Manual and reader for basic level includes short stories by famous Russian writers. Texts are accompanied by questions, and exercises. 24 lessons total.

The Commandant of the Kremlin is a unique position in the Armed Forces of the USSR and Russian Federation. The author, a military historian, examines the men who filled this position from 1918-1953 - from the rise to power of Lenin to the death of Stalin.

The book examines the role and place of the upper military elites in the politics of the Stalinist system.

Po itogam rossiisko-kanadskogo proekta Universitet Kalgari - Gorbachev Fond

The book offers a detailed examination of the little studied military traditions of medieval Vietnam. Of particular interest is the period of the 10th to the 18th centuries, which saw many conflicts, mostly in opposing the expansion of the Chinese Empire into Indochina. The author examines the development of strategy and tactics, force organization and weapons.

An intriguing title, a dynamic plot, vivid language...This book is about the life of a Ukrainian president, albeit one elected in 2011. The novel is as much political as it is a love story – it's about the private life of a man who had many things, but lacked happiness.

Gilyarovsky was undoubtedly one of the brightest figures in Moscow at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. From it, Repin painted one of the Cossacks writing a letter to the Turkish Sultan. He was not only a Moscow legend, but also a chronicler of Moscow.