Scientific section. Politology

The article considers the experience of implementing ethnocultural policy at the regional level by the example of Saratov region. The author analyzes the normative-legal provision of ethnocultural policy in the region. The questions of realization of the right to cultural selfdetermination, receipt of ethnocultural education and the preservation of the native language, interaction with ethnic public associations.

The paper devoted to making sense of the concept “Islamic dream”: in the current Russian political processes. The author argues that this term has methodological efficiency and practical meaning. This notion has also many preferences over term “Islamic alternative” and allow get over a number of paradoxes in study of political conflicts. “Islamic dream” there is definitely and can be as subject of political investigations in different aspects and models

The article analyzes the principal shortcomings of the approaches that the modern political science community is guided by in the examination and determination of the scientific quality of theoretical and applied research on political issues. Author examines contradictions in the content of the main criteria, on the basis of which the political science study is recognized by experts as scientific and corresponding to qualification requirements.

The article is devoted to reasons accentuating separatist sentiment in Catalonia at the beginning of the XXI century. At the beginning of the new century European separatism has a new meaning and became a major challenge for most of the multinational European states. The process of regionalization in Spanish national autonomies coincided with the economic difficulties caused by the financial crisis of 2008.

In the article an assessment of political crowdsourcing as technology of civil participation for the prevention and suppression of threats to security of the state is given, the network projects promoting the solution of problems of protection of national interests are analysed, the role of crowdsourcing projects in modernization of system of national security of Russia is revealed.

In article features of use of information and communicative technologies in Internet space in electoral processes for impact on motivation of vote of voters are considered. Conditionally they are designated as the media “forum” mechanisms of influence based on use during the electoral company of the various information which does not have relations to direct interests of the ordinary voter. This factor is defined by the author as “forum” property of motivation of the electoral choice.

The article presents an analysis of the state of knowledge of the problems of development of a new direction for Political Science – local citizenship. The characteristic of the main directions in the study practice of civilian control and institutions in local communities, with an indication of the significant methodological problems, allowing to represent the practice of civilian control in local communities as a unique phenomenon of individual regions.

The article considers the main stages of formation and development of the institute of nation-cultural autonomy, development of the international legal framework and principles of cultural autonomy. The analysis is based on the international system for the protection of national minorities, which laid the legal, political and social based of activity of the institute of nation-cultural autonomy. 

The article is about peculiarities and methodological contradictions of using “conjunctive” approach to the analysis of historical events exemplified by the revolution-1917. An inference is drawn that using “conjectivity” with regard to the momentous event in the history of our country results in willing or unwilling distortion of its content, reasons and consequences, complicates learning historical lessons by current actors of political process

The paper studies an attempts of building of stable Russian Muslim political parties and movements. The author argues that created at 1990s Islam parties and organizations could not be able to build an effective channels for political representation of Muslim population in whole of Russia as well as at regional political level, mainlyat Volga-area.Muslim party building process was used by some political activists as an important resource for recruitment into Russian political elite through federal electoral machine.