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CONTEMPORARY EURASIA VI (1)
the Armenian civilization in cyberspace. In other words, we are
dealing with the geopolitics of survival, the cyberspace survival.
However, unlike the traditional geopolitics, the initial basic factors
in this case are much more favorable. The following facts prove the
above-mentioned idea. So, let me remind you that approximately one
third of all the Armenians of the world - about three million people,
live in Armenia. But about six million Armenians constitute the
Diaspora and are dispersed all around the world. A large majority of
them live in the countries with a high percent of internet distribution.
At the same time the percentage of the Armenian internet rates is
approaching the European numbers and makes up approximately 70
percent. For comparison, the neighboring Georgia constitutes about 47
percent (according to 2016 data).
We should emphasize that the struggle for control over the
Armenian civilization sphere takes place in multilingual media, both
in Armenian and foreign languages, primarily English and Russian.
The civilization paradigm in these areas has its own peculiarities. We
are going to analyze them during the study of the implementation of
our paradigm in a specific area of cyberspace. We have chosen
Wikipedia to show the problems caused during the implementation of
geopolitical civilization paradigm. Let me remind you that it is a free
universal public multilingual online encyclopedia, which can be
completed and edited. Besides, there are certain rules in Wikipedia.
Their execution is strictly monitored by the group of so-called
“administrators”, “bureaucrats”, etc.
Wikipedia is one of the cyberspace areas, where the geopolitical
struggle is arranged among various states and groups for the
possession and space control, in this case in the form of content. In
such a struggle, the Armenians mainly use the content in three
languages: Armenian, English and Russian. The application of the
civilization paradigm is reflected in the creation of articles on various
aspects of Armenian civilization. The increase of quantity of the
articles on such topics in the above-mentioned languages helps to
afford the opportunity of the operation of Armenian civilization in
cyberspace. Armenian civilization is a part of the mankind civilization
“body” (Toynbee). Thus, the article in Armenian, studying various
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