The collapse of the USSR led to the creation of 15 new states. Shortly thereafter, the Commonwealth of Independent States was created. Having had their infrastructure tied together not only during the Soviet era, but before that, there was a natural reason to continue trade and other relations. The sudden freedom from the USSR also gave rise to a desire to seek new partnerships. The author...

The book is dedicated to one of the most contemporary themes in Russian politics - the image of authority and politics in the consciousness of the Russian citizen. The authors rely on ten years of research conducted by the Faculty of Political Psychology of MGU (1990-2000).

Noted author Roy Medvedev examines the growth and development of Kazakhstan during the Post-Soviet years, from an area of instability to one of stability and growth, driven by its exploitation of its natural resources.

A look at the strategy, tactics and methods used by Anatoly Chubais to privatize previously state-run companies and the rise of the Russian Oligarchy.

Barack Obama for Beginners: An Essential Guide.

A unique reference work, the book contains biographical information on over 300 people in the inner and outer circles of Russian President Dmitrii Medvedev.

The book is a Russian translation of analysis published by the National Intelligence Council on the upcoming threats and challenges the United States and the world will face over the next few years.

The monograph examines the challenges and problems in the modernization of the post-Soviet economic sphere on three different levels: national, regional and global.

The book examines the difficult process for forming an integrated community within the CIS and Russia's role in its development and failures along the way, overcoming the disintegration processes in the post-Soviet sphere.

In this volume, the scholar Andrei Kokoshin examines the role and place of technocrats as a socio-cultural phenomenon in contemporary societies. He examines the development of technocrats in both Russia and other countries.

Collected interviews from 1992-2005 with the intellectual power behind the reforms and opening of the USSR under Gorbachev and the perestroika policy. Aleksandr Iakovlev was one of the first Soviet citizens to receive a Fulbright Scholarship (along with Oleg Kalugin) in the 1950s.

Author, a political activist and nationalist, contemplates about Russian history, Russian people, and the future of this country.