| CONTENTS |
| Meeting of the President Dmitry Medvedev with Russia's Ambassadors and Permanent Representatives to International Organizations |
| The Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation |
| The Ideology of Russia's Foreign Policy Concept |
| U.S. Foreign Policy in a Presidential Election Year |
| Mr. Brown's "John Major Moment" |
| Nicolas Sarkozy's European Policy |
| The Afghan Impasse |
| How the U.S. State Department Is Trying to "Contain" Gazprom |
| Bulgaria's Relations with Russia |
| Russia and the Global Freshwater Shortage |
| The Concept of the "Political" in a "Post-Political" Era |
| North Iranian Oil in World Politics |
| Czechoslovakia, 40 Years Ago |
| How the Legal Foundation of Russian-Ukrainian Relations Was Laid |
| The Scales. Libra |
| CIS Experience |
| Is George Orwell's Vision Coming True? |
| Remembering Vietnam |
| Code of Honor. On Academician Tikhvinsky's 90th Birth Anniversary |
| International Likhachev Readings |