How far had the Russian-American relations advanced after the change of leadership in both Russia and the U.S. in 2000, and before the terrorist attacks on September 11?

Whether it is possible to speak about coming of new period in the international relations after terrorist attacks in New York and Washington?

Whether the U.S.A. are interested in support and even participation of Russia in the creation of international antiterrorist coalition?

Why can the principally new period of relations between Russia and the United States begin?

What fears exist in Russia in connection with the creation by the U.S. of their bases in the Central Asian republics?

What factors will play a determining role in development of cooperation of two countries?

Whether Russia and the U.S.A. can define the strategy of their combined actions for a perspective?

Whether the United States will refuse double standards in their approach to terrorism?

What was the Bush administration answer to the intention of Moscow to liquidate her military bases on Cuba and in Vietnam?

In light of American intention to withdraw from the ABM Treaty is there a possibility to achieve the new agreement on strategic offensive armaments (SALT-3)?

What differences exist between the Russian Federation and the United States in connection with NATO expansion?

What problems arise in connection with the reception of Russia in WTO?

Whether it will be possible to embody all the capabilities of Russian-American constructive interaction in real mechanisms of cooperation, partnership and alliance?

When was the very first documented contact of outstanding representatives of both Russia and America held, and who represented each of two sides?

What practical steps to learn more abour Northern America were attempted by Peter the Great and Catherine II?

How can one characterize the Russian-American relations in the period which separated the Catherine II epoch from the reign of Alexander II?

On what part of Pacific coast did Russians succeeded to settle in the beginning of XIX century?

What was the impact of democratic ideas incorporated in American Constitution on minds of well-educated Russian officers, from which the Decembrists came out?

When in the tsarist encircling was a conviction born in the inevitability of infinite conflicts and enmity with the U.S.A. and England because of Russian land possessions in Northern America?

What extreme views concerning the sale of Alaska were stated in Russia and in the U.S.A.?

What was the so called "passport conflict" and when it did arise?

How the United States always treated the Monro doctrine, professed by themselves?

Why did the U.S.A. take part in armed intervention against Soviet Russia? And how did the American soldiers behave in comparison with other participants of those events?

Who and when has initiated the cold war?

Why in the U.S.A. there always was a great interest and condoling to "the socialistic state of workers and peasants"?

Why did the normalization of Soviet-American relations move slowly and with periodic failures?

When was the peak of Russian-American approach and cooperation achieved?

Who promoted in a decisive degree the success of anti-Hitler coalition?

How many propaganrist cliches (such as "iron curtain", "atomic diplomacy" etc.) can you recall from times of Cold war?

Might one hope that there are more reasons for cooperation between the U.S.A. and Russia, than for confrontation?

Why irrespective of their attitude to the U.S.A. any country in the world must study the American foreign policy?

While studying the American foreign policy, to what moments it is necessary to pay the special attention?

What a role has the American political thought played in the creation of the present global order and its preservation?

Whether the struggle with world terrorism will end with convincing American victory or, to the contrary, as in Vietnam, Washington will appear as a "helpless giant"?

How do the United States realize themselves and their mission, and what do other countries think of it?

When had the tag of "one-sideness" appeared in American foreign policy - before the events of September 11, or after them?

At what a global role does the new American administration aim?

What place in Washington policy do the enforcement and intimidation occupy?

In what degree do the U.S. interests coincide with the interests of the whole mankind, and in what - differ?

What feeds the claims of Washington to govern the world?

What is the main intrigue of the projected tendencies in world policy and of new conflicts which might arise within the framework of global system?

How is the Bush administration going to achieve their purposes?

What is America going to prove to the other world?

What has the Bush administration already achieved in the sphere of foreign policy?

Whether the United States are interested in maintenance of global order stability?

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