbaijan and the afore-said map is incorrect and needs immediate correction. You can send an email to euratlas.com master at [email protected].

The sample letter can be as follows:

To the attention of Euratlas.com editors & publishers!

On this page (http://www.euratlas.com/Atlas/armeni...f_armenia.html), the borders of Nagorno-Karabakh region are marked as being a part of Armenian territory. This is absolutely wrong, since International community, including U.K., has irrevocably recognized Nagorno-arabakh as being unalienable part of Azerbaijan Republic.

I urge you to change the map on the page listed above, since it’s not correct, and spreads wrong vision of Azerbaijan, and violates its territorial integrity.

Thank you.
(Your name and surname)

/Day.Az/


URL: http://www.today.az/news/politics/54091.html

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Cyber Wars: Experts say Armenia IT sector vulnerable to attack


A cyber security expert has predicted a rise in the number of hacker attacks against Armenian web resources pointing an accusatory finger at “network hooligans” recruited by Azerbaijani special services.

At a press conference Thursday, independent analyst Samvel Martirosyan further argued that the impact of ‘cyber terrorism’ on Armenia will become more appreciable with the country’s development and growing dependence on information technologies.

“It is one thing in the case with network hooligans, and it is quite a different thing when Azerbaijani special services use hacker groups,” said Martirosyan.

Martirosyan echoed the widespread concerns and speculations among cyber experts in Armenia that Azerbaijani special services may have been behind the recent attacks against several government and media websites in Armenia resulting in their temporary disruptions.

“It is a serious threat because in the course of time Armenia becomes more and more dependant on information technologies,” he said.

The specialist predicted that it wouldn’t necessarily be the government websites that would become the first-choice soft targets for hackers.

“There is the financial sector, e-commerce is developing and possible in a few years’ time we will have serious IT infrastructure. Its vulnerability may lead to serious threats and their impact may be felt not only by government websites, but also by ordinary citizens,” he said.

Meanwhile, speaking at a seminar on cyber security in Armenia, Armenian Center for National and International Studies Director Richard Giragosian stressed that cyber security is an important element of the country’s national security.

“Lately hackers carried out several cyber attacks against Armenian government and media websites. In fact, we can say that Armenia and Azerbaijan are in a state of cyber war,” said Giragosian. “Vulnerability in a cyber space would also make Armenia vulnerable in a battlefield.”

Giragosian noted that while hacker attacks against Armenian media websites are routinely carried out from the territory of Azerbaijan, the most recent one was launched from the territory of Turkey causing a great deal of anxiety among Armenian specialists.

Giragosian called upon the president of Armenia, the secretary of the National Security Council and the minister of defense to pay more attention to problems of cyber security. In particular, he made a case for de-monopolizing the IT sector, improving copyright protection standards and making serious preparations for possible emergency situations as effective measures to solve the problem.

Also, Giragosian suggested developing Armenia’s IT potential to ensure the sphere does not depend on external factors.

“Energy and transportation in Armenia as well as nearly the whole telecom sector is owned by Russian companies, which puts Russia in a dominant position. It is necessary to ensure competition. Otherwise the development of IT is impossible,” he said.

Armenia is also heavily dependent on Georgia, its major internet conduit.

http://armenianow.com/?action=viewArticle&AID=3971&CID=3762&IID=1245&lng=eng

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Discussion on “IT Development and the challenge of cyber-security in Armenia”

24.07.2009 11:20

The Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS) held a special roundtable discussion on “IT Development and the Challenge of Cyber-Security in Armenia,” with three main presentations, by ACNIS Director Richard Giragosian, ACNIS Administrative Director Dr. Karapet Kalenchian and Ashot Turajyan, ACNIS System Administrator and Webmaster.

This event was especially timely and significant, as it followed a series of recent “cyber-attacks,” which disrupted or disabled a number of Armenian websites, including those belonging to the Armenian government, media and private organizations.

Giragosian said that “the strengthening of cyber-security and the fighting of cyber-crime in Armenia represents an effort of strategic importance for the Republic of Armenia,” adding that “the strategic imperative of cyber-security stems from the realities of today’s globalized marketplace, the demands of a new security environment and from the specific needs for ensuring adequate security for the development of the Information Technology (IT) sector.”

According to Giragosian, Armenia also “needs to keep pace with Azerbaijan,” pointing out that “the Azerbaijani government has also been increasingly concerned with the need for enhanced cyber-security and has formed a state Internet Security Council,” and warned that “the Azerbaijani military has expressed an interest in bolstering its own cyber-warfare capabilities.” He argued that it was “a strategic imperative for Armenia to recognize cyber-security as an urgent priority, in terms of keeping pace with globalization and defending against the new security threats of the 21st century,” and stressed that “more specifically, there are four principal components of Armenian cyber-security: to safeguard and defend national security, to engage and integrate into the globalized marketplace, to develop and expand a knowledge-based economy, and to ensure and modernize military cyber-security.”

Giragosian ended his presentation by stating that “while defining a country’s national security is one of the more basic obligations of a state and the concept of national security is essentially defined by a state’s mission to meet possible threats, both internal and external, this state mission is comprised of three main pillars: to protect its territorial integrity and state borders; to provide security for its population; and to preserve stability, in both political and economic terms.” He continued by saying that for Armenia, “the challenge of national security, especially in today’s complex environment of multiplying threats, is to ensure that both the definition and defense of national security is a dynamic, not static, process of constant vigilance and preparation.”

“For Armenia,” according to Giragosian, “which is small in both size and population, national security holds an even greater role in the face of the threats of isolation and blockade, and the imperative for cyber-security, therefore, is merely one element of a broader long-term mandate to ensure the viability of Armenia’s overall national security.”

Following Giragosian’s presentation, ACNIS Administrative Director Dr. Karapet Kalenchian offered a presentation on the “Information Security of Social and Political Systems,” addressing the theory of technical, biological and socio-political systems in terms of self-governance, as devised by American scientist Norbert Winner in 1948, which he termed “cybernetics.” Kalenchian noted that this model studied how information was formed, transferred and codified.

The closing presentation, “The Level of Development of IT in Armenia,” was by Ashot Turajyan, ACNIS System Administrator and Webmaster, who assessed the price structure for Internet services throughout the country.

Turajyan concluded by stressing that “the most important and urgent problem for Armenia is the protection and security of websites and servers themselves.” He also proposed that “a new level of preparation and training is needed to withstand this danger as well as to organize some powerful counterattacks to protect Armenia and strengthen cyber-security.”

http://www.armradio.am/news/?part=soc&id=15481

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Armenia’s report indicating small number of weapons bought from Russia aims to divert attention: expert
24 July 2009 [17:18] - Today.Az
Armenia’s report indicating small number of weapons bought from Russia aims to divert attention, Azerbaijani political expert Fikrat Sadigov said while commenting on a report regarding weapons bought from Russia last year presented by Armenia to the UN armament register.

“Armenia is armed to the teeth with Russian arms - it is no secret. Armenia has allied relations with Russia. Russia and Armenia have a military agreement according to which heavy and light weapons are supplied from Russia to Armenia,” he said.

“The fact that Armenia has released a small number of weapons obtained from Russia indicates that it is trying to divert attention from huge military aid rendered by Russian military circles. In fact, Armenian army gets modern weaponry from nowhere but Russia,” he said.

“This is designed to divert attention from the information that was published in the media that Russia supplied weapons to Armenia worth $ 800 million,” Sadigov said.

“Armenian has resorted to such maneuvers for long time. By resorting to such ways, they are trying to attract attention and create an image of the country which is in a very complex and difficult situation, and therefore forced to make concessions to Azerbaijan,” he said.

“The Armenian authorities are in a critical situation and the country has semi-panic mood. The opposition urges president and foreign minister to step down. Diaspora and political parties led by Dashnaksutun also put pressure and demand to revise and disclose the arrangements that exist between Armenia and Azerbaijan. I think all this is part of a complex process and the difficult situation Armenia faces,” the expert added.

“In this connection, it is not coincidence that only names of light weapons have been released,” Sadigov said.

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Azerbaijanis expose Armenians in New Zealand

[ 24 Jul 2009 16:50 ]
Baku. Kamala Guliyeva – APA. Our compatriots exposed the Armenians again. The event occurred in New Zealand this time.

An investigation by the Commerce Commission found the juice products distributed by Armenians under the brand name Yan were incorrectly labeled, chairman of the Azerbaijan-New Zealand Friendship Society Galib Mahmoudov told APA. The pomegranate juice was found to contain "some" pomegranate. The products also claimed to contain vitamin C beyond typical levels found in blackcurrants, peaches and pomegranates. “I was born in Goychay region of Azerbaijan, home of pomegranate. I was angry when I heard that Armenians claimed their country is a home of this fruit. I brought Goychay’s most qualitative pomegranate juice “Shirvan’s” to New Zealand to put end on the myth the Armenians created about themselves. Armenians couldn’t lie so long. Local televisions also demonstrated the incorrect products distributed by the Armenians. The incorrect products were pulled out from the sale and returned back and the case will be sent to the court. “NZ Herald” newspaper also published an article denouncing the Armenian fraud”(http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10585594)
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Mahmoudov said the Armenians also tried to use propaganda against Azerbaijan. “They label Azerbaijan’s Nagorno Karabakh territory as “ARCHSAX” on the cognac bottles exported to New Zealand. Therefore we showed Azerbaijan’s map on the pomegranate juice’s packages we brought to New Zealand. We feasted pomegranate juices to more than 20 thousand families in New Zealand and delivered to them information about Azerbaijan”.

http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=105405