Scientific section. Politology

The given article deals with the specific features of liberal parties positioning in info-communication environment of modern Russia under conditions of strained international relations.

The article refers to the principal directions of strengthening of the government role in the different areas of the social life in modern Russia, which were formed in 1990-s as a result of the actions of liberal reformers in order to strengthen their positions in the Russian society. The following conclusion has been drawn: the ambition to make irreversible the process of liberal transformation of Russian society considerably defined the highest social cost of reforms and great split of the society, features of existing political regime, all the contradictions and drawbacks of comprador an

The article analyzes the problem of civilizational choice of Russia and its alternative in the political development. The author describes concepts of the alternatives in Russian political science and shows implementation of the alternatives on akey stages of the history of the country. Author analyzes the combination of European and Russian ways in the politics of modern Russia.

The main branches of the liberal critique of the Great Patriotic War historical memory in contemporary Russia, its official interpretation and usage for political purposes are considered in this article. The material presented in the paper allows concluding that alternative comprehension of the Great Patriotic War history, which is oriented primarily to revelation of its negative sides, objectively aims at discretization of the Soviet heritage, severance of intergenerational continuity, and delegitimizing of the current political system of modern Russia.

In this article, we consider methodological difficulties of study the role of Internet communications in politics. We analyze different approaches to understanding the Internet. We draw conclusions that the introduction of Internet communications contribute not only to the transformation and modernization of the political process, but further change of research paradigm of political science.

The article describes the basic model of interaction between the state and civil society institutions. Analyzed international practices of civic participation, on the example of the functioning of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council of France and the US Citizens Jury. Presented by the Russian model «mutually responsible partnership».

The subject of the investigation performed with the method of the analysis of discourses of the official documents presented on sites of republics Marii El, Mordovia and the Udmurt republic authorities is a problem of ethnization of political discourse in the process of formation of a public image of republics in the beginning of XXI century According to the author, the degree of republican policy of identity ethnization depends not on the constitutional status of republic or ethnic structure of the population but mainly from economic potential of republics and ability of local elite to acc

The article considers the essence of leadership in the modern Russian situation, based on materials of sociological research analyzes some characteristics of leadership, the Russian political elite sostavlyayuscheysovremennogo management at the regional level.

The paper is concerned with specificity of the socio-cultural integration as a tool for resolving ethno-political identity-based conflicts in the North Caucasus. The author considers the principle factors of the identity-based conflicts and emphasizes destabilizing role of the politicization of ethnicity. Among the systemic conditions of the regional identity-based conflicts escalation, the author calls: civic identity crisis, traditionalization, ethnic tensions.

The article deals with the methodological approaches to social and political transformations of modern Russian society by means of views the Great Russian philosopher I. A. Ilyin (1883–1954). The main emphasis is laid on the role of the political power in the system modernization of modern Russia.