Moscow, Europe Publishing House, 2008, pp 336
Compiling editor Kirill Tanaev

This is a unique publication, containing only facts established in accordance with legal procedures. The book is based on the evidence collected by the RF Prosecutor General’s Investigative committee during the criminal proceedings initiated in connection with the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia.

The book contains both testimony of direct participants in the events and photographic proof of crimes committed by Georgia as it attacked peacekeeper bases and settlements of the Republic of South Ossetia.

Moscow , Europe Publishing House, 2009,  pp 304  

This is not political journalism but a serious study of the present situation and the possibilities of developing the EU-Russia relations. It was a long road from an unrestrained optimism of the 1990's to a growing mistrust, and now when both sides have independently realized the common challenges, there is one step to make – albeit a hard one but nevertheless possible – by signing a number of mutual security agreements, which will necessarily fall short of a fundamental treaty that the author deems to be unsustainable. Unlike those journalists who support the state propaganda line, the author is far from exclusively blaming the EU for all the difficulties of contact. He is convincing in registering quite a number of lapses committed in the past and present by Russian diplomacy as well as its bureaucracy. Unlike the purely academic studies, the author is not satisfied with an observer’s position, taking the risk to propose an outline of his own project of modus vivendi with the EU at the time when the previous global order is no longer valid.  

Russian journal on books.

Books by Barack Obama, Artemiy Magun, Hannah Arendt, Ilya Kasavin, Alain Badiou, Ludwig Wittgenstein , Pierre Bourdieux, Marina Mogilner, Charles Tilley , Robert Nozick , Charles Teylor , Lynn Hunt , Bryan Caplan .

And another 80 reviews of books in philosophy, politics, history, economics, sociology, culture.

Moscow , Europe Publishing House, 2009, pp  200
Collected works / comp. by: Pavlovsky G.O., Glazychev V.L.

The book contains the first message of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to the Federal Assembly, presented on 05 November, 2008.

The text of the message is followed by a commentary on 90 ideological theses, selected on the basis of responses of Russian citizens representing professional fields and communities of this country.

Moscow, Europe Publishing House, 2009, pp 108 

The book is dedicated to one of the most pressing challenges: the modernization of Russia in the situation of an acute crisis. It examines the modern approaches to modernization and puts forth author’s elaboration of this theory.

Central to the book is the exposure of the specifics of home-bred modernization, as well as the reasons behind the crisis and the contradictions encountered on this path. The book contains an analysis of the essence of the qualitative changes of the last decades. It proves that the contemporary crisis dramatically questions the ability of Russia to move on the path of modernization or otherwise face a national catastrophe.

The book contains a concept of a new modernization project – a national-democratic modernization of Russia. The book is addressed to all those who are anxious about the fate of our country.

Moscow, Europe Publishing House, 2009, pp 136

The global financial crisis is gaining momentum, and its consequences are already apparent. If Russia wants to not just survive in the economic upheaval but also to make new gains, it is time for it to act. In the post-crisis world, Russia has a real chance to become a new global financial center, which is an objective announced by president Medvedev. Yet what should be done to achieve this goal ? The authors suggest their unique experience of combining non-capitalized resources and investments in a working model of new entrepreneurship. Russia possesses all information, scientific, cultural prerequisites for designing a new future. There is but a single barrier – inertia of minds and habits of the power elites, which the author is addressing.

Moscow, Europe Publishing House, 2009, pp 108 

A short but passionately written work convincingly expresses the position of the new generation, which categorically denies capitulatory of any sort be it ideological and economical or the glamorous betrayal of culture. Paraphrasing the well-known saying, the author demonstrates that the one in possession of the present changes the past. The book draws reader’s attention to the falsity of the established myths, such as: “Cold War defeat” or the specific way of interpreting the factual obligations of the USSR – assumed by Russia – into a form of legal succession. Giving his own interpretation of challenges faced by Russia, the author focuses his attention on the cultural matrices if globalization and contemporary Islam, stresses the threat of the “civilization of user” and – instead of the customary juxtaposition of values – adds his own constructive understanding of the fact that the values array of the West and Russia is the same while the priorities within that array are distributed in absolutely different ways.  

Moscow, Europe Publishing House, 2009, pp 184

Yury Shevtsov’s book delves into a complex and dangerous period of history, spanning from 1930’s to our days. From the one side, it deals with a very real widespread famine of the early 1920’s – part of the Stalinist campaign of Dekulakization, which actually amounted to the eradication of peasantry in Soviet Russia. From the other side, the book dispels the myth of Golodomor, allegedly masterminded by the Moscovites with the aim of eliminating the Ukrainians, which was essentially made up by the Nazis. The book describes the famine of the early 1930’s simultaneously analyzing its contemporary ideological interpretations. It can be of interest to students, teachers of history, journalists and all those exploring the contemporary wars, Russophobia, as well as the projects of East-European nationalism and East-West conflicts.  

Moscow, Europe Publishing House, 2009, pp 104
Collection of essays / ed. by Stephen Elliott

A regular and not so well-informed person is likely to suspect that he is reading fake policy guidelines fabricated by America’s foes. However, not only experts on the matter but also regular readers of American newspapers will recognize it as a condensed, unmasked exposition of the only too real political doctrine of US hegemony. Such nonsense as international law does not matter! With the possible exception of Israel the opinion of NATO allies is irrelevant. Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Sudan, Venezuela and North Korea are to be liberated and made happy by any means. The tactical details may vary from country to country but the overall strategy is the same: constructing the enemy image, estimating its meager resistance capabilities, conquering it and making people happy. Some of the scenarios in the book are already being implemented.

Moscow, Europe Publishing House, 2009, pp 109

The book by American author Bob Neer is a most condensed selection of reliable facts about the new U.S. President Barack Obama. The author has collected and wittily illustrated the major milestones of the dizzying story of the first Afro-American who was elevated to the nation’s highest office by the global crisis and the fiasco of George Bush’s policies. The book covers the president’s family history and career, and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of his political style, his dependence on mass media and public adoration. The author offers a clear analysis of the components of Barack Obama’s success, while ironical illustrations by Joe Lee, devoid of «Obamamania», let the Russian audience form their own opinion of the new head of the White House.