The author examines the nuclear weapon crises in North Korea and Iran and the challenges the world faces in stopping proliferation.

This book by the renowned political scientist and Americanist A.I. Utkin explores the secret geopolitical, economic, diplomatic, and mystical-religious forces behind the US war against Iraq and Afghanistan, and the situation in the Middle East that emerged after this war. The author analyzes the reasons for the noticeably increased American aggressiveness in the Middle East region and...

The first book by Arkadi Doubintchik, modern Russian-language poet living in America, includes mostly early lyrics, but also contains more recent works of philosophical orientation. Arkadi writes poetry for more than 30 years, was published in periodicals in America, has become one of the winners of the global competition of Russian poets abroad. The book will certainly be interesting to all...

The book reflects the following questions: who was the culprit of the war - Germany or the USSR; was the Soviet Union preparing a preemptive strike against Germany; what goals did Germany pursue with regard to the USSR - the destruction of statehood, dismemberment, occupation and annexation of its territory to the Third Reich or the liberation of the peoples inhabiting the USSR from Bolshevism;...

This book by historian and writer S.E. Mikheenkov is a unique collection of soldiers' stories about the war, which the author worked on for more than thirty years. The most striking episodes, thematically arranged, form a coherent, captivating narrative about the war from the perspective of the Russian soldier. This, in the words of the poet, ‘hard-won, harsh truth of the soldiers’ will astound...

The collection *V.I. Dal and the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature* comprises speeches delivered at Society meetings by P.I. Melnikov-Pechersky and I.S. Aksakov—all dedicated to V.I. Dal—as well as scholarly studies examining Dal’s collaboration with the Society, the Society’s contribution to the development of linguistics and folklore studies between 1811 and 1930, and contemporary...

The author is a veteran of the elite Russian airborne troops. In his book, he describes not only his own career, but the service of this elite group in the Afghan war.