What American president and when noted that the main enemies of free world became uncertainty, unpredictability and instability? How serious are the contradictions between the United States and the unifying Europe? Whether they are a natural result of tendencies, which ripened during the 20th century, or represent a rather new phenomenon? However seriously do they threaten the unity of Western Civilization? Under what script will transatlantic relations develop in the nearest decades? With what measures was the American economic growth stimulated in 1990's years? What debt "records" were set by the U.S.A. by the end of the 20th century? On the basis of what reasons it is possible to assert that de facto the United States have neither foreign trade, nor external loans? Whether the United States have to humble themselves to much more modest positions in world financial sphere, rather than that they were so habitual to. Whether the United States will encounter in the European Union a much more dangerous contestant, than the USSR or Japan had been for them before? Why does the social inequality in the United States grow and grow? What does the concept "working poor" mean? How far do the USA lag behind the Western Europe in social insurance and welfare? What are the comparative shares of social expenses to GNP in the Great Britain, Germany, France, and the U.S.A.? Whether it is possible to consider America as a vanguard of social progress?

What place in the world do the United States occupy by population? How did the American population grow during the 20th century? How has the baby-boom affected the demographic situation in the modern United States?. What a role has the immigration played in demographic shifts in the U.S.A.? When in the U.S. were carried out the first actual and the first official population censuses? With what regularity are censuses carried out in the U.S.A.? What statistical data can be found in the American censuses? When was the Bureau of the Census formed? How do the most of Americans relate to censuses? How many copyists have been involved in the 2000 Census? How many questions should have answered every respondent? In what languages were the questionnaires prepared? How did the American population grow in ten years from 1990 to 2000? Where was the fastest increase in population observed? What state is the most populated? What demographic tendency dominates in the American capital - Washington, D.C.? What is the ratio between the males and females in the U.S.A.? What age group is the most numerous? What is the racial and ethnic structure of American population? What a principle operates at distribution of places in the House of Representatives and how the representation in this Chamber of various states has changed as a result of the 2000 Census? What main tendencies of the last decades has the 2000 Census confirmed?

Into what three periods it is possible to subdivide the American politics in the Central Asia in 1990's? What foreign policy tasks concerning the Central Asia have been formulated at the Hearings before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives in July, 2001? What cardinal changes has undergone the American politics in the Central Asia after terrorist attacks on September, 11, 2001? To what conclusion have come the U.S. concerning the threat to their national security from the countries where the central governments do not supervise the territory, traffic in arms and drugs, and also do not interfere, or can not interfere, with extremist activity? What main threats to stability in the Central Asia do the United States see? What problems can the U.S. solve, using military bases in Tadjikistan, Kirghizia and Uzbekistan? What are the American plans concerning the future use of military bases, Manas in Kirghizia and Hanabad in Uzbekistan? Whether they will substitute the American bases in Saudi Arabia? Whether Americans can ignore the interests and intentions in the Central Asia of Russia and/or the Chinese People's Republic? Whether the American politics of stabilization in the Central Asia (including Afghanistan and Pakistan) answers to the interests of Russia and/or the Chinese People's Republic? Whether the cooperation of Russia and the U.S. in a struggle against terrorism means concurrence of interests of these two countries in other areas?

Following materials are also published in this issue:

• Korneyev A.V. U.S. Federal Energy Subsidies
• Nuclear Threat Initiative. Conference in Moscow. Speech by Richard Lugar. Speech by Sam Nunn.
• Lutov A.A. Trade Unions and the George W. Bush Administration
• Nelson Daniel. Europe versus America
• Vladimirova M.A. Immigration in Canada: Legislation and Policy
• Cherniakov B.A. U.S. Largest Agricultural Enterprises (conclusion)