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Russian studies are the important part of area studies in Chinese science. In 21st century the research of Russia has played the great role in People's Republic of China. The Chinese scholars attempted to determine the role of the collapse of the USSR and the appearance of new state the Russian Federation for their country. The modern Russian studies in China have been oriented to the needs of the Chinese foreign policy and the ideology of the ruling Communist Party of China. The objects of the contemporary Russian studies in China are the two interconnecting themes: the one is the history of Russia-China relations and its current situation; the other is the Russian history and current affairs. In this paper we attempt to find the Chinese interpretation of Russia foreign policy from Soviet period to Putin's era. We use the open sources: papers, monographies, official web-sites of the two main research centres of Russian studies: the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the Institute of Russia, East Europe and Central Asia of CASS – to conclude that the Chinese researches of Russian studies reflect the core of the Chinese government position.

Reports on the transformation of the continuing education system in Russia; continuing education during Soviet rule, its importance to master the economic and social crisis since 1985, and legal, fiscal, administrative aspects.

The Russian military operation during the Five-Day war in Georgia points to a number of lessons with strategic implications for Russia. The deficiencies in its military performance - not least concerning C4ISR and precision strike capability - have underscored the need for a modernization of the Armed Forces and a diversification of Russia's military capability. Russia needs to arrive at a strategic decision on the priorities for the future development of its military and defence industry: should it prepare for large-scale wars or post-modern warfare and counter-insurgence? In the meantime, the scope of Russian military strategy will be clearly limited and military force will remain a powerful but blunt security policy instrument. Adapted from the source document.

The disintegration of the socialist regime in Europe did away with the bipolar model of world order & inaugurated a new phase in seeking a new structure & model of international relations. This new world order, only broadly outlined & characterized by (mostly) unilateral leadership, has already been challenged. Two superpowers -- the People's Republic of China & Russia -- condemn the hegemony, unilateralism, & attempts at dictating international relations. China & Russia are supported by a group of disgruntled countries who also think that a broadly based multipolarity is the direction that international relations & the new world order should take. Judging by these challenges & criticisms, it might be said that only multilateral cooperativeness can guarantee validity to the nascent world order. 15 References. Adapted from the source document.

Profiles Yevgeny Primakov, appointed minister of foreign affairs on Jan. 9, 1996; Russia.

Part I. Bondage Imagined. 1. Second Serfdom and Wage Earners in European and Russian Thought from the Enlightenment to the Mid-nineteenth Century -- 2. Poor Laws, Management, and Labor Control in Russia and Britain, or the History of the Bentham Brothers in Russia -- Part II. The Architecture of Bondage -- 3. Slavery and Bondage in Central Asia and Russia from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Century -- 4. The Institutions of Serfdom -- 5. Labor and Dependence on Russian Estates -- Part III. Old Bondage, New Practices -- 6. The Persistent Servant

The author argues that from an analysis of numerous projects and memorandums dated from the early 1950s testifies it can be shown that the Soviet Union seriously considered joining NATO. Though the Soviet Union was rejected from the alliance at this time, the beginning of the Cold War, it foreshadows more recent calls for Russia to join the organization. The author questions whether Russia, as an Eurasian power, should join an alliance which strives the prevent the emergence of power centers in Asia. Kenny Cargill

THE DECLINE OF THE RUSSIAN STATE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT TREND IN PRESENT DAY RUSSIA. THIS ARTICLE SUGGESTS THAT THIS DECLINE IS MOSTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS THAT ARE PESTERING THE COUNTRY. ALSO, THAT IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE POLITICAL STABILZATION CAN BE REACHED, EITHER ON A MACRO LEVEL FOR ALL OF RUSSIA OR AN A MICRO LOCAL LEVEL. THIS WOULD LEAD TO ECONOMIC STABILIZATIONS. HOWEVER, THE ARTICLE WARNS THAT CATASTROPHIC DEVELOPMENTS ARE ENTIRELY WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY.

The article is devoted to the formation of the Eurasian intellectual tendency in Russia – based on the material of the Turkic social thought. The views of the Turkic-Muslim leader Ismail Gasprinsky are reconstructed. His ideas about the rapprochement between Russia and Turkey, about a potential «Eastern agreement» with the participation of Russia, Turkey, Persia and the Balkan states are shown. It is concluded that the idea of an «Eastern agreement» is (in terms of content and meaning) an early Eurasian/pro-Eurasian concept.

Social antiaccess/area-denial (A2/AD) describes the threat posed to U.S. and Western security by sociopolitical and socioeconomic means, primarily by China and Russia. is concern focuses on actions by China and Russia designed to fracture American and Western societies through information, disinformation, economic coercion, and creating economic dependencies—in many cases capitalizing on target nation propensities to accomplish strategic ends. rough these ways, China and Russia hope to prevent the will or ability of American or Western states to respond to aggressive acts.