Probably, no one could expect Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to introduce changes in country's foreign policy, as the foreign policy of any country is a more conservative segment of management. Moreover, no one could expect so slighting, if not to say more, attitude towards the work done by one's own department. Everything began with the notorious annual State Department Report on Human Rights. Everybody knows that it has always been politically booked and biased, but no US Secretary of State had ever risked criticizing the Report, especially doing it not in Washington but on a trip abroad.

The impact of the world financial crisis on the Armenian economy and social state of people has already become perceptible, especially in the population employment sector. The alarm has already sounded for a number of employment agencies: employers' offers are decreasing in ratio with the increasing labor supply.

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".