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The Cologne Commentary on Space Law is a three-volume annotation on the written norms of space law as enunciated through the Treaties of the United Nations and its General Assembly Resolutions. The evolution of a considerable body of international space legislation has been supplemented with various national space laws and regulations in order to implement the international legal framework in the practice of space business. The Cologne Commentary on Space Law aims to provide a genuine and concrete contribution to awareness-building on Space Law and to its implementation in practice. The present publication is the Russian translation of the chapter on NPS Principles (UNGA Resolution 47/68 of 14 December 1992) and the NPS Safety Framework of CoCoSL Volume III. Those 1992 Principles relevant to the use of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space and the Safety Framework for Nuclear Power Source Applications in Outer Space (UNGA A/AC.105/934 of 19 May 2009) are the relevant norms for deep space missions using NPS sources. The idea of a Russian publication of the annotated NPS norms was initiated by team members of the EU funded European-Russian DEMOCRITOS project from the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation "Research Center named after M.V. Keldysh" in Moscow and the German Aerospace Center DLR. In the frame of the DEMOCRITOS project, for the first time, the International Nuclear Power and Propulsion Systems (INPPS) flagship was designed. This demonstrates the practical relevance of the NPS technologies and of the relevant NPS norms. The effectiveness of the international legal framework depends on its national implementation and the focal point here is the practical side of project management. This is in line with the long-term sustainability of outer space activities

In the early nineteenth century, Russia established a colony in California that lasted until the Russian-American Company sold Fort Ross and Bodega Bay to John Sutter in 1841. This annotated collection of Russian accounts of Alta California, many of them translated here into English from Russian for the first time, presents richly detailed impressions by visiting Russian mariners, scientists, and Russian-American Company officials regarding the environment, people, economy, and politics of the province.

During the period of independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union, official statistics show that wheat production in Uzbekistan increased eightfold, while the sown area almost tripled. This, however, had no positive impact on either the quality of the wheat or its profitability for the newly established farms. Currently the land tenure system overloads farmers with additional obligations and, thus, further reduces their economic incentives. The main question that needs to be asked, therefore, is how this increase in wheat production came about. Factors that could have led to this are the new organizational form of agricultural production, the change in farm size, the mechanism of state procurement of agricultural output as well as land tenure insecurity for farmers. In addition, one also needs to question the reliability of official statistics on wheat production and the accuracy of this expansion. Reforms in the system of obligatory state production targets in cotton and wheat could increase farmers' incentives for more efficient land use and expand their capacities for crop diversification towards high value crops such as fruits, vegetables and fodder. This would also have a direct effect on the export potential of the agricultural sector.

Zsfassung in engl. Sprache u.d.T.: Russia and the United States in contemporary world politics