Konstantin Petrovich Kurylev

• Doctor of History
• Professor at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

In the 21st century, the Russian Federation and the Republic of India have great scientific and educational potential. The particularly privileged strategic partnership between the two states is aimed, among other things, at the development and innovations of scientific and educational cooperation, which has stable traditions laid down in the secon...

The article deals with the interaction between the Republic of India (RI) and the main Eurasian structures that operate in the space of the former Soviet Union – the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). With the emergence of a polycentric world order, marked, among other things, by the entry into the inter...

The study deals with the attitude of Russian liberals of the early 20th century to the Eastern question, which occupied a special place in international politics and whose aggravation became one of the factors leading to the World War I. Various political forces in Russia developed their own variants of its solution, realizing that the fate not onl...

The authors of the paper examine the problem of the participation of post-Soviet Ukraine in the global grain trade basing on a critical analysis and using extensive statistical data. Grain crops have traditionally occupied the most important place in the agro-industrial complex of Ukraine. Ever since Soviet times, the image of the “all-Union granar...

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly accelerated the global power transit (from the US to the PRC) and the formation of a “new bipolarity” in Eurasia (West vs non-West), which became even more active and irreversible after the launch of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine in February 2022. In this context, the traditional views on Eurasian and...

Cinema as a socio-cultural institution reflects the cultural and ideological trends in society and has a huge impact on the formation of people’s self-awareness. The history of cinema in Ukraine has more than 100 years. At one time, Soviet films produced by the A. Dovzhenko Film Studio and the Odessa Film Studio enjoyed All-Union popularity and oft...

Despite the fact that Turkey was among the first to recognize the independence of Armenia on December 24, 1991, diplomatic relations have not been established between the countries to this day. In the first decade of the 21 st century, there were attempts to normalize relations, but they were unsuccessful. After the Second Karabakh War, Turkey resu...

In the XXI century, the Russian Federation and the Republic of India have great scientific and educational potential. A particularly privileged strategic partnership between the two states and their leaders, President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is aimed, among other things, at developing and innovating scientific and education...

This article deals with the problem of migration of the Russian population from the Republic of Kazakhstan in the post-Soviet period. Due to the multidimensional nature of this problem, the main attention is focused on issues related to the causes of migration, its geographical aspects and directions of development are also considered. The issue of...

Eurasianism, in its various interpretations, from ideology to the implementation of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) programs, is regarded as one of the strategies of creating a multipolar world order. This article analyzes the views and assessments of foreign authors regarding the relationship between Eurasianism and the EAEU amid the changing i...

The article describes the integration processes that developed in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in the 2000s, which culminated in the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The purpose of the article is to determine the main directions of the EAEU development through the prism of country preferences of the participants of t...

The article considers the main directions of the Russian Federations foreign policy in the Mediterranean region in the period from 2015 to autumn 2021. The authors present a historical analysis of Russias military presence in the Mediterranean Sea since its first deployment in the 18th century and separately during the Cold War, since the key strat...

Traveling to other countries to study or improve foreign language skills has become a global trend in recent decades. In the XXI century, demand for language tourism has grown, which has become one of the main areas of cultural policy over time. The purpose of the research is to consider idiomatic tourism capabilities using the example of Spain and...

The main directions of integration processes in the post-Soviet space are analyzed in the context of their significance for the countries of the region, defined in the article as Eurasia. The essential characteristic of the concepts of “Eurasianism” and “Eurasian integration” is given. Some scientific approaches to the definition of these concepts...

This article examines the notion of a Greater Europe in Russian foreign policy from the 1990s to the present. The idea developed as the Russian government sought to establish its national and civilizational identy in the wake of the USSRs dissolution. At the turn of the 21st century, Moscow embraced the idea of a rapprochement with the rest of Euro...

For many years, the figure of Mikhail Nikolayevich Saakashvili evoked both positive and negative ratings of his political activity among the other world leaders. This ambiguous attitude towards the former Georgian leader cannot be unnoticed, so it seems interesting to us to study the personality of the former Georgian president. The main goal of th...

The authors analyze the main characteristics of the EAEU – SCO partnership as a model of interstate interaction that can provide an institutional and value platform for the “Greater Eurasian Partnership”. The chapter provides the comparative analysis of the two regional associations, forms, and mechanisms of cooperation, identifies areas of interse...

The article discusses Russian-Chinese relations and their impact on the state and development prospects of such an important international region as Eurasia. The authors pay special attention to the evolution of Russian-Chinese relations in historical retrospect, to the peculiarities of forming a strategic partnership between the two leading powers...

The article analyses the main concepts in the field of security that Russia proposed in the space of “Greater Eurasia” . By “Greater Eurasia” the author’s team means the area of the entire Eurasian continent from Western Europe to Southeast Asia . The most challenging problems to the formation of a unified security system, the authors include the p...

The article gives the analytical consideration of the sea power of Russia in the Pacific Ocean in today’s period of international relations. After the collapse of the USSR, the main interest of Russia's foreign policy was focused on the European region and the waters of the Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean. The changes in the global structure of inter...

Royal-Dutch Shell in Russia and Western Sanctions

A Quantitative Analysis of Geopolitical Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Space

The system of international relations is in constant change, where new challenges, problems, trends are emerging. In this context, the global migration is no exception. The central question of this study is that labor migrants from Central Asia are changing their traditional directions, where Russia is replaced by other European countries. Such a t...

The subject of consideration of this article is the mechanism for the formation of public administration of the United States. The US public administration system is characterized by continu-ity in domestic and foreign policy over the past 70 years as a minimum. Elite groups that can fi ght for power in the US and have the appropriate resource base...

The article deals with the topic of how Russian liberal parties of the early twentieth century - the Party of the Constitutional Democrats (the Kadets), the Octobrist Party (the Octobrists) and the Progressive Party (the Progressives) - interpreted the range of issues associated with the foreign policy of the Russian Empire, such as imperialism, mi...

The issue of searching for an effective regional balance of power in the South Caucasus through the prism of Russia's military and political interaction with Armenia and Azerbaian is examined. The experience of the USA carrying out similar policy in relation to these states is demonstrated. Based on the quantitative analysis of military-political r...

Twenty-five years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union (USSR) which led to the disruption of the regional check-and-balance system aimed at resolving national issues and political and socioeconomic contradictions. It also resulted in a number of armed conflicts, including those in the Chechen Republic, NagornoKarabakh, Transnistria, T...

This article focuses on the recent history of NATO's cyber defense and the increasing role of cyberspace on NATO's strategy, policy, and transformation of military forces, as well as the other elements of power. In general, the impact of cyberspace on the military defense systems is well documented in many sources, especially in the example of NATO...

Why do we research the Post-Soviet Region? Because: On the geopolitical map of Eurasia CIS possesses a special position: it is located at the crossing of civilizations and forms a kind of «bridge» between Europe, Asia and the Middle East. This is a unique cross-border space; for centuries, there were processes of dif-fusion of various values of man...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the network of the mechanism of reproduction of international terrorism - the phenomenon of post-truth, strongly modifies the previous interpretation of the political, ethnic, religious, cultural and social, leading to the disappearance of the former meaning when it is important that people are truthful new...

Two main issues are considered in this article. The first is the changing historical and legal status of private military companies (PMCs). Emerging after the end of World War II, the PMC phenomenon became wellestablished by the mid-1990s. In the first decade of the 21st century, PMCs not only engaged in military activity in different regions of th...

The article analyses the perception of the mid-to-late nineteenth-century Russian liberals of the West European states and their foreign policy of the time towards Russia. The article discloses the main features and differences in assessing the West and Russia as its part. It allows to reveal such features in Russian liberalism as common provisions...

The article presents the problems of Russia’s foreign policy governance between the February and October revolutions of 1917 in the Russian liberals’ opinion. The liberal opposition supported the government in the main issues of tactics and strategy of the foreign policy activity. One can speak about the identity of positions of the Russian liberal...

This article reports on research based on three crucial aspects of the current global economic situation. First is the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in establishing and constructing international cooperation at the supranational level. Second is the policy of sanctions against Russia in connection with the situation in Ukraine. And thir...

The article provides the information on Iranian «soft power» that promotes IRI national interests worldwide. This component of the Iranian foreign policy plays an important role in the promotion of the state's image in the world. There is an analysis of the evolution of the «soft power» of Iran – from the late period of the Pahlavi dynasty (1971-19...

The article explores masonic activities of businessman and politician A.I. Konovalov (1875-1948). A good deal of attention is paid to the verification of the fact of his joining the Masons, reasons to join the lodge and the character of his participation. It has been concluded that when he joined the lodge, Konovalov's intention was to create a uni...