Книга посвящена современным внутри- и внешнеполитическим проблемам Афганистана, находящегося в состоянии войны более 20 лет. Показаны деформация экономики страны, почти полная остановка промышленности, переориентация сельскохозяйственного производства на наркосодержащие культуры, а торговли на контрабандные импортно-экспортные операции. Анализируется роль межэтнического фактора и исламского...

Central Asia on the way to integration: geopolitics, ethnicity and security.

The book contains excerpts from several classic works on the Caucasus: articles on the war from the Entsiklopedicheskii slovar' Brokgauz i efron; chapters from V A Potto's 5 volume work on the Caucasus War and finally, Tbilisi in the 1830's, from the memoirs of F F Tornau.

В книге анализируется политическая ситуация в Казахстане в постсоветский период, даны сравнительные характеристики развития России и Казахстана в последнее десятилетие, рекомендации по дальнейшему сотрудничеству между двумя странами.

Originally published in 1915 on the 50th anniversary of the Russian conquest of Turkestan and the taking of Tashkent. The author sought to inform Russian citizens about the customs and practices of their Muslim subjects - about how one should behave in order to avoid insulting the native population. The author was a high-ranking member of the Tsarist administration in Central Asia.

The result of 12 years of research in the archives, this monograph presents statistical materials on the Chechens. The author has used the data to create original tables and creates a window on to the status and development of the Chechen in socio-economic terms, migration and demographic trends, taxes, land ownership and development and more.

The book examines the social processes underway in Chechnya in the middle of the 1990s. The author examines the tactics used by Russian forces, the role of Islamic fundamentalism.

A review and analysis of Russia's relations with the new countries of Central Asia.

The author seeks to understand and describe the interplay between traditional and traditional Ingush culture. He examines the ethnic neighbors of the Ingush, the origins of Ingush culture and its development from the 18th to the 20th century.