Perhaps an alternative leader figure in Russian history, killed in a tragic helipcopter accident, General Lebed was a key player in several critical points in modern post-Soviet Russia. His forces protected Boris El'tsin during the anti-Gorbachev putsch, he was in charge of signing a peace treaty with the Chechens and a candidate for President.

Institut Evropy RAN.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, whose 185th birthday and 125th death anniversary are commemorated this year, is perhaps the most relevant classic of Russian literature today. This is true not only as a great novelist, but also as an outstanding thinker and publicist, whose articles addressed crucial questions of Russian national existence that continue to permeate Russian public consciousness....

Annual statistical yearbook for the Russian Federation. Contains detailed demographic data for Russia related to administrative and territorial breakdown, population size, age and sex structure, spatial distribution, fertility/mortality, marriage/divorce and migration.

The monograph contains the results of the author's long-term research on improving the thermal preparation of construction machines in the winter period. A review and analysis of devices promising for use in thermal preparation systems is given. It is proposed to divide the winter period into time periods, each of which is characterized by its own preparation means. A comprehensive preparation...

A Russian journalist travels to Beslan, site of the school massacre and interviews local victims, parents and others.

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