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MEETING OF PRESIDENT DMITRY MEDVEDEV WITH RUSSIA'S AMBASSADORS AND PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Remarks by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Speech by President Dmitry Medvedev 1

The Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation

WORLD ISSUES

The Ideology of Russia's Foreign Policy Concept
by A. Kramarenko
U.S. Foreign Policy in a Presidential Election Year
by V. Kremeniuk

Mr. Brown's "John Major Moment"
by Ye. Ananieva
European Policy of Nicolas Sarkozy
by S. Fedorov

The Afghan Impasse by I. Konovalov

COMMENTARY AND ESSAYS

How the U.S. Department of State Is Trying to "Contain" Gazprom
by A. Medvedev

Bulgaria's Relations with Russia
by Ye. Sadikov

Russia and the Global Freshwater Shortage
by V. Danilov-Danilyan

The Concept of the "Political" in a "Post-Political" Era
by A. Mikhailovsky

HISTORY AND MEMOIRS

North Iranian Oil in World Politics
by A. Kocheshkov

Czechoslovakia, 40 Years Ago
by A. Alekseev

How the Legal Foundation of Russian-Ukrainian Relations Was Laid
by Yu. Dubinin

The Scales/Libra by B. Piadyshev

BOOK REVIEWS

The Commonwealth of Independent States at the Start of the 21st
Century. By V. Tatarintsev
by L. Klepatsky

What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the
New Face of American Politics
by A. Gasiuk

On the Vietnamese Track. By I.A. Ognetov
reviewed by V. Tiurin

BIRTH ANNIVERSARY

The Code of Honor:
On Academician Tikhvinsky's 90th Birtdhay
by M. Mayorov

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

International Likhachev Readings I. Mironenko