No 1 (2012)

The article deals with the problems of the first migrations and the colonization of Americas at the end of the Ice Age. The quantity and the quality, such as directions, of theses migration are disputable. At the edge of Pleistocene and Holocene first paleoindians come to the continent. Their anthropological characteristics, ways of migration and environmental adaptation - those are problems, acquiring their resolution using data not only archeological methods, but also different additional information.

The article deals with the process of dissent in the National Party of the Czech Lands in the 70-s of the XIX century: two clearly defined factions within the Czech National Party had emerged: the Old Czechs and the Young Czechs. The author examines political position of Jan Stanislav Skrejsovsky, a prominent Czech businessman, a member of the National Party (the Old Czechs), his struggle with the National Party of Freethinkers (the Young Czechs) formed in 1874. The problem of Czech political press as an instrument of political struggle is discussed in the article.

The article describes new aspects in the development of contemporary international security situation and strategic stability. The author opines that the current phase of international relations tends to be rather chaotic and highly unpredictable in its evolution. He attempts to trace the influence of such unorthodox factors as polycentrical nature of the world, departure from exacerbated military confrontation, global terrorist threat on the formation of a principally novel model of strategic stability which substitutes the paradigms of the Cold War era. The article dresses the list of specific proposals on the strengthening of military and political security worldwide.

The article studies the image of Persian woman reflected in Russian travel notes and social and political essays printed in Russia and the USSR in 1800-1950s, and the factors that influenced on formation of this image.