Porazhenie kommunisticheskoy ideologii, padenie sovetskoy vlasti i razval SSSR povlekli za soboy ogromnye izmeneniya v mire. Sootvetstvenno, v znachitelnoy stepeni transformirovalis i nashi predstavleniya o raznoobraznykh yavleniyakh i sobytiyakh deystvi- telnosti. Vo mnogie ponyatiya, pereshedshie k nam iz proshlogo, nynche vkladyvaetsya inoe soderzhanie. V etoy svyazi znachitelnaya chast ponyatiy religiovedcheskoy nauki i drugikh nauchnykh distsiplin, zanimayushchikhsya issledovaniem vzaimodeystviya religii i politiki, nuzhdayutsya v pereosmyslenii. V chastnosti, yavlyaetsya ochevidnym...

The main catalysts for a possible "Central Asian Spring" (in addition to local socio-economic and political distortions) become Afghanistan after the withdrawal ISAF troop of NATO coalition in 2014. Evacuation alliance troops and the coming to power of the Taliban in the Pashtun areas of the Islamic Republic can take depending on the degree of support for President Hamid Karzai's two or three years. While Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan are the weak link in CA already now influence of Islamists and criminal clans, including directly related to Afghan drug trafficking on their territory is extremely...

The territory of Northern Eurasia, Central Asia, Mongolia and Inner Asia, Korea and Japan populated Finno-Ugric and Altaic peoples. These people have a common language structure, mentality and religious worldview. The religious worldview of these people based on Eurasian shamanism. Shamanism includes: 1. The Cult of Heaven (Num-Torum in Finno-Ugric peoples, Tengri in Turkic-Mongol peoples, Shang-Di in the northern Chinese and Manchurs peoples, Korean Shamanism and the Japanese Shinto) 2. The cult of ancestor spirits 3. Animism: the cult of the wolf, the bear, bull .. 4. The cult of nature...