Международные отношения

The article is devoted to the study of the role played by wellknown economist Jaffrey Sachs in the process of realization of the Russian reforms that was carried out under control of the American administration during the nineties (XX c.). Besides, Sachs’ economic views and his interpretation of the Russian reforms failure are also analyzed.

The article focuses on researching contradictory character of transnational corporation’s activity (TNC), as one of the more powerful subjects of international economy. In terms of inspecting extremely opposite sentences of native and beyond the frontier researchers concerning to exposing positive and negative moments transnational corporation’s activity, author gives objective and complicated estimation to the grade of TNC’s influence on receiving countries.

In article memoirs of general A.I. Kosicha of the chief of a staff of 12th army case entering into Rushchuksky group are considered. Sights of the memoirist at the reasons and a course of RussianTurkish war understand 1877–1878 shortcomings of Russian army and as the description of mobilisation expansion, the economic maintenance of group is given are exposed. As parallels in history between Russia and Balkan States are spent.

The article discusses the process of the electoral system’s evolution to the European Parliament. The result of this process was the introducing of direct universal suffrage to the European Parliament. This new mechanism became the guarantee of the Parliament’s making into the real democratic institution that favoured the consolidation of European integration’s tendencies.

The article describes the Address given by Margaret Thatcher (Bruges, 20 September 1988). Particular attention is paid to principles of Prime Minister’s strategy, which are pursuing the priority of national interests in the integration processes.

The position of the Progressive Block leaders in the most important questions of the Russian foreign policy in August 1915–February 1917 is examined. The author analyzes foreign policy priorities of the main political parties, the reasons of the conflict of the Duma opposition and autocracy, and carries out the research of the Russian parliament influence on the country’s foreign policy.

In this essay on the German Media the author analyzes the emigration of German Russians to the Eastern African colonies. Based on contemporary media of the German Empire the author presents the different opinions about the issue of this kind of emigration. The official and colonial media show different strategies of the colonial strata of the society on behalf of emigration of German Russians to Eastern Africa.

The article is devoted to the image of Russian soldier in the Russian-Turkish war in 1877–1878. The disadvantages of the Russian army, as well as the pgi-сание mobilization deployment, the economic content of the detachment. Also there are historical parallels between Russia and the countries of the Ballkan peninsula.

In the article analyzes the «Palestinian» track in the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It’s studying initiatives of Teheran in resolving of «the Palestinian conflict» and reaction to them from the Arabian world. Also consider the transformation of foreign policy structures of the region in the Middle East caused by a policy of Israel and the USA in the Palestinian territories after operation «Cast lead» in 2009 year.

The article presents the dynamics of Russian-German cooperation between the late 1990s and the first half of the 2000s. It is established that the relationship between Russia and Germany have developed in cycles because they had passed the phase of rise and fall. The official interpretation of the bilateral relations as strategic partnership can not be considered successful in view of the conflicts generated by the contradictions in the national interests of Russia and Germany.