Foreign policy at the service of modernisation: old wine in a new wineskin. OSW Commentary No. 39, 2010-08-31

Russia’s contacts with the external world over the past year have been characterised by a gradual improvement in its relations with the West, as well as the use of non-confrontational rhetoric, the most far-reaching example of which was the address President Dmitri Medvedev gave to Russian ambassadors this July. In an attempt to harmonise foreign policy with the widely propagated programme for the modernisation of Russia1 President Medvedev presented a vision of the Russian Federation as a responsible global power which is open to co-operation. According to this vision, Russian foreign policy would help to attract foreign investments and technologies. The West was presented as a partner, not a rival. Both this rhetoric and the atmosphere of co-operation in relations with the USA and the EU contrast with the assertive and aggressive Russian policy which was symbolised by and culminated in the Russian-Georgian conflict of 2008. The changes observed in Russian foreign policy are quite limited, and are not constructing a new external strategy. Those changes are rather an attempt to find more efficient ways to implement old strategic goals. The new image of a responsible global power is inconsistent, and Russian policy is still assertive and geopolitically motivated. Although a new rhetoric is really in place, the Russian political elite’s perception of their country’s place and role in the contemporary international order remains unchanged. Moscow’s readiness to become engaged in genuine co-operation with the West has not increased significantly; it is still to a great extent declarative in nature.

An examination of Dr. Tyler's Vindication of his "Strictures" on the Christian Spectator.

Evangelus Pacificus [pseud.] is identified as Rev. Hubbard Winslow in Franklin B. Dexter's Biographical sketches of the graduates of Yale College, v. 5, New Haven, 1911, p. 721, and in William Cushing's Initials and pseudonyms, v. 2, Waltham, Mass., 1963, p. 303.

Realʹnai︠a︡ ėnt︠s︡iklopedīi︠a︡ medit︠s︡inskikh nauk : mediko-khirurgicheskīĭ slovarʹ /

Includes index.

Political writings.

v. 1. England, Ireland and America, 1835. Russia, 1836. 1793 & 1853 [in three letters]--v. 2. Letter to Henry Ashworth. How wars are got up in India. The origin of the Burmese War. What next - and next? [Russian War] The three panics; an historical episode.

Nastolʹnyĭ slovarʹ dli︠a︡ spravok po vsi︠e︡m otrasli︠a︡m znanīi︠a︡. (Spravochnyĭ ėnt︠s︡iklopedicheskīĭ leksikon) v III tomakh.

Vol. 3, "Sostavlennyĭ pod redakt︠s︡ěi︠u︡ V.P. Zotova i F. Tolli︠a︡."

Russkai︠a︡ myslʹ i rechʹ svoe i chuzhoe ; opytʹ russkoĭ frazeologii; sbornikʹ obraznykhʹ slovʹ i inoskazaniĭ

"Udostoeno Imperatorskoĭ akademieĭ naukʹ premii mitropolita Makarii︠a︡."

A method for determining virus on surfaces contaminated by virus aerosols,

Translated from: Gigiyena i Sanitariya (Hygiene and Sanitation), Russian, December 1968, pp. 60-64.

Bolʹshai︠a︡ ėnt︠s︡iklopedīi︠a︡ : slovarʹ obshchedostupnykh svi︠e︡di︠e︡nīĭ po vsi︠e︡m otrasli︠a︡m znanīi︠a︡ /

t. 1. A-Arbos.--t. 2. Arbua de Zhi︠u︡bėnvilʹ-Bellingsgauzen.--t. 3. Belling-Bugulʹnik.--t. 4. Buguruslanskīĭ ui︠e︡zd-Vizantīĭskoe pravo.--t. 5. Vizantīi︠a︡-Gadames.--t. 6. Gadanīe-Glazchatka.--t. 7. Glaz-Gi︠u︡go.--t. 8. Gi︠u︡gs-Dukhovenstvo.--t. 9. Dukhovenstvo-Idskoe pole.--t. 10. Idumėi︠a︡-Kitchener.--t. 11. Kity-Landana.--t. 12. Landau-Melamed.--t. 13. Melanezīĭt︠s︡y-Nerchinskīĭ zavod.--t. 14. Nerchinskīĭ okrug-Pench.--t. 15. Penʹka-Pulʹ.--t. 16. Pulʹ-Salʹ.--t. 17. Salʹvador-Statistika.--t. 18. Statistika-Undozero.--t. 19. Undolʹskīĭ-Chakhary.--t. 20. Chakhotka legkikh-V.--t. 21. (Dopolnitelʹnyĭ) Aanrud-Menger.--t. 22. (Dopolnitelʹnyĭ) Mendelʹson-Ḟrazibul.

Ėnt︠s︡iklopedicheskīĭ slovarʹ, podʺ red I. E. Andreevskago.

Portretnai︠a︡ gallerei︠a︡ redaktorovʺ i sotrudnikovʺ 'Ėnt︠s︡iklopedicheskago slovari︠a︡'": v. 41 at end.

Ėnt︠s︡iklopedicheskīĭ slovarʹ.

Edited by K. K. Arsenʹev and V. T. Shevi︠a︡kov.

Ėnt︠s︡iklopedicheskīĭ slovarʹ

"Portretnai︠a︡ gallerei︠a︡ redaktorov i sotrudnikov 'Ėnt︠s︡iklopedicheskago slovari︠a︡'": v. 41, at end.