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then silver, gold, and other minerals – allowed us to create and equip a powerful army and navy. The caravans of the Northern Silk Road, carrying Chinese goods in exchange for furs to Russia and beyond, played an important role in this. There in Siberia, the Russians, competing and trading, began to work closely with the Central Asians, the ‘Bukharans’ as our people called them at the time.
Siberia powerfully strengthened the best in the Russian character – cultural and national openness, plus willpower,...
... in China.
A new center of economic development will be emerging in Central Eurasia, brought to life by accelerated growth in western provinces of China, Kazakhstan, and Iran, and by the use of labor and natural resources in Central Asian countries. Russia’s Siberia lavishly endowed with industrial potential, natural resources and human capital should play a key, not peripheral, role in this process. But for this to happen, Russia should be viewed not only as a bridge between Europe and Asia (an ancestral ...
... experts-orientalists from leading scientific research centers for study of the economy and policies of Southeast Asian countries. The readings are traditionally dedicated to the memory of Alexander Andreyevich Guber, member of the Academy of Sciences, founder of Russian science in the field of Southeast Asian studies.
The conference was opened by
Mikhail Meyer
, IAAS president, who spoke of the importance of practical approach to the discussion of pressing problems of Southeast Asia’s development stressing ...
