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VLADIVOSTOK-2012: APEC MEASUREMENTS

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:45:00 +0600

S. G. LUZYANIN, Doctor of Historical Sciences Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences APEC Key words: 2012, basic principles of the Forum, APEC priorities and objectives. APEC's energy and transport dimension. positions and role of leading countries participating in the Forum The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, which ended on September 9, 2012, on the island of Russian (Vladivostok) confirmed the basic principles and priorities of the Forum - development of regional integration, economic liberalization, reduction of trade and customs tariffs, etc. They were a red thread running through most of the speeches of state leaders. Russian President Vladimir Putin, linking the traditional Bogor principles of APEC with the ongoing processes of adaptation to the WTO regime in Russia, noted the importance of dialogue between major integration structures. He highlighted the Eurasian integration vector, the convergence of APEC economies through the Common Economic Space (CES) and the Customs Union (CU) of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus with the European Union as key. The Russian leader thus managed to shift the Forum's attention from the US Pacific Integration plan on strengthening the Trans-Pacific Partnership (Honolulu, 2011) to the advantages of this (Eurasian) integration route, using trade and transport routes, the common customs space of the three countries (Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus), as well as the opportunities of the Trans-Siberian Railway, BAM and Northern Sea Route. sea route. A BIT OF HISTORY In 1965, Japanese economist Kiyoshi Kojima proposed the creation of a Pacific Free Trade Zone with the participation of industrialized and growing countries in the region. In August 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was formed as part of Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines (currently it includes 10 States). ASEAN became the first integration group. In those years, ASEAN was mainly engaged in politic ... Read more

BERBER ANTHOLOGY-A COLLECTION OF WORKS BY RUSSIAN, AFRICAN AND FRENCH SCIENTISTS

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:43:00 +0600

In recent years, in the age of globalization, as the antithesis of it, interest in the national and traditional cultures of peoples of various countries and continents has been revived. Such a public request is intended to satisfy such studies, which include the peer-reviewed work " Berber Anthology. Cultural anthropology and samples of Tuareg folklore" (Moscow, IVRAN, 2012, 310 p.), prepared by S. V. Prozhogina, Doctor of Philology. This work is another stone in the foundation of a building that recreates the rich and diverse culture of the Maghreb Berbers. This is the result of many years of research conducted by the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Published in 2001-2005. several volumes of the Berber Anthology (Folklore and Literature of the Kabyles of Algeria, Folklore and Literature of the tribes of the Moroccan Reef) This publication is supplemented with information about the cultural anthropology and folklore of the Tuareg people who roam the territories adjacent to Morocco and Algeria. As you know, to understand modern African problems, it is necessary to carefully and with the greatest tact delve into the history of the studied people, especially their traditional culture and mentality, that is, to understand them as they really are, and not in the mythologized imagination of a European. This is exactly the way the anthology compiler goes. In the reviewed book " the reader will get acquainted with the specifics of the social structure of different tribes, their customs, customs, their daily life, with the peculiarities of their culture, crafts, and samples of oral folk art, first presented in translations into Russian. There is a difficult but necessary route ahead <...> to that still completely "unknown" world, although it really exists within the limits of the possibilities to open the veil of its amazing existence " (p. 4). This work is valuable for us because it is the first time that texts that were not previousl ... Read more