Contents
From the Editor
Forgotten War. The 100th Anniversary of the First World War
Pandora’s Box of the XX-th Century: the First World War
Leongard JJ.Problems of national discourse
Ivonina Olga, Ivonin Yury
Philosophy: problems, approaches, decisions
Kryukov V.V.
Figurovskaya Valentina
Denisova Tatyana
Historical and cultural premises of understanding of Man. From a dancing reed to a thinking reed
Proskurin SergeyThe culture of creativity
Martishina Natalya
Donskikh Oleg
Kirilova A.V.
Economic space of Siberia
RUSSIAN “NEW EASTERN POLICY” AS A RESPONSE TO THE MODERN CHALLENGES
Shmat Vladimir
Economic development of Russia’s eastern territories follows on a fl awed way. The emphasis is on the developing of natural resource potential, which is regarded as our “trump card” in relations with Asia-
Pacifi c countries. Cooperation with China, Russia’s main partner in Asia, yet does not bring adequate benefi ts for our country due to a couple of main reasons: on the one hand, China’s economic expansion
and migration differs opportunistic attitude to Russia’s interests; and on the other, we aren’t quite pragmatic in establishing relationships with Celestial country. There is a real long-term risk of “China threat”, which can be refl ected only by “explosive” economic growth of Transbaikalia and the Far East with a balanced development of the mining and manufacturing sectors. It’s necessary to strive for achievement of the native socio-economic competitiveness of the Russian eastern regions on the basis of internal efficiency. This means a focus on production output with prices that really contain a high proportion of value added.That is only the way to minimize the negative effect caused by the objective factor of remoteness and high transportation costs. A pragmatic approach requires foreign economic cooperation. We must learn to maximize our benefi ts and minimize costs, to achieve the best balance of costs and benefi ts for ourselves. It should be the essence of the Russia’s “new Eastern policy”.