The editorial board is beginning to give its readers an introduction to a set of materials that in these times are exceptionally significant: a collective monograph that examines the construct of “Ukrainism.” The authors of the monograph assert that the construct of “Ukrainism” is a political, ideological, religious, and ultimately, a dark metaphysical project that the West is systematically developing in order to bring about Russia’s demise. This project has been underway in Ukraine for a long time; but over the past few years, it has become especially blatant, and its scale has grown to unprecedented proportions. Crimes against Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population are being committed that are no less brutal than those committed under Hitler. This monograph addresses such questions as: “How did this become possible?”, “What forces were involved in this process?”, and “What ideas has Ukrainian Nazism been cultivating over decades and centuries?” In this issue, you will find the beginning of the preface by S. E. Kurginyan, previously published in the first volume of the monograph Ukrainism: The Relevant International Game.

The U.S. pays lip service to Israel, but in reality it is setting the Middle East on fire, contributing to the formation of a radical Islamist entity that will eventually sweep Israel away. There is a clear strategy in these seemingly contradictory actions: America has declared war on development in order to preserve its hegemony and destroy its geopolitical rivals. Today it needs to barbarize and archaize the global periphery. For Russia to be able to withstand, for it to be able to exist not in the logic of situational response, it must realize what it is facing and what it can counter the civilization of death.

Comprehending what is happening is an irrevocable human ability and responsibility. Moreover, this is the duty of the authorities. The current government is doing a poor job with this task: decades of negative selection to power, when they got there not for their abilities and skills, but for various other reasons, are reflected. As a result, the government proved to be inadequate and disproportionate to the challenge of the coronavirus. To overcome the crisis caused by the coronavirus epidemic, you need to fight myths with all your might, and even more so not to generate them. The measures taken must be minimized and brought in line with objectivity, as well as their capabilities. It should be strictly forbidden to pull someone's projects under the coronavirus disaster, whether it be the destruction of families, the digitalization of everything in the world, or whatever else. Decisions should be made in an effort to minimize the number of ALL possible victims, not just coronavirus victims.

The author deals with the situation of exceeding strain that has developed in the world in result of Trump advent and due to escalation of several international conflicts. According to the author, situation is dangerous as it has never been. At the same time it is necessary always to understand that foreign policy is intimately connected with domestic policy. Ideological duality of the Russian power bears a great danger. So far there are forces in the Russian leadership that support hazardous initiatives aimed at extension of juvenile justice, development of trends that pose threat to traditional values. The future of the country depends on efficiency of patriotic forces resistance to these threats. The power has to revise its attitude to economic crimes, corruption, and dalliance with nonsystematic Orange opposition. Half-measures are of no use in these issues.

The article is devoted to the new geopolitical reality which to the full extent defines now the situation all over the post-Soviet expanse. The author considers the new role Turkey and other neighbors of Russia in the configuration that presents the latest threat and can change traditional roles these states perform in the East. The author addresses also the painful and hot theme of relations between Turkey and Armenia and between Turkey and Azerbaijan and appraises the challenges tossed to Russia in the present-day diplomatic and military-political context.

The article deals with topical issues of global confrontation in the modern world, contemporary Russian foreign policy and its context. The author concentrates on the problems of the Middle East settlement and the role of Russia in this process. At the same time, the article provides the analysis, which helps to understand what is the political choice of the US leadership and how it threatens Russia. In the first place, it is clear that the US is not going to quit the Middle East and will maintain its presence there. The strategy of undermining the national states of the Arab world, and the creation of conditions that will not allow these nation states take shape, also remains the same. US is interested in containment of Russia in the Middle East and throughout the world. The author draws this conclusion on the basis of the analysis of the discourse of the US politicians and political commentators. The findings are of direct relevance to the safety of modern Russia and its place in the international arena. The purpose of containment is not to allow Russia to consolidate its efforts in establishing peace and stability in the post-Soviet region.

Understanding of the USSR collapse reasons is one of the most important factors that prevent disintegration of Russia. The comprehension of the fact that collapse of the USSR was disastrous is growing in the Russian society. However answers provided to the question why USSR collapsed are still naive. The article is devoted not only to the current social and political situation and prospects of the Russian Federation but to the future of the analytics which nowadays can be considered as the analytics of elite games, as a new way of reflection which allows reconstruct multidimensional models of the past, the present and the future. The main subject matter of the article is the history of relations within the Soviet and the international elite of the 1930s-1970s. History of elites and clans requires not just a scientific approach which presupposes relations of agents and subjects but requires interpretation, a peculiar hermeneutics.

The article is devoted to the problem of modern Russia’s survival in the global world, to the challenges that present combination of the country’s foreign and domestic policy factors. Russia has not just to survive. Russia has to gain a new place in the current military-political, religious, cultural context and to fulfill its prescription and assignment. The principal theme of the article is the RF policy in the Middle East and analysis of relation of forces and groupings in this region of the globe.

The metaphysical fall and subsequent cultural, geopolitical and other disasters caused by that fall have not brought about to the final lethal result they had to bring about. It means that if the process of conflict between Russia and the West has really acquired a long process character and become really fundamental one belonging to issues of the country’s life or death then the subject of the whole system reformatting comes to the fore. The existing system is inadequate to the new reality and new challenges by now. A new plan is required. If this discussion will not be started right now then Russia will have no future. Not because it is necessary to catch up what was missed out but because it is necessary to consider in due time those strategic threats that are not in the center of attention so far but seem to be of great gravity. These dangers may suddenly make everything else dull and senseless.

The article deals with events that unfold in Ukraine. The author analyzes the media responses to riots that have occurred in Kyiv this winter. Logic of radicalization us seen everywhere. Events at Maidan and at Grushevsky street are well controlled by the opposition (with all qualifications and deliberate aberrations) and radicals act quite consciously and persistently: they had been well prepared. To be sure, events of this winter are the pilot balloon that has to check stability and endurance of Russia. In fact, all these efforts were made not in vain. They are focused on Russia. There is the only way out: calmness, anti-extremism and law-abidance.

The interview is dedicated to the current events in Ukraine. De-Banderization of Ukraine is inevitable. It will occur much along the lines of denazification, and Western assistant will not help. These assistants initially provided help even to Hitler. The end of that story is well known. Therefore, right now the main thing is to see the truth, shake oneself free from the spell of the Ukrainian nazi prop