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 history of New Russia began with shock therapy and the senseless imitation of the United States, which stunned the Russians and astounded the Americans with their oligarchic capitalism. The American experience is turned into a Russian version with Eltsin's flourishes. At the turn of the 20th century, Russia opened a new, still unwritten, chapter in its history.

Partiinoe rukovodstvo; gosudarstvennye organy upravleniia. Skhemy. This monograph is key for anyone researching the state sponsored/directed cultural development of life during the early Soviet period.

The book is a collection of articles dedicated to the current problems of studying memory (of recent history) as a sociocultural phenomenon.

В монографии дана развернутая характеристика структуры и деятельности органов сельского и городского самоуправления на Урале в XVIII - начале XX в., прослежены их взаимоотношения с региональной и центральной властями.

Research of the studies of historic sources. In 2 volumes. Published by Russian Historic Institute.

Proshloe i budushchee rossiisko-iaponskikh otnoshenii: po sledam Katsura Taro, Goto Simpei, Nitobe Inadzo. Materialy Simpoziuma (Moskva 4 Okt 2004 g)

Russia's economic development in the second half of XX century.