The author examines the political situationin post-Soviet Kazakhstan. He provides comparative data for Russia and Kazakhstan over the past 10 years.

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 author believes that the end of the Cold War resulted in a continued effort by the US/West to control Russia and its natural resources. The orange revolutions in the former Soviet republics are attempts to destabilize the Russian Federation.....