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PUBL.- Russia and Orient: the Problems of Interaction (in Russian) 

Rossiya i Vostok: problemy vzaimodeistviya (Russia and Orient: the Problems of 
Interaction). 
Volgograd: Volgograd State University Press, 2003. 
326 pp. ISBN 5-85534-797-4 

This collection of articles contains the papers prepared for the 
international conference of the same name which was held in Volgograd in 
November of 2002. It was organized by the Department of CIS at the Institute 
of Oriental Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences) and the Center for 
Regional and Transboundary Studies of Volgograd State University. The 
conference was supported by George Soros Foundation and Friedrich Naumann 
Stiftung. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

FOREWORD (pp. 3-4) 

PART I. HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF MUTUAL RELATIONS 

Vadim Astashin (Volgograd State University). The 'Eastern Issue' in Foreign 
and Russian Historiography 

Elena Kussayinova (Uriupinsk Branch of Volgograd State University). The Role 
of the Cossacks in Russia's Eastern Policy in XVI-XVII Centuries 

Alexander Loginov (Volgograd State University). The 'Turkic Stream' in 
Traditional Clothing of Don Cossacks in XVI-XVIII Centuries 

Alexander Ryabtsev (Astrakhan State University). The Role of Iran in 
Geopolitical Plans of Russia in XVIII Century 

Ivan Kurilla (Volgograd State University). United States and Russia's 
Eastern Policy in the Middle of XIX Century 

Larissa Chereshneva (Lipetsk State Pedagogical University). Criticism of 
the Bipolar World Idea: International Asian Conference in Delhi in 1947 

Zauresh Saktaganova (Karaganda State University, Kazakhstan). On the 
Question about the Role of Kazakhstan in the All-Union integration in the 
First Decade after World War II 

PART II. REALITIES AND STEREOTYPES OF ETHNO-CULTURAL INTERACTION 

Andrey Kussainov (Uriupinsk Branch of Volgograd State University). 
Historical Process in the Light of Ethnocentrism 

Sergey Arkhipov (North Ossetian State University). Information Picture of 
the World in Russia and the East: Comparative Analysis 

Igor Kazanin (Volgograd State University). The Orient in Perception of the 
Russian Intelligentsia 

Victor Dyatlov (Irkutsk State University). 'Yellow Peril:' Transformation of 
the Phobia 

Natalia Gronskaya (Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University). 
Socio-linguistic Situation in Eastern Regions of Russian Federation: 
Asymmetries and Differences 

Vladimir Bobrovnikov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of 
Sciences). The Myth about the Caucasian War and Orientalism in the Northern 
Caucasus 

Marina Ryblova (Volgograd State University). 'Wild Steppe:' the Culture of 
Frontier Today and in Ethnographic Retrospective 

PART III. THE PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY AND ETHNIC MIGRATION 

Victor Victorin (Astrakhan State Pedagogical University). 
Ethno-confessional Specific Groups within the Ethnic Structure at the 
Eurasia's Frontiers 

Elvira Mamytova (Kyrgyz State National University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan). 
Ethno-confessional and Tribal Aspects of Conflicts in Central Asia 

Olga Brussina (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of 
Sciences). 'Double Citizenship' in Central Asia in the Post-Soviet Period: 
Legal Basis and Non-official Practice 

Vladimir Boyko (Barnaul State Pedagogical University). Eastern Diasporas of 
the Russian-Asian Borders (Altai Region): Social and Geopolitical Aspects 

Grigory Pyadukhov (Penza State Architectural Academy). Ethnic groups of 
External Migrants: the Tendencies of Inflow to Saratov, Penza Region and 
Mordovian Republic 

PART IV. INTERNATIONAL LINKS, REGIONAL SECURITY, TRANSBOUNDARY INTERACTION 

Oleg Reut (Petrozavodsk State University). About the Leadership in (of) 
Globalization 

Grigory Kossach. (Institute of Asian And African Studies at Moscow State 
University). Russia and the Arabian World: Realities of Interaction 

Leonid Vardomsky (Institute of International Economic and Political Studies, 
Russian Academy of Sciences). The Problems and Prospects of Euro-Asian 
Economic Community 

Sergei Panarin (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences). 
Russia and Central Asia: before and after September 11 

Sergei Abashin (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of 
Sciences). Islam in Central Asia: Local Conflicts and Global Threats 

Svetlana Kozhirova (Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan). 
Border Aspect of Russian-Kazakhstanian Relations 

Sergei Golunov (Volgograd State University). The Caucasian Border of Russia: 
Issues of Security and International Cooperation 

Due to the support of Soros Foundation the book is itself of no cost. 
Unfortunately, we are not able to cover postal expenses. 

All queries should be sent to: 

Dr Sergey Golunov 
Director 
Center for Regional and Transborder Studies 
Volgograd State University 
30 2nd Prodolnaya str., 
Volgograd 400062 
Russia 
Tel:7 (8442) 432025 
Fax:7(8442) 438124 
E-mail: transbound@hotbox.ru 
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