The author examines the history of Russian/Soviet trade and economic cooperation with Turkey. The book covers both the Tsarist period of the last 19th century, trade with the new Turkish Republic and the USSR and from 1991-2001.

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

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...