Publication of this series and the related research program entitled "Making a Discipline of Slavic Eurasian Studies", are financed by the 21st Century COE grants of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Sciences and Technology from 2003 to 2008. These projects involve scholars not only domestically but also internationally, and the organizing engine of the program, the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, serves as a worldwide hub for creating a new approach to Slavic Eurasian Studies.