Due to its civilizational, state and organizational, military and political and intellectual resources, Armenia managed to create new formats of statehood (Republic of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic) and to win Artsakh war. As a result of geopolitical shifts connected with the collapse of the USSR, as well as global tendency of devaluation of the institution of sovereign states in general, our national resources carried heavy losses. But even under such conditions Armenia today is the most established state in the region and has a high level of sovereignty.

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Ensuring of the high level of the energy security can be considered one of the main achievements of Armenia for recent 20 years. Its significance is mainly connected with the fact that independent Armenia started its history from profound crisis, and its influence on the social and economic life in some cases was devastating. However, the 20th anniversary of its independence Armenia is celebrating as a regional energy centre with diversified import of energy carriers and considerable export potential. At the same time, energy security, just like national and state security, is a lively process; it is never over but it lives and develops under the influence of different factors. Thus, the energy security system of Armenia will always be facing new challenges and threats, and our policy of correct and prompt reacting to them should never stop and vision of prospects of energy security policy should remain flexible.

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The main principles of economy: stable economic growth, steady trade balance, high level of employment, price stability are a uniform system and their separation, attempt to acquire one of those principles separately, without taking into consideration its close interconnection with other principles do not bear fruits especially over a long period. The main reasons of negative impulses of economy are, first of all, the monopolization of the economy, problem of diversification and essential gap in trade balance. It is vital how the economic policy, especially monetary and credit and fiscal policy, is reacting on the registered impulses of economic security.

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Over the recent years “think tanks” from Kazakhstan have stirred up their activity and most of the political elite of the country is involved in the dialogue for searching new ways of resolution of domestic and foreign policy issues. It would be great if that workshop became a bench mark and the embassy of Kazakhstan in Yerevan would initiate a dialogue and cooperation between “think tanks” from Armenia and Kazakhstan and then between Armenian and interested circles in OIC. It is not excluded that during the communication of intellectuals points of contact may appear which will become a beginning of qaulity changes in the relations between Armenia and that prestigious international organization.

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This year the 20th anniversary of creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States is marked. This is quite a serious date to appraise the role of this political formation in the history, as it substituted the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – the colossus which formed the former world order and specified the development of the entire era, thus laying foundation of the unique Soviet civilization. Anyway, one should accept that the 20-years’ experience of the CIS existence was not in vain. It can be supposed that over some time the understanding of how everything should be arranged for the economies of the countries to develop supplementing each other, and thus making possible the growth of the quality of life of the citizens came.

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Pan-Turkism is one of the most active ideologies in the world politics. This ideology was elaborated and imparted in the Ottoman Empire on the assumption of global geopolitical goals, which are still topical though in a slightly modified form today. Despite essential differences between current geopolitical situation and the age when pan-Turkism was elaborated and implemented, the strategic imperatives of Turkey have not considerably changed. This ideology also caused the Artsakh issue, which has remained one of the main problems in the Transcaucasia region and not only, since 1918. At the same time the Artsakh statehood, being one of the key components of the Armenian statehood and Armenian factoriality, is at the same time one of the main obstacles on the way of practical implementation of the ideology of pan-Turkism.

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Taking as a ground classic geopolitical doctrines and theories, the West is elaborating new projects, designed to formulate geopolitical goals of the US and EU in Eurasia. Under the circumstances formed, the Caucasus, policy and strategy of the Armenian states in a case of possible changes of geopolitical landscape become topical and crucial issues which demand separate discourse.

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