Geghard Foundation files a complain to the Russian Academy of  Sciences regarding violations of academic  and scientific ethical  standards 

ArmInfo. The Geghard Scientific and Analytical Foundation has filed a complaint with the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), the Expert Council on History of the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC) and the Web of Science administration regarding violations of scientific and ethical standards by the journal "Voprosi istorii".

As noted in the Foundation's message received by ArmInfo, special  attention is paid to a steady tendency to publish materials  reflecting the interests and ideological attitudes of  individual  post-Soviet national historiographies - in particular, the  Azerbaijani one.  It is pointed out  that the main editor of the  journal since 2018 is Pyotr Akhmedovich Iskenderov,  who inherited"  this position from his father, Akhmed Akhmedovich Iskenderov, who  headed the publication from 1988 to 2017. 

 "Both of them are representatives of the Azerbaijani scientific  environment, and it is with this circumstance that the fact that   materials of authors from Azerbaijan, distinguished by pronounced  anti- Armenian and pseudo-scientific content, are regularly published  in the journal" the report emphasizes.  Specifically, in articles  devoted to ethnohistorical, demographic and cultural issues of  Transcaucasia, where the role of the Armenian population is  consistently silenced or subjected to distorted interpretation. The  foundation noted that the years 2022-2023 became especially   "fertile" for Azerbaijani propaganda.

The Geghard Foundation called for an academic examination of the  editorial policy of the journal "Voprosi istorii" on the subject of  systematic violations of scientific integrity. Also, it demanded to  stop  or review the journal's indexing in international databases,  including Web of Science and the Russian Science Citation Index and  recommended to exclude it from the Higher Attestation Commission list  until the elimination of violations.