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 book represents yet another attempt to unravel the phenomenon known as the Russian banya. Alongside historical and practical sections—which allow readers to trace the traditions of banya culture, or to independently build a banya, construct a stove, install a plunge pool, and prepare and administer wellness treatments—this volume offers a unique perspective on the banya experience,...

The author of this book, V.V. Galin, is well-known to readers for his books ‘Forbidden Political Economy,’ ‘The Political Economy of War,’ etc. This book shows how the triumph of liberal ideas in the world inevitably leads to war. This was the case at the beginning of the 20th century and in the 1930s, and the same is happening now. Why is the triumph of ‘democracy’ a dead end in the...

Collection of Scientific Articles

Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards draw on more than a hundred interviews with actors, producers, directors, and writers to present the...

This book constitutes the first dictionary in the fields of East Slavic folklore studies and ethnolinguistics to catalog proper names appearing in Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian riddles. The material, collected and systematized by the author, significantly expands our understanding of the East Slavic worldview, as well as the typology of riddles and related genres. The first part of the...

The rise of authoritarian rhetoric in America is no longer news, but the right’s affinity for foreign autocrats continues to baffle. Why does Tucker Carlson keep figures like Viktor Orbán and Jair Bolsonaro (and now Argentina’s Javier Milei) on his speed dial? Why does Ron Desantis embrace the kind of illiberal democracy in Turkey, Hungary, and the Phillipines? And why is Trump incapable of...

ina Gordeeva is one of the most famous independent journalists in Russia. This is a book about grief. The grief of people with different political views and positions, from different cities of Ukraine and Russia, with different destinies, who were united by a common misfortune - war. Gordeeva loves her heroes, and out of trust and love, documentary evidence of this terrible time is born....

A publication of the working group on economics and conflict in the Caucasus.

A history of the Ingush peoples of the North Caucasus during the period of 1944 - 2004. The book covers their deporation during World War Two under Stalin's orders, their political rehabilitation and eventual return to the Caucasus.