Dialogue of Cultures under Globalization. Vol. 1: Proceedings of the 12th International Likhachov Scientific Conference, May 17–18, 2012

The book presents the proceedings of the 12th International Likhachov Scientific Conference that is due to take place on May 17–18, 2012 at St. Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences in accordance with the Decree of President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin ‘On perpetuating the memory of D. S. Likhachov’.
The authors are prominent Russian and foreign scholars, members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Education: A. A. Akayev, U. V. Arutyunyan, O. T. Bogomolov, S. Yu. Glazyev, A. A. Gromyko, A. A. Guseynov, A. S. Zapesotsky, A. B. Kudelin, V. A. Lektorsky, V. L. Makarov, V. V. Naumkin, V. S. Styopin, T. Y. Khabrieva, N. P. Shmelyov and others; heads of research centers, well-known political figures, statesmen and public officials, clerisy representatives: the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. V. Lavrov, Judges of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation G. A. Hajiyev and M. I. Kleandrov, Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation V. Ye. Churov, Deputy Ministers of the Russian Federation A. E. Busygin, G. M. Gatilov and A. L. Safonov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland A. V. Yakovenko, President of the Bar of Moscow H. M. Reznik, writer A. A. Likhanov.
Among foreign guests of the Conference are HRH Michael of Kent (Great Britain), Member of Parliament of India M. M. Joshi, Director of the Secretariat of the Alliance of Civilizations of the United Nations Organization M. Scheuer; representatives of foreign Academies of Sciences: F. Unger – from the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Yu. S. Shemshuchenko – from the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, A. N. Nysanbayev – from the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, V. Prodanov – from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, G. Xing – from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; German political analyst A. Rahr, French slavicist R. Guerra and other outstanding persons.
The papers of the participants of the 12th Likhachov Conference are devoted to the burning issues of the modern age. The role of the Conference was highly estimated by V. V. Putin: ‘The meeting devoted to the dialogue of cultures and partnership of civilizations will become another step in the development of inter-faith and interethnic communication, will promote the rapprochement of peoples’.