EU Foreign Policy Instruments in the Eastern Partnership Countries: From Development Aid to Military Assistance by O. V. Shishkina

“…These changes in the EU’s foreign policy toolkit reveal broader trends in its strategic development and shed light on the specific dynamics of its engagement with six post-Soviet countries, which remain strategically significant for the EU while occupying a critical space within Russia’s sphere of interests.…”
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Wiews of the nation's memories: A stereotyped vision of the Lithuanian history of the 20th century in Lithuanian documentary films by Rūta Šermukšnytė

“…Such tendencies have been observed in representing the most important historical events and processes for the Lithuanian statehood of the 20th century - namely, the occupation of Vilnius and Klaipeda, the restitution of Vilnius, the annexation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, collectivization, the National Revival Movement "Atgimimas" of 1991, and finally, the events of January 13th. …”
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Epistolary legacy of Russian orientalists: Unpublished correspondence of A.E. Krymsky and V.F. Minorsky (1904–1925) by R.M. Valeev, O.D. Vasylyuk, R.Z. Valeeva, N.N. Diakov, S.A. Kirillina

“…The relevant academic and applied problems of the modern Russian and foreign historiography, source and cultural studies include the following fields: the history of the Russian and Ukrainian oriental studies in the 19th – early 20th centuries, as well as other centers of prerevolutionary Russian and Soviet oriental science, such as in CIS countries; regularities, growth areas, and results of the Asian and African studies; academic, educational, and epistolary legacy of Russian and Ukrainian orientalists. …”
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Armed conflict in the Khalkhin-Gol region: issues of military justice by O. V. Grigoriev

“…The article is devoted to the study of problematic issues of the functioning of the military judicial bodies in Soviet Russia during the armed confrontation in Mongolia near the Khalkhin-Gol River, which lasted from spring to autumn 1939. …”
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Current State of Normative and Legal Regulation of the Rehabilitation Institution in Criminal Proceedings of Ukraine by H. I. Hlobenko

“…Based on the detailed analysis of theoretical developments of leading scholars, international and legal acts, criminal procedural legislation of Ukraine, some countries of the European Union and the post-Soviet space, special attention has been focused on significant shortcomings of legal regulation of the specified area of public relations in Ukraine. …”
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RUSSIAN-ARAB COOPERATION BEFORE AND AFTER THE "ARAB SPRING" by M. A. Sapronova

“…Analyzes the problems faced by Russia in the development of foreign policy doctrine in the region of the Arab East, becoming the successor of the Soviet Union; difficulty in building bilateral relations with Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Russia's role as a co-sponsor of the Middle East settlement. …”
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Public Initiatives in the Process of Establishment of Lithuania University by Virginija Jurėnienė

“…The University of Lithuania was established on February 16, 1922, and it began its function according to the Vilnius University statute accepted by the Soviet of Lithuania on December 5, 1918. The discussions of the statute of the Lithuanian university continued up to the end of March 1922. …”
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On The New Russian Eastern Policy by A. V. Torkunov

“…For more than a quarter of the century Russia has been pursuing a regional leadership in building among post-soviet states a mutual space for common interests open for other members of international community. …”
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Towards a Bipolar World. Book Review of ‘The Second World War and the Transformation of International Relations: From Multipolarity to a Bipolar World’ edited by L.S. Belousov and... by V. I. Batyuk

“…In particular, the book provides a detailed picture of the complex interactions within the strategic triangle — the Soviet Union, the United States, and Great Britain — both during the war and in the years after the war. …”
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Pascal Grouiez, Les stratégies des communautés et la régulation sectorielle et territoriale des configurations productives : le cas de l’agroalimentaire russe by Pascal Grouiez

“…The end of the soviet system led to a reorganization of former kolkhozes and sovkhozes in Russia. …”
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Adaptation of the territorial organisation of agriculture in a peripheral region to the operations of agricultural holdings by Kira A. Morachevskaya, Elena A. Lyzhina, Alexander B. Sebentsov, Mikhail S. Karpenko

“…Agricultural holdings are often cited as the main beneficiaries, on the one hand, of organisational and structural changes in Russian agriculture during the post-Soviet period, and on the other, of the transformation of state policy in response to contemporary geopolitical challenges. …”
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The tragedy of the South-Western Front: Kyiv disaster of 1941 by O. K. Maliutina, K. Z. Maliutin

“…An attempt has been made to answer the question why the largest group of Soviet troops (the South-Western Front), not inferior to Army Group “South” in number and having a complete advantage in tanks, aviation and artillery, was defeated in defensive battles and encircled. …”
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From Isolationism to Interventionism. Book Review of ‘The U.S.-German Relations, 1938–1941: Politics, Diplomacy, Priorities’ by O.V. Petrosyants by D. V. Rodin

“…The reviewer emphasizes the relevance and novelty of the research as it revisits a set of well-established in both the Soviet and Russian historical studies views on and assessments of the U.S. foreign policy before and at the beginning of World War II. …”
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Russians among the Peoples of the Baltic States: the Origins of Mutual Perceptions and Relations by R. H. Simonyan, T. M. Kochegarova

“…The Baltic countries - the next neighbors of Russia, whose history is closely linked with our country in the period of Kievan Rus, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and today in a broad European context. …”
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Uzbekistan: New Milestones of Higher Education Internationalization by E. F. Troitskiy, S. M. Yun

“…The paper shows the parameters of internal and external internationalization of higher education in Uzbekistan that has demonstrated the unprecedented dynamics in post-Soviet countries. The paper underlines that the policy of rapprochement with Russia launched by Tashkent in 2016 has created exceptionally beneficial opportunities for Russian universities to work in Uzbekistan and attract Uzbek students. …”
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History of the origin and development of the institute of operational service of economic sectors, lines of work, fixed objects and territories by criminal police divisions by S. A. Chyzh

“…The main periods of the institute of operational service formation are determined: 1) the Soviet period (1919–1990), the characteristic features of which were the formation of the principle of operational maintenance of economic facilities, which provided for the development of detailed plans of preventive measures, operational and reference cases in accordance with industries (specific facilities), approval of schemes for placing agency sources of information depending on the mode of observation and more; 2) the modern period (1991–2014), which was accompanied by the changes in forms of ownership, the emergence of market relations, the development of new forms of management, changes in the status of the service, which fought against economic offenses, the expansion of power; 3) the latest period (2015 and present), characterized by the transformation of forms of ownership, development of entrepreneurial initiative, rethinking the construction of operational services by criminal police units of the economy, lines of work, fixed facilities and territories and expansion in this regard circles of government entities that provide operational maintenance of relevant facilities in the economy. …”
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THE GEOPOLITICAL INFLUENCE OF 'SOFT POWER' ON CENTRAL ASIAN COUNTRIES by К.С. Мухтарова, А.К. Паизова

“…At the same time, the study recognizes the potential of "soft power" applied by Central Asian states themselves, especially Kazakhstan, which positions itself as a dynamically developing country in the post-Soviet region. The article concludes with an analysis of the multifaceted nature of "soft power" and the difficulties in measuring it, as well as the challenges in assessing the influence of various actors. …”
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Ad Reinhardt: Rysunki Sprzed Roku 1946 by David RYBAK

“…In the article we are particularly interested in the way Roosevelt's foreign policy was treated before 1941 and Nazi Germany's entering the war against the Soviet Union. The article invites us to restore the intellectual and political context to the analysis of Reinhardt's work and its paradoxical gaze, which testifies to both profound radicalism and a fair share of humour. …”
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CRIMEA AND THE POLITICS OF LEGITIMACY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS by A. A. Vlasov, A. V. Brega

“…The analysis of the relationship between the legal and political aspects of legitimacy is crucial in this matter.  In the post-Soviet period, the Ukrainian government, setting a course for rapid Ukrainianization and building (almost not taking in consideration its own realias) a state of the European type, proved unable to change the pro-Russian identity of the Crimeans. …”
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Fundamental Bases of Success and Prestige of National Engineering Education by A. I. Rudskoy, S. V. Kabyshev, A. I. Borovkov, P. I. Romanov, N. S. Grishina

“…It is noted that the Soviet system, having gone through a series of post-revolutionary experiments of the 20s of the XX century, preserved and developed the original, unique features of the public education system of the Russian Empire. …”
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