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This paper analyzes the causes, course, driving forces, modus operandi, and goals of the September-November 2022 protest movement in Iran following the death of a girl detained by the patrol guidance police for wearing an inappropriate hijab. A comparison is made between the ongoing protests and the opposition movements of previous years. The article begins with a brief analysis of the economic situation in the country during the first year of President Raisi's government, and reveals the main problems of economic development. The authors proceed from the fact that the economic crisis as a result of the imposition of sanctions has not been overcome, despite the positive growth of the country's GDP in the last two years. The problems in the social and cultural sphere are exacerbated as a result of generational changes, and the limitations of political life as a result of the consolidation of power in the hands of radical conservative forces. Their attempts to increase control over the observance of Islamic norms of dress and behavior, bans on cultural events lead to increased discontent in Iranian society. Young generations are actively fighting for freedom of choice and the right to make their own decisions. Society's conflict potential is increasing, which threatens the existence of the Islamic Republic. The government's efforts to suppress the movements by force do not lead to their extinguishment, and the forms of protest are changing. While radical forces call for harsher reprisals against protesters, many politicians of both moderate conservative and liberal orientations call for public dialogue and reforms in order to solve the most serious problems and preserve the Islamic regime.

The article presents a brief analysis of the evolution of the attitude of the countries of Southeast Asia to Russia's special military operation on the territory of Ukraine in the second half of 2022 - early 2023. It is concluded that the position of some ASEAN member states has changed under the pressure from the collective West led by the United States, points out the need to intensify Russia's actions in foreign policy contacts with the countries of the Southeast Asian region in order to develop mutually beneficial relations.

The article examines the Indian approach to the Ukrainian crisis a year after the start of the active phase of the military actions. The authors consider new aspects of the strategic dialogue between Russia and India, analyze the Indian position in voting at the United Nations level, study expert discussions, assess the impact of the conflict on trade and economic cooperation between the two countries. The Ukrainian conflict did not have a significant impact on the political contacts between Russia and India, although it led to an exacerbation of differences in the perception of geopolitical processes associated with the movement of countries towards opposite global centers of power - China and the United States, respectively. The crisis slightly changed the structure of the countries' trade and economic ties, although it brought about record volumes in India's imports of Russian energy resources. However, the growth in trade opens up the potential for a wider range of mechanisms of economic interaction in the long term.

. The artcle presents a brief analysis of the reacton of the countries of Southeast Asia to Russia's conduct of a special operaton on the territory of Ukraine. The conclusion is made about the lack of unity of the ASEAN countries on this issue and points out the need to intensify Russia's actons in foreign policy contacts with the countries of the Southeast Asian region in order to develop mutual understanding and economic cooperaton.

The artcle provides an overview of India's positon on the situaton in Ukraine, envisaging both the official positon at the internatonal level and the general media backdrop. At the diplomatc level, India consistently takes a neutral positon, but the informaton agenda is dominated by Western sources of informaton, which creates unfavorable percepton of Russia's actons in Ukraine. At the politcal level, India is likely to maintain a careful balance between historical tes with Russia and dynamically growing cooperaton with the West. The authors assume that despite the course and duraton of the military operaton, the Indian approach is not likely to undergo major changes.

In this paper the authors examine the stance of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding the Russian special operaton in Ukraine, drawing on the analysis of the statements made by Ira‑ nian politcians and statesmen, media output and expert artcles. The Islamic Republic was concerned with the militarizaton of Ukraine, the possibility of its entry into NATO and furthering of this bloc towards Iran's boarders. The country's leadership realized that the confict between Russia and Ukraine will impact the entre system of internatonal relatons. The launch of Russia's special operaton induced varied reactons across the Iranian politcal and expert spectrum, revealing diferent foreign policy approaches among Iran's major politcal factons. The official positon of the Iranian leadership could be described as «supportve neutrality». While the confict is blamed on the West, IRI's top policymakers avoid open support towards Russia, and call for peaceful resoluton of the crisis. Only the members of ultra‑hardline establishment and those affiliated with the IRGC explicitly vindicate Russia's strategy. The oppositon represented by reformists and centrists condemns Russia's actons, critcizes Ira‑ nian authorites and calls for diversifcaton of the foreign policy line. In additon, the issue of IRI's potental capacity to enter the European energy market is addressed. The analysis of the producton and export profle of the hydrocarbons indicates, that even in the event of early removal of the sanctons, Iran will not be able to take Russia's share in the market.

From the very start of special military operaton of Russia in Ukraine Taiwan made it clear that it strongly condemns the operaton and fully supports Ukraine. Taiwan issued sanctons against Russia, the island donates to Ukrainian refugees in East Europe, Taiwan authorites consider evacuaton of its business from Russia.

The article analyzes the features of the new stage of globalization in the world mining complex: deepening specialization, increasing concentration, sectoral unevenness, increasing government management, accelerating convergence, the cyclical nature of the global conjuncture. Since China is a leading player in the globalization in the global mining complex, the assessment of the 14th five-year plan adopted for 2021–2025 becomes important. The result of the implementation of the 14th five-year plan of China will be a sharp increase in demand for metals, for raw materials for their production, for food resources and, accordingly, a cyclical increase in world prices for all raw materials.

The authors describe the relations between Iran and the Palestinian movement since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. Israel always accused Iran of funding Palestinian terror. But though Israel accused Iran of its support for Palestinian nationalist groups the iranian leaders themselves blamed Yasser Arafat for Oslo talks with Israel. After Oslo Tehran provided with money and weapons only HAMAS and Islamic Jihad.

The article analyzes the relations between Turkey and Lebanon in the last period. The Emphasis is made on the political and economic interests of Turkey in Lebanon, on the expansion of its influence in this country. The article describes Turkish actions against Shiah movement Hezbollah end Iran's intention to become an authority in Lebanon and Syria. However Turkey wants to establish its control over region of the Middle East.

The review covers the proceedings of the 1st Congress of Russian Association of Researchers of the Himalaya and Tibet held in November 2021 in Saint-Petersburg. The Association was founded on 5 March 2019 and aims to bring together the research work of experts engaged in the study of nature and culture of the Himalayan region and the Tibetan Plateau. The Congress hosted the interdisciplinary academic conference "Russian Studies on the Himalaya and Tibet — 2021: Nature and Culture". The total number of its participants and guests exceeded 60 academics representing research centers and educational institutions of different cities of Russia (i.e. Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Krasnodar, Saratov, Elista, Orenburg, Arkhangelsk, Magadan), as well as of Belorussia, Uzbekistan and India. Sessions of the conference took place at the headquarters of the Russian Geographical Society, in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and in the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera). More than 30 live and online talks presented at the Conference addressed a wide range of issues relating to both the humanities (art history, religious studies, history of philosophy, ethnography, linguistics) and natural sciences (botany, zoology, genetics, physical geography, geomorphology, glaciology). Several presentations dealt with certain little-known facts from the history of Russian Indology, Buddhology and Tibetology. Most natural science papers were dedicated to Himalayan and Tibetan flora and fauna. Some talks were of a pronounced interdisciplinary nature. After the conference a special meeting was held to discuss directions of the Association's future activity.

The article is an overview of the All-Russian Academic Conference "Oriental Studies and Field Research", which was held on April 19–20, 2021, at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in both off-line and online formats. The talks of the participants covered the problems, results and prospects of various directions of oriental field research, that is archaeological, underwater-archaeological, epigraphic, ethnographic, linguistic, anthropological, and others. Many presentations contained the latest findings of the field research. The geography of the presented surveys covered such countries as Russia, Egypt, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, India, Pakistan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Abkhazia. The event was attended by more than 30 specialists — historians, culturologists, philologists, sociologists, — representatives of 17 organizations, academic institutions, museums, schools of higher education, such as the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts RAS, the Institute of Archeology RAS, the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology RAS, Institute of World Literature RAS, the Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS, Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Makhtumkuli University, Russian State University for the Humanities, the Sevastopol State University, and others. The organizer of this academic symposium was the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS.