CONTENTS

EDITOR’S PAGE
     Vagif Guseynov.
POLITICS
     Valery Sidorov.The sovereign democracy, the sovereign economy, the sovereign civilization.
«500 words»
     Oleg Nickitin. About rubric in brief.
     Foreign correspondents on the situation in Russia and in the world.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
     Valery Buyanov. Russia's international image: the past and the present.
     Vagif Guseynov. Russian Federation - United Kingdom: the hard route of cooperation.
     Vladimir Akhmedov.The army and ethno-religious conflicts in the Middle East.
     Volker Perthes (Germany). Enhancing readiness for dialogue: the world community has limited chances to affect the inter-relations within the Israel Palestine-Lebanon-Syria quadrangle.
     Francesco Calogero (Italy). The threat of nuclear terrorism.
     Elections abroad
     Ernest Sultanov.Elections in Turkey: the referendum on the islamic model.
NATIONAL SECURITY
     Vasily Lata. Geopolitical aspects of building-up Russia's strategic nuclear forces.
IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION
     Alexander Nazarchuk. The social networks and transformation of political system.
THE ISSUE’S MAIN TOPIC: METAMORPHOSISES OF AUTHORITY
     Christina Matoutyte. The myths of our days.
     Irina Yegorova.Archetype of the leader and hero.
     Anna Filatova.Political pathopsychology.
     Pavel Gurevich.The authorities-tasting.
CIS
     Vladimir Dergachev (Ukraine). Crisis of the Ukrainian statehood.
     Alexander Tsipko. The independent Ukraine as a Russian problem.
THE RUSSIAN-GERMAN SEMINAR
     «Threat of safety for the Europe?». The reduced stenogram of the basic reports.
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.The leviathan's new adventures.
     On Fukuyama, Francis. The Strong State. Management and the World Order In the 21st Century. M., 2007.
Books that Might Be of Interest

EDITOR’S PAGE

1.This issue - last in current to year, also will get it to the reader, most likely, on the eve of parliamentary elections. But the most interesting, certainly, still ahead. Though I, as well as many other things experts, believe, that anything especially unexpected will not occur. Anyway, should not occur, if a certain scale non-staff collision in the country or in the world, certainly, is not formed.
2.In left issue last on October, 5th the reduced stenogram is published in Berlin the Russian-German seminar «Threats of safety for the Europe?». Utility of a similar sort of meetings of representatives of political and scientific circles of two countries does not raise the doubts. As, as has shown also the Berlin seminar, deficiency of trust between Russia and EU, Russia and Germany still takes place. In it one of the reasons of is covered that our attitudes in these formats develop for the present far not in the best image.
3.Efforts, especially from the German and Russian party, directed on creation in the Europe the general space of safety should be undertaken. And it, undoubtedly, the main result of a taken place conversation.

Vagif Guseinov