In order to facilitate the formation of modern Armenian national and public thinking, Mikaelyan resumed the Moscow edition of the socio-political journal Armianskiy Vestnik,[REF] where he appeared with numerous articles devoted to the Armenian Question.
With the aim of promoting a political doctrine of Russian democratic patriots, Mikaelyan initiated the publication of Manifesto of Democrats and Statists, which appeared in Nezavisimaya Gazeta on September 16, 1997 [REF].