No 3 (2016)

The author reveals the basic provisions of the ideology of the "Third Position" in the Indonesian political leadership model. By the end of the 50's Sukarno completed the formation of the doctrine of the "Third Position ". Analyzing the current political model, Sukarno appealed to the identity, rejecting capitalism that generates colonialism and fascism. He rejected, first of all, the very psychological foundation of liberal capitalism - individualism, the guiding to the competition and struggle, and therefore unacceptable to Indonesia concept of "Third Position". Sukarno meant building a socio-economic model of traditional, patriarchal and egalitarian society based on the principle of community solidarity and mutual assistance. The main element of the social model, according to Sukarno thought, was the family as the center of solidarity, led by the patriarch, the head of the family. The principle of family has been moved Sukarno all Indonesian society. Sukarno himself became father of the nation, to decide for all, in the name of all. The thesis of this period "The main thing in our democracy is a governance ''

The author of the article looks into the problem of the contribution made by the Executive Committee of the Communist International to Radio Moscow official broadcasting to Francoist Spain in September 1939 - June 1941. Firstly, he analyzes how Radio Moscow organized broadcasting to Spain in this period, what sort of people worked in the Spanish language editorial office of Radio Moscow and what informational materials they needed to perform. Secondly, the author examines how the ECCI organized radio propaganda within its apparatus. Basing on the analyses’ results, the author makes it clear that the Executive Committee of the Communist International provided Radio Moscow with native Spanish-speaking staff, as well as with the corresponding informational materials, radio news, articles etc.

The article investigates the important historical problem that scientists are engaged in almost two centuries - the origin and composition of the Oirats. Recent discovered sources suggest the presence in the mid. XV - the mid. XVIII centuries of three Oirat groups, successively replaced one another. The author, basing on known and newly discovered sources, recent researches, studies the composition of the earliest Oirats and underlines their Turkic and Mongolian origin as essential for understanding of the subsequent history of this nation. In our opinion, the earliest Oirats had been a confederation of four groups of Mongol and Turkic tribes, approximately comparable to the four main nomadic groups pointed out by Rashid-al-Din. The unique political position and influence of Oirats during the Mongol period has allowed them to maintain their identity until XVIII century.

The article is devoted to the People’s Republic of China “soft power” policy. The author holds a historical analysis of appearance of China's foreign policy vector, which is based on tradition and "Eastern" specificity. Nowadays China’s role at the region and international level is very significant, it is linked to the country opinion in the settlement of international conflicts, decision of the global problems, participation in various scale’s events. Over the 66 years of the People's Republic of China’s existence the country has shown itself in many areas: economic, political, humanitarian, social, financial and others. The author emphasizes that nowadays the Chinese image policy is one of the most urgent and popular. The Government of China created a platforms for the implementation of the “soft power” policy to abroad - it's Confucius Institutes, Chinese cultural centers and others. The governance of China actively leads the "soft power" in the implementation of domestic and foreign policy of the state.

The present article contains a reproduction and a full translation of hieroglyphic inscriptions on 4 stelae from the lost tomb of general Kasa at Saqqara (XIX Dyn.). The publication of inscriptions on the stelae includes a short description of images and sacred symbols carved on them. The spells inscribed on these stelae are mainly the extracts from Chapter 151 of the Book of the Dead. The unique peculiarity of stelae is the shallow niches carved in the form of objects intended for the magical protection of the dead in his tomb: a mummyform figurine, a torch, a statuette of a jackal Anubis and a djed-pillar. The author touches also a question of the stelae original location inside the tomb itself. As the present location of Kasa’ tomb is unknown the layout of stelae in the tomb’s decoration program remains hypothetical. The comparison with private funeral complexes of the New Kingdom in Thebes and Memphis let us to state that the stelae of Kasa are an ensemble which has not known parallels.