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Global labor migration is the principal tendency of the current economic development. It is conditioned by the fact that in the age of globalization, the specialization of labor is assuming a transnational character. Labor migration is clause and sequence of the global world trade system.

One of the controversial issues in the American cold war studies still remains problem of public opinion importance for the government in its foreign policies making. Historians try to seek answer on the question: was it really so important for the American government to have people’s support of its foreign policy or it was just trying to have good image of themselves in public opinion, or may be something else? The author of this article makes an attempt to answer this question through domestic information campaigns of 1946-1950 analysis.

This article has analysed the portrayal of eastern countries as «another» culture by English travellers. The endeavour was to show what were early modern English perceptions of «Eastern» power. The «backwardness» of the «others» was portrayed in the English travel writings through critical remarks concerning the political system of the eastern countries. English traveller had the same view and thought that eastern cities were rich but they needed a good government.

The article studies the phenomenon of the «last villainge», which was discovered by A.N. Savin at the beginning of the XX century. The author examines the question of differences in the legal and social status of ordinary holders of land and «last villaints» in the XVI c. It introduces certain correction to the understanding of the agrarian peculiarity of England during the period of the capitalism genesis.

This article describe a destiny of Englishman Petre Payne, which leave his native land and settled in Bohemia. After his move he became a participant of Hussits wars.

The article analyses the works of John of Salisbury, a well- educated person, an English diplomat and a writer, who appertains to the outstanding personalities in the history of the medieval political conceptions. Having examined the works of Joann, the author studies his ideas of the royal power origin and functions. The author found out the names of people who John of Salisbury considered to be tyrants and the reasons for that.

The article is devoted to the analysis of Orderick Vitaliy’s story about the death of William the Conqueror (1087) and its importance in the political polemics during the reign of Henry I. The author examines the details of king William the Conqueror’s death, which have provoked a lot of arguments for the last decades, considering a difficult structure of Orderick Vitaliy’s text and taking into account the pragmatics of the period.

The article focuses on one of the main aspects of the formation and development of the AngloSaxon state system – the emergence, essence and evolution of the Royal power from the VII c. till the beginning of the IX century.

The article is devoted to the study of the role and place of Harvard Institute for International Development in the Russian reforms during 1990s and peculiarities of the Institute’s functioning within Harvard University. Besides, the influence of the institute leading persons on the development of the American aid program to Russia and the circumstances of the institute’s liquidation are also studied.

The article deal with the intellectual legacy of the English philosopher, writer and historian William Godwin (1756–1836). His was typical way of English intellectual who had to live through the Enlightenment, the Revolution and Romanticism. The Godwin’s historical ideas are a little known to contemporary academic audience. «History of the Commonwealth of England» of W. Godwin was written in 1824–1828 in the period of the great political crisis. Then British historians look for the answer of the public problem in the past.