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GLOBAL POLITICS today are faced with a lot of new challenges and international security threats. Domestic and foreign media outlets daily report new developments regarding tensions in Russia-U.S. interstate relations; sharp confrontation with mutual threats to use nuclear weapons between North Korea, on the one hand, and the United States, South Korea, and Japan, on […]

IN MEMORIAM Sergei L. Tikhvinsky, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (09.01.1918 – 02.24.2018) RAS IFES ROUND TABLE RAS IFES Round Table on APEC 2017: Possibilities of Regional Development (Review)V. Mazyrin POLITICS Japan’s Indo-Pacific Strategy as a Means of Containing ChinaV. Kistanov Japan’s Parliamentary Elections of 2017: Coming Full Circle, or a New […]

The Journal Military Thought Turns 100 S.V. Rodikov MILITARY ART Operational Troop Maneuvering: Multiplicity of Form A.I. Kalistratov Adaptive Approach to the Use of Antiterrorist Forces and Assets Based on the Practice of Armed Conflicts outside RussiaA.V. Vdovin MILITARY THEORY AND PRACTICE The Life-Cycle Contract for Weapons and Military Hardware as a Tool for Implementing […]

This paper generalizes and systematizes characteristic features of armed conflicts outside Russia considering external and internal factors, as well as the typical composition and peculiarities of armed confrontation between the combat systems of the sides involving indirect actions in attendant activity areas. On this basis, the author defines the principal trends in military art and characteristic features of modern combined arms engagement.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Russia and Europe: Topical Issues in Contemporary International Journalism (International Conference)Vladimir Sergeyev, Tatyana Naumova, Jan Čarnogurský, Alexander Bikantov, Andrei Richter, Peter Dunai, Armen Oganesyan, John Nomikos, Pal Tamas, Tiberio Graziani, Shekerinka Ivanovska, Jan Campbell, Anis H. Bajrektarevic, Izabella Pashinyan, Vladimir Bachishin, Maria Mokhovikova, Svetlana Keller, Alexey Zabrodin, Gabor Stier, Chavdar Minchev, Vyacheslav Charsky, […]

CHINA became a defining topic of Donald Trump’s election campaign since it was closely associated with the basic elements of both his foreign and domestic policy. Whether directly or indirectly, China affected globalization, its pluses, and minuses for America, U.S. jobs and industry, the conditions of American business’s competition on both the domestic and foreign […]

As a result of the “shale revolution,” the U.S. could emerge as a liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter. APR countries, major LNG importers − Japan and South Korea included, became a premium market for its commercialization. Due to economic factors of U.S. LNG projects, the U.S. has determined the trend of LNG trade development in the region, and its political leaders intend to use the exports for providing “energy dominance” of the U.S. The aim of this article is to appreciate the prospects of transforming LNG exports into a tool of economic and political influence of the U.S. in the APR.

This article examines the history of relations between Russian and Chinese theater. Features of the two countries’ intercultural interaction are highlighted. The author presents a detailed chronicle of presentations of Russian and Soviet classics on the Chinese stage. Special attention is given to the ties between the Russian Far East theater troupes and their Chinese counterparts.

Xinhua: China creates national administration of disease prevention and control, with five major functions including formulating policies for the prevention and control of infectious diseases

FOCUS ON RUSSIA Archaic Paternalism as an Organic Part of the “Power-Property” SystemN. Pliskevich Income Stratification in Russia in Comparison with Other CountriesN. Tikhonova Departures from the Civil Nation in Russia and in the West: Similarities and DifferencesE. Pain, S. Fedyunin ESSAYS Historical-Scientific Reconstructions: Pluralism and Cumulative Continuity in the Development of Scientific KnowledgeV. Stepin […]