For the past 20 years Azerbaijan's policy towards Armenia and the Armenian nation has been deteriorating so that it couldn't be worse. It was exactly at such state of affairs that we entered into 2009. After the Azerbaijani President's New Year's address saying "we won't give in, we will return, etc." there began to circulate another story on Russia's selling Armenia weapons with a total cost of USD800 million …

The year of 2008 was also a time of reformatting the South Caucasus Region. After the «five-day» war of Georgia against South Ossetia it became clear that new division lines were to be outlined in the region. No doubt unwilling to do it himself, President of Georgia made a «regal» present to RF that had long been waiting for an opportunity to gain revenge against the USA for the too profound an interference it had in the solution of Caucasus problems. The result was a much more chaotic bedlam in which even the most «skillful» states were unable to "catch a fish".