The functioning of the constitutional courts is a European standard, widely accepted also in post-Soviet countries. following paper looks at basic legal provisions Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia from comparative perspective. While Armenia undertake some democratic reforms, Azerbaijan remains consolidated autocracy, what justifies such comparisons. It argues that despite being line with practi...

Background Better access to essential medicines for children is an important pre-condition for improving their health and reducing mortality. However, the results of surveys implemented in some countries show that treatment of children is not always affordable due to a high cost of medicines. The objective of this work was to assess the situation with availability, prices and affordability of e...

Narseh son of Šābuhr I reigned from 293 to 302, once he had won the dynastic war that saw him opposing his grand-nephew, Wahrām III, narrated events in great Paikuli inscription, which also contains names a long list nobles and magnates, who paid obeisance new king. In Šābuhr’s inscription at Naqš-i Rustam bore title « King Hindestān, Sagestān Tūrān up seashore,” while later, likely under eithe...

A population of Crepis pannonica, growing in the Hosrov reserve in Armenia, at the southem limit ofthe species ' area, has been investigated over a period ofmore than 20 years. An extraordinary chromosomal polymorphism has been detected by the study of root tip mitoses ofseedlings. 40 different chromosome complement variants were found, including a full range of aneuploids, B-chromosomes, struc...

Although the ability of plant-parasitic nematodes to survive in a dehydrated or anhydrobiotic state for long periods of time has been well documented, the ability of free-living nematodes has not. Here we report on the survival of a free-living nematode, Panagrolaimus sp., from Armenia in the anhydrobiotic state for 8.7 years. This Panagrolaimus sp. can be cultured and maintained readily and ma...