The book offers its analysis of the threats and dangers to the vital interests of the countries of the CIS in the geopolitical and geoeconomic conditions of today. Published by the Russian Academy of Government Service.

A publication of the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies. Press run 350 copies.

From Publishers Weekly. A lively, fact-packed account of China's spectacular, 30-year transformation from economic shambles following Mao's Cultural Revolution to burgeoning market superpower, this book offers a torrent of statistics, case studies and anecdotes to tell a by now familiar but still worrisome story succinctly.

In the early days after the collapse of the Soviet Union, people were bombarded by ads for a magic new company - MMM. In fact, it was just the first Ponzi scheme to rob naive Russians and give them a hard first lesson in unfettered capitalism and weak government. The book is written by someone with first hand-knowledge - Sergei Mavrodi, who organized the MMM scam.

2007 is the year of two jubilees: February and October, the two Russian revolutions, one of which has been canonized and the other anathemized by intellectuals. Together they have been called a failure of a great opportunity to attain freedom. Thinking in terms of lost opportunities is a weak point of Russian intellectuals. It has also been said that on the day Alexander II was to sign a new...

Athor talks about history of Islamic community in Russia and the reasons of the schizm that led to the crisis.

Myths about the Middle East began to emerge not in the 1950s, and they have not stopped spreading until now. It seems that the turbulent events in this region are constantly accompanied by new and new distortions of facts about the Arab-Israeli conflict. The author, director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, offers the reader a guide to understanding the intricacies of the conflict.

A new series of titles specializing on Iranian affairs. A Russian translation of a title originally published in Tehran. Includes chapters on government bodies and structure, civil rights, political freedoms and Iranian foreign policy.

The book, a collection of articles written by Russian and Western authors, examines the challenges facing Russia today.

The author examines the recent US led war in Iraq and how this fits the pattern of US led military interventions in Afghanistan, Haiti, Serbia and more.