Print Boris Zhukov We cannot expect favors from nature... It is now difficult to believe that just 60 years ago there was virtually no international regulation of environmental impacts.

New archival documents of the Soviet era: source criticism * 3. People The most significant gap in the source base, which turns out to be the most serious of all the problems left by the Soviet regime for future historians, is perhaps the relative paucity of documents of non-state origin that we find today among the myriad of bureaucratic papers that are the main legacy of the system.

V. D. Solovey. Blood and soil of Russian history. M.: Russkiy Mir, 2008. 480 p. (Pro patria: historical and political science library) In his work, Valery Solovey offers “a new paradigm in understanding Russian history” (p. 461).

J. Sokoloff. Poor Power: The History of Russia from 1815 to the Present Day. M., State University Higher School of Economics, 2008. Georges Sokoloff has two doctorates: in economic geography and political science.

THE MODERN AGE: THE STATE AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS * Abstract Matthias Zimmer's book is an attempt to understand the foundations of the modern political world order and - in direct connection with this - the situation that has developed in political philosophy after the cataclysms of 1989-1991, the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet bloc.

Introduction: categories and categories Chinese culture and the Chinese language are characterized by a tendency to classify, to distribute into categories and categories of objects and phenomena in accordance with some general properties of the latter so that they can be counted. The Chinese, like us, will not stack chairs with tables. But they have their own counting word for each type of object, associated with certain of their features.

Role reversal * When President Medvedev sat down at the negotiating table with President Bush and other world leaders at the G20 summit held on November 15, 2008 in Washington, they essentially had to deal with empty space. There were very few real proposals that could bring such different countries to consensus.

It is quite difficult for a modern person to read the Holy Scriptures (as, indeed, all ancient literature). And not even because there is some difficult language. There are good translations, but they don't help much. In ancient times, people thought in slightly different categories than they do now. Our contemporary, faced with an incomprehensible phenomenon, does this. First, he collects information about him.

Ivan Lysyak-Rudnitsky. Between history and politics / Ed. D. Furman, J. Gritsak. M.; St. Petersburg: Summer Garden, 2007 The history of Ukraine “in Russian” is, first of all, Taras Bulba, who “voted with his heart” for Russia and on this basis killed his previously generated, but unpatriotically amorous son.

Krauss Ch. Russia and the Russians in 19th-century French fiction (1812#1917). From an image of the other to an imaginary universe. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2007. Kraus S. Russia and Russians in French fiction of the 19th century (1812#1917). From the image of another to the imaginary world. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2007.

In recent years, the Russian Orthodox Church has increasingly defined itself as the national church of Russians, the guardian of Russian spirituality, culture, and statehood. The ideology formulated in the speeches and sermons of its clergy, including the patriarch, is based primarily on a call for the revival of Russian traditions, forms of social organization, and cultural norms.

On the night of January 19, 1730, in the Moscow Lefortovo Palace (it still stands on the banks of the Yauza), 15-year-old Emperor Peter II died of smallpox. Members of the country's highest state body - the Supreme Privy Council - unanimously elected to the throne a representative of the eldest line of the dynasty - the daughter of Tsar Ivan, Duchess Anna of Courland.

Berger Yakov Mikhailovich born 1929 Doctor of Historical Sciences, chief researcher at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Main publications: “Globalization of the Chinese economy” (2003, co-authored), “China: threats, risks, challenges to development” (2005, co-authored), “Results of the 10th Five-Year Plan and the formation of a new model of economic growth in the PRC” (2006) Burke - White William (Burke-White William) Ph.D.

A. Tsvetkov. Atlantic Diary. M.: New publishing house, 2007 Alexey Tsvetkov’s essays are in direct relation to poetry, not only because the author is one of the best modern poets writing in Russian. This relationship exists at the structural-genetic level. In the cultural past of every poetic text, as well as of all poetry in general, there is sounding speech and a living voice.

The emergence of international relations in their modern understanding and the organization of these relations into a system became possible primarily due to the changes that occurred by the beginning of the Modern Age in the nature of European statehood and in the very picture of the world of Europeans.