CONTENTS. No 1-2 (21-22), winter-spring, 2007     (pdf, in russian)

I. Federalism and regionalism in multicultural communities

• Anton Bebler. The federalist experience in South-Eastern Europe and post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Leonid Savinov. About social and political risks and the threats connected to unification of subjects of Federation (on example of Ust-Ordynskiy Buryat autonomous region and Irkutsk area)
• Michael Filippov. Fedral bargaing and the problem of credible commitment
• Irina Busygina. Regionalization in the countries of the Western Europe: the Great Britain and France in comparative prospect
• Karl Rainer. The legislation of an independent province South Tyrol
• Jordi Jaria Manzano. The new Charter of Catalonia (An updating of the inserting of Catalonia in Spain)
• Elena Filippova. Interrelations of the state and regions and regional movements in France
• Peter Pashaly. Social and economic, state and legal bases of ethnic and political development of Gagauz in the postSoviet period

II. Theoretical questions in researches of multicultural communities

• Joomart Ormonbekov. The Consociational Theories by A. Lijphart
• Elena Filippova. Concept «ethnie» in the French scientific tradition and its political use
• Vasily Filippov. A patrimonial trauma of the Russian federalism (Again about «the Lenin and Stalin theory of the nation»)