European almanac. Story. Traditions. Culture. 2006

The next release of the almanac is devoted to the problems of neutrality in the foreign policy of Spain and Belgium during the First and Second World War, confessional issues in interstate relations. The activities of Russian diplomacy in the Holy Land in the first half of the 19th century are considered, as well as the role of the Vatican in a failed attempt to conclude a dynastic marriage between the Romanovs and the Habsburgs. The relations of Russia and Austria-Hungary in the Balkans at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, the image of Russia in the process of forming national identity among the Germans, the position of the USSR on the issue of European integration in the 60-70s of the XX century. It is assessed by Soviet diplomacy the role of de Gasperi in the turn of Italy to the West. For specialist historians and a wide range of readers