The book is devoted to the contemporary internal and foreign policy problems of Afghanistan, which has been at war for over 20 years. The deformation of the country's economy, the almost complete stop of industry, the reorientation of agricultural production to drug-containing crops, and trade to smuggling import-export operations are shown. The role of the interethnic factor and Islamic...

Central Asia on the way to integration: geopolitics, ethnicity and security.

The book contains excerpts from several classic works on the Caucasus: articles on the war from the Entsiklopedicheskii slovar' Brokgauz i efron; chapters from V A Potto's 5 volume work on the Caucasus War and finally, Tbilisi in the 1830's, from the memoirs of F F Tornau.

The author examines the political situationin post-Soviet Kazakhstan. He provides comparative data for Russia and Kazakhstan over the past 10 years.

Originally published in 1915 on the 50th anniversary of the Russian conquest of Turkestan and the taking of Tashkent. The author sought to inform Russian citizens about the customs and practices of their Muslim subjects - about how one should behave in order to avoid insulting the native population. The author was a high-ranking member of the Tsarist administration in Central Asia.

The result of 12 years of research in the archives, this monograph presents statistical materials on the Chechens. The author has used the data to create original tables and creates a window on to the status and development of the Chechen in socio-economic terms, migration and demographic trends, taxes, land ownership and development and more.

The book examines the social processes underway in Chechnya in the middle of the 1990s. The author examines the tactics used by Russian forces, the role of Islamic fundamentalism.

A review and analysis of Russia's relations with the new countries of Central Asia.

The author seeks to understand and describe the interplay between traditional and traditional Ingush culture. He examines the ethnic neighbors of the Ingush, the origins of Ingush culture and its development from the 18th to the 20th century.