Scientific section. Politology

The article considers key problems and controversies of higher education system in contemporary Russia, main interpretations of their reasons and ways of solution presented within domestic scholarly discourse.

The article is based on the material of applied research conducted among students of N. Novgorod, studying the political values of young people developing in the communicative space of social media, the role of network space in shaping the value picture of the world of youth, taking into account the logic of development and functioning of virtual space, its features and principles. The specifics of the impact of social media on the political consciousness (perception) of youth is analyzed, the methodological basis of which was the theory of social networks, P.

The article highlights the main difficulties in implementing youth policy in modern Russia. The paper analyzes the use of game models in the activities of public authorities in the field of youth policy on the example of the Federal Agency for youth Affairs.

The relevance of the study is due to the activation of protest moods in modern Russia, which in case of untimely reaction on the part of the authorities can take an unpredictable, destructive nature. The article is devoted to the study of different approaches in the interpretation of the concept of «protest voting», the analysis of protest voting as a form of manifestation of political protest, the definition of its universal characteristics.

The article considers party and ideological context of the way the Russian Constitution and its possible changes are perceived. Based on the analysis of stances of the leading political parties’ leaders, representing ideological segments of modern Russia, an inference is made that majority of them seek to gain political and image advantage from the discussion of the President’s bill. Flawing from these intentions, a forecast is substantiated that the bill will be supported in State Duma by not only “United Russia”, but by Liberal and Democratic Party of Russia and “Fair Russia” as well.

The article is the second part (a continuation) of the research aimed at defining reasons of heightened interest of Russian academia to using the notion “value of a study” as a tool of evaluation the quality of scholarly product. In this part, the author analyzes hindrances caused by demands to experts to specify what exactly makes a new, topical, theoretically and practically significant research “valuable” in terms of world and domestic science.

The article contains results of regional media landscape analysis conducted through the lens of political resource potential of mass media in modern Russia. Having defined the key elements of political resource potential, the authors assess ability of the State tele- and radio company “Saratov” to affect regional political process. An inference is made that, compared with non-governmental mass media, media outlets comprising the aforementioned holding company, as a rule, have greater potential for political influence.

The main problem tackled in this research deals with information technologies as the instrument of boosting national interests of Russia. The author comes to the conclusion that the information society shows the other side and the subject deals with not only mutual interests in the name of world development, but modification of the international relations on the base of the modern information technologies.

The article deals with the main functional characteristics of game technologies for the formation of political culture of Russian youth. The paper analyzes the use of game models in the activities of youth organizations on the example of the Youth branch of The Russian society of political scientists of the Saratov region.

The paper examines events that not only changed the energy and geopolitical picture of the Middle East, but also led to the fact that Russia became the unconditional beneficiary of all these changes. The causes and factors of the appearance of Russia in this region as one of the key political players in the modern world are considered. The focus of the study is the energy and the foreign policy context behind it of Russian actions in the Middle East. The author offers a new research perspective – to consider in close connection the politization of energy projects and regional egoisms.