The review is dedicated to the Russian translation of the "Continuation of the Complete Collection of Historical Notes of Dai Viet" (Dai Viet su ky toan thu tuc bien) in 2 volumes, published in 2024-2025. The reconstruction of the text and translation from Han Việt were carried out by A. L. Fedorin, a well-known Russian Vietnamologist and Doctor of Historical Sciences. Fedorin is also the author of research articles, an extensive commentary, and the text is accompanied by appendices that provide additional information about the period described in the chronicle. The publication of the translation introduces a wealth of material into the scientific community, which was analyzed by A.L. Fedorin at a high professional level.
This article analyzes the evolution of Vietnam's strategic thinking from the inception of Doi Moi at the 6th National Congress (1986) to the Party documents of the 14th Congress (2026). It conceptualizes evolution as a long-term transformation of a single policy paradigm within the context of domestic institutional change and international integration. Drawing on a historical-policy analysis of Party documents, state texts, and scholarly works from both domestic and international sources, the study identifies decisive milestones that reshaped policy goals, instruments, and priorities: the stabilization-growth phase (1986-1990); institutionalization and integration (1991-2010); a turn toward sustainable development, innovation, and non-traditional security (2011-2025); and the 2026-2045 vision centering on strategic autonomy and three breakthrough areas - institutions, human capital, and infrastructure. The findings highlight regularities and lessons in renewing leadership thinking and provide a historical-strategic framework useful for policy design and further research.
Marriage is a fundamental social institution that encompasses both legal aspects and profound cultural and moral values. Throughout history, marriage has not only reflected the structural characteristics of society but also embodied prevailing conceptions of family, gender roles, and ethical norms. In recent decades, the values associated with marriage in Vietnam have undergone significant transformations under the influence of globalization, urbanization, digital technology, and intergenerational shifts in thought. This article analyzes the foundational factors that shape traditional Vietnamese marital values, identifies current trends in their transformation, assesses the social impacts of these changes, and proposes strategic solutions aimed at constructing and promoting progressive marital values aligned with the sustainable development goals of contemporary Vietnamese society.
In the context of consumerist societies, minimalism has emerged as a contrasting lifestyle or a reaction to consumption-centric lifestyles. To understand the minimalism practice, this article used secondary document analysis to clarify its structure and indicators. This study proposed a structural approach to minimalism practice in terms of material and non-material aspects, rather than over-focusing on material dimensions and considering non-material ones as a consequence, as in previous studies. Using this comprehensive scale, this research conducted a survey via Google Forms with 196 voluntary respondents who are urban youth living in Hanoi and conducted 10 semi-structured interviews to collect information related to their minimalistic practices. As a result, the most common practices of a minimalistic lifestyle were easily integrated into daily activities such as buying essential products, higher-quality products, tidying up belongings, and regularly cleaning living and working spaces, while other practices were performed less frequently. Overall, Vietnamese urban youth in this study practice non-material minimalist behaviors more than material ones, which is a noteworthy finding of this research.
The Trung Sisters are iconic historical figures in Vietnamese history whose influence on culture and literature has endured to the present. Across different periods, their image has appeared prominently in a wide range of literary genres. This article examines the reception and representation of the Trung Sisters in Vietnamese literature from its beginnings to the mid-twentieth century, focusing on the formation and development of two interrelated discourses: national discourse and personal discourse. The study asks how these discourses emerged and evolved across historical periods, and what social, political, and institutional forces shaped their transformation. It argues that national discourse emerged earlier and developed continuously throughout Vietnamese literary history, while personal discourse appeared later but played a crucial role in renewing the image of the Trung Sisters. From medieval historiography onward, representations of the Trung Sisters were largely framed within national discourse, portraying them as heroic figures, moral exemplars, and symbols of collective resistance. This discourse originated in Confucian historical writing from the fourteenth century and persisted, with variations, across subsequent centuries. By contrast, personal discourse developed more gradually, with early signs appearing in the sixteenth century and becoming more pronounced in the early twentieth century. Over time, literary portrayals of the Trung Sisters shifted from sacred figures toward more humanized representations that emphasized emotion, individuality, and feminine experience. This transformation reflects broader changes in Vietnamese literature, as attention moved from communal and national concerns toward personal narratives and inner life. The article thus demonstrates how evolving national and personal discourses shaped the changing literary image of the Trung Sisters up to 1945.
Aware of the great power of the press, Vietnamese communists always paid attention to press publishing in all circumstances, even when imprisoned in French colonial prisons. Publishing revolutionary newspapers in prisons is an extremely special activity because it not only requires courage but also intelligence and knowlodge. The communist presses in French colonial prisons in Vietnam from 1930 to 1935 had their own unique characteristics in terms of form and organization as well as content. They played an important role in propagating the policy of the Communist Party of Vietnam, as a tool to educate Party members and the masses and as a weapon to fight against opposing ideas. Based on a survey of colonial government documents on the prison presses, on the memoirs of those who participated in the writing of newspapers between 1930 and 1935, and a survey of a few newspapers remaining to this day, the article clarifies some content, forms, and authors of newspapers published in colonial prisons, thereby showing a part of the history of the struggle against colonialism and national liberation of the Communist Party of Vietnam in the early days of its establishment.
This article presents a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of food security in Vietnam. The author identifies key stages in the transformation of the country's agri-food policy - from overcoming chronic food shortages during the Doi Moi reforms to the current shift toward sustainable and nutrition-sensitive food system development. Particular attention is paid to the assessment of the four core dimensions of food security - availability, access, utilization, and stability - both in their historical dynamics and in the context of ongoing climatic and economic challenges. While Vietnam has achieved most of its national food security targets, the findings underscore that maintaining this status requires continuous state-level regulation and strategic adaptation. The results offer valuable insights for countries with comparable development trajectories in designing resilient food policies.
The article considers the formation of a new world order as a factor in the development of cooperation between Vietnam and key countries of the Global South at the present stage. The conceptual foundations and strategic goals of the foreign policy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in relation to the states of the Global South at the present stage are revealed. The article defines and analyzes the main regional areas of cooperation between Vietnam and key countries of the Global South, which include East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America. Within the framework of these regional areas of cooperation, attention is paid to such dimensions of international interaction as trade and economic, financial, transport and logistics, energy, digital, food, resources. As a result of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that there is an intensification of cooperation between Vietnam and a number of key countries of the Global South in modern conditions. Vietnam's interaction with these states can be viewed as a specific model, which is determined by the characteristic features of South-South cooperation, the peculiarities of Vietnam's own foreign policy, as well as the influence of certain global and regional processes that are a manifestation of the formation of a new world order.
The article presents an analysis of the main characteristics of the pharmaceutical industry in Vietnam. Particular attention is paid to the study of Vietnamese public policy, national priorities, strategies and road maps aimed at stimulating and supporting the development of the pharmaceutical industry in the context of integration into the global economy. It is shown that the industrial policy implemented by Vietnam has created conditions for the modernization of the pharmaceutical industry, including through international cooperation and attracting foreign investment. Currently, the country has formed economic conditions and the necessary infrastructure for doing business by foreign pharmaceutical companies. As a result of the reforms, the pharmaceutical sector of Vietnam has become more accessible to foreign companies. Foreign trade turnover of pharmaceutical products shows steady growth. The pharmaceutical industries of Russia and Vietnam interact with each other: Russian pharmaceutical companies have opened their representative offices and supply high-tech drugs to the Vietnamese market.
This article provides an overview of the presentations by Russian and foreign scholars at the international conference dedicated to the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the 50th anniversary of Vietnamese unification. The presentations examined achievements and challenges in Vietnam's domestic and foreign policy, socioeconomic development and culture. Particular attention was paid to the state of Russian-Vietnamese cooperation. The discussion of the presentations was objective and comprehensive, and the scholarly debate led to a shared conclusion about Vietnam's significant progress and successful resolution of the challenges facing the country.
This article analyzes China-Vietnam relations in the field of digitalization through the conceptual lens of asymmetric coopetition. The central research problem lies in identifying the mechanisms through which asymmetries in the digital capacities of the two states, as well as differences in their national digital development strategies, shape a configuration of simultaneous cooperation and competition. Interaction between the People's Republic of China and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam unfolds across 4 analytical levels - infrastructural, normative, investment, educational. The analysis demonstrates that the Chinese model, oriented toward technological expansion, normative leadership, and the establishment of de facto standards within the framework of the Digital Silk Road initiative, and the Vietnamese model, based on an innovation-adaptive approach, the development of a startup ecosystem, and a strategy of diversified partnerships, generate a structurally asymmetric competition between models of digital development. This asymmetry manifests itself in the fact that China competes for technological dominance and normative influence across Southeast Asia as a whole, whereas Vietnam competes for investment attractiveness, entrepreneurial talent, and the status of a regional platform for digital innovation. The author concludes that this configuration exerts a long-term influence on the formation of the digital space of Southeast Asia, gradually shifting the regional balance toward Chinese technological standards while preserving Vietnam's strategic autonomy through regulatory mechanisms of digital governance.
This paper examines the evolution of anti-war art in Vietnam, tracing its development from socialist realism to postmodern practices. It focuses on key Vietnamese artists whose work reflects the country's history of conflict and resistance. Through visual narratives, these artists depict the tragedies of war and its psychological aftermath. The study analyzes innovations in artistic language, emphasizing postmodern expressions, using archival materials, interviews, and selected works. It reveals the diversity, creative resilience, and humanism of Vietnamese visual arts in the postwar period, highlighting artists' contributions to anti-war discourse and national memory.
This review examines the monograph “Diplomatic Thought on National Defense in the History of the Vietnamese Nation”, which traces the formation and evolution of Vietnamese diplomacy from the nation's foundation until 1930. Prepared by a team of authors from the Institute of Military Social and Human Sciences under the Academy of Politics of the Ministry of National Defense of Vietnam and published in Hanoi in May 2025, the book represents the first comprehensive effort to systematically analyze the phenomenon of Vietnam's diplomatic thought. It tracks its genesis, formation, and transformation, synthesizing disparate diplomatic practices into a coherent ideological framework. Drawing on an extensive body of historical sources, the authors introduce the concept of «diplomatic thought on national defense» (tư tưởng ngoại giao bảo vệ Tổ quốc) and reveal how, across different eras, diplomacy served Vietnam as a tool for preserving independence and became an integral part of its national identity. The review analyzes the structure and content of each chapter, assesses the research's source base, relevance, and novelty, and highlights both its strengths and debatable points.
Information is provided on the contribution of Ilya Sergeevich Darevsky to the knowledge of the herpetofauna of Vietnam and to the training of Russian and Vietnamese herpetologists.
The Rule of Law State and Religion in Vietnam, a trilogy by Professor Dr. Đỗ Quang Hưng, explores the evolution of religious governance in Vietnam from the post-revolutionary era to the present. Framed by the concept of the "socialist rule-of-law state," the work analyzes the theoretical, historical, and institutional dynamics that have shaped state–religion relations. Structured in three volumes—Religion and Society, Religion and Law, and Religion and the State—the trilogy combines intellectual history, legal-historical inquiry, and normative analysis to comprehensively account for Vietnam's distinctive approach to religious governance. Drawing on interdisciplinary methods from legal history and comparative secularism, it proposes a uniquely Vietnamese secular governance model characterized by legal neutrality, institutional cooperation, and cultural pluralism. Thus, the trilogy is a scholarly resource and a policy reference for studying religion and governance in contemporary Vietnam.
This article provides a detailed overview of art exhibitions that opened in Moscow in the summer of 2025: "Teacher - Student: Melodies of the Path" at the Museum and Exhibition Complex of the Russian Academy of Arts and "A Look Through the Radiance. Lacquer Painting of Vietnam" at the State Museum of Oriental Art. The author discusses both the official exhibition support and the historical and artistic features of the works on display, tracing the powerful influence of Soviet art on the formation of the Vietnamese school of painting. In particular, the embodiment of socialist realism in the DRV in the second half of the 20th century is explored.
The strategic Vietnam-Soviet relationship profoundly influenced Vietnam's national liberation and development and was key to the USSR's geopolitical standing in 20th-century Southeast Asia. President Ho Chi Minh, who possessed a deep understanding and special affection for this relationship, was a central architect of this relationship. This article examines this bond through the lens of his thought, aiming to clarify the principles of Vietnam's past foreign policy and derive lessons for strengthening the current Vietnam-Russia partnership. Employing historical and political science methods, the article proposes strategic implications for enhancing future cooperation by adapting traditional values to the contemporary geopolitical context.
The article is devoted to the images and symbols of Vietnamese folk poetry associated with the plant world. Among them, there are autochthonous Vietnamese ones, such as the pair symbol 'betel and areca', which is associated with love and marriage. In addition, there is a strong tradition of plant symbolism in the Far Eastern cultural region, which is evident in various art forms such as painting and poetry. Many plants sung in Vietnamese folk poetry made their way into folk songs from Chinese classical literature. These include bamboo, plum, peach, pomegranate, willow, pear, and lotus. These borrowed symbols are perceived as having an elevated connotation. At the same time, some plants growing in Vietnam but not sung in Chinese poetry are perceived as more down-to-earth and can be synonymous with simplicity, such as carambola, water spinach, water caltrop and others. Aromatic plants and herbs such as cinnamon, jasmine, ginger, star anise, red hot pepper, and sugar cane constitute a special category. Floronyms or phytonyms in folk poetry can also be combined with elements from the animal or material world (e.g., banyan tree and boat, butterfly and flower, etc.).
The article examines the views of the leaders of the Communist Party of Vietnam on relations with the United States. The works of Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen Phu Trong and To Lam, as well as the party congresses documents, have been analyzed. The author concludes that Vietnam's current position on the comprehensive strategic partnership with the United States originates in the views of the first president of independent Vietnam Ho Chi Minh, which are based on a class-based approach to social phenomena, which implies pragmatic cooperation with capitalist countries in the economy and a number of other areas alongside with the rejection of bourgeois ideology and morality of capitalist society.
