CONTENTS

EDITOR’S PAGE
Vagif Guseynov
PRESSING TOPIC: EXPRESS-ANALYSIS
About political situation before parliamentary elections
Dmitry Oreshkin.Two big ones and three small ones
POLITICS
«500 words»
Oleg Nickitin. About rubric in brief
Foreign correspondents on the situation in Russia and in the world
David Satter (USA). Three questions on Russia
Pavel Gurevich. On both sides of good and evil. Collective unconscious and the political processes.
Anatoly Nelyubin. The social state in Russia: the essence and ways of forming
Valery Sidorov. Under the yoke of "being occupied"
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Eberhard Schneider (Germany). The future of the European Union constitution
Sami Andoura (Belgium). Towards a new agreement between Russia and the European Union
Jayantha Dhanapala (Sri-Lanka).Counteracting the proliferation and the role of the UN security Council
Rasim Agayev (Azerbaijan). Iran: the national factor
NATIONAL SECURITY
Anatoly Tsyganok. The Israeli-Lebanese 2006 war examined by a Russian analyst
Alexey Maltzev, Dmitry Manuilsky. NS utilization in the Russian North-East: Russian-British cooperation experience and prospects
IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION
Vladimir Dergachev (Ukraine). The "anaconda noose" of democracy: new boundaries of the Eurasian geopolitics
Alexander Svechnikov. The prospects of ecologizing the international relations and politics.
CIS
Roy Medvedev. Kazakhstan economy's various dimensions.
MASS MEDIA
Dmitry Martynov, Alexey Os'kin. Problems of the Russian regional press.
INTERNATIONAL  SCIENTIFIC TRAINING CONFERENCE
«The Black sea cooperation: towards the partnership of the 21st century»
The information block
PUBLICATIONS
Unlearned lessons
Afrand Dashdamirov. The Karabakh conflict in the context of perestroika. The third party in the conflict (Continuation).
NOTES ON A BOOK'S MARGINS
Elvira Spirova. Politics as the social prosthesis
On Jean Baudrillard. The Transparency of the Evil. М.: Dobrosvet Publishers, 2006, 258 pp.
Books that Might Be of Interest
Summary
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EDITOR’S PAGE

Vagif Guseynov

1. Obvious predefiniteness of results of elections, idea about which within all year meaningly took root politicians into public consciousness, indicative rigidity of authorities under the attitude even to rather shy attempts of opposition to generate a certain alternative field on a political landscape, undoubtedly, testifies that the ruling elite is extremely concerned future after "changing of the guard".
2. The world varies, and the problems born under influence of global processes and shown absolutely unequally in various social systems, more often and are solved in different ways, according to representations of a management existing in these systems and elites about the place and a role in the world, ways of development, values, interests.
3. Real dialogue between the West and Russia does not exist. For Russia the successful foreign policy consists in rapproachement between Russia and the CIS countries, for the West - on the contrary, in a distance of the CIS countries from Russia. However the USA, EU and Russia at necessary efforts can find ways and forms of co-operation. Whether there will be this selective or strategic partnership, will show the future depending on desire of the parties to create the general platform of joint actions.