The book analyzes the political situation in Kazakhstan in the post-Soviet period, provides comparative characteristics of the development of Russia and Kazakhstan in the last decade, and recommendations for further cooperation between the two countries.

The author offers his analysis of the Chechen crisis and false stereotypes of Russian democracy.

The author examines the changing geopolitical centers of power and Russia's role in this new order.

The author is a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His book is based on research materials compiled on the current problems of Russia's international image within a historical and contemporary context.

The author served as the first official Ambassador of the USSR and later the Russian Federation to the Vatican. He served from 1990-1995.

The author examines the questions revolving around the development of a new ocean concept and program given the new changes in Russia's geopolitical position and the negative impacts on its navel potential. He examine the issues of trade and port infrastructure, bio-resources, the Russian continental shelf and the mineral resources under Russian jurisdiction and finally military/naval...

The book presents a complex analysis of the system of government control in Russia. The authors hold, that under the conditions of a not sufficiently developed civil society, social control should be supplemented by and independent governmental controler.

The book represents a study of the problems facing Russia: globalization, forming a civil society and the deep and wide transformative processes currently underway in the country.

The author examines the history and formation of modern Pakistan and the issue of the Pushtun tribal identity and geography.

The West responded to the growing influence of the people's democracies with the Cold War, which led to the defeat of the Soviet superpower and the collapse of the socialist camp. But this is not enough: the only superpower is striving for a total revision of the results of World War II and control over the planet's natural resources. The famous Americanist scholar A. I. Utkin convincingly...