As a result of the “Competition for Encouraging Young Scientists to Publish Scientific Articles” implemented by the Young Scientists Support Program (YSSP), Mushegh Ghahriyan, a researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the NAS RA (“The independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan: the position of Egypt and the coverage in Egyptian online media”), and Veronika Torosyan, a junior researcher at the Department of Turkish Studies (“Multi-faceted Eurasianism: a comparison in practice”), became beneficiaries of the program.