The tragic effects of Soviet planning and industry on the health and ecology of the people and territory of the former USSR. The author is a geologist and ecological expert.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, whose 185th birthday and 125th death anniversary are commemorated this year, is perhaps the most relevant classic of Russian literature today. This is true not only as a great novelist, but also as an outstanding thinker and publicist, whose articles addressed crucial questions of Russian national existence that continue to permeate Russian public consciousness....

A serious research of the last year of Dostoevsky's life. It sheds light on the drama of his life, death and the mystery of his departure.

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 author, an active participant in the Russian revolution and Civil War, writes about events and people he met and knew, such as Lenin, Trotskii, Makhno and more.

The book is dedicated to the most mysterious city connecting Europe and Asia — Istanbul. The heir of ancient Byzantium, the city became the successor of the great Constantinople — the capital of the largest Orthodox empire of the Middle Ages, turning into the center of the Ottoman Empire and an attraction for Muslims from all over the world. The everyday life of Istanbul in its brilliant era,...