On July 26, in Ufa – the capital of Bashkortostan, on behalf of the NAS RA Institute of History Academician of the NAS RA A. A. Melkonyan signed a tripartite cooperation agreement with S. M. Yemelin – the Director of the Institute of Ethnological Studies after R. G. Kuzeev of the Ufa Federal Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and R. N. Zinurov – the representative of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Bashkortostan.

Academician A. Melkonyan participated in the festivities dedicated to the 70th birthday of the renowned Armenologist, famous statesman of Russia and Bashkortostan, sculptor, Doctor of Law Rafael Nariman Zinurov, presented the congratulatory message of the NAS RA President, NAS Academician A. S. Saghyan as well as of the NAS RA Institute of History.