for Japanese Studies, Center for Indian Studies, etc.). Some departments conduct research on problems of the Orient (in particular, the Center for Energy and Transport Studies, etc.). The institute's depositories contain ancient books and manuscripts, exceeding one million volumes. Conferences of the institute include: Rerikhovskie chteniya (Roerich's Readings), on historical, cultural and religious problems of countries of Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent, Problems of modern Iran, The society and state in China, Annual conference of Arabists, Australia and Oceania: history and modernity, Russia and the Orient: problems of interaction, In 2004 the Institute of Oriental Studies organized the International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS XXXVII). The institute develops contacts with the Indian Council for Social Sciences Researches and with some universities of India, with the International Association for Mongol Studies as well as with the scientific and non-governmental organization of Arab countries (e.g. ALECSO). Institute publishing includes the following: Southeast Asia: current problems of development, Eastern Archives, Epigraphics of the Orient, Japan, Altaica and Irano-Slavica. Vostok/Oriens for specialists, The magazine Asia and Africa Today for the general public, Institute of Africa of the RAS. The institute founded the Oriental University (www.orun.ru), which trains experts in regional studies and orientalists for scientific and teaching work, public service, to work at international organizations and commercial enterprises, etc. The programs of training, textbooks and original methods have been worked out by the scholars of the Institute of Oriental Studies. Internet journal New Eastern Outlook According to its website, this journal primarily focuses on the region from "Japan and the remote coasts of Africa" but also examines events elsewhere "as they relate to the Orient." In 2019, Kevin Poulsen in The Daily Beast accused it of being a source of Russian propaganda and fake news. In 2017, Politico published the titles of some article appearing in New Eastern Outlook: "Ukraine’s Ku Klux Klan — NATO’s New Ally." "Proof: Turkey Did 2013 Sarin Attack and Did This One Too" If NATO wants peace and stability it should stay home" and "Brussels, NATO and the Globalists in Total Disarray." According to the United States Department of State (2020), the journal is a "pillar of Russia's disinformation and propaganda system", which "promotes disinformation and propaganda focused primarily on the Middle East, Asia, and Africa....while also obscuring its links to state-funded institutions." Articles from New Eastern Outlook have been published by the American conspiracy