| CONTENTS |
| Russia and India: A Decade of Strategic Partnership |
| Three Hundred Years of Cooperation |
| International Roundtable "Russia and France: A New Quality of Relations" |
| The War in Afghanistan: How Long Will It Last? |
| Quo Vadis, NATO? A Glance from Lisbon |
| OSCE: The Military-Political Dimension, Status, Trends |
| Twenty Years of German Unity |
| Turkey: New Policies in the Middle East |
| Russia and Saudi Arabia: Twenty Years of Renewed Relations |
| ASEAN Expansion: Motives, Significance, Effects |
| Russia and Israel: Strategic Partners that Sing the Same Folk Songs |
| Russia-Ukraine: There Are no Easy Ways yet... |
| Evolution of Protectionism in the UK and the United States |
| Reforming the Bundeswehr |
| Russia-Kazakhstan: Cross-Border and Interregional Cooperation |
| Belavezha Drama |
| Russia's Justice Ministry: An International Actor |
| The Economic Crisis and the Future of the Gas Sector |
| Economic Security: Essence and Manifestations |
| The World Economic Crisis and the Outlook for Infrastructure Projects |
| Energy Industry and Ecology |
| Space Research Today |
| Russia-U.S. Space Partnership |
| Compatriots and Modernization |
| The Gift of Life, or Going to America to Get a Heart |
| Triumphs and Tribulations of Nikita Khrushchev |
| Once More on the Role of the Individual in History |
| A Russian Scholar's View of a Saudi King |
| Our Islam |
| In Memory of Viktor Chernomyrdin |