| CONTENTS |
| America Chooses Obama |
| Russia and the U.S.: A Strategic Relationship |
| Iran's Nuclear Puzzle |
| Players in Iraq's Oil Field |
| The Transcaucasus: Problems and Prospects |
| BRIC Aims to Create a Just and Equitable World Order |
| Politics and Religion |
| "Holodomor" Politicking |
| Russia's Energy Policy Today |
| Russia and the Republic of Korea: New Horizons of Partnership |
| The Brits' Energy Concerns |
| Medical Hi-Tech in Cuba |
| Leftists in Mexico |
| The Russian World |
| Russian Archivists Looking for International Cooperation |
| Crisis as Catharsis? |
| Double Standards |
| Russian Wide-gauge Line from Vienna to Japan |
| How Georgia, Abkhazia and Ossetia Joined the Russian Empire |
| Russian Burials in Europe |
| Once Upon a Time in Hanoi |
| Two Koreas |
| Ambassador Nikolai Lun'kov Turns 90 |