title: RUSSIA AND THE WEST: CONFLICT OF INTERESTS OR A NEW COLD WAR?
abstract: The article analyses the relations of Russia with the countries of the West in the transitional period from the Cold War to contemporary world. The author stresses that the transitional period has dragged on due to several reasons. Global chaos has come as a substitute to a relative stability in the Cold War period, and it represents a real threat to universal security. Nobody will say when it has begun, and equally nobody knows when this chaos will end. Here and there the rules of international
journal: Historical and social-educational ideas