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The well-known developments round the Armenian-Turkish relations initiated the discussion and review of the topical problems facing Armeniancy and methods of their solution. Even a cursory glance at the situation in the Armenian communities is enough to conclude that formerly used strategies of survival today are not efficient and may cause rather negative consequences. As a main cause of the existing unfavourable situation and the obstacle for elaboration of the adequate national strategies the decrease of the intellectual potential of the Armenian community is considered. In this context it seems prospective to take the strategy of development implying first of all the development of the human capital as the basic principal of the national security. The availability of the highly intellectual resources, taking into consideration forming of the new military and political associations in multi-polar system, will allow not only withstanding under the probable geopolitical cataclysms but will also give an opportunity to solve some problems faced by the Armeniancy.

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Armenia had faced the change of the energy system already before the independence. By the decision of the government of the Armenian SSR two operating reactors of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant, which had been the basis of the energy system of the Soviet Armenia, were shut down. After shutting down the Nuclear Power Plant the thermal energy became the basis of the Armenian energy system and such a state of things has changed only after restarting second power generating unit of the Metzamor Nuclear Power Plant.
In 2016 shutting down of the working power generating unit of the Nuclear Power Plant will have to start which will cause new changes in the energy system of Armenia. Despite the fact that the alternative capacities are created in the country and the gas supplies through the territory of Georgia and from Iran are carried out in a stable mode, Armenia needs new nuclear energy reactor which will lower the risks for the national energy sector proceeding from regional processes and relations.
The interest of the Russian party in new Nuclear Power Plant in Armenia caused the establishment of Armenian-Russian joint venture which will undertake the building of the reactor and, most probably, will look for the sources of financing among the potential Russian investors. At the current stage, one may say that the prospects of building new power plant in Armenia are rather substantial.

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The article features the main political aspects of such category as “energy security”, the level of its dependence on domestic and foreign political trends. Alongside the system forming role of the energy security in the formation of political and sometimes even geopolitical architecture of different regions in the world is studied; its significance in forming modern international relations is stated. On the assumption of that, the “energy security” is postulated as a political category.
The subject is presented on the examples of both international and Armenian scientific and practical experience.

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The article features the Armenocide against the background of the clash of the civilizations. The reference is made to the assessments of the Armenian Genocide as a grave crime against “humanity and civilization”, as “Holocaust”. The essence of the Turkish (Ottoman, Kemalist) strategy of the Armenocide perpetration is revealed. The main landmarks of overcoming consequences of the Genocide are distinguished.

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The article deals with one of the key problems of modernity: national identity in the process of society transformation. The author represents general probable scenarios of national self-consciousness’s fate formation.

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The article features origins, causes, main logic, trends, outlines and purposes of the “National Project” of Georgia, which, in fact, has been at the background of the policy of the Georgian authorities since the period of the first independent Republic of Georgia (1918-1921) till our days. The structure forming elements of the Georgian nationalism are examined in the light of the modern paradigm of Georgian national identity. The author mentions that the marked tendencies of the ethnic processes in Georgia are characteristic of the age of modernism and the period of the formation of the national states.
The studies of the language, religious, ideological, inter-ethnic, demographic processes in Georgia show that country is gradually proceeding along the path of mono-ethnification. As there are national minorities the political authorities of the country face a number of challenges of the inner character on the way of the mono-ethnification and those challenges, first of all, are openly manifested in the contradictions between the policy carried out in regard to the national minorities and stated adherence to the democratic principles, tolerance and ideas of multiculturalism.
Resuming the aforementioned facts and ideological outlines, the author believes that on the way of further mono-ethnification of the country the main competitor of the Georgian national project is the continual strengthening of the Turkish and Azerbaijani influence in economic life of the country and traditionally fast pace of the natural demographic growth of the Azerbaijani population.

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In the article the causes of the global economic crisis are analyzed; its preconditions and possible scenarios of development are revealed. It is mentioned that the characteristic feature of the current moment is the high level of the uncertainty regarding which of the scenarios will be implemented and the possibility of realizing quite an unexpected scenario which qualitatively differs from the extrapolation of trends formed. This fact allows learning on the national level the universal lessons from the crisis, despite the type of the scenario, and be potentially ready for any of those scenatios.

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Today political GR-technologies are a driving force of the management process. The later being a succession of constant decision making lies within the system of the new society formation i.e. the democratic consolidation, which supposes functioning of the qualitative democracy with the highest level of state management. In this aspect the issue of the political GR-technologies management in Armenian reality is one of the most significant ones and this article is devoted to its study.