1995, July-August. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale , College of Liberal Arts. Carbondale, Illinois, USA. Summer Institute in the American Political System, sponsored by the United States Information Agency. Certificate of Attendance.

1991. Diploma with Honors (MA level). Department of History, Volgograd State University. American History Major. Volgograd, Russia.

1990, Fall. Department of History, Kent State University. Kent, Ohio, USA. Exchange student. Certificate of Attendance.

Administrative Employment

2002 – 2003. Vice Rector for International Programs, Volgograd State University;

2000 – 2002. Head of the Chair of Area Studies and International Relations, Volgograd State University;

1999-2000, 1996-1997. Acting Head of the Chair of Area Studies and International Relations, Volgograd State University;

1996 – 2000. Responsible Secretary of Editorial Board, Journal Vestnik Volgogradskogo Universiteta (Volgograd University Bulletin);

1995 – 1998. Deputy Dean, Department of History and Philosophy, Volgograd State University.

2001, September. Acting Chairman of Organizing Committee, Conference “10 Years of Commonwealth of Independent States”, Volgograd State University and Russian International Studies Association.

2001, June. Chairman of Organizing Committee, Annual conference of the Kennan Institute Russian Alumni Association.

1998. Member of Organizing Committee, Seminar on Teaching American Studies in Russian schools and universities";

1997. Member, Acting Chairman of Organizing Committee, International Academic Conference "Russia and countries of American continent: the Experience of Historical Relationship".

Academic Employment

1995 – present. Associate Professor, Volgograd State University, Chair of Area Studies and International Relations.

October 2001 – June 2002. Visiting Fulbright Scholar, History Department, Dartmouth College.

1994 – 1995. Assistant Professor, Volgograd State University, Chair of Modern and Contemporary History.

1994, Spring. Research Fellow, Moscow State University, Chair of Modern and Contemporary History.

1991 – 1994. Teaching Assistant, Volgograd State University, Chair of Modern and Contemporary History.

1995 – present. Research Fellow, Center for American Studies Americana, Volgograd State University.

Additional employment

1997 – 2001. Volgograd correspondent of East West Institute Russian Regional Report, New York – Moscow;

1999 – October 2001. Regional program coordinator, Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), Volgograd and Astrakhan regions;

1997-1997, 1998-1999. Head of grant project, Institute for economic and social research, Volgograd; (Project on NGOs);

Professional Organizations

Russian University Society for American Studies;

Russian International Studies Association (RISA);

Kennan Institute Russian Alumni Association (member of the Council, 1999-2001);

Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), CSIS (Executive Committee, 2002-).

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR);

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR);

Awards and Competitive Grants

2004. November–December. International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) and Canadian Embassy in Russian Federation Faculty Enrichment Program grant (Ottawa, Canada).

2003. October. European Commission TEMPUS-Tacis Individual mobility grant for visit partner universities in Belgium and Austria.

June – July 2002. Short-term grant for research at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

October 2001- June 2002. Fulbright Grant for writing a book on the history of Russian-American Relations in the 19^th century. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

1999. July – August. Open Society Institute – Assistance Foundation (Soros Foundation) grant for participation in the Central European University Summer Seminar “The State of the Art in Historical Studies: Putting Theories into Practices”. Budapest, Hungary.

1999. July. IREX. USIA Alumni Small Grant for Research trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg.

1998. International Council for Canadian Studies (ICCS) Faculty Research Award (Ottawa, Canada).

1998. November. Centre for Research on Canadian-Russian Relations (CRCR) research grant, Carleton University. Ottawa, Canada.

1998. September. Open Society Institute – Assistance Foundation (Soros Foundation) travel grant for participation in Woodrow Wilson Center European Alumni Conference. Krakow, Poland.

1997. September – December. Regional Scholar Exchange Program grant for three-month full-time independent research – Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington, DC.

1997. October – November. Dartmouth College travel grant to Hanover, New Hampshire, to work with the Papers of Daniel Webster.

1995. Diploma and the First Prize, Volgograd Regional Conference and Competition of Young Scholars.

1995. USIA grant for participation in the Summer Institute in the American Political System.

1994. Diploma and the Second Prize, Volgograd Regional Conference and Competition of Young Scholars.

Courses taught

American Foreign Policy from the War for Independence to the Civil War.

Political Geography and Geopolitics.

Sources in Modern History.

Diplomatic History.

US History.

Political System and Government in the USA.

International Relations Theory: Introduction.

Modern History of Europe and America (1871 -- present)

Russian History since Peter the Great;*

Russian History, the 20th Century.*

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*Courses Taught in English for Exchange Students from the USA.

Conferences (where papers were presented):

Russian-American Relations in the Globalization environment: Conference of Kennan Institute Alumni Association, Dobroe, Moscow region, July 2004;

Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Academic Conference, Seattle, University of Washington, May 2004;

“Old” and “New” Borders of Eurasia and North America: Problems of Security and Cooperation. Volgograd, April 2004;

Canada within the North American Community. Volgograd, February 2004;

Newspapers and periodicals as historical sources: Roundtable at Institute of Universal History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, February 2004.

Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Conference, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC, December 2003;

American Studies on the Russian Educational, Academic & Cultural Space. Volgograd, October-November 2003;

Russia and the European Union: Conference of Kennan Institute Alumni Association, Kaliningrad, July 2003;

Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Academic Conference, Moscow, April 2003;

Russian-American Links: 300 years of Cooperation. St. Petersburg, March 2003.

Conflict and Consensus in American History: 6^th Conference of Russian American Studies association, Moscow State University, Moscow, January 2003;

Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Conference, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC, December 2002;

Russia and the East. Volgograd, November 2002;

Problem of 9.11 and Russian-American Relations, Nizhnii Novgorod, September 2002;

Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Academic Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, May-June, 2002;

Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Conference, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, DC, January 2002;

University and Civil Society in Comparative perspective: American and Russian experience: Seminar of Center Americana and “Professionals for Cooperation” association, Volgograd, September 2001;

Russia and the World in the 21^st Century: Conference of Kennan Institute Alumni Association, Volgograd, June 2001;

Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Academic Conference, Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia, May-June 2001;

10 years of Russian Foreign Policy: 1^st Convention of Russian International Studies Association. Moscow, MGIMO, April 2001;

USA: Traditions and Innovations: Conference of Russian University Society for American Studies, Moscow State University, January 2001;

Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Conference, Washington, DC, December 2000;

Russia in the XXI Century: Problems and Prospects: Conference of Kennan Institute Alumni Association, Irkutsk, June 2000;

Volgograd Regional Conferences of Young Scholars, 1994-1996;

Volgograd State University Annual Academic Conferences, 1990-2001;

Russian Federalism according to Putin: East West Institute, Moscow, September 2000

Russia in the 21^st Century: Conference of Kennan Institute Alumni Association, Irkutsk, June 2000;

Second Gorchakov Conference, Moscow State University of International Relations (MGIMO), May 2000;

Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Conference, Washington, DC, May 2000;

History of Russian America: Conference devoted to 200s anniversary of Russian-American Company, Institute of Universal History, Russian Academy of Sciences, September 1999;

Russian Regions: Conference of Kennan Institute Alumni Association, Rostov-na-Donu, July 1999;

Russia and the USA on the Eve of the 21^st Century: Conference of Association Professionals for Cooperation, Ekaterinburg, May 1999;

USA: Development of National Tradition and National Character:

Russian American Studies in the Search of New Approaches: Conference of Russian University Society for American Studies, Moscow State University, June 1997;

Role of Scholars in Building Civil Society: 1^st All-Russian Conference of Alumni of USIS Academic programs, Moscow, May 1996;

Historical Thought in Contemporary Epoch: Conference in Memory of professor V.Kozuchenko, Volgograd State Pedagogical University, April 1996;

Russian History at the Crossroads: Conference in Memory of professor B.Abalikhin, Volgograd State Pedagogical University, May 1995.

Lectures and presentations were also done at:

Laurentian University (Sudbury, Canada) (December 2004)

University of Ottawa, Institute of Canadian Studies (November 2004)

San Diego State University (May 2002)

Harvard University, Davis Center (April 2002)

University of Ottawa, Department of History (October 1998)

Institute for East West Studies, New York City (October 1997)

Kennan Institute of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC (October 1997)

Principal Publications

Monographs:

«Voiti v krug velikih derzhav...»: Daniel Webster i vneshnyaya politika SShA v seredine 19-go veka («Enter the Circle» of Great Powers: Daniel Webster and Foreign Policy of the USA in the Middle of the 19^th Century). Volgograd: Volgograd university press, 1997. - 192 p.

Nekommercheskiy sektor g.Volgograda: Sostoyanie i perspektivy razvitiya (Non-commercial (NGO) sector of Volgograd: Present Conditions and Prospects for Development). Volgograd: Volgograd university press, 1999. - 188 p. (with Irina Kushneruk and Tatiana Kamenskaya).

Rossiya, Velikobritanya i Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki v mezhdunarodnykh otnosheniyakh XIX – nachala XX v.: Spravochno-bibliograficheskoe posobie (Russia, Great Britain, and the United States of America in the International Relations of the 19^th – early 20^th Century: Teaching Guide and Bibliographic Aid) Volgograd State University Press, 1998 (with Alexander I.Kubyshkin).

Articles:

In Russian:

"Daniel Webster i obschestvennoe soznanie amerikantsev 19-go veka" (Daniel Webster and American Public Opinion in the 19th Century) // Problemy vseobschei istorii. Volgograd, 1994. S.89-96.

"K Probleme Kontrolya Zakonodatelnoi Vlasti nad Vneshnei Politikoi (Debaty v Kongresse SShA o Naznachenii M.Van-Burena Poslom v Velikobritanii)" (On the Problem of Control of Legislative over Foreign Policy (Debates in US Congress about the Appointment of M.Van Buren as a Minister to Great Britain)) // Sbornik Nauchnykh Statei Studentov i Molodykh Uchenykh Volgogradskoi oblasti. Volgograd, 1994. S.8-12;

"Amerikanskaya tema v nauchnoi i obschestvennoi deyatelnosti D.I.Kachenovskogo (American Theme in the Academic and Public Activity of D.I.Kachenovskii)" // Amerikanskii ezhegodnik / Annual Studies of America, 1994. Moscow, 1995. S.152-161;

"Ob izdanii klassikov (K vykhodu v svet novogo russkogo perevoda "Demokratii v Amerike" A.Tokvilya)" (On the publication of classics (upon a new translation of Alexis Toqueville's "Democracy in America") // Sbornik trudov moldylh uchenykh i studentov Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Volgograd state university press, 1995;

"Soedinennye Shtaty, Gavayii i Rossiya v seredine 19-go veka" (The United States, Hawaii, and Russia in the Mid-19th Century) // II Mezhvuzovskaya Nauchno-Prakticheskaya Konferentsiya Studentov i Molodykh Uchenykh Volgogradskoi oblasti. Volgograd, 1995. S.160-164;

"Thoughts on Course Selection" // The Role of Scholars in Building Civil Society – Rol’ uchenykh v postroenii grazhdanskogo obschestva. Materialy Pervoi Vserossiiskoi Konferentsii uchastnikov programm obrazovatelnykh obmenov Rossia – SShA. Moscow, 1996. P. 370-373;

"Anglo-Amerikanskii konflikt i rossiiskoe posrednichestvo (1841)" (Anglo-American Tensions and the Attempt of Russian Mediation (1841)) // Americana. Vol.1. Volgograd, 1997; S.16-23;

"Mestnoe samoupravlenie v Soedinennykh Shtatakh Ameriki" (Local Governments in the United States of America) // Kruglyi stol «Aktual’nye problemy formirovaniya politicheskoi sistemy». Informatsionnyi bulleten’ # 1. Volgograd, 1997. S. 9-13;

"K voprosu ob otnoshenii obshestvennosti SShA k Otechestvennoi voine 1812 goda" (On the Problem of American Public Opinion on the Russian Patriotic War of 1812) // Istoriya Rossii: Na perekrestke mnenii. Volgograd, 1997. S. 24-28;

"Amerikanskaya istoriografia vneshney politiki Deniela Uebstera" (American Historiography of the Foreign Policy of Daniel Webster) // Istoricheskaya mysl’ v sovremennuyu epokhu. Volgograd, 1997. S. 150-155;

"Vneshnyaya politika SShA v period krizisa "Venskoi sistemy" mezhdunarodnykh otnoshenii: formirovanie traditsii" (Foreign Policy of the USA during the Crisis of "Vienna System" of International Relations: Shaping a tradition) // SShA: Stanovleniye i razvitie natsionalnoi traditsii i natsionalnogo kharaktera. Moscow University Press, 1999. P.249-257;

"Kanadskoe obschestvennoe mnenie v seredine 19 veka ob anneksii Kanady Soedinennymi Shtatami” (Canadian Public Opinion in the middle of the 19^th Century on Annexation of Canada by the United States) // Americana. Vol.4. Volgograd, 2000 S. 247-259.

“Voennyi, agronom, diplomat: Charlz Stuart Todd i ego missiya v Rossii (1841-1846 gg.)” (Military man, Agronomist, Diplomat: Charles Stewart Todd and His Mission to Russia (1841-1846)) // Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Ser. 4: Istoriya. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniya. Vyp. 6. 2001. P. 86-98;

“Delo Dartmutskogo kolledzha (Dartmutskii kolledzh protiv Vudvorda)” (Dartmouth College Case (Dartmouth College vs Woodward)) // Americana, Vol. 5: University and Civil Society. Volgograd, 2002. S. 103-108.

“Spory o vneshnei politike SShA v nachale 40-kh godov XIX v.: J.Tyler and D.Webster (Arguments about foreign policy of the USA in early 1840s: J.Tyler and D.Webster)” // Voprosy istorii. 2002. # 10. S. 118-130.

“Vzglyad na Rossiyu v seredine 19 veka: Amerikanskie poslanniki Charlz Todd i Neil Braun (Look on Russia in the Middle of the 19^th century: American Ministers Charles S. Todd and Neill Brown)” // Problema “My – Drugie” v kontekste istoricheskogo i kul’turnogo opyta SShA. Moscow, 2002. S. 196-201.

“Charlz Stuart Todd – amerikanskii poslannik v Rossii (Charles Stuart Todd – American Minister to Russia) (1841-1846)” // Russkoe otkrytie Ameriki: Sbornik statei, posviaschenny 70-letiyu akademika Nikolaya Nikolaevicha Bolkhovitinova. Moscow, 2002. S. 267-279.

“Amerikanskie diplomaty 1840-kh godov o Rossiiskoi imperii” (American diplomats of 1840-s about Russian Empire) // SShA. Kanada: ekonomika, politika, kul’tura. 2003. # 3. S. 72-86.

“SShA i vostochnaya politika Rossii v seredine 19 veka” (USA and Russia’s Eastern Policy in the Middle of the 19^th Century) // Rossiya i Vostok: Problemy vzaimodeistviya. Volgograd, 2003. S. 43-58.

“Canadian Rebellion of 1837-1838 and Russian-American Relations” // Representations of Canada: Cross-cultural Reflections on Canadian Society. Vol.2. Volgograd, 2003. S. 24-33;

“Looking into Janus’s Face: US Public Opinion and Eastern Policy of Russian Empire on the Eve and during the Crimean War” // “The Problem 9.11” and the US-Russian Relations. Nizhnii Novgorod, 2003. S. 146-153.

“Nauka, natsionalnaya mifologiya i konstruirovanie identichnosti: razmyshlenia nad shkolnym uchebnikom istorii” (Academia, “national mythology”, and identity construct: reflections on school history textbook) // Vestnik Instituta Kennana v Rossii. 2003. Vyp. 4. S. 43-48.

«Tsaritsyn – Stalingrad – Volgograd» // Vozvraschennye imena: identichnost’ I kul’turnyi capital pereimenovannyh gorodov Rossii (Returned Names: Identities and Cultural Capital of Russian renamed cities) / Ed. Andrey Makarychev. Nizhnii Novgorod, 2004. S. 101-106.

“Simvolicheskaya bitva za Stalingrad v sovremennoy Rossii” (Symbolic Battle for Stalingrad in Contemporary Russia) // Stalingradskaya bitva: Sobytie. Vozdeistvie. Simvol. (Stalingrad Battle: Event. Impact. Symbol). Volgograd, 2004. S. 50–57.

“SShA i Krymskaya Voina: Uroki dlya Rossii” (USA and Crimean War: Lessons for Russia) // Mir I Rossiya na poroge XXI veka. Moscow, 2001.S. 452-456. (Also available at: http://www.risa.ru/publications/gorchakov/kurilla.rtf )

“Volgogradskaya oblast’ mezhdu geografiei I politikoi” (Volgograd Region: Between Geography and Politics) // Vneshnie sviazi rossiiskikh regionov. Moscow, 2001. S. 86-90. (Also available at: http://www.risa.ru/publications/convent/kurilla.rtf).

“Tehnicheskoe sotrudnichestvo SShA I Rossii vo vtoroy treti XIX veka” (“Technical cooperation between the USA and Russia in the second third of the 19^th Century”) // Americana. Vol. 6. “American Studies” v rossiyskom nauchnom, uchebnom I kulturnom prostranstve (“American Studies” in Russian scientific, educational and cultural area). Volgograd, 2004. S. 53-80.

“Evropa mezhdu Rossiey I Amerikoy: XIX vek” (“Europe between Russia and America: The 19^th Century”) // Rossiya I Evropeiskii Soyuz. Moscow, 2004. S. 59–64.

“Soedinennye Shtaty I Rossiyskaya imperiya v period evropeiskih revolyutsii 1848–1849 godov” (“The United States and Russian Empire during the Period of European Revolutions, 1848–1849”) // Amerikanskii ezhegodnik (American Yearbook), 2002. Moscow, 2004. S. 199-214.

“Dmitrii Kachenovskii i Andrew White: “ezopov yazyk”, tsenzura i samotsenzura v Rossii i SShA v seredine XIX v.” (“Dmitrii Kachenovskii and Andrew White: “Aesopian Language”, Censorship and Self-Censoring in Russia and USA in the Middle of the 19^th Century”) // Konflikt i konsensus v amerikanskom obschestve: teoriya I praktika. Moscow, 2004. S. 337-343.

“Proryv k sotrudnichestvu: 1840-e gody kak povorotnyi period v russko-amerikanskikh otnosheniayakh” (“Breakthrough to Cooperation: 1840s as the turning point in Russian-American relations”) // Rossiisko-amerikanskie svyazi: 300 let sotrudnichestva (Russian-American Links: 300 years of cooperation) / Ed. Yurii P. Tret’yakov. St. Petersburg, 2004. S. 193–210.

“Rossiya na stranitsakh amerikanskikh zhurnalov 1840-1850-kh godov” (Russia on the Pages of American Magazines of 1840-1850s”) // Amerkanskaya problematika v periodike XVIII – XX vv. (Problems of America in the Periodicals of the 18-19^th Centuries) / Ed. Vadim A. Koleneko. Moscow, 2004. S. 106–122.

“Nash estestvennyi soyuznik i zaschitnik”: Neizvestnyi epizod iz istorii otnoshenii Rossii so stranami Tsentral’noy Ameriki” (“Our natural ally and protector”: Unknown episode from the History if Russian Relations with the Countries of Central America) // Latinskaya Amerika / America Latina. 2004. # 11. S. 95–98 (with Alexander Kubyshkin).

"Geopolitika i Kommunizm" (Geopolitics and Communism) // Russkii Zhurnal / Russian Journal (http://www.russ.ru/journal/edu/99-02-23/kuril.htm). February 23, 1999;

"Volgograd: Portret goroda" (Volgograd: A portrait of the City) // Russkii Zhurnal / Russian Journal (http://www.russ.ru/journal/okrest/99-03-24/kuril.htm) . March 24, 1999;

"Volgogradskaya oblast: Mayatnik smeschaetsa vpravo" (Volgograd Region: Pendulum is shifting rightward // Golos Rossii. #7. November 1999;

"Volgogradskaya oblast: Pozelenenie "Krasnogo Poyasa"" (Volgograd Region: "Red Belt" is Turning Green") // Golos Rossii. #1 (8). January 2000;

In English:

"Southern Russia: The Heartland or Russia’s Soft Underbelly?" PONARS Policy Memo #120 // Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Conference Briefing Book. Washington DC, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, May 5, 2000.

Commentary on an article: Jason Kendall Moore. "Between Expediency and Principle: U.S. Repatriation Policy toward Russian Nationals, 1944-1949", Diplomatic History, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Summer 2000) // H-DIPLO: H-NET List for Diplomatic History / DH Article Discussions. 31 July 2000;

"Gubernatorial Elections in the Volgograd Region: Do They Matter?" PONARS Policy Memo #158 // Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Conference Briefing Book. Washington DC, Council on Foreign Relations, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, December 8, 2000.

“Uryupinsk: civil activism without NGOs: Communist party as a Civil Society substitute” PONARS Policy Memo #222 // Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Policy Conference. Washington DC, Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 25, 2002.

“Civil Activism without NGOs: The Communist Party as a Civil Society Substitute” // Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization. Vol. 10, # 3. Summer 2002. P. 392-400.

“Who is at the Gate? The Symbolic Battle of Stalingrad in Contemporary Russia” // Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Policy Conference. Washington DC, Center for Strategic and International Studies, December 6, 2002. Policy Memo #268. P. 123-127.

“New Round of Elections in Russia in Russia: New People, New Technologies… No Choice?” // Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Policy Conference. Washington DC, Center for Strategic and International Studies, December 12, 2003. Policy Memo #295. P. 23-27.

“The Last Governor: Regional Elites, Civil Society, and the Future of the Russian State as Seen through the Volgograd Gubernatorial Elections of December 2004” // Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Policy Conference. Washington DC, Center for Strategic and International Studies, February 4, 2005. Policy Memo No.336. P. 67–72.

Articles for East West Institute Russian Regional Report including:

"Cautious Start Works Well For New Volgograd Governor" // Institute for East – West Studies. Russian Regional Report: A weekly survey of political, economic, and social trends in the 89 regions of Russian Federation. Vol. 2. No. 34 (October 9, 1997);

"New Volgograd Bridge Could Stimulate Trade Between Central Asia, Europe" // IEWS. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 2. No. 40 (November 20, 1997);

"Yeltsyn Seeks Symbolically Important Stalingrad from Opposition" // IEWS. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 3. No. 3. New York, January 22, 1998;

"Volzhskii’s Besieged Communist Mayor Fails to Fix City Economy, Scares Foreign Investors" // IEWS. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 3. No. 5. New York, February 5, 1998;

"Oil, Gas Output Set to Increase in Volga Region" // IEWS. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 3. No. 8. New York, February 26, 1998;

"Astrakhan, Kalmykiya Seek to Cash in on Caspian Trade" // IEWS. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 3. No. 11. New York, March 19, 1998;

"Young Ideologues Pursue Different Paths in Volgograd" // IEWS. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 3. No. 18. New York, May 7, 1998.

"Volgograd Residents Reject Chernomyrdin, Face Rising Prices" // IEWS. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 3. No. 35, New York, 01 September, 1998.

"Volgograd: Officials, Consumers Deal with Consequences of Panic" // IEWS. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 3. No. 37, New York, 17 September, 1998.

"Volgograd Considers Returning Stalin to its Name" // IEWS. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 3. No. 40, New York, 08 October, 1998.

"Communists Gain Control of Volgograd Legislature" // IEWS. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 3. No. 50, New York, 17 December, 1998.

"New Manager Revives Volgograd Metals Plant" // East West Institute. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 4. No. 3. New York, 28 January 1999.

"Belarus Seeks to Restore Trade Links with Russian Regions" // EWI. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 4. No. 5. New York, 11 February 1999.

"Resurrection of Volgograd Aluminium Plant Hurts Environment" // East West Institute. Russian Regional Investor. Vol. 1. No. 8. New York, 04 March 1999.

"Volgograd Mayor Seeks Allies in Fight with Communists" // EWI. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 4. No. 10. New York, 18 March 1999.

"Volgograd: A Communists-Controlled Crossroads (Interview with Volgograd Oblast Duma Speaker Viktor Pripisnov)" // EWI. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 4. No. 11 New York, 25 March 1999.

"Volzhskii Mayor Scores Come Back" // EWI. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 4. No. 12. New York, 1 April 1999.

"Organized Poaching Threatens Volga Fish Stock" // EWI. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 4. No. 14. New York, 15 April 1999.

"NATO Bombing Postpones Commemoration of German Dead in Volgograd" // EWI. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 4. No. 15. New York, 21 April 1999.

"Belarus’s Lukashenka Visits Volgograd" // EWI. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 4. No. 18. New York, 12 May 1999.

"Yabloko, Otechestvo to Cooperate in Volgograd" // EWI. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 4. No. 21. New York, 3 June 1999.

"Russia Continues to Rely on Foreign Buses" // EWI. Russian Regional Investor. Vol. 1. No. 22. New York, 10 June 1999.

"Volgograd Local Elections Set Stage for Duma Elections" // EWI. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 4. No. 31. New York, 19 August 1999.

"Volgograd Oblast Leadership Hopes to Cut Deal with Gazprom" // EWI. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 4. No. 39. New York, 21 October 1999.

"Volgograd December 2000 Gubernatorial Elections Unchanged" // EWI. Russian Regional Report Vol. 5. No. 2, New York, 20 January 2000.

"Putin Courts Patriotic Populace in Volgograd" // EWI. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 5. No. 7, New York, 24 February 2000.

"Volgograd: Governor Unhappy To Be Lumped In Caucasus District" // EWI. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 5. No. 20, New York, 24 May 2000.

"Explosion In Volgograd Threatens Inter-Ethnic Peace" // EWI. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 5. No. 23, New York, 14 June 2000.

"Gubernatorial Campaign In Volgograd In Full Swing" // EWI. Russian Regional Report. Vol. 5, No. 32, New York, 7 September 2000.

“Air Bombings Strike Volgograd Elite” // Russian Regional Report. Vol. 9, No. 16, 9 September 2004.