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The comparative analysis shows that those societies – presenting different civilizations – are the most competitive which have the resources to form polyideological systems in which both universal (liberal and socialist) and national-conservative concepts are presented. It seems that such a polyideological system in its content coincides with the concept of the national security (NS). At the same time one of the most important constituent parts of the NS – the content segment of the information security (IS), its essence is adequate to the national-conservative ideas of the given society. This circumstance shows that it is necessary to distinguish in the system of the IS those “critical infrastructures” which determine the security of the system in tote.

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The problem of the energy security is actual all over the world where the demand for the energy resources grows rapidly and, at the same time, the problem of their shortage is sharpened. Armenia, which regards the securing of its energy sustainability in the context of the most important consistent part of the national security, did not avoid such tendencies either.
Energy security seems to be a versatile, complex and multilayer concept. In order to understand how to manage the process of the energy security provision it is necessary, at first, to try to evaluate it and this, in its turn, is also a rather complex and diverse process. The difficulty of the task is, first of all, connected with the methodology of the evaluation. Despite the fact that there is a great scope of information about the separate indices of the energy resources elaboration, production, usage of the electric power, the indices of the efficiency and commercialization of branches of the infrastructures, which are published annually by a number of organizations and companies specializing in those problems, nevertheless, those rates do not correlate with the concept of the level of energy security. One may even assume that there is no connection between them at all.
Despite the fact that no discussion passes without considering the problems connected with the energy independence and energy security there is still vague notion of their level and methods of evaluation.
In order to understand and to solve that problem in this article the method of estimation of the integral index of the level of energy security evaluation is elaborated and implemented. This method can be used for all the countries united in the economic or regional unions and it also allows forecasting the indices of the energy security on the base of the available raw materials. A number of the approaches to the evaluation of the energy security, described in the special literature, were used as methodological basis for our study. The results of our study regarding the level of the energy security are based on the indices which are estimated by the international organizations and the forecasts are carried out with the help of the chosen methods.

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Today the energy security is considered to be one of the most important elements in the geopolitical architecture of South Caucasus region. The permanent political and economic competition between Russia, USA and Iran for superiority in the region has its great impact on the forming of the energy security of South Caucasus and Armenia in particular. The main power supply projects that are being realized in Armenia are investigated in the article. Their geopolitical importance both for Armenia and the region is pointed out. Many of those projects are discussed from the standpoint of the international energy security problems and their realization is often considered to be the consequence of the different geopolitical aims and interests of Russia, USA or Iran. For instance the Nabucco pipeline project is the embodiment of the competition between the abovementioned states and today it is worth considering in the context of the functioning of the Iran-Armenia pipeline.
How may Armenia determine its position on this complicated power chessboard? Is Armenia the equitable player in this geopolitical game of the great states or is it just an instrument for the achievment of some geopolitical aims for them? These are the crucial questions that should be put at the heart of the Armenian diplomacy and foreign policy.

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Article is devoted to the analysis of the situation which has developed in the countries of Transcaucasia under the influence of world financial and economic crisis. It is shown, that the Transcaucasia states as well as the majority of the countries of the world have appeared involved in whirlpool of crisis, their economy had essential losses. It is especially noticed, that the crisis has influenced not only a social and economic situation, but in some cases has affected a foreign policy position of the states of Transcaucasia as well - in new uneasy conditions it is necessary to search for other decisions of former problems. The special attention in article is given to a question of the Russian interests in Transcaucasia. It is noticed, that Russia is compelled to conduct today the present struggle for preservation of the influence in the region. The role and influence of some of the international projects realized in the region (such, in particular, as NABUCCO) is considered in this struggle.

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The world expert community has already come to the consensus that the current crisis is a complex phenomenon – a fundamental cause which manifested itself in the complex of negative processes. As for the initial cause of the crisis, its initial driving force almost unanimous coincidence of the opinions of the experts on this issue should be stated – the beginning of the crisis lies in the exit of the economy as a subsystem from the natural restrictions of the general system of social development, turning of the economy into the self-sufficient force. That is why the general orientation of the decisions must be defined by the ultimate goal – to return economy in whole and real and financial sectors particularly to the natural state of their subordination to the problems of the humanity development and not the opposite (i.e. to make it a hostage of the economy).
Economy has to be psychologized in the finest sense of this notion and not in the sense of the primitive egoism principle of the mainstream. And this supposes the structural rearrangement of the fundamental science in favour of the directions dealing with the study of conscious, thinking, psychic. Only the availability of this scientific potential together with rich instruments of the innovative model of economy we have gives us a real opportunity to pass to the knowledge society.

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Today, in the age of globalization, the status of the nation oriented science becomes even more problematic. Many think that there can be no such science or find it not sensible enough. But we think that the experience of the specialists who work in post-Soviet space on Jewish and Israeli history should be also studied by other “nationally oriented” scholars who work in transcontinental Diasporas. This experience shows how difficult it is to create complex environment for the national science where researches, teaching and editorial activity would be developed on the precise level. But it is impossible to understand the complex of the global processes without studying the history of every nation. The future of the humanities is not in the craze for the globalistics but just the opposite, it is in the deep comparison of the experience and the history of each of the nations populating our planet.

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The article is devoted to some issues concerning mass-media effects and technologies being used to create virtual reality around such important brand phenomena as conflict, war, and terrorism. In the modern times of media-reality and informational society it is sometimes very difficult to determine whether the event is real or it is virtually constructed. Terrorism very often appears to be virtually constructed because its qualities are seen for the wide audience only on TV screens, and most of people perceive terrorism, conflict and war as the front-page events. The article represents the author’s analysis of how and why all these images of terrorism and terrorists, conflict and war participants and victims are created, and what effects they can have as media-events.