ECONOMICS Independent Economic Think Tanks in Russia: Evolution and Development ProspectsA. Yakovlev, L. Freynkman, A. Zolotov HISTORY The Interallied War in Summer 1913 as Seen by the Russian Public (Based on Russian press publications of the time)B. Kotov PHILOLOGY How Gogol’s Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends Reached the ReaderI. Monakhova PHILOSOPHY Locke’s RazorA. Yakovlev […]
In July 2007, in coordination with an infrastructure construction project, the Datong Municipal Institute of Archaeology conducted rescue excavations on 31 tombs of the Liao and Jin dynasties at Xihuan Road in Datong City. The cemetery is located in the southwest area of the Ming dynasty Datong City site.
THEORY AND METHODOLOGY Evolution and Peculiarities of China’s Foreign Relations in East AsiaV. Portyakov POLITICS Northeast Asia in China’s Current Foreign Policy StrategyA. Voloshina Chinese Lobbyism in the U.S.A.D. Grafov China, U.S.A., and Russia Between Cooperation and RivalryA. Davydov The PRC and Europe: Multilateral Cooperation StructureA. Vinogradov China’s Changing Sentiments Toward Iraqi Kurdistan N. Mossaki […]
THE CRISIS between Russia and the West is associated with Crimea and Russia’s actions in Donbass and Ukraine; in fact, it has deeper roots while its long-term repercussions might prove to be much graver than expected. A large-scale armed clash cannot be excluded even if this possibility is gradually reducing; we should be ready to […]
The article examines the prospects for creating an Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area (APFTA), a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and a Transpacific Partnership (TPP). Russia’s participation in negotiations to create a free trade zone and in integration projects in the Asia-Pacific Region is determined by its long-term geoeconomic and geopolitical interests. The latter may be considered the more relevant of the two. They are important not only for Russia’s participation in Asia-Pacific economic integration but for promoting Eurasian integration within the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).
ECONOMICS The Regional Dimension of the New Russian CrisisN. Zubarevich Civilizational and Institutional Context of Russia’s Innovation-Driven DevelopmentN. Zarubina HISTORY Political Transformation of the Countries of New Europe in the EUI. Yazhborovskaya The USA as Perceived by Russia’s Constitutional Democrats and Octobrists, 1905-1917P. Skopin PHILOLOGY “The Vegetarian Twenties” in Zakhar Prilepin’s The MonasteryA. Zhuchkova PHILOSOPHY Two […]
POLITICS Russia and Asia-Pacific Economic Integration: Seeking a “Point of Entry”V. Petrovsky The Chinese One Belt, One Road Project: Concept, Plan, and Cooperation with RussiaS. Uyanayev ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSIONS Relations Between the PRC and the U.S.A. at Present: Prospects and Challenges for RussiaY. Khazanov The Free Trade Agreement Between the Eurasian Economic Union and VietnamV. Mazyrin […]
CONTRARY TO THE PREDICTIONS made by Washington advocates, the disintegration of the USSR and the world socialist system did not lead to the end of history. Neither socialism nor the crisis of capitalism has disappeared.
The authors discuss the major advantages of overland routes running across Russian territory and look at outside and domestic obstacles hindering integration of the Russian transportation network into the system of international transit corridors. They also consider the likely ways and options available for integrating the Russian Federation into the international transportation system and expanding its involvement in international freight traffic between the APR and European countries.
The focus of attention is the “social mechanism of the transformation process,” its main features and cognitive capacity, and the basic building blocks and relationships of the original “activities-structural” conception of this mechanism.