The article covers the project of possible Eurasian integration and information and integration problems accompanying this process. In the aspect of optimization of the information support of the project the necessity of preserving “continuity” of the national memory as a precondition and fundament of the integration processes is pointed out. The possibility of rapprochement of the EU and EAU within the framework of “Big Europe” project is considered. The incentives of Armenia’s possible involvement in the project are presented. The situation in Georgia, which is a critical infrastructure in the context of regional integration projects, is analyzed.

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Complicated geopolitical, difficult military and political situation in the region of the South Caucasus, objective assessment of its own military, political and economic potential by the Republic of Armenia predetermine its aspiration and readiness to be involved in the deep integration projects.
The fact that even today Armenia obtains real and practical benefits from the close military-political and military-technical partnership within the framework of the CSTO and direct bilateral cooperation with Russia allows driving to conclusion that these very directions of cooperation, which fit well with the integration project of the Eurasian Union, will remain basic for Armenia.

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Correlation of globalization and regional integration becomes rather topical problem in the modern world. Globalization, which is a diversified and contradictive process of world economy development, engenders new integration blocks and unions. Regional integration is a complex process considerably depending on definite peculiarities of each specific case where no rules, which would have been simultaneously both universal and practical for carrying out policy in regard to the integration processes, exist.

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The article examines the geopolitical distribution of energy resources, the desire of the EU to diversify the ways of production and supply of these resources. The diversification and energy security policies became an important factor for deepening international cooperation with the South Caucasus and there is a need to ensure reliable and stabile ways for exporting hydrocarbons from the Caspian Sea region.

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The states participate in the military and political unions if these unions provide their national security, which includes aggression on behalf of the third states. Possibility to provide “extended deterrence” with the usage of the CSTO resources and bilateral Armenian-Russian relations are the main priority for Armenia’s participation in the CSTO under the conditions of preserving Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. At the same time it is obvious for Yerevan that currently readiness to fulfill their allied responsibilities by its CSTO allies in Central Asian and Belarus is merely technically and politically unrealizable. Only Russia remains and this in fact makes the presence of the CSTO in the South Caucasus formal and reduces it to exclusively bilateral Armenian-Russian format.

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The system of the cultural values of Armenia has got a considerable place in the history of the development of world civilization. In ancient and medieval times Armenia, owing to its strategic position, rich natural resources, military-economic might, high level of artisan productions, town-planning, architecture, and particularly, a developed net of trade routs, made a great civilizational contribution to the history of the Silk Road.
The hollistic historical heritage of the Armenian people territorially includes Eastern and Western Armenia, Armenian Cilicia and Armenian (Northern) Mesopotamia, but only the territory of the Republic of Armenia (which is a part of Eastern Armenia) has been presented in ''the Silk Road Integral program'' initiated by UNESCO since 1988.
Turkey which perpetrated the Armenian Genocide has destroyed a huge number of Armenian architectural monuments and at the same time it is making falsifications in the fields of archaeology, history and historical geography. Turkish falsifiers try to obliterate historic memory and ''privatize'' Armenian historic heritage of Western Armenia, including Armenian Cilicia and Armenian Mesopotamia by falsifications and destruction of Armenian cultural monuments. For this purpose they use also the ''The Alliance of Civilizations'' created under the auspices of the UN and ''the Silk Road Integral program'' initiated by UNESCO.
In order the Silk Road international programme to be really truthful, the historic-cultural heritage of Armenia must be presented in its holistic territorial extent - the Armenian Highland (Great Armenia and Armenia Minor), Armenian Cilicia and Armenian Mesopotamia. The real scientific approach to the history of the Silk Road, in the course of the dialogue of civilizations, may become a guarantee of the world civilization, the spiritual-cultural sources of which are in Armenia.

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This article touches upon the vital issues of the formation of the Caspian Sea region. The article is also devoted to the comparative characteristics and analysis of terminology related to the various problems of the regional studies. In conclusion, the author expresses his own opinions and offers the future prospects.

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