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.
ECONOMICS Tatyana Zaslavskaya and Her Contribution to the Study of Post-Communist TransformationsM. Shabanova Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky’s Ethical Economics and the Challenges of Global DevelopmentB. Korneychuk HISTORY World War I: A Historian’s ViewV. Vinogradov PHILOLOGY Herzen Jr., or Why Did Stavrogin Go to Iceland?I. Sirotkina PHILOSOPHY Medieval Nominalism and the Genesis of a New European MentalityP. Gaidenko […]
Armen Oganesyan, Editor-in-Chief of International Affairs: Sergey Alekseyevich, over the past several months, the pace of international life has become extremely intense and evidently fast. What would you single out as the most important thing amid this mass of events? S. Ryabkov: The pace has certainly accelerated. I have no doubts about that. The most […]
DOCUMENTS Greetings from Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, to the Participants and Guests of the Russo-Chinese Conference “The Role of the U.S.S.R. and China in Defeating Fascism and Japanese Militarism in World War II Greetings from PRC Chairman Xi Jinping to the Participants and Guests of the Russo-Chinese Conference “The Role of the […]
VICTORY The Great Victory as a Source of Our National PrideS. Lavrov World War II in the West and the East E. Titorenko The Victory and the Fate of the World A. Frolov The Great Patriotic War: The Cossacks’ Final Attack I. Bondarenko “Historians Should Celebrate and Grieve Together With Their People” A. Kirilin Allies […]
WORLD ISSUES The UN as a Mirror of the Turbulent World G. Gatilov Russia, China, and the New World Order M. Titarenko, V. Petrovsky Doomed Policy K. Brutenz The 2015 General Elections in the UK E. Ananieva The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Looking Toward Enlargement D. Litskay EDITOR-IN-CHIEF’S COLUMN The Soviet Union, United States and United […]
THE WORLD is changing fast; it is changing by leaps and bounds which makes it next to impossible to explain what is going on and to foresee possible repercussions. An unsophisticated observer in the West and elsewhere in the world where Western propaganda is heard and believed might imagine that the forces of freedom and democracy are waging an uncompromising struggle against despotism and tyranny (in the widest sense of the terms).
The author takes on China’s economic diplomacy, a key area of that country’s foreign policy in the 21st century that includes economic rewards and coercion.