On April 18, 2012, at the meeting of the IOM’s Academic Council, a paper by Dr Nelli V. Kozyreva, a leading researcher at the Department of Ancient Eastern Studies, South Mesopotamia in the Middle of the 3rd Millennium BCE. Cities and City Elite [Южная Месопотамия в середине III тыс. до н. э. Города и городская элита], was presented.

The entire paper (in Russian) is available at the Russian version of the web page.