Interaction of astrakhan governor artemiy volynskiy with Buddhist community of Kalmyk khanate in 1720s

INTERACTION OF ASTRAKHAN GOVERNOR ARTEMIY VOLYNSKIY

WITH BUDDHIST COMMUNITY OF KALMYK KHANATE IN 1720S

A. A. Kurapov

The article analyzes political activities by the Astrakhan Governor Artemiy Volynskiy in the Kalmyk Khanate in 1720s, his interaction with separate groups of Kalmyks’ clerical elite. The author comes to the conclusion that the Buddhist community, which played a significant role in the Khanate, is commencing to participate actively in regional political processes, thanks to Governor Volynskiy who evaluated its political potential.

Key words: Kalmyk khanate, Buddhist community, elite, embassy, deputy.

ISSUE OF GOVERNING SEMI-NOMADIC NOGAI-KARAGASH PEOPLE

IN ASTRAKHAN REGION

(Late 18th – Early 19th Centuries)

E. Sh. Idrisov

This article concerns the problem of governing semi-nomadic Nogai-Karagash people in Astrakhan Region in the late 18th – early 19th centuries. Special attention is paid to issues related to the settlement of the Nogai-Karagash people in the Krasny Yar District of Astrakhan Region in the late 18th century, as well as to the land property problem that arose later (in particular, in the respect of their relations with the Bukeev Kazakh Horde). The paper characterizes legal authorities and the judicial system of the Nogai-Karagash people. It also concerns an attempt to include the Nogai-Karagash people into the Astrakhan Cossack troops.

Key words: Astrakhan Region, Krasny Yar District, nomads, semi-nomads, Nogai-Karagash, Kundrov Tatars, land property problem.

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES OF LOWER VOLGA’S PETTY BOURGEOISIE

IN LATE 19TH – EARLY 20TH CENTURIES

L. A. Odintsova

Petty bourgeoisie was the Russian Empire’s main urban taxable estate. They had a legal right to purchase small handicraft workshops and to be engaged in small-scale trade. They were entitled to be occupied in crafts and to be employed. Petty bourgeoisie was entitled to obtain incomes from their houses and lands. The state permitted them to possess industrial enterprises (with a limited number of workers). They were engaged in handicrafts, in market gardening, and in agriculture. In the late 19th century, a complication of the urban economy infrastructure took place in the Lower Volga’s cities; yet, the cities preserved their traditional bases despite that. The estate status exerted a powerful impact upon the petty bourgeoisie’s everyday life. The petty bourgeoisie became the source to enlarge the number of bourgeoisie and workers.

Key words: petty bourgeoisie, business, small-scale trade, handicraft, agriculture, fishery.

STATE REGULATION OF MIGRATIONS TO LOWER VOLGA REGION

IN LATE 19TH – EARLY 20TH CENTURIES

I. V. Kuzmina

The Russian government was interested in the rapid settlement of Southern Russia so as to increase their economic potential and economic development. The scales of migration depended on peculiar features of the social and economic development of the Lower Volga Region. The vast lands of Astrakhan and Saratov Provinces attracted a lot of immigrants; crafts were developing rapidly. The migration contributed to the development of manufacturing; it encouraged capitalist tendencies and stimulated the labour market development in this Region.

Key words: Lower Volga, migration policy, capitalism, post-reform period.

CHANGES IN ETHNIC & ESTATE COMPOSITION

OF WESTERN KAZAKHSTAN’S POPULATION IN LATE 19TH – EARLY 20TH CENTURIES

M. U. Nursultan

This article concerns changes in Western Kazakhstan’s social structure in the late 19th century. Sultans had been deprived of their political power; Western Kazakhstan’s main population – the Kazakh nomads – had been made equal to rural sedentary people, but even official documents named them non-Russians and entitled them with much smaller rights even in comparison with peasants.

Key words: social structure, social policy, feudal aristocracy, nomads, migratory processes.

“WE LIVE IN ASTRAKHAN, BUT WE EAT JUST FISH HEADS INSTEAD OF FISH”

PEOPLE OF ASTRAKHAN & PUBLIC CATERING IN LATE 1920S – EARLY 1930S

IN LOWER VOLGA REGION

A. O. Tyurin

This paper describes and analyzes the development of the public catering system in a Soviet-era town in late 1920s – early 1930s as a result of researching the archive material. It reveals the impact of the public catering sphere upon people’s attitudes towards the legal authorities, as well as the role of the public canteens in citizens’ everyday life.

Key words: everyday life, citizens, public catering, legal authorities, starvation, Lower Volga Region.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES OF CITY DEFENCE COMMITTEES

IN LOWER VOLGA REGION IN

P. V. Sukharev

The paper analyzes the process of implementing the social policy by city defence committees in the Lower Volga Region during World War 2. It characterizes the features of organizing healthcare services for the regional population, as well as the basic trends of the implemented food policy.

Key words: city defence committees, social policy, food policy, centralized state supply, healthcare service, sanitary epidemic state.

LITTLE KNOWN PAGES OF HISTORY:

PORTRAIT OF ARMY COMMANDER IN EVERYDAY LIFE & AT WAR

V. A. Khabunov

The article is dedicated to the life of an outstanding Soviet army commander – Oka Gorodovikov. Being a common shepherd when a child, he became a legendary hero of the Russian Civil War; he was like a caring father for his soldiers. Being a fearless son of the Kalmyk people, he gave all his energy and knowledge for their sake.

Key words: Cossacks, Cossack village, war, Gorodovikov, division, army, army commander.

AZERBAIJANI PEOPLE DURING WORLD WAR 2 AT NORTHERN CAUCASUS

(Dedicated to 65th Anniversary of Victory Day)

S. I. Alieva

The Azerbaijani people fought for freedom of the Soviet Union from Nazi Germany jointly with other Soviet nations during World War 2; their contribution to the Victory was enormous. Divisions 416, 223, and 77 formed from Azerbaijani people participated in battles for the Caucasus. The Azerbaijanis proved themselves as worthy warriors during the war with the Nazi invaders.

Key words: World War 2, Northern Caucasus, Azerbaijani people, Victory Day.

EXPERIENCE OF INTERACTION BETWEEN POLICE & PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS

AFTER WORLD WAR 2 IN LOWER VOLGA REGION

S. A. Fedin

Positive tendencies to restore the public associations of law enforcement profile have recently been revealed. That is why researching the experience of interaction between the police and public associations after the completion of World War 2 is relevant both theoretically and practically.

Key words: militia brigades, guarding public order, public.

MODERNIZATION OF RUSSIA WITHIN CONTEXT

OF CHINA’S & “SOUTH ASIAN TIGERS’” MODERNIZATION

L. I. Nikovskaya

The article analyzes the character modernization processes in modern Russia. The experience of similar modernization processes in China and in South Asia’s countries is under consideration.

Key words: public policy, modernization, experience.

CIVIL SOCIETY AS RESOURCE OF STATE & MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION:

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE & EFFICIENCY ESTIMATION

A. P. Lunev, T. A. Mordasova

The article concerns the civil society as a resource to develop state and municipal administration. It analyzes the parameters of social participation (its degree, forms, and levels), as well as factors that provide or complicate the impact of civil society institutions upon this process.

Key words: state and municipal administration, civil society institutions, public participation, social participation development indicators, collaboration between legal authorities and civil society organizations, efficient assessment of social participation in public administration.

ARE TRADE UNIONS READY TO DEFEND INTERESTS OF WAGE LABOUR IN RUSSIA?

M. A. Molokova

The paper analyzes the current state of the trade union movement in Russia. It points out that Russia’s trade union movement is not in its optimal state, that its working efficiency still remains insignificant. At the same time, the responsibility of trade unions increases manifold due to Russia’s social political modernization that is being performed by legal authorities.

Key words: public policy, trade unions, wage labour, interests, responsibility.

INFORMATIONAL SUPPORT OF ACTIVITIES PERFORMED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES:

REGIONAL EXPERIENCE

V. V. Elemenkina

The article concerns issues of informational support for activities of local authorities and analyses the gained regional experience in informational support of Astrakhan Region’s municipal authorities.

Key words: information policy, information transparency, rights to obtain information, informational support of local authorities.

RUSSIA WITHIN SPACE OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION: CASPIAN REGION

O. Yu. Lagutkin

The article assesses Russia’s position within the context of international migration processes. Migration flows, which are formed in the countries located at the Caspian Sea, are becoming very essential for the Russian Federation. Researching migration from the view-point of development and improvement of tools to assess the migration potential, in order to modernize economy and to maintain the social and political stability in the Caspian Region, is a relevant task.

Key words: international migration, Caspian region, regional security.

ISSUE OF SOFT SECURITY WITHIN CONTEXT OF “NORTHERN DIMENSION”

N. Yu. Markushina

The article analyzes issues of soft security within the context of “the Northern Dimension”, Russia’s role in “the Northern Dimension”, and project transformation from the EU “Northern Dimension” to the equal partnership.

Key words: soft security, concept of “New North”, international organizations, “Northern Dimension”, external relations of regions.

ISSUE OF INTERACTION

BETWEEN RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH & RUSSIAN FEDERATION

TO PROVIDE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

O. L. Tserpitskaya

This article analyzes the place and the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the formation of international security, as well as its cooperation with the Russian Federation and its own initiatives.

Key words: international security, Russian Orthodox Church, religious organization, tradition, stability.

POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION OF YOUTH

DURING RUSSIAN FEDERATION’S TRANSFORMATION

V. G. Pirozhnikov, V. P. Nemov

The article concerns the process of political socialization of the Russian youth during the current modernization. It specifies the peculiar features of youth-related policy at the current stage and provides recommendations for legal authorities to improve their ideological and social constituents.

Key words: youth, transformation, socialization, modernization.

INTERACTION BETWEEN AZERBAIJAN & CENTRAL ASIAN COUNTRIES

IN POLITICAL & MILITARY SPHERES IN 1994–2010

N. S. Niyazov

The full-scale war with Armenia for the control over the Nagorny Karabakh made Azerbaijan regard its military security as a top priority issue. Azerbaijan’s search for allies ready to support this country in its war against the Armenian aggression was determined as one of the main ways to tackle this issue. In 1994–2010, Azerbaijan began to pay more attention to the cooperation with countries of Central Asia in the military sphere.

Key words: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Karabakh conflict, military security, military technical cooperation.

DIALOGUE AS MECHANISM TO SETTLE SOCIAL CONFLICTS

RUSSIA’S ROLE IN SETTLING ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI CONFRONTATION

A. G. Grigoryan

Russia’s leading role in the process of peaceful settlement is due to several factors: its historical involvement into the local events; its positive relationships with the countries involved in this conflict, and its desire to avoid unpredictable situations near its national borders. The Karabakh problem has been resolved by creating an independent Karabakh state, which acts as the main guarantee to provide the Karabakh people’s security and human rights, as well as peace and stability in the region.

Key words: Karabakh conflict, mechanism of settlement, peaceful process, intermediary role, negotiation process, political elite, collaboration, Minsk group of OSCE, territorial integrity, self-determination.

WAYS OF INTERACTION BETWEEN RUSSIA’S & AZERBAIJAN’S

POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS TO SETTLE NAGORNY KARABAKH CONFLICT

PROBLEMS, TENDENCIES, PROSPECTS

K. A. Kasimova

This article concerns the trilateral meeting of three countries (Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia), which was held on October 27, 2010 in Astrakhan. The negotiations were related to the issue of the Nagorny Karabakh. The main aspect of the discussion was the status of the Republic of Nagorny Karabakh in the world policy, according to the fundamentals of the international law. The Russian Federation, jointly with the OSCE Minsk Group and with the International Committee of the Red Cross, has played an active role to resolve this problem. It is the seventh time that Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia, has initiated such a meeting. On October 27, 2010, the Convention for Exchange of POWs & on Return of Soldiers’ Corpses was signed as a result of trilateral negotiations in Astrakhan. As the practice shows, the sense of trilateral meetings is to achieve some progress, but to return to the initial negotiating process, since the relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia have become worse.

Key words: Nagorny Karabakh conflict, negotiation process, political settlement, cooperation, trilateral meeting, initiative, agreement, international law, trilateral summit meeting in Astana.

MODELLING OF SYSTEM TO MANAGE FORMATION OF REGIONAL INCOMES

A. A. Zhilkin, S. K. Mironov, O. K. Mineva

The article determines the basic problem of forming the regional incomes, which are related to real activities performed by the Russian Federation’s regions. It analyzes a number of Russian Federation’s regions and presents a paradoxical conclusion on “failures” in the realization of the mechanism to stimulate the regions to increase their income bases. The authors have developed and presented obligatory conditions to model a system for managing regional incomes.

Key words: budget incomes, tax potential, legalization of incomes, gross regional product.

ORGANIZATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF STRATEGIC RISKS

IN FOREIGN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY PROJECTS

PERFORMED BY ENTERPRISES MANUFACTURING CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS

V. Yu. Solopov, A. V. Lebedeva

The corporate policy in risk management directly influences the efficiency of strategic management, especially in case of foreign economic activity projects. In some cases, such risks can result in bankruptcy or at least in a substantial deterioration of performed activities. Such risks are named strategic or subcritical. The article concerns financial and economic problems of managing such risks for enterprises that manufacture construction materials in the Caspian Region.

Key words: economic dynamics, social economic dynamics, regional economy, strategic risks, subcritical risks, risk modelling, foreign economic activities, strategy, finances, economic modelling, economic forecasting.

STATE AUDIT AS SYSTEM TO MANAGE SOCIAL ECONOMIC SPHERE

Yu. V. Safrygin, O. K. Mineva

The paper concerns issues of researching the role of state audit as a tool of the state and the society to resolve complicated issues of the developing the Russian economy by applying all the available resources. The article proves that the developed institution of state audit can become an efficient mechanism to realize tasks in the social economic area.

Key words: state, financial control, state audit, budget sphere, budget funds, state property.

FEATURES OF UNIVERSITIES’ BUSINESS ACTIVITIES

IN COUNTRIES THAT EXPORT THEIR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

E. V. Gavrilova

The article researches the specifics of economic relations in the field of higher professional education, as well as universities’ entrepreneurial practices, with Great Britain and Finland as examples. It also analyzes opportunities to apply this experience to enhance the business potential of Russian higher educational establishments.

Key words: economy, entrepreneurship, higher educational establishment, educational services, budget, efficiency, competitiveness.

THEORETICAL & PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF PROBLEMS

OF CALCULATING SELF-COST OF PRODUCTION

E. K. Salakhova

Accounting and calculating expenses are interrelated and interdependent elements of the single system of production self-cost management. Application of foreign expense accounting systems in the Russian practice requires undertaking a radical change in the traditional approaches to production accounting: refusal from “expense” pricing, liquidation of production stocks, introduction of the functional accounting of indirect expenses. Separate accounting of ecological and information expenses, of quality expenses and other expenses in the production self-cost will make it possible to provide the corporate competitiveness at the domestic and foreign markets.

Key words: self-cost, expenses, accounting, control, pricing, quality expenses, ecological expenses.

TECHNIQUE TO DIAGNOSE LEVEL OF REGIONAL INNOVATIVE CLIMATE

AS BASE TO FORM MECHANISM OF MANAGING INNOVATIVE ACTIVITIES

OF ECONOMIC STRUCTURES

O. V. Konanykhina

The paper presents the results of the undertaken research, according to which, a scientifically based technique is necessary to increase the efficiency of regional innovative activities. The technique is an integrated assessment of the economic structure of factors that determine the innovative climate. The basis of the innovative climate is determined with a number of such characteristics as foreign economic activities, investment appeal, and the regional innovative activity.

Key words: regional innovation climate, regional investment appeal, foreign economic activity, innovative activity.

BUDGET TAXATION TOOLS TO REALIZE MECHANISM

OF INITIALIZING INNOVATIVE GROWTH IN RUSSIA

T. V. Ignatova, T. P. Cherkasova

The article concerns the main problems of Russia’s budget and taxation policy, which hamper its initialization of innovative economic growth. The undertaken analysis of the potential of budget and taxation tools has made it possible to reveal the main trends of policy enhancement in the corresponding spheres, as well as criterion threshold rates.

Key words: budget taxation policy, economic growth, government, innovations.

CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF PRACTICE OF MANAGING DEVELOPMENT COSTS

AT MODERN RUSSIAN ENTERPRISES: INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH

S. V. Sliva, S. A. Arutyunyan

Directed activities to develop separate enterprises, entire economic sectors, and the overall national economy are related to costs. Such a development is achieved by searching for new methods of production setup and economic contacts. The growth of transactional and production costs is an objective phenomenon representing the adaptive potential of economic agents. Such costs can accompany economic dynamics, but they cannot stop it. Constructive comprehension and effective sharing of transactional and production costs must be provided to speed up the development of the regional economic complex.

Key words: development limitations, transactional costs, production innovative costs, adaptive capability, cost sharing.

SELECTION OF FINANCIAL ECONOMIC MODEL TO FORECAST REGIONAL DYNAMICS

WHEN DEVELOPING STRATEGY: PRINCIPLES & CONTENTS

V. Yu. Solopov, A. V. Koshkarov

The efficiency of regional strategic planning and management directly depends on how correctly a forecast had bee made. In its turn, that determines the necessity to apply models of social economic dynamics as a tool to make strategic management decisions. This article concerns some features of classifying and selecting models of social economic dynamics, their comparative advantages and disadvantages. As an example, this paper suggests selecting the model structure of the social economic dynamics in Astrakhan Region.

Keywords: economic dynamics, social economic dynamics, models of social economic dynamics, regional social economic dynamics, regional economy, modelling, strategy, finances, economic modelling, economic forecasting.

FEATURES OF FUNCTIONING INFORMATION STRUCTURE

OF TOURISM MARKET IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION

E. N. Kovalyova

The article provides definitions of the information marketing infrastructure of the Russian tourism market. Special attention is paid to the structure of information and marketing infrastructure at the federal level; the paper provides suggestions to create a completed architecture of such infrastructure in Russia.

Key words: tourist market, information infrastructure, tourism information centre.

GENESIS OF RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA: DÉJÀ VU

E. E. Degtyaryov

The paper addresses the issue of definition and genesis of the Russian intelligentsia; it regards it from the view-point of the social ethical approach to analyzing this cultural phenomenon. The article suggests prolonging the historical existence of the Russian intelligentsia back to the early medieval period of the national history, which makes it possible to determine the right place of radicals and evolutionists in the social political evolution.

Key words: primary intelligentsia, idea of development and historical change of intelligentsia, social radical and cultural intelligentsia, pro-government and anti-government intelligentsia, history stages of Russian intelligentsia.

ISSUE OF DEPENDENCE OF RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S BEHAVIOURAL MODELS

ON SOCIAL ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, AS PER THEORY BY R. MERTON

O. A. Feoktistova

The article concerns approaches to researching behavioural patterns of the Russian electorate. With the model by the American sociologist R. K. Merton as an example, it proves that both activity and passivity of the electorate should be regarded as various types of adaptation strategies. The article points out that some authors put too much emphasis on the so-called national peculiarities of Russian electorate, thereby ignoring the general principles that are typical for countries with a hierarchical social structure. In our view, the social structure and cultural norms should be regarded within the single context.

Key words: social structure, adaptation strategies, cultural goals, authoritarian bureaucratic state.

VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV AS PLATO’S PROCLAIMER

IN RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHICAL CULTURE

L. Ya. Podvoyskiy

The paper analyzes Vladimir Solovyov’s master and doctoral theses within the scope of Plato’s ideas, as well as his work “Philosophy of Integral Knowledge”.

Key words: Plato, Vladimir Solovyov, philosophy, Russian philosophy, idea, idealism.

CULTURE OF COGNITION OF TECHNICS & TECHNICAL CREATIVITY

I. N. Pristavakin

This article attempts to analyze the peculiarities of such cultural processes as cognition of technics and invention of technical appliances. It presents the conceptual approach to the cognition process by suggesting a methodology and a technique to deduce notions and to classify them. The paper deduces the notion “technics” and presents an integral concept of a technical appliance invention process, which reflects all the stages of invention. Each of them is to be commented by analyzing Archimedes’s famous invention – his rotary pump.

Key words: culture, knowledge, creativity, methodology, concept, category, law, dialectics, technics, technical creativity, invention, incubation, insight, noosphere.

COGNITIVE PROPOSITIONAL BASE OF POEM BY ALEXANDER KUSIKOV “JULFIKAR”

G. G. Isaev

The article analyzes the poem “Julfikar” by the imaginist poet Alexander Kusikov (1896–1977). Its conclusion states that the basis of the cognitive propositional scheme of the poem is represented with the depiction of the lyrical character’s emotional turmoil, processes of his ideological and psychological self-consciousness, and his attempts to influence the reality to consolidate the humanistic basis of the Soviet Russia. The reference to the Quran traditions is one of ways to extend the concept and to enhance the text expressivity.

Key words: Alexander Kusikov, cognitive propositional scheme, Quran traditions.

HISTORICAL ELITE STUDIES CONCERNING ROLE & PLACE OF ELITES IN HISTORY

P. L. Karabuschenko

Any political elite takes its place in the history sooner or later. The process of taking a certain place in history is as stressful way of struggling for power as in real political activities. Trying to take a more advantageous position, elite representatives falsify things quite frequently, which submits the political history turns not to objective laws of history, but to black PR. Historical elite studies and political hermeneutics help to relieve the world from this delusion and to reveal the political truth, which has already become a property of history.

Key words: elite, elite studies, history, falsification, hermeneutics.

ELITE IN RESEARCHES BY GERMAN HISTORIANS

T. V. Evdokimova

The paper researches the problem of national elite’s peculiarities by German historians at different stages of state and social development; such a research has been undertaken for the first time in the Russian historiography. The article states the reasons for the prevailing of theoretical works over empiric and descriptive ones. The research reveals new approaches by modern German scholars towards this problem. The research has been carried out on the basis of the interdisciplinary approach.

Key words: Germans historians, German elite, political elite, aristocracy, Führungsschichten, Führungsgruppen, interdisciplinary approach.

RECRUITMENT OF POLITICAL ELITES

WITHIN CONTEXT OF MODERNIZATION OF RUSSIAN SOCIETY & STATE

A. V. Polyakov

The article analyzes problems that Russia’s modern political elite faces within the context of modernization. The social productivity of elite and the main systems of recruitment have been under consideration. The paper also concerns the political recruitment of regional elites.

Key words: political elite, social productivity of elite, systems of elite recruitment, mechanisms and channels, modernization, human capital, innovative society.

MODERN RUSSIAN POLITICAL ELITES

& ROLE OF MASS MEDIA IN COVERING ANTICORRUPTION POLICY

O. V. Dyakova

Corruption has become the enemy number one for the formation of bases of civil society and constructive quality changes in ruling political elites in Russia. Without legal authorities’ considered policy in the sphere of struggling against corruption, mass-media are to play an exceptionally important role to monitor the corruption practice and to perform an initial public expertise of anticorruption actions.

Key words: elite, power, policy, corruption, criminal, anticorruption policy, mass media, civil society, modernization.

TRANSFORMATION OF MODERN RUSSIAN EDUCATION

WITHIN CONTEXT OF INTERCULTURAL INTERACTION BETWEEN RUSSIA & USA

I. V. Kucheruk

This article concerns one of the most acute issues of modern Russian education – its transformation within the context of global trends and the dialogue of cultures between Russia and the United States. The paper focuses on a large number of American borrowed words, which have become, in our view, both “cultural agents” and catalysts of the transformation process in the Russian educational sphere. It also classifies a large number of American borrowed words and suggests differentiating their paradigmatic and structural levels. As for the paradigmatic level, it includes decentralization of the educational sphere, transition from the paternalistic attitudes to of “mutual responsibility” relationships; whereas the structural level includes the procedure of legitimation of educational institutions, standardization of education, and widespread usage of written tests.

Key words: modern Russian education, transformation, “cultural agents”, dialogue of cultures, American borrowed words, paradigmatic level, structural level.

CHANGES IN MODERN CULTURAL PARADIGM

AS REFLECTION OF POSTMODERNISM EPOCH

E. V. Kryuchkova

The modern informational, technical, economic, political, and cultural development is characterized with the emergence of a new society. It is difficult for a human being to adapt to such rapid modifications, which are increasingly becoming visible in the change of the everyday lifestyle. Such transformations are accompanied with changes in the cultural paradigm of society. The answer to the challenges of everyday transformations is the emergence of a new culture of postmodernism and the New Age movement as its integral part.

Key words: cultural paradigm, postmodernism, New Age movement, everyday culture.

PLACE OF MUSLIM CULTURAL HERITAGE IN ASTRAKHAN CULTURE

R. R. Aymukhanova

The article discusses the Muslim material and non-material cultural heritage in Astrakhan Region. Special attention is paid to the spiritual heritage represented with religious monuments and with national traditions, which are preserved by national societies.

Key words: Muslim culture, cultural heritage, mosques, cults of saints.

ISSUE OF LOSING CULTURAL ORIGINALITY UNDER CONDITIONS OF GLOBALIZATION

N. S. Reshetnikova

The issue of opportunities and risks of globalization in the field of culture is quite relevant within the context of modern world integration processes. Its discussion in the Russian philosophical and culture researching thought is of systematic character. The undertaken analysis of philosophical approaches makes it possible to assume that integration processes are potentially able to result in changes not only in the social cultural, but also in the mentally valuable paradigm of Russia. This article attempts to analyze the basic philosophical approaches to estimating risks, as well as their both possible positive and negative consequences for cultural development.

Key words: globalization, cultural originality, integration processes, risks, identity crisis, mentality, values.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT: CONTRADICTIONS & PROBLEMS OF REFORMS IN RUSSIA

M. A. Yakovleva

The article analyzes the current stage of the development of Russia’s local governments. It presents a number of critical remarks related to the improvement of this situation, as well as data that characterize the changes that take place in this social political sphere.

Key words: public policy, local government, local communities, reforms.

NORMATIVE LEGAL BASE OF STATE POLICY

TOWARDS YOUNG PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED

IN USSR’S INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN 1950S & 1960S

Yu. A. Kondrashova

The normative legal base of the state policy concerning young people who participated in USSR’s industrial development is under consideration in this article. The paper analyzes the basic statutory acts, laws, and decisions of Communistic party and of the government in the sphere of labour relations and youth healthcare in 1950s and 1960s. Special attention is paid to new forms of young people’s participation in the industrial development, which were widely spread during that period, and to their peculiarities and meaning.

Key words: normative legal base, public appeal, USSR, youth, state youth policy.

RATING LIST OF UNIVERSITIES AS NECESSARY CRITERION

TO ASSESS THEIR DEVELOPMENT DEGREE

M. V. Konkova

The paper analyzes different techniques to make up national and global rating lists. It estimates how ranking results influence the quality of educational services and the competitiveness of universities. The article recommends including some rating criteria to improve the efficiency of the obtained information.

Key words: rating, quality of education, rating technique, evaluation criteria.

ECONOMIC DIAGNOSTICS AS COMPLEX SYSTEM TO ASSESS

SITUATION AT MARKET OF CONSUMER PRODUCTS

& TENDENCIES OF ITS DEVELOPMENT

D. R. Dasaeva

The article concerns opportunities to apply economic diagnostics (as a new scientific trend in the market methodology) to analyze processes at the market of consumer goods. It reveals the complex character of researches within economic diagnostics and indicates its place in the system of management both at the macrolevel (state regulation) and at the microlevel of enterprises that operate at the consumer market.

Key words: economic diagnostics, methods to assess people’s satisfaction with demand, nutrition quality factors.

NON-FACULTY STAFF AS FACTOR TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY

OF ACADEMIC PROCESS AND UNIVERSITY COMPETITIVENESS

G. N. Bobrovskaya

The Russian system of higher education has recently been changing more actively. All those changes favour the development of competition in this industry. Under these conditions, the main competitive advantage is to increase the quality of the educational process, which will help to improve the quality of education. Non-faculty staff is one of the elements of the educational process; it is able to the quality of the final knowledge influence indirectly.

Key words: higher education, quality of education, non-faculty staff, wages, salary, competition.

SOVIET UNION AFTER WORLD WAR 2:

PROBLEM OF REPATRIATING GERMAN PRISONER OF WAR

M. A. Nasekin

The article presents a general estimation of legitimacy of confining German prisoners of war in the USSR after World War 2; it analyzes documents of the international humanitarian right, in particular, the Convention on the Confinement of Prisoners of War of from July 27, 1929.

Key words: prisoners of war, internees, repatriation, military criminals.

FORMATION OF IMAGE OF WOMAN

IN MODERN PUBLICIST RESEARCHES

L. R. Usmanova

The article analyzes the aspect of development of gender researches undertaken by domestic and foreign scientists that are directly related to women’s images. It concerns the process of the formation of women’s image in the historical perspective; in our view, this factor has caused an internal transformation of the historical science. The aim of modern gender history, which is regarded in the writing of a “new” universal history, including analyses of the social hierarchy based on gender norms and stereotypes, has been revealed.

Key words: woman, history, society, feminism, gender, Christian anthropology, women’s social movement, gender research.

ALI-SHIR NAVAI AS POLITICIAN, POET, HUMANIST

PEOPLE OF ASTRAKHAN CELEBRATE 570TH BIRTHDAY OF UZBEK POET & THINKER

N. I. Baybatyrova, L. Ya. Podvoyskiy

DOGADIN READINGS AS NEW FORM OF INTERACTION

BETWEEN PICTURE GALLERY & EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS

M. V. Emelina, I. I. Perova