RES PUBLICA

ОБЩЕЕ ДЕЛО, ГОСУДАРСТВО, РЕСПУБЛИКА

Vyacheslav Sheyanov

Aerospace Industry: A Jump Without Moving? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

The author analyses perspectives of aerospace industry development. He concludes, that the desion of its problems is moreactive using of the opportunities of private investors. Some ways of effective regulation are offered.

Key words:aerospace industry, state, economy, private capital, partnership of state and private investors, state regulation, management, joint-stock company

 

Moisei Gelman

How Much the Electricity Costs? The “Bad” Socialis Past and the “Wonderful” Market Present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

The author suggests some arguments against the conception of the administrative reform in managing the electrical powerengineering, which took place in the year 2003 and was based on the neo-liberal principles of economic theory. M. Gelman shows that the direct conclusion of the reform was the increasing of price level in the field of electrical power engineering in Russia; now the prices are catastrophically high. Some ways to improve the situation are suggested.

Key words: economy, electrical power engineering, neo-liberalism, reform, Anatoly Chubais, state interests of Russian Federation, industry, management in electrical power engineering, corruption, price of electricity

 

THEATRUM MUNDI

МИРОВАЯАРЕНА

Andrey Demidov

The Roadmap of National Security. On Basic Documents Dealing With the Issues of National Security of Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

The author analyses three main official documents directly dealing with the issues of the national security of Russia: Federal Law “On Security”, Strategy of National Security of the Russian Federation till 2020” and Concept of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation. The article points out positive aspects of the above documents as well as their setbacks. The author recommends his ideas concerning an optimal modalities for the future work on the basic documents in this field.

Key words: national security, basic documents, legal framework, Constitution, state, foreign policy, a federal law, strategy of national security, national interests, national defense, concept of foreign policy, interrelation, interdependence, hierarchy

 

Kamalutdin Gadzhiev

South Caucasus: Studies in Geopolitics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

The author analyzes the main aspects of the geopolitical situation in South Caucasus in the beginning of the 21st century. He pays main attention to the processes, which took place in the Caspian and Western subregions of South Caucasus. The main conclusion is that though the part of the region in the politics of USA and NATO is very important, but their opportunities to have an influence on the situation there are not unlimited. It was clearly demonstrated in the period of the “five-day war” (2008).

Key words: geopolitics, South Caucasus, Greater Middle East, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, USA, conflict of interests, oil and gas transporting, “five-day war”

 

Sergei Biryukov, Alexander Davydov

A Case of Bosnia. Construction of a Nation in the Epoch of Postmodernity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

The authors describe and analyze the history and the process of installation of the independent state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. They conclude the artificial nature of this state, which have no practical sovereignty neither de jure, no de facto. The possible models of the future development of Bosnia are discussed too.

Key words: Bosnia, ex-Yugoslavia, building of nation, postmodernity, ethnic identity, religious identity, islam, Slavonic peoples, Serbs, Croatians, Bosnians

 

DICTUM ET FACTUM

СЛОВОИДЕЛО

Alexandr Smirnov

Psychological and Information Warfare. About One Type of International Information Struggle . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

The article is dedicated to studying of the phenomenon of psychological warfare. The basic conceptual framework in studied area is considered, the genesis and place of psychological warfare in system of the international information warfare are revealed. The author in detail analyzes the purposes, contents, subjects, objects, directions and forms of psychological warfare.

Key words: information warfare, information weapon, psychological warfare, subversive operations

 

STATUS RERUM

ПОЛОЖЕНИЕДЕЛ

Nikolai Rabotyazhev, Eduard Solovyov Russian Conservatism in Epochs of Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

The authors analyze the main phases of evolution of the Russian conserva-tive tradition, emphasize its specialties in compare with the foreign one. They make a pessimist conclusion about the part of Russian conservative ideas in dif-ferent periods of national history.

Key words: conservatism, political ideology, tradition, Russia, slavophilia, byzantism, eurasianism, conservative utopia, socialism

 

Nikolay Eisen

Science. Production. Consumption. On the Convergence of Political Economy and Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

To effectively manage the development of the «science-the production-consumption» must have an adequate theory. In connection with this, the author developed a resource-time model of the system. The values calculated by the model are compared with the actual. Sets out the mechanism of innovation development, given an option of solidarity finance the work of scientific and production cycle. The correlation between national income, national product and national wealth , as well as between the worlds of science, industry and services. The opinion on the causes of the current financial crisis and ways to overcome it.

Key words: management, theory, law, simulation, fractal mathematics, time, labor, space, money, balance, proportion

 

TERRA INCOGNITA

НЕИЗВЕДАННАЯЗЕМЛЯ

Andrey Gerashtchenko

Unknown Belorussia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 125

The article is dedicated to the situation in the contemporary Belorussia. The author states a fact of growing of nationalist tendencies

in Belorussian politics. It reflect in attacks to the common history of Russian and Belorussian peoples, in discrimination of Russian

language, in anti-Russian subtext of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Polish revolt of 1863—1864 in Belorussia.

Key words:

Belorussia, Russia, Union State of Russia and Belorussia, nationalism, building of nation, linguistic politics, discrimination,

Alexander Lukashenko, Cyrillic letters, Latin letters, Polish Revolt of 1863—1864

PRO MEMORIA

ДЛЯПАМЯТИ

Natalia Mikhailova, Vyacheslav Mikhailov

Was the Tzarist Russia a “Prison of Peoples”? Impartial analysis, based on the information of published materials of official statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

The authors try to analyze the assessment of tsarist Russia as a “prison of peoples”, given by Vladimir Lenin in the year 1899. Using the information of official statistics, the authors conclude, that this assessment was very subjective; it was based on the ideological criterions and made in the aims of propaganda. The authors try to argue, that in fact there was a successful conception of national politics in imperial Russia by the year 1900.

Key words: “prison of peoples”, national problem, Empire, political nation, ethnos, national state, national politics, V.I. Lenin, bolshevism, Russian Empire, national identity

 

MODUS VIVENDI

ОБРАЗЖИЗНИ

Georgy Sinchenko

Plays of Financial Regulation. As a Philosopher Tried to Place American Money into a Russian Bank . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

The article describes some characteristic problem, which Russian consumers have to resolve because of some aspects of national regime of foreign currency. The author offers some ideas to improve the situation.

Key words: banking system, dollar, euro, currency exchange, rights of consumer, the Central Bank of Russian Federation, circulation of currency, goods, money, Federal Reserve System of the USA

 

MARGINALIA

ЗАМЕТКИНАПОЛЯХ

The Future of Capitalism. The World Government, Global Epoch of “At War Empires», Or Triumph of the USA? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

The article presents prognostications on the future development of the world system made by ideologue of mondialism J. Attali; by organizer and head of the prognostication and intelligence company «Stratfor» («private CIA») J. Friedman, and by the French specialist on geopolitics J.-F. Susbielle.

Key words: future, world governance, world government, market, democracy, capitalism, Attali, Friedman, Susbielle

 

EX LIBRIS

ИЗКНИГ

Vladimir Khoros

Ideas, that Live in the Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

The review is dedicated to the book of selected works of Nodari Simoniya, who is a member of Russian Academy of Science and a prominent specialist in the field of Oriental and political studies in the contemporary Russia. The author of the review emphasizes the Marxist character of Simoniya’s conception; he thinks that the most important result of the scholar activity of Simoniya is the complete description and analysis of the phenomena of the “bureaucratic capitalism” from Asia to post-Soviet Russia.

Key words: Oriental studies in Russia, Marxism, political science, political revolution, bureaucratic capitalism, Indonesia, post-Soviet Russia, China, Asiatic “tigers”, neocolonialism