The key position of the new NATO strategic concept adopted in 1999 remained the same: in the field of security, the block will pursue a policy from the standpoint of force. Now the direct military confrontation of Russia with the North Atlantic Union is considered unlikely. However, in the case of unleashing the war in Europe, the alliance, in accordance with the new strategy, should not allow loss of its territory.

Jean Chappe d'ateroche. Voyage En Siberie. 2V. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2004. E. Carrer d'Ankoss. Empress and Abbot: Unrelated literary duel of Catherine II and Abbot Shappa d'oterosh / Per. with French. O. A. Pavlovskaya. M.: Olma Press, 2005. 463 p. The name of Jean Shapp d'OTOSH (1728–1769), as a rule, even says little to historians.

In mid-January, American aircraft struck the Pakistani village of Damadol, where, according to the CIA, at that time one of the leaders of Al-Qaeda was supposed to be, “Man number two” Ayman Az-Zawakhiri. He was invited here for lunch on the occasion of the Muslim holiday, Id al-Adha (Pakistani version of Kurban-Bayram). The explosion of cruise missiles took the lives of eighteen people, among them women and children. Az-Zavakhiri was not among the dead.

It was a marvelous May evening, in 1995, in Prague. After the sixth, I don’t remember for sure, the mugs of the “holiday” in the famous beer “Golden Tiger”, my interlocutor-Cheh still asked me why most of my compatriots, mainly ordinary people, in August 1968 enthusiastically perceived Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia. In fact, all of them are millions and millions of people! - Were they so preoccupied with the purity of the socialist dogma?

[1] On October 5, I turned 15 years old. I am a pre -conscription. Once I was already undergoing a medical examination at the military registration and enlistment office. Frankly, it was scary for me, because for the first time I was with doctors without adults. Suddenly they will treat my teeth, why can't I stand it? Or will they find that I have poor vision? But I was quite healthy. In my medical card, all the doctors wrote: "Good." This means that in three years I can well go to the army.

The disastrous of the global military confrontation is today recognized by all, including the military-political leadership of the People's Republic of China. But it considers conflicts of a limited scale inevitable and connects them with growing competition for sources of raw materials and the sphere of influence.

If in the field of the political and economic organization of the company there was a refusal, partial or even complete, from the legacy of the USSR, then the Russian armed forces to this day are even a reduced three times, but an exact copy of the Covet. The mass mobilization army, which the military department has already been preserved for a year and a half, has not been consistent with either the needs of defense or the capabilities of the country.

The Constitution of the Russian Federation is a very uneven text. How brightly and imaginatively, with what artistic power, some of her articles are written! For example, article 3, in which readers are introduced to the epic hero - “the multinational people of the Russian Federation.” This character can handle any great deeds. The people exercise their power directly, as well as through government bodies, and hold referendums and free elections of their own free will.

The most active representatives of Russian society, including military personnel, already in the second half of the 80s insisted on the consistent application of the principles of democracy in the field of ensuring the country's military security.

[1] World war with terror is already reality. After September 11, 2001, almost all civilized states had to join it hastily. How much it lasts is difficult to predict, but at least 10–20 years. The new situation had to be comprehended in an emergency, in fact in the course of hostilities. As a result, it was put forward to a certain extent substantiated (unfortunately, not in our Fatherland) as a whole, the fruitful concept of asymmetric war.

[*] Another onslaught of new technologies For almost ten years, American military experts have been predicting imminent revolutionary changes in the nature of military operations. Sometimes these changes are indicated as a military-technical revolution.

Despite the fact that different peoples live in the Caucasus, differing in their origin, language, religion, customs, their traditional culture has a number of common features. And the most important of them, along with hospitality, the importance and development of family and compatriot ties, is the veneration of elders.

Armand Elena Davydovna Teacher. Chairman of the Society for Social Rehabilitation "Lyubutka". Author of articles in the magazine “Family and School” about raising teenagers Bannikov Konstantin Leonardovich born in 1969 Candidate of Historical Sciences, doctoral student at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Deputy editor-in-chief of the International Media`saharezh corporation "Inostranets".

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How do my days go? Yes, little by little. Here is yesterday. Having felt that my soul was returning, I was obsessed with this world (and that night - only nightmares), waited for an hour, while the unsteady became strong. I took the “Faust” neighboring with a pillow and read the chapter “Walpurga Night”. Then she got up; She ran along the dew, stuck the stove, slowly performed the entire morning rite and sat with porridge for the doctor [1] .