RAS History & PhilologyAsia and Africa Today

• TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AND ASIA- PACIFIC FREE TRADE AREA: PROSPECTS FOR REGIONAL

  Ekaterina Ya. Arapova
  2-6

• "OPEN LETTER" TO THE LEADER OF THE ISLAMIC STATE

  Gulnara Baltanova
  7-12

• CRISIS IN SYRIA

  Maria Khodynskaya-Golenishcheva
  13-20

• DEMOCRACY MONGOLIAN WAY

  Rustam Sabirov
  21-27

• FEDERALISM WITHOUT FEDERATION: PROBLEMS OF FISCAL FEDERALISM IN CHINA

  Natalya Prokhorova
  28-33

• ZANZIBAR AND THE UNION QUESTION IN TANZANIA: NEW "TIME OF POLITICS"

  Khristina M. Tur’inskaya
  34-41

• NEW ZEALAND: JOHN KEY AGAIN IN POWER

  Ludmila Stefanchyk
  42-46

• "CHARLY EBDO": A VIEW FROM AFRICA

  Grigory A. Karpov
  47-51

• MODERN TURKS. WHAT ARE THEY LIKE?

  Stanislav Hamdohov
  52-55

• THE PAST AND PRESENT TRADITIONS IN THE MINDS OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDERS

  Sofia Pale
  56-60

• AVATIME PEOPLE: TRADITIONAL RITUALS AND CHRISTIANITY

  Alina O. Lapushkina
  61-64

• RUSSIA - NORTH KOREA THE "KHASAN-RAJIN" PROJECT

  Oleg Kiryanov
  65-68

• MALAYSIAN POET YAACOB HASHIM: RUSSIA, TAKE HEART OF GRACE

  Victor Pogadaev
  69-72

• WORLD OF LUSOFONIA IN RUSSIA

  Eleonora Lvova
  72-74

• SCIENCE ON THE DISTANT LAND

  I. Nikolaev
  74-75

• THE CONFLICT IN DARFUR IN THE EYES OF AN AFRICANIST

  N. Petrov
  76-77