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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A darker book than any in the series thus far with a level of sophistication belying its genre, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince moves the series into murkier waters and marks the arrival of Rowling onto the adult literary scene. While she has long been praised for her cleverness and wit, the strength of Book 6 lies in her subtle development of key characters, as well as her carefully...

The author examines the relationship between the military and religious components of Christian culture in Ancient Rus X-XVI centuries.