In the coming decades in the process of globalization the position of the USA and Europe will weaken, while the role of developing countries will increase. The role of the two largest emerging economies – China and India – will be of special significance. What future will these fast-growing giants face? The demographers agree that pretty soon India will lead the world in population and thus surpass China, while China will encounter serious ageing population problems. But economic and political scenarios of the future are quite different: from resounding success and world leadership to collapse caused by demographic and socio-political troubles. Which of them is more feasible? In the present article I analyze the Chinese and Indian development models separately and comparatively and make a forecast of their perspectives in the twenty-first century. Such an analysis could be helpful for understanding Russia's ways of development.
This Globalizing World / Volgograd: ‘Uchitel’ Publishing House, 2015. – 224 pp.

Dioscorea brandisii Prain et Burkill is reported for the first time from India (Arunachal pradesh). Description with photographs and affinities with close species are provided in this communication.

Russia is the legal successor to the USSR and tends to claim a comparable role and place in the world-order. Yet it has neither the power of its predecessor nor the political will to try and change the rules. The paper describes Russia’s developing nuclear cooperation with India even at the expense of stretching the rules set within the framework of world-order that was created by the Big Five, for the Big Five.