No 1 (2014)

The author tries to find out the specifics of the political culture of the East, believing that they are radically different from the ideas and political culture in the West. To solve this problem he sees as common approaches developed in political science to the phenomenon of political culture and finds out the «Eastern « the specificity of the phenomenon. The author advocates the concept of equality of civilizations, emphasizes the necessity of dialogue rather than conflict. Opposes the so-called democratic transition and globalization of the world under the auspices of the State monopoly.

The article deals with the problem of forming the image of Russia in the Western tradition. The author shows the steps of forming ideas about Russia in the Western European society, the factors that influenced the occurrence of certain stereotypes and evaluations. This article analyzes the historical events and developments in the history of Russia and the countries of Western Europe, contributed to the folding of the image of Russia in Western Europe.

The article touches upon foreign policy of Morocco after the obtaining of independence. The authors highlight priorities and the main directions in Morocco’s activity on the world stage.

The aspects of the trade contacts between Meroitic Kingdom and Mediterranean countries are studied in the article. Nile was the main ancient trade route connected Mediterranean countries with the deep area of African lands. Nile cataracts and desert caravan routes were rather difficult and dangerous. These reasons stimulated development of trade routes via Red Sea, especially when interest to elephants used in Ptolemies’ army stimulate Red Sea travelling along the Nile rout. There were established new Greek factories along the Western Red Sea shore, which maintained trade activities.

The biography of Ivar Lissner is presented – a person, who worked in the Far-Eastern region in 30–40 th of the XX century and actually repeated the fate of the Soviet Military Intelligence member Richard Sorge. Lissners destiny reflected all those spiritual flingings typical of the German youths of the period between two World Wars; he went through the stage of enthusiasm from the seeming start of German Renaissance when Hitler came to power, bitter offence from the sudden society`s rejection when his non-arian origin get clear, to oppressive disappointment from his compatriots` betrayal, when he was put into Japanese prison.