Today the question of Russia’s self-identification is on the agenda again. Its solution should be searched in our past which gives good examples of inter-civilization communications. This is the more important because Russia do has a huge moral potential that is absolutely indispensable in the epoch of values crisis and spiritual decadence of Western civilization.

The compromise that was reached between the major actors of world politics concerning sanctions towards Iran doesn’t provide a solution of the Iran problem but enables to postpone the search for such a solution till the time when the necessary prerequisites in internal and foreign politics would be formed

Phenomenon of the Primorsky “partisans” enables to effectively split an anti-system opposition and simultaneously unites those who are afraid of a civil war more than the worst dictatorship

The incident with a capture of the Moscow University tanker puts on the agenda a question whether Russian statehood could mobilize supporters and jointly elaborate effective mechanisms of solving the situation in the Gulf of Aden

According to the expert estimations, the new order established by the law in the budget sphere would hardly facilitate solving those budget problems that are pointed out by the drafters

Celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War has once again demonstrated that the 9th of May remains the only one national holiday that is acknowledged and respected by the absolute majority of the country’s population

The quantity of proposals on economic issues, declared during the session of the Committee on economic cooperation between Russian and Ukrainian prime-ministers in Sochi launches a challenge to the Kharkov meeting of Dmitry Medvedev and Viktor Yanukovich

Agreements signed in Kharkov by Dmitry Medvedev and Viktor Yanukovich indicate enlarging range of opportunities for Russian-Ukrainian relations

Prime-minister’s report to the State Duma has proved that one shouldn’t expect any radical changes in the economic policy

The issues touched upon by Vladimir Putin during the visit to Novosibirsk went beyond discussing the region policy problematics

Dramatic events in Kyrgyzstan that led to the change of power in Bishkek caused talks among the experts on the new effective tools for realization Russia’s foreign policy aims

It’s been a little more than a month after Yanukovich inauguration day, when the observers started fixing qualitative changes in both internal political situation in the country and its foreign policy

The new Russian-American Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty hasn’t been signed yet. At the same time, high-ranking officials from both parties are making far-going conclusions and forecasts on the further development of bilateral relationships between Russia and the US and the efforts in maintaining international security

Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow coincided with the opening of the Year of Chinese language in Russia has drawn expert’s attention to the essence and development prospects of the Russian-Chinese relationships in the context of changing balance of forces

A series of terrorist attacks in Moscow and Kizliyar that shocked the country displaced all other topics and events from the information space

Does Russia’s participation in the Middle-East conflict settlement facilitate maintaining its image as superpower?

Results of March elections indicate evolution of Russia’s political system within the framework of existing political-party spectrum rather than decline in controllability of sociopolitical situation in general

In order to maintain strategic character of bilateral relationships between Russia and India in a long-term perspective and raise Russia’s economic innovativeness, it is among Russia’s interests to search the ways out of traditional fields of cooperation

The very fact that the Russian public opinion blames representatives of the authorities in scandal incidents occurred on Moscow roads reveals total distrust of social and political institutes

Analysis of two years of Medvedev’s presidency results implies that now it’s time to turn from diagnosing problems to elaborating concrete measures for their solving