As expected, after a 10-day New Year holiday the first working week was politically eventful. The main event was the assembly of the Constitutional Court of Armenia, which was to issue a verdict on the Armenian-Turkish Protocols. More acute was Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's unexpected visit to Yerevan.

Following the fairly long New Year holidays in Armenia, the first working week proved to be unusually eventful. And even if we do not count the lively debates over the Armenian-Turkish Protocols, which, by the way, have become a kind of "national sports", only Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's visit to Yerevan on the background of the Russian-Turkish negotiations can imply a lot.

Armenia is ready to resist the second wave of crisis, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan stated, summing up 2009 results. As Tigrah Sargsyan noted: "The depth of the crisis can't be assessed or the time for the second wave forecasted. Still, we have to be ready to face it." According to him, Armenia is prepared for the year 2010. "With a balance of AMD 80 billion, stabilization fund of AMD 54 billion and EU financial assistance of USD 100 million we have enough resource to provide macroeconomic stability and face new challenges," he stressed.