The book is a Russian translation of analysis published by the National Intelligence Council on the upcoming threats and challenges the United States and the world will face over the next few years.

The monograph examines the challenges and problems in the modernization of the post-Soviet economic sphere on three different levels: national, regional and global.

The book examines the difficult process for forming an integrated community within the CIS and Russia's role in its development and failures along the way, overcoming the disintegration processes in the post-Soviet sphere.

In this volume, the scholar Andrei Kokoshin examines the role and place of technocrats as a socio-cultural phenomenon in contemporary societies. He examines the development of technocrats in both Russia and other countries.

Collected interviews from 1992-2005 with the intellectual power behind the reforms and opening of the USSR under Gorbachev and the perestroika policy. Aleksandr Iakovlev was one of the first Soviet citizens to receive a Fulbright Scholarship (along with Oleg Kalugin) in the 1950s.

Author, a political activist and nationalist, contemplates about Russian history, Russian people, and the future of this country.

Lev Sukhanov was Eltsyn's assistant from 1988 till 1997. He witnessed ups and downs in Eltsyn's political career, and he tells about most crucial moments: resignation from the Communist Party, assassination attempts, elections, role of KGB in Eltsyn's life, August 1991, and others. Author includes many details that are known to a narrow circle of people and reveals the events that took place...

The well-known historian Sergey Semanov, author of dozens of books, traces the history of Russian-Jewish relations in Russia, and also writes about the role of Russia's political parties in the spiritual revival of the Fatherland. Do Russians actually love themselves, do they value their own Russian world, created by the centuries, and do they value their national ways and traditions?...

In this book the most important changes that have happened in the world during the last decades are analyzed. These changes are so significant, that using Ronald Inglehart´s definition we should refer to them as postmodernization rather than modernization. Russia in the present moment gives a hostile reception to postmodernization, denies many important changes and refuses to accept many...

The author offers his views and analysis of the revolutionary movements in the modern world (Syria, Iraq, Libya, Africa, Europe, etc.).