The purpose of this article is to define the ideological and civilizational platform of the confrontation between the West and Russia in the Ukrainian conflict, to study the specifics of the emergence of the ideology of “Ukrainianism”, to analyze the political and economic motivation of the West in the continuation of the conflict. The article details the systemic errors of Russian policy towards Ukraine. The task is also set to highlight the state and church aspects of the confrontation in Ukraine.

The article examines the papers of the Orthodox periodicals devoted to the Suez crisis. The Russian Orthodox Church adhered to the Soviet position, but its line was not identical to the state course. As a result of comparing the state and church approaches towards the Suez crisis, the differences between them are being identified. It is made a conclusion that in 1956–1957 the Russian Orthodox Church sought to maintain dialogue with both the Patriarchates of Alexandria and Jerusalem, and also neglected the US contribution to the settlement of the conflict.

The article is devoted to a rare topic – economic crimes on the Russian front during the First World War. In the center of the study are single and mass violations in property relations in the provision of the army. The author comes to the conclusion about the constant growth of economic crimes, the tendency to increase the amount of losses, the growth of group frauds. The article emphasizes such factors of economic crimes as lack of proper control, lack of reliable legal basis, clash of interests of military, civil administration and free market agents, impossibility to refuse to involve ethnic groups hostile to the army in the supply business. It is concluded that there are serious contradictions between the requirements of a new type of war and the reality of everyday warfare.

The manuscript of N.I.Oznobishin. discovered by O.M.Burank. is the first of Cervante translations into Russian known to date. The article analyzes this translation, and also on the basis of archival materials, the biography of Nikanor Ivanovich Oznobishin (about 1726/1727 –1788), a lieutenant of the Life Guards of the Preobrazhensky Regiment, a Russian translator, writer and public figure of the XVIII century, thegrandfather of the poet Dmitry Oznobishin, is studied, the genealogy of the branch of the Oznobishin family leading to Nikanor Ivanovich Oznobishin is reconstructed.

The author focuses on the coverage of the initial stage of the Europeanization process in Qing China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on the pages of «Vestnik Evropy». Using the example of the publications of this journal, a panorama of the views of both domestic researchers (M.V.Venyukov, P.S.Popov, etc.) and direct leaders and participants of the mentioned transformations on the motivations, stages and essence of the reforms, as well as the reasons for their failure is presented. The characteristic features of the perception by Russian liberals of attempts to borrow from the European experience in Qing China are revealed.

I argue the early stage of Cossack activism (late 1980s – 1990s) was a part of shaping Russian civil society. I assume the victim narrative was shaped by the Cossack intellectuals in 1989–90, and it was used politically to ensure that the revived Cossacks were officially recognized as a distinct nation who had suffered under Soviet rule and were entitled to regain their forcibly lost land ownership rights and administrative self-governance of the territory. Furthermore, there is a statement that the division of the Cossack movement into Red and White is not related to the memory of the Civil War, since the anti-Bolshevik victimhood narrative was consensual, but to the issue of public service.

The article deals with the history of the emergence and activities of the clerical Christian Workers' Union of Finland during the 1905–1907 revolution. It analyses the Union's programme, numbers, social composition, organisational structure, goals and objectives. It shows the peculiarities of the formation of the ideological paradigms of the Union, which were a peculiar combination of Christian dogmas about equality and socio-economic and political demands of the part of the working class that saw the Christian faith as the basis of human existence.

The economic and educational activities and scientific views of the outstanding agrarianО of the late XIX – early XX century I.N.Klingen are considered. Special attention is paid to his advanced scientific and practical developments to solve key agricultural problems in Russia; the researcher's significant contribution to the development of a number of agricultural sectors and domestic agricultural science is noted. Conclusions are drawn about the specific scientific, practical and social significance of the long-term activities of a number of leading Russian agricultural innovators of the XIX – early XX century.