Issue 2003 No. 3

The author tryes to show that in spite of the establishment of "New world order", the realization of the doctrine of world supremacy by one super-power (USA) is impossible. The world continues to remain multipolar, the new centers of force appear. Russia continues to be the power, which oc ... cupies important position in the international system of geopolitical and economic interconnections.The role of the Caspian region in the world policy is emphasized.
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The author assumes that for modern Russia the finding of the general national integrating idea is urgenv need. As the "idea- framework" it is proposed to examine the concept of national interests and priorities of Russia. Is examined the possibility of using the best of the classical ideol ... ogies, which work in the contemporary conditions in the conditions of mutual grinding. The logic of reforms with respect to the guarantee of the necessary measure of public unity is represented.
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In the article the author tries to show that fundamental and primary civilisational value of Caspian Sea is connected with a usage of some local resources. The cognitive interest to the Caspian Sea was and will be oriented first of all to the getting of benefits. This attitude to the Sea is difficul ... t to unite with a goal of saving this unique natural formation. But both approaches can be placed in the center of political disputes between Caspian States.
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According to the opinion of the author the Caspian region can be looked at as a model for the study of Geopolitics because here we can find all geopolk cal phenomena and regularities. Due to the development of Informative Age some advantages appear for the formation of the coastal zone In the connec ... tion to the process the author pays attention at the problem of a basic language for an informatisation of the region. Geopolitical development of the region as a metafield presupposes functioning of different informational systems.
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There is the urgent region of the modern world association that is the Caspian Sea Region in the center of attention of this article. The possibility of joining the Caspian Sea Region to the European economic space with the help of newly emerging system of gas- and oil pipelines is being discussed. ... The process is not only of economic nature, but also political imparts.
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The article analyzes new conditions in relations between Iran and Central Asian republics that took their origin after the decay of the former USSR. The special attention is paid to the Iran/Russian relations whose history counts more than 400 years. The author underlines that Iran and Russia have c ... ommon approaches to some international problems including a problem of the Caspian Sea.
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Having begotten the Alans-Ossets in the Nothern Caucases ancient nomadic peoples of the Caspian Area, who spoke the Eastern Iranian languages and their dialects (the Skythes, Savromats, Sarmats), were in A.D. replaced by ethnic groups of the Western Iranian branch (the Persians, Guilyans, Mazandaran ... s, Tats, Talyshes and others). The number of these peoples in the Astrakhan oblast (the Tajiks, Talyshes, Tats, Kurds and pertly Lyuli Islamic Gipsies) increased during the last decade. And the former relations were resumed in the Caspian provinces of Iran, citizens of which have again started visiting Astrakhan.
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In the article it is discussed the formation of the system, which creates conditions for optimal control of the financial state resources. Concept value of the functioning of united treasurer calculation is revealed.

This article is about an influence of cultural tradition on the economic welfare. The numerous examples show the influence of the traditional principles of Soviet interaction on the level of living. Nowadays it is showing up especially evidently in provincial regions, where renewal of cultural tradi ... tions is going on slower than it is in central regions of the country.
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The modern market-industrial system is analyzed by authors as a complex system. It can be looked upon by three estimated criteria: efficiency of production, efficiency of labour and efficiency of management. Their essence answers to common principles of efficiency that is based on a commensurability ... of expenses and results and on the goal of getting of maximum results with minimal expenses.
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The article describes the areal о aroid pastures of the Naryn sands It gives main characteristics of their flora. Pastoral maps of these sands in the zone of Atyrau region are built. Some conclusions according to the analyses of the map were made.

The mosaic structures of works by L. Reisner, the writer, directly connected with the Caspian region, taking part personally in changing the status and the life-style of this important for many countries territory are analysed in this article. The cycles "The Front" and "Afghanistan&q ... uot; are extremely expressive, detailed and toponimically correct descriptions of the Volga-Caspian regie it's life during the Civil War, so hard for Russia as well as for Az-erbaidzhan, Iran and other states bound together by the Caspian Sea; the intercommunication and interinfluence of which form the phenomenon of the Caspian region as the conglomerate of cultures. Its further development is impossible without realizing the principle of tolerance and strict following this principle.
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The article gives the analysis of some historical songs of the Kalmyk, where their ideas about the perfect man are expressed.

Work examines basic approaches to the evaluation of the quality of education. On the basis of the comparison of different experience and different prerequisites for evaluating the quality of formation it is possible to speak about the degree of its expediency from the position of the economic theory ... .
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The article analyses the market of educational services in the Astrakhan region in the sphere of higher education on the base of the application of a pre cedure of the quantitative estimation of the regional market of educational services.

In a modern multicultural society there is a essential problem of a positive interrelation between different ethnic groups. One of the aspects of such interrelation is ethnic tolerance. In the article the author tries to analyze an attitude of youth in Astrakhan region to their culture and to cultur ... al models of other ethnic groups.
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Basing on the data of Astrakhan, Saratov and Samara Gubernias (provinces) the author analyses the process of becoming of the private capital structure in the industry in the period of the New Economic Policy. The author came to the conclusion that in spite of small funds and different limitations th ... e private industrial capital had a high efficiency of production and a powerful constructive potential.
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The author on the basis of the analysis of sources and memoir literature investigates the history of deliveries on the lend-lease through the territory of Iran. According to his opinion, the propagation by the United States of law about the lend-lease in Iran, became the decisive factor, which made ... "Persian corridor" by the second in a quantity of transported loads route. Allies performed freight handling in close cooperation with the Iranian civil and military specialists. Many times the allies expressed appreciation for Iranian help in the war against the common enemy.
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