CONTENTS

EDITOR’S PAGE
     Vagif Guseynov.
POLITICS 
     Alexander Tsipko. About strategy of construction of a civil society in Russia. Some preliminary perception 
     Pavel Gurevich. The authorities-tasting. Part 2
«500 words» 
     Foreign correspondents about the life and work in Russia
FOREIGN AFFAIRS 
     Peter Schultze (Germany). Threats to the European security and Russia’s coming back to the status of a major figure in the European and a world politics 
     Marianna Evdotjeva. The European countries, Middle East and the problems of security in the Mediterranean 
     Sergey Kortunov. Russia in APR: basis of regional strategy 
     Vladimir Roschupkin. Lieutenant Johnson does not understand Arabic 
     Rasim Agayev (Azerbaijan). The Kurdish state: a myth, or a dream, or a geopolitical project?
NATIONAL SECURITY 
     Anatoly Tsyganok. Russia within the CIS security space 
     Vasily Belozyerov. Russia’s armed forces and the struggle for energy resources
THE ISSUE’S MAIN TOPIC: What should be the decision of a problem of the nuclear control over the modern world?
     Edward Ifft (USA).Understanding deterrence NATO-Russia advanced research workshop 
     Harold Smith (USA). Comparing the policies pursued by the democratic and republican parties on nuclear non-proliferation 
     Michael Krepon, Alex Stolar (USA). The outlook for nuclear stability in South Asia 
     Pavel Zolotaryov. On some approaches to lowering the risks of the nuclear multi-polarity
ECONOMICS 
     Valentine Valyukov, Alexey Yermakov, Boris Sidorov.
     1. Some aspects of the interregional differentiation of the socio-economic development in Russia. 
     2. Topical problems of providing Russia’s economy with the cadre resources.
DEBUT 
     Maria Bochkova. Russia at the beginning of the 21st century: its national interests and their theoretical substantiation 
     Eldar Kasayev. About some problems of actual situation in Iraq
The Information block
ROUND TABLE 
     Who’s guilty and what’s to be done? 
     Is It and How It Is Possible to Overcome the Faults of Our Privatization?
PUBLICATIONS
     Afrand Dashdamirov. The Karabakh conflict in the context of perestroika 
     On the threshold of the collapse
NOTES ON A BOOK’S MARGINS 
     Elvira Spirova. Apostles of the flickering future 
     On Wilson, David. History of the Future. M., 2007
Reviews
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