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CONTEMPORARY EURASIA VI (1)
ARMENIAN-POLISH COOPERATION: PAST, PRESENT AND
PROSPECTS
On 10 November the Institute of Oriental Studies of the
Armenian National Academy of Sciences and the University of
Warsaw organized a roundtable discussion entitled «Armenian-
Polish Cooperation: Past, Present and Prospects». The Polish side
was represented by Jaroslaw Turlukowski, Mikhal Sadlowski,
Patrik Kalinowski and Jakub Khovanec from the University of
Warsaw. Researchers from various departments of IOS of NAS RA
as well as from the Armenian State Pedagogical University
participated in the discussion.
The director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, academician
Ruben Safrastyan and Jaroslaw Turlukowski delivered an opening
speech stressing the high level of Armenian-Polish relations and
the importance of scientific discussions.
The Chair of the Department of Eastern Sources and
Historiography Azat Bozoyan represented the social and economic
life of the Armenian community in Poland, its activities, the self-
governing system of Armenians, as well as the relations with Polish
authorities in 14-18 th centuries, and the conversion of the
Armenians to the Catholicsim.
Deputy chair of the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the
Armenian State Pedagogical University Hayk Grigoryan spoke
about the reactions towards the Polish rebellion in 19 th century in
the Armenian press. There was a difference how the Eastern
Armenian and Western Armenian newspapers covered these
events. The ones in Western Armenia were sympathetic to the
Polish insurgency against the Russian Empire, while the
newspapers in the eastern part of Armenia, which was under
Russian rule, mainly had a critical and disapproving approach.
Grigoryan also represented the situation in the Armenian
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