For Russia, the Caucasus has never been a testing ground for military force. Through the Caucasus, the Russian state laid its geopolitical route to the East, bringing peace to the peoples and salvation from Ottoman and Persian enslavement.

This work reveals the economic essence of military security, examines current problems of economic justification and effective allocation of budgetary funds directed towards the maintenance and reform of Russia's military organization. A methodology and economic-mathematical tools are proposed for solving the problem of reforming the Russian military organization. An analysis of organizational...

This is a collection of essays about the relationship of the writer with the culture aborad. Zinik writes about Russian literature from the times of iron curtain and to the present days.

Her really good friend has moved far away to another country. What to do now? How can they stay friends without seeing each other? They learn that there is friendship in thinking about each other, in writing to each other, in remembering each others' favorite things, but most of all: it is in the heart.

The book summarises basic ideas of Fromm and his contribution to neo-freudism.

Original title: The Hydrogen Economy. The road to global security, writes Jeremy Rifkin, 'lies in lessening our dependence on Middle East oil and making sure that all people on Earth have access to the energy they need to sustain life. Weaning the world off oil and turning it toward hydrogen is a promissory note for a safer world.' Rifkin's international bestseller The Hydrogen Economy...

The 1930s and early 1940s were years of ideological agitation and propaganda inside the USSR, preparing the population for war. How effective was this campaign once war did break out?

The book is the first scholarly attempt to research the ethnography of the Mari people.

Dinamika i mekhanizmy etnopoliticheskikh protsessov v postsovetskoi Rossii