Proceedings of a conference dedicated to the 80th anniversary of V P Grigorev, held the 19th-22nd of May, 2005.

From Publishers Weekly. A lively, fact-packed account of China's spectacular, 30-year transformation from economic shambles following Mao's Cultural Revolution to burgeoning market superpower, this book offers a torrent of statistics, case studies and anecdotes to tell a by now familiar but still worrisome story succinctly.

Analysis of the development of China economically and politically.

The 20th century was a rough and violent century for China, the book examines the role and fate of the Chinese intelligentsia during these dramatic years.

The book, written by Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (1058-1111) is dedicated to the Elixir of Happiness and is one of al-Ghazali's later works. Unlike earlier writings, this was his first in Persian. The book contains scanned images of the Persian text and a parallel Russian translation.

From the archives of the SVR detailing operations against English intelligence officers from the 1930s to after WWII - in Europe and the Middle East.

Na materiale vystuplenii V V Putina i B N El'tsina. An analysis of the speeches of Putin and Eltsin.

Comedy in Russian dramatic art at the end of XX - the beginning of XXI century. In the center of attention is a comedy and its versions. The textbook includes theoretic part, reviews, information about play writes and plays.