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The consumers and investors today, while making and economic decisions, mainly relay on the image of a country. Thus a conclusion can be drawn that a product is bought either according to its price or basing on the brand trust of the countryproducer. It is also obvious that the tourists are a kind of “massagers” of knowledge and information about a country, the most important communicators of the image of people, countries, products, traditions etc.
In the very text is analyzed the essence of a brand, is stated a complex of marketing means of introducing qualitative goods in the international market, ensuring popularity and raising competitiveness of a country as well as concrete measures are suggested to make and form a country’s brand by the example of Armenia.

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The work is devoted to globalization risks resulted by principle capability of up-to-date model of a stock market to break away from the condition of real sector and in that way become a financial crisis provoking instrument, something which has happened.
In the article is spoken about notions western and Russian experts have about economic and financial security. At the end of the work is spoken about the necessity for Armenia to reconstruct the state executive system in the following directions of security: spiritualpsychological, economic, legal, military-strategic.

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In cosmology and astrophysics there is a concept of “dark or latent material.” Under this concept is to be understood aggregate of astronomical objects beyond the reach of direct observations with the help of contemporary astronomical tools. The nature of invisible material has been a secret up to our days. It is clear one thing – it consists to participles which interact too weakly with ordinary substance. The situation in up-to-date world economy is analogical with astrophysical problems: There are also “dark” objects distorting the economic plane and having considerable influence on course and outcome of world processes. In the very article are considered some suchlike “dark” objects, which have recently acquired great significance or will acquire it in the near future.
After that, on the basis of the results of the analysis made, an answer is given to the question: which fundamental forces and interests stay behind these “dark” objects of world economy.

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In the article are elucidated the main consequences of “Five-day war” in August 2008 between Russia and Georgia and the new political situation in the South Caucasian region. Here is analyzed their influence on political processes in the Karabakh conflict zone as well as in the context of attempts activating policy carried out by Turkey and Russia in the post-war period, as well as perspectives of regional security and conflict settlement. In the article it is also spoken about military consequences of “Five-day war” in conformity with the Karabakh conflict.

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The whole world history and the history of the Armenian nation in particular have unambiguously come to prove that only the nations which are in active creative cooperation with other communities have the best perspectives of spiritual development. The paradigm of such cooperation may only become the proportionality of the two poles of national identity – their own and the adopted values. It is called to ensure mutually beneficial integration of different societies. In case of Armenia it is extremely important its ties with Byzantium. This history is an example of adopting foreign values on the Armenian lend and, to the contrary, representation of their own values to the others. From this standpoint one can draw a parallel among many aspects of Armenian-Byzantine ties and up-to-date Armenian realities. Accordingly, the lessons taken from the history of these ties are actual in solving the problems today. As for national originality of Byzantine Armenians, than the comprehension of another paradigm is a matter of concern: the necessity to preserve pro-patriotic way of thinking by the Armenians inhabited abroad.