Delegations from self-proclaimed republics, Russian parliamentarians, academics, and prominent political scientists will attend the conference, "A Parallel CIS: Abkhazia, Transdnestr, South Ossetia and Nagorny Karabakh as realities of post-Soviet space," which is co-organized by the CIS Institute.
Igor Smirnov, the president of the breakaway republic of Transdnestr in Moldova, Stanislav Lakoba, the secretary of the Security Council of Abzkhazia, a self-proclaimed republic in western Georgia, and Konstantin Pukhayev, the minister of culture of South Ossetia, a self-proclaimed republic in northern Georgia, will all attend the event, as will Kamo Atayan, the minister of education of Nagorny Karabakh, a territory disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The participants will hold a round table September 15 "On freedom of religion in the conflict zones," which is organized by the human rights committee of the InterParliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy.
The spokesman added that parliamentarians from Russia, Syria, Palestine, Estonia, and Armenia, and church officials from conflict zone countries around the world would contribute to the discussion.
