OUR AUTHORS
ALEKSEEV R.A. – fellow at the department for studying the problems of national, federative and international relations of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute for Legal Problems, Ufa.
BARSUKOV A.M. – lecturer at the department of political science Kemerovo State University.
BEKBOSYNOV M.B. – Ph.D. (political science), doctoral candidate at The Department of Political Science Russian People’s Friendship University.
VOLOKH V.A. – candidate of Political Sciences, associate professor, deputy head of a department of migration management, Institute of state management and law, State University of Management.
VOLOSHENKO M.N. – The National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President.
GAIDUK V.V. – D.Sc. (political science), Ph.D. (law), Professor, head of the department of the history of the state and law and constitutional law at the Bashkir Institute of Social Technology, head of the Centre for Political and Legal Research of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute for Legal Issues.
KARADZHE T.V. – D.Sc. (philosophy), Professor, Head of the Moscow State Pedagogical University’s Political Science and Sociology Department.
KIM L.M. – Ph.D. (philosophy), Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Kazakhstan.
MARDANOV M.Kh. – post-graduate student at the political science department of the Bashkir State University.
MUKHITDENOVA A.T. – Ph.D. (political science), Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Kazakhstan.
NISNEVICH Yu.A. – D.Sc. (political science), Professor at SU-HSE and PFUR.
ODERY A.V. – fellow at the department studying problems of regional politics and ethno-politics at the Centre for Political and Legal Research of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute for Legal Issues, Ufa.
POROKHOVA A.N. – Ph.D. (political science).
PRYAKHIN V.F. – D.Sc. (political science), Club of Rome National Committee member.
TIMERBAEV T.A. – head of the department handling the issues of administrative governance, public and municipal services at the Centre for Political and Legal Studies of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute for Rights Issues (Ufa).
TIUNCHIK I.V. – post-graduate student at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President.
TSYBAKOV D.L. – Doctoral student in the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and the Public Administration.
SHCHEGLOV I.A. – Moscow State Technical University by N.E. Bauman.
Academic journal “Political Science Issues”. Issue 1 (5). 2012.
THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Karadzhe T.V. Politicallanguage: content, structure, functions
- Shcheglov I.A. The problems of Theory and categorial definition of Political Socialization in political science
- POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES
- Nisnevich Yu.A. What is Democracy?
- Gaiduk V.V. New Start of Vladimir Putin: High or Low?
- Volokh V.A. Migration Policy: theoretical, methodological and conceptual approaches
- Timerbaev T.A. Legal Modernization in Dialogue between Parliament and Government: Point of View
- Voloshenko M.N. Territorial public Self-government as one of aspects of the Sociopolitical Organization of Civil Society in the Russian Federation
FEDERATIVE RELATIONS AND ETHNO-POLITICS
- Bekbosynov M.B. Russian Federalism and Specifics of Ethno-national Policy
- Alekseev R.A. General-Theoretical Principles of Federalism: Concepts and Evidence
- Tiunchik I.V. Right to Self-determination of Various Ethnic Groups
- Mardanov M.Kh. Ethno-political Consensus under the Conditions of Russian Federalism: Political Analysis
- Barsukov A.M. Political crisis of Belgium Federalism
- Odery A.V. Inter-ethnic Tolerance at the Sub-Federal Level: Republic of Bashkortostan
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND FOREIGN EXPERIENCE
- Pryakhin V.F. Political Sciences and Global Problems a International Congress “Global Future 2045”
- Porokhova A.N. Foreign experience of regulation of Immigration processes
- Tsybakov D.L. The Spread of the Military-political blocs’ influence in Russia's Near Abroad
- Mukhitdenova A.T., Kim L.M.Migration Policy of Germany: Problem of Integration
BOOK REVIEW
- Book review of “Para-geopolitics” by L.O. Ternovaya
THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
T.V. KARADZHE D.Sc. (philosophy), Professor, Head of the Moscow State Pedagogical University’s Political Science and Sociology Department
POLITICAL LANGUAGE: CONTENT, STRUCTURE, FUNCTIONS
The article examines the constituents of the political language and specifics of its functioning.
Key words: political language, structure, functions, political myth, political metaphor, political dialect.
I.A. SHCHEGLOV Moscow State Technical University by N.E. Bauman
THE PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND CATEGORIAL DEFINITION OF POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
The article rise to some problems, that prevent political socialization theory from development, and keep political socialization category in vagueness. The comparative analysis of some categorical definitions and thesis which form the article context reveals main contradictions in political socialization theory. This article turns to work out orientations in building fundamental theory of political socialization.
Key words: political socialization, socialization, politization, adaptation.
POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES
Yu.A. NISNEVICH D.Sc. (political science), Professor at SU-HSE and PFUR
WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?
The article is about institutional definition of democracy as a form of organizing political and governmental order. A complex of political and governmental orders, which determine the essential characteristics and peculiarities of contemporary polyarchy democracy, has been suggested. This complex includes order that determines the principles of forming the government in a state and activities of citizens, including their interrelations with the political authority as well as order that determines democratic principles of the government’s direct activities.
Key words: polyarchy democracy, institutional approach, political and governmental order, political authority.
V.V. GAIDUK D.Sc. (political science), Ph.D. (law), Professor, head of the department of the history of state and law and constitutional law at the Bashkir Institute of Social Technology, head of the Centre for Political and Legal Research of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute for Legal Issues
NEW START OF VLADIMIR PUTIN: HIGH OR LOW?
In view of political developments between late 2011 and early 2012, the formation of a positive image of the country and improving the Russian government’s authority have become very urgent and crucial. Will there be a “new” Putin in Russia. What will be the role played by D.A. Medvedev in the future? The article analyses some peculiarities in the formation of political tandems in the history of Russian government.
Key words: tandem, political tandem, construction, elections, president, succession, opposition, coalition, power vertical, democracy, power.
V.A. VOLOKH Candidate of Political Sciences, associate professor, deputy head of a department of migration management, Institute of state management and law, State University of Management
MIGRATION POLICY: THEORETICAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES
The article analyzes key concepts of the study area, species, models and types of migration policies. In view of scientific works of foreign and Russian scientists it was determined a variety of approaches to the definition of "migration policy" and was suggested the author's definition of this concept. It is concluded that modern migration policy of Russia has a number of minuses that prevent the effective management of migration processes. One of the main reasons for this is lack of the Concept of State Migration Policy of the Russian Federation. The author has developed a new conceptual approach to the formation of state migration policy.
Key Words: migration policy, migration, social institutes, immigration, emigration, concept, management of migration processes.
T.A. TIMERBAEV head of the department handling the issues of administrative governance, public and municipal services at the Centre for Political and Legal Studies of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute for Rights Issues (Ufa)
LEGAL MODERNIZATION IN DIALOGUE BETWEEN PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT: POINT OF VIEW
The specific of the involvement of parties in the process of modernization is the duplicity in their role. On the one hand, parties as legal institution are subjects of modernization. The parties that were founded more often in Modern Times have established relations with government bodies as well as the elements of the civil society. Under the influence of ongoing political and legal processes in the country, their ideology is maturing, structure is transforming and functional system is changing. On the other hand, after fulfilling the role of motive power of reforms, parties are becoming active subjects of modernization process and the parties of reforms. The article reveals some specifics of Russian modernization in the perspective of interrelations between parliament and government and influence of political parties on it.
Key words: party, parliament, government, modernization, multi-party system, election system, pluralism, authoritarianism, crisis, transformation.
M.N. VOLOSHENKO The National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
TERRITORIAL PUBLIC SELF-GOVERNMENT AS ONE OF ASPECTS OF THE SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
In the article the role of territorial public self-government in formation of civil society and its institutes is considered. Civil society acts as a reliable guarantee of realization of the rights and freedoms of the person.
Key words: State, civil society, democratic development of institutes of civil society, local government, territorial public self-government (TOS).
FEDERATIVE RELATIONS AND ETHNO-POLITICS
M.B. BEKBOSYNOV Ph.D. (political science), doctoral candidate at The Department of Political Science Russian People’s Friendship University
RUSSIAN FEDERALISM AND SPECIFICS OF ETHNO-NATIONAL POLICY
In the article, the author studies basic trends in the ethno-national policy pursued by the Russian government and discusses prospects for its development. Analyzing ethno-confessional processes in the Russian Federation, he reveals their influence on peculiarity of relations between the entities of the federation and the federal centre.
Key words: ethno-politics, national policy, ethno-professional processes, federalism, state system, state administration.
R.A. ALEKSEEV fellow at the department for studying the problems of national, federative and international relations of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute for Legal Problems, Ufa
GENERAL-THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES OF FEDERALISM: CONCEPTS AND EVIDENCE
The article examines the origin of federalism, analyzes approaches and singles out its forms and principles. It states specifics in ethnic federalism.
Key words: federalism, principles of federalism, ethnic federalism.
I.V. TIUNCHIK post-graduate student at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION OF VARIOUS ETHNIC GROUPS
In the article, the author examines typologization of self-determination on the basis of its constituents.
Key words: self-determination, ethnicity, nation, people.
M.Kh. MARDANOV post-graduate student at the political science department of the Bashkir State University
ETHNO-POLITICAL CONSENSUS UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF RUSSIAN FEDERALISM: POLITICAL ANALYSIS
In contemporary Russia, the problem of establishing ethno-political consensus is determined by the need for making a deeper comprehension of ongoing transformation of national and federative relations. The basic idea in the given article is that under the conditions of globalization, federative modernization and the promotion of democracy, the state of inter-ethnic relations between people of Russia has significantly changed.
Key words: ethnos, nation, consensus, federalism, ethnic status, territoriality, national and cultural autonomy, national republic, substrate, separatism.
A.M. BARSUKOV Lecturer at the department of political science Kemerovo State University
POLITICAL CRISIS OF BELGIUM FEDERALISM
This article examines the reasons of political crisis in Belgium. The author analysis of the historical background, factors and perspectives of reconciliation of the political crisis in Belgium.
Key words: political crisis, Belgium, federalism.
A.V. ODERY fellow at the department studying problems of regional politics and ethno-politics at the Centre for Political and Legal Research of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute for Legal Issues, Ufa
INTER-ETHNIC TOLERANCE AT THE SUB-FEDERAL LEVEL: REPUBLIC OF BASHKORTOSTAN
The given article insists on the need for the existence of tolerance for any person, people or state so as to overcome negative approach towards the culture of another people or ethnos and perceive it as it has historically existed. The problem of interethnic tolerance appears between the representatives of different ethnic groups in the process of human interrelations in various spheres of life-sustaining activities, and the article is dedicated to its resolution.
Key words: tolerance, interethnic tolerance, ethnic paradox, post-Soviet Russia, national issue, national policy, ethnos, nation, political regionalistics, ethno-politics, interethnic relations, multiculturalism.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND FOREIGN EXPERIENCE
V.F. PRYAKHIN D.Sc. (political science), Club of Rome National Committee member
POLITICAL SCIENCES AND GLOBAL PROBLEMS A INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS “GLOBAL FUTURE 2045”
The author elaborates on some political aspects of global problems as discussed at the International Congress "Global Future 2045" held in Moscow on 17 - February 20, 2012. The main tenet of the article is any countering eventual disastrous effects of global problems is doomed to failure without a respective changes in collective consciousness and public opinion and fundamental transformation in the modern world order based on the primacy of state sovereignty. These changed require the formation of international civil society and the principle of a new ideology based on the primacy of human values. The main aspects of this ideology were developed by Russian thinkers-cosmists K.E. Tsiolkovsky, V.I. Vernadsky, A.L. Chizhevsky, N.F. Fedorov.
Keywords: global problems, global studies, the singularity, the technological limits of growth, homo sapiens as a material carrier of the mind, the Russian cosmism, the synthesis of religion and science, ideology, collective consciousness, the world order, national sovereignty and international organizations.
A.N. POROKHOVA Ph.D. (political science)
FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OF REGULATION OF IMMIGRATION PROCESSES
In article the immigration policy of some foreign countries from a position of the international obligations and the end result is analyzed. Cultivation of ethnic originality of immigrants doesn’t lead to their integration into accepting community.
Key words: human rights, integration, multiculturalism, ethnos, the migratory policy, immigrants.
D.L. TSYBAKOV Doctoral student in the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and the Public Administration
THE SPREAD OF THE MILITARY-POLITICAL BLOCS’ INFLUENCE IN RUSSIA'S NEAR ABROAD
This article discusses the aspect of the militarization of foreign policy activities as military-political blocs. The author examines the nature and content of the strategy of international coalitions in post-Soviet states. The consequences of the spread of influence of the military-political blocs near the Russian border to its national interests are studied.
Key words: international relations, the militarization of politics, the military-political bloc, the post-Soviet space, NATO, the European Union.
A.T. MUKHITDENOVA Ph.D. (political science)
L.M. KIM Ph.D. (philosophy) Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Kazakhstan
MIGRATION POLICY OF GERMANY: PROBLEM OF INTEGRATION
This article contains politological analysis of German modern migration policy, analyzes theoretical and application aspects of development of the German migration system based on national and international practice in the sphere of regulation of population mobility. Special attention is given to problems of integration of migrants.
Key words: migration, integration, migration policy, demography, migration legislation.
НАШИ АВТОРЫ
Абдирайымова Гульмира Сериковна – доктор социологических наук, профессор, заведующая кафедрой социологии и социальной работы КазНУ им. аль-Фараби (Республика Казахстан) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Арляпова Елена Сергеевна – кандидат политических наук, член РАПН (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Балапанова Алия Сакковна – доктор политических наук, профессор кафедры политологии КазНУ им. аль-Фараби (Республика Казахстан) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Бекбосынов Мэлс Борамбаевич – кандидат политических наук, докторант кафедры политических наук Российского университета дружбы народов (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Гайдук Вадим Витальевич – доктор политических наук, профессор Института права Башкирского государственного университета (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Гамидуллаева Халиса Сираджеддиновна - стажер Института государства и права Российской академии наук (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Ганичева Алла Викторовна – доцент экономического факультета Российского университета дружбы народов (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Гелеранский Петр Сергеевич – кандидат политических наук (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Карадже Татьяна Васильевна – доктор философских наук, профессор, заведующая кафедрой политологии и социологии Московского педагогического государственного университета (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Медведев Николай Павлович – доктор политических наук, профессор кафедры национальных и федеративных отношений Российской академии народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте РФ (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Медведев Вадим Николаевич – кандидат юридических наук, доцент, старший научный сотрудник Института государства и права РАН, Проректор Академического правового института (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Мистюков Владимир Васильевич - аспирант кафедры политических наук Российского университета дружбы народов (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Михайленко Александр Николаевич – доктор политических наук, профессор Российской академии народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте РФ (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Мукаев Рустам Ильдарович – соискатель кафедры государственного права Института права Башкирского государственного университета, г. Уфа (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Ошкин Алексей Николаевич – кандидат юридических наук, сотрудник Следственного комитета Российской Федерации (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Примбетов Казбек Маратович – докторант кафедры социологии и социальной работы КазНУ им. аль-Фараби (Республика Казахстан) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Сулейманова Шукран Саидовна – доктор политических наук, обозреватель радиоканала «Кавказ» Радиокомпании «Голос России» (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Тимербаев Тимурбек Афтахович – начальник отдела исследования проблем административного управления, государственной и муниципальной службы Центра политико-правовых исследований Евразийского научно-исследовательского института проблем права (г.Уфа) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Тиунчик Игорь Валерьянович – соискатель кафедры национальных и федеративных отношений Российской академии народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте РФ (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Феоктистова Оксана Анатольевна – аспирантка факультета политологии Государственного академического университета гуманитарных наук (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Янускина Валентина Владимировна – студентка 3 курса юридического факультета им. М.М. Сперанского Российской академии народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте РФ (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Academic journal “Political Science Issues”. Issue 3 (3). 2011.
RUSSIAN POLITICAL PROCESS
- Shkurina S.S. Contemporary model of Cooperation between Russia's Parliament and Government as an Institutional factor of Strengthening the Government
- Kasimov R.V. Transformation of President's State Policy in Modernizing Russia: Federative
- Medvedev V.N., Khrustalev D.A. Contemporary problems in transformation of administrative and legal status of executive bodies
- Tomazova O.E. The actual problems in process to appeal actions and decisions of the State Customs Service
REGIONAL POLITICS
- Yanchukov A.I. Problems of transformation of Regional Election Process
- Ganicheva A.V. Federal Districts in the Mechanism of Modernizing Contemporary Russian Federalism
- Smagina L.A. Mass Media as an Entity in Regional Politics
ETHNOPOLITICAL PROCESS
- Medvedev N.P. Ethnos, Nation and Politics: Once Again about Essence of Concepts
- Bekbosynov M.B. Some tendencies in Russian Federalism
- Perkova D.V. Political and legal bases of ethnolanguage and International relations in the Russian Federation
NORTH CAUCASUS: POLITICAL STABILITY ISSUES
- Kolomeitsev E.M. Influence of Federative Relations on Political Stability in the North Caucasus
- Kushtavkina E.A. Priorities in Contemporary Ethno-Politics: Regional Aspect
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Kettsyan G.V. Contemporary State of Languages and Historical Specifics in Promoting Language Policy in the Russian Federation
- Pryakhin V.F. Kyrgyzstan as Politological laboratory of State building in the Post-Soviet area
RUSSIAN POLITICAL PROCESS
S.S. Shkurina Ph.D. (political science)
CONTEMPORARY MODEL OF COOPERATION BETWEEN RUSSIA’S PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT AS AN INSTITUTIONAL FACTOR OF STRENGTHENING THE GOVERNMENT
The article is devoted to the contemporary model of cooperation between the parliament and the government of Russia under the conditions of administrative and federal reforms. It examines the stages of transformation of parliamentary and governmental relations from 1990 to the present day.
Key words: Parliamentary and governmental cooperation, centralization and decentralization of power, power sharing principle, transformation of the model of cooperation between the parliament and the government, strengthening the government.
R.V. Kasimov Ph.D. (political science), chief consultant to the Secretariat of the State Assembly – Kurultaya of the Republic of Bashkortostan
TRANSFORMATION OF PRESIDENT’S STATE POLICY IN MODERNIZING RUSSIA: FEDERATIVE CROSS SECTION
The article is devoted to transformation and the President’s place and role in the mechanism of public administration of the federative state in the process of modernization.
Key words: institution of presidency, state policy, federalism, decentralization of power.
V.N. Medvedev Ph.D. (law), Associated Professor, senior fellow at the Institute of State and Law of the RAS
D.A. Khrustalev doctoral candidate at the Administrative Rights Sector of the Institute of State and Law of the RAS
CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS IN TRANSFORMATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL STATUS OF EXECUTIVE BODIES
The article is devoted to urgent issues in transformation of legal status of executive bodies during administrative reforms and sharing power between various levels of public authority.
Key words: public administration, administrative reforms, executive bodies, entities of the federation, authority.
O.E. Tomazova Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Rostov State Economic University
THE ACTUAL PROBLEMS IN PROCESS TO APPEAL ACTIONS AND DECISIONS OF THE STATE CUSTOMS SERVICE
This article is dedicated to the actual problems of defense of civil interests and the status in the customs sphere. The author analyses the modern condition in the appellation process to the Customs Service. In this article the analyses the modern condition and the perspectives of the future improvement of the governmental and legislative base, concerning this institute.
Key words: the governmental control, customs, sources, law regulation by decisions.
REGIONAL POLITICS
A.I. Yanchukov Ph.D. (political science), Assistant Professor at the North-Western Institute, branch of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
PROBLEMS OF TRANSFORMATION OF REGIONAL ELECTION PROCESS
The article examines the specifics of contemporary transformation of the regional election process. It also studies the specifics of political reforms in the past decade as unification of electoral and political legislation, minimization of acceptable differences in rules of holding regional elections and stiffening state control over political parties. It analyses in details the results of a single voting day held on the 13th of March 2011.
Key words: regional election process, election and party legislation, entities of the Russian Federation, single voting day.
A.V. Ganicheva Assistant Professor at the Economic Faculty at People’s Friendship University of Russia
FEDERAL DISTRICTS IN THE MECHANISM OF MODERNIZING CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN FEDERALISM
In his article the author examines the role of the federal districts in modernizing the Russian federalism and analyses the state of affairs of the process and its prospects. He assesses the effectiveness of the regional policy pursued by the government.
Key words: regional politics, federal districts, federalism, public administration, federal and regional interests, modernization.
L.A. Smagina Assistant Professor at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
MASS MEDIA AS AN ENTITY IN REGIONAL POLITICS
In his article the author analyses the specifics of contemporary phase in the development of mass communications and examines the influence of mass media on mutual relations between the government and society.
Key words: mass media, regional politics, information revolution, political process.
ETHNOPOLITICAL PROCESS
N.P. Medvedev D.Sc. (political science), Professor at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
ETHNOS, NATION AND POLITICS: ONCE AGAIN ABOUT ESSENCE OF CONCEPTS
In his article the author reveals the essence of the concepts of “ethnos”, “nation”, “ethnicity” and “nationality”. He analyses the content of Russia’s national policy the sense of which, according to the author, is ensuring its multifaceted forms, including on the basis of the contemporary model of federation that paves the way for achieving the right of self-determination.
Key words: ethnos, nation, national policy, interethnic relations.
M.B. Bekbosynov Ph.D. (political science), doctoral candidate at The Department of Political Science Russian People’s Friendship University
SOME TENDENCIES IN RUSSIAN FEDERALISM
The article is devoted to concepts of federalism and assesses tendencies peculiar to the contemporary Russian federalism. The author examines situational impression on federalism in the context of political subjectivity of regions.
Key words: federalism, entities of the Russian Federation, political subjectivity of regions, ethno-political problems of federalism, federative relations.
D.V. Perkova post-graduate student at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
POLITICAL AND LEGAL BASES OF ETHNOLANGUAGE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
This article is devoted to the peculiarities of the state national policy in the Russian Federation, the legal regulation of international and language relations.
Key words: national policy, the state, regional minorities, ethnic and national relations, language policy.
NORTH CAUCASUS: POLITICAL STABILITY ISSUES
E.M. Kolomeitsev director of the Anapa branch of the Academic Law Institute
INFLUENCE OF FEDERATIVE RELATIONS ON POLITICAL STABILITY IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS
The article is devoted to the establishment of the North Caucasian Federal District. The author analyses the effectiveness of ethno-politics in the North Caucasus and studies the influence of federalism on maintaining political stability in the North Caucasus.
Key words: federal district, interethnic relations, federalism, ethno-politics, stability, public administration.
E.A. Kushtavkina Ph.D. (political science), senior lecturer at S.A. Esenin State University in Ryazan
PRIORITIES IN CONTEMPORARY ETHNO-POLITICS: REGIONAL ASPECT
In his article the author examines the regional aspect of ethno-politics in contemporary Russia and analyses the existing legislation that is linked to ethno-political processes. He reveals the essence of the concept of ethnic and national policy.
Key words: ethnos, nation, ethnic and national politics, interethnic relations, multiethnic state.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
G.V. Kettsyan lecturer at the Economics and Public Administration Department of the Institute of Business Infrastructure
CONTEMPORARY STATE OF LANGUAGES AND HISTORICAL SPECIFICS IN PROMOTING LANGUAGE POLICY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
In his article the author examines the specifics in the development and essence in language policy in the Russian Federation. He analyses historical specifics in promoting language policy and assesses its effectiveness in the country.
Key words: language policy, national relations, the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, state policy.
V.F. Pryakhin D.Sc. (political science), Club of Rome National Committee member
KYRGYZSTAN AS POLITOLOGICAL LABOROTORY OF STATE BUILDING IN THE POST-SOVIET AREA
The Author describes the process of independent national statehood building during twenty years since Kyrgyzstan became independent. The specific features of Kyrgyz political system are defined before and after “tulip” revolution of 2005 and after power change of 2010. The relevance between the human rights and democratic freedoms protection and countering the ochlocracy and rigid dictatorship threats is also the subject of author’s exploration. The significance of Kyrgyzstan’s experience is evaluated for the democracy building in other post-Soviet states and for countering new threats and challenges.
Key words: national statehood, political regime, democracy and human rights, ochlocracy, interethnic relations, new threats and challenges.
Academic journal “Political Science Issues”. Issue 4 (4). 2011.
THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Karadzhe T.V. Political Science Methodology as Integral Part of Contemporary Epistemology
POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES
- Medvedev N.P. Anti-crisis policy
- Timerbaev T.A. Role of the President of the Russian Federation in Promoting Relations between Parliament and the Government: Constitutional Imbalance
- Oshkin A.N. Transformation of Public Service System in Contemporary Russia
RUSSIAN ELECTION PROCESS
- Geleranskiy P.S. Effects of the Elections Institute on the formation of the Regional Legislative Assemblies Institute
- Bekbosynov M.B. Election Process under the Conditions of Federative Russia
- Mistjukov V.V. Civil Society and the Information Policy of Russia
- Feokistova O.A. Image of Russian Politician Eagerly Sought by Electorate (from an example of gubernatorial election campaigns in the Ryazan region in 1996 and 2004)
POLITICAL REGIONALISTICS AND ETHNO-POLITICS
- Gaiduk V.V. Political Transformation of the Status of Regions under the Conditions of Modernization of Russian Federalism
- Ganicheva A.V. Improving the Mechanism of Delineation of Powers between the Federal and Regional Ruling Bodies as Basis for Contemporary Model of Russia's Regional Policy
- Mukaev R.I. Entity Structure Transformation in Post-Soviet Russia
- Tiunchik I.V. Russian Multinational Project under the Conditions of Contemporary Democratic Self-determination of the People of Russia
NORTH CAUCASUS: CONFLICTS AND STABILITY
- Suleymanova Sh.S. Political Process in the North Caucasus: Problems and Contradictions
- Arlyapova E.S. Certain aspects of Chechen mobilization Strategy in the end of 20th century
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: EURASIAN INTEGRATION
- Mikhailenko A.N. Eurasian Integration: Problems and Prospects
- Yanuskina V.V. Legal status of Ukraine as a member of the Russian Empire (on the issue of the USSR dissolution)
- Medvedev V.N., Gamidullaeva H.S. Organizational and legal issues of Customs Administration in the Customs Union
- Abdiraimova G.S., Balapanova A.S., Primbetov K.M. Kazakhstan's Presidency of the OSCE in 2010 (through the eyes of the young)
THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
T.V. Karadzhe D.Sc. (philosophy), Professor, Head of the Moscow State Pedagogical University’s Political Science and Sociology Department
POLITICAL SCIENCE METHODOLOGY AS INTEGRAL PART OF CONTEMPORARY EPISTEMOLOGY
This is an article about political science methodology. The author examines interlinks of political science with other areas of knowledge and determines the methodology’s essence and substance of the idea. He studies the structure of methodology, its types and levels. The author thoroughly analyses the structural parts of political science methodology. He singles out and reveals theoretical and applied level of political science research. He examines paradigms of contemporary political science.
Key words: political science methodology, method, paradigm, research level, epistemology, theory, concept, world view, idea, term, categorical and conceptual, methodological tool of political science.
POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES
N.P. Medvedev D.Sc. (political science), Professor at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People's Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
ANTI-CRISIS POLICY
The article sums up the outcome of the government's anti-crisis policy. It assesses the work of country's leaders on economic policy.
Key words: anti-crisis policy, economic and social policy, GDP, financial crisis.
T.A. Timerbaev Head of the department handling the issues of administrative governance, public and municipal services at the Centre for Political and Legal Studies of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute for Rights Issues (Ufa)
ROLE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN PROMOTING RELATIONS BETWEEN PARLIAMENT AND THE GOVERNMENT: CONSTITUTIONAL IMBALANCE
The article examines the role of the institution of president in establishing and promoting relations between parliament and the government.
Key words: rights, president, parliament, government, constitution, state governed by the rule of law, control, electivity, level of power, political and legal status.
A.N. Oshkin Ph.D. (law), Ryazan
TRANSFORMATION OF PUBLIC SERVICE SYSTEM IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA
The article concerns administrative reforms and the transformation of the public service system linked to it. The author examines tendencies of and trends in the process of transformation. He analyzes the mechanisms of improving efficiency in the activities of the public service system in the Russian Federation.
Key words: public service, powers, public service reforms, efficiency in public administration.
RUSSIAN ELECTION PROCESS
P.S. Geleranskiy Ph.D. (political science)
EFFECTS OF THE ELECTIONS INSTITUTE ON THE FORMATION OF THE REGIONAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES INSTITUTE
The author defines the Elections Institution and describes it in detail. There are considered the types of elections and their importance for the development of society. There are considered the interconnection of Electoral Institute and the Regional Legislative Assemblies Institute in the Russian Federation. There are described the common forms of elections fraud. Author gives a legal assessment to the actions of elections swindler. Author makes an attempt to analyze rigged elections by means of statistical analysis. He makes the analysis of the election in 27 regional legislatures on December 4, 2011, which were held simultaneously with elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Author make the graphs, which are based on voter turnout and voting in favor of the party in power. There are conclusions about the relationships identified.
Key words: The Electoral Institute, the Regional Legislative Assemblies Institute, the election fraud, the statistical analysis of fraud, voter turnout, election results, the role of The Electoral Institute.
M.B. Bekbosynov Ph.D. (political science), doctoral candidate at The Department of Political Science, Russian People's Friendship University
ELECTION PROCESS UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF FEDERATIVE RUSSIA
In the article, the author examines the transformation of the electoral system at the regional level and reveals basic tendencies in the process of transformation. He analyzes the basic mechanisms of the formation of regional legislative assemblies.
Key words: federalism, election process, elections, legislative assemblies, region.
V.V. Mistjukov Chair of political sciencesб The Russian university of friendship of the people
CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE INFORMATION POLICY OF RUSSIA
The author examines specificity of an information policy of Russia in a context of formation of a civil society. He marks new tendencies in character of the communications, caused to life new media resources. He audits current political agendas and repertoire of mass-media.
Key words: civil society, Russia, the mass media, media policy, information resources of a society and a civilization, system modernization, political communications.
O.A. Feokistova Post-graduate student at the Political Science Faculty of State Academic University of Humanitarian Sciences
IMAGE OF RUSSIAN POLITICIAN EAGERLY SOUGHT BY ELECTORATE (FROM AN EXAMPLE OF GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS IN THE RYAZAN REGION IN 1996 AND 2004)
The article is devoted to the revelation of the images of politicians sought by public conscience of Russians by taking the Ryazan Region (a typical region in Central Russia) as an example on the basis of studying the details of the gubernatorial election campaigns in the region in 1996 and 2004 which show an unbiased picture of factual preferences in real figures.
Key words: image, politician, elections, public conscience, mythological thinking, Ryazan region.
POLITICAL REGIONALISTICS AND ETHNO-POLITICS
V.V. Gaiduk D.Sc. (political science), Professor at the Institute of Law of Bashkir State University
POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE STATUS OF REGIONS UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF MODERNIZATION OF RUSSIAN FEDERALISM
There are mass concepts which determine the self-sustainability of local territory proceeding from natural and geographical, administrative, cultural and ethnic specifics and other aspects. We are interested in the region's political and legal dimension, mutual influence and interdependence of regional and national processes of political transformation.
Key words: political region, entity of federation, modernization, stagnation, federation, federalism, political regionalistics, ethno-politics, national relations, centralization, decentralization, "parade of sovereignties", "power vertical", Republic of Bashkortostan, President of the Republic of Bashkortostan R.Z. Khamtitov.
A.V. Ganicheva Assistant Professor at the Economic Faculty at People's Friendship University of Russia
IMPROVING THE MECHANISM OF DELINEATION OF POWERS BETWEEN THE FEDERAL AND REGIONAL RULING BODIES AS BASIS FOR CONTEMPORARY MODEL OF RUSSIA'S REGIONAL POLICY
The article is devoted to the problems of decentralization of power and delineation of powers between the federal centre and regions and improving inter-budget relations. The author analyzes new tendencies in improving the mechanism of delineation of power between the federal and regional ruling bodies.
Key words: decentralization, power, federalism, regional policy, federal and regional ruling bodies, inter-budget relations.
R.I. Mukaev Post-graduate student at the Law Institute's Department of State Law of Bashkir State University in Ufa
ENTITY STRUCTURE TRANSFORMATION IN POST-SOVIET RUSSIA
The article says that the upgrading of the Russian Federation's entity structure should not exclusively come down to the unification of entities and the admission of new entities. Historical experience shows that our country's federation structure has been changed by applying several methods, including integration, dividing, making territorial concessions and joining voluntarily to the federation. Contemporary politicians should realize this and take into account this experience.
Key words: Russian federalism, transformation, entities of the Russian Federation, integration (association) of the federation’s entities, entity structure, changing the state form of government, political modernization.
I.V. Tiunchik Post-graduate student at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People's Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
RUSSIAN MULTINATIONAL PROJECT UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRATIC SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE PEOPLE OF RUSSIA
The article examines the issue of drawing up a Russian civilizational multinational project to meet the challenges of globalization.
Key words: people's self-determination, geopolitical project, All-Russian civilizational standard.
NORTH CAUCASUS: CONFLICTS AND STABILITY
Sh.S. Suleymanova D.Sc. (political science), observer on "Caucasus" radio channel entering in "The Voice of Russia" Broadcasting Company
POLITICAL PROCESS IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS: PROBLEMS AND CONTRADICTIONS
The Article looks at the reasons that cause crises in post-Soviet period. The author provides a general insight into state construction experience in regions across Russia, reflects on theoretical issues related to federative development and identifies the problems and suggests options to address them. The ultimate goal of national policy is to build a society which would meet in due time and in full the needs of both the individual and the ethnic group, or the needs of all people living on the country's territory without encroaching on the legitimate interests of other individuals or ethnic groups and without triggering tension or conflict. Hitting this target requires certain conditions and mechanisms to reproduce national and ethnic traditions in diversity while preserving and enhancing the tradition of equal development and cooperation among nations.
Key words: ethnic factor, international relations, the ethnic question decision, democratic processes.
E.S. Arlyapova PhD (political science), member of RAPS
CERTAIN ASPECTS OF CHECHEN MOBILIZATION STRATEGY IN THE END OF 20TH CENTURY
In the article traits of Chechen political mobilization are examined in the light of rehabilitation measures of 1980-1990's theory and practice; the role and mobilizing resource of deportation topic are assigned for ethnopolitical processes in the republic before 2000.
Key words: political mobilization, deportation, ethnopolitical process.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: EURASIAN INTEGRATION
A.N. Mikhailenko D.Sc. (political science), Professor at the Russian Academy of People's Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
EURASIAN INTEGRATION: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
The article deals with development of the process of integration on post-Soviet space. Major problems that may arise on the way of constructing the Eurasian Union are analyzed as well as possible decisions to settle them.
Key words: Integration, post-Soviet space, Eurasian Union, modern regionalism, European Union.
V.V. Yanuskina 3rd year student of M.M. Speransky Faculty of Law of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANE PA) under the President of the Russian Federation
LEGAL STATUS OF UKRAINE AS A MEMBER OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE (ON THE ISSUE OF THE USSR DISSOLUTION)
Basing on the study of historical and modern literature on the struggle of the Ukrainian people for independence from Rech Pospolita and the process of its admission to the Russian Empire and analysis of legal sources, the author proves a point that the Ukrainian nation achieved its right for independent statehood through much "suffering", in formation of which (statehood) there is a great role of Russia.
Key words: Legal status, Zaporozhskaya Sech, Little Russia (Ukraine), Russia, Cossacks, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, The Ukrainian people, Statehood, Friendly connections, Union.
V.N. Medvedev Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher at the Institute of State and Law Sciences, Vice-Rector of Academic Law Institute
H.S. Gamidullaeva Trainee of the Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences
ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL ISSUES OF CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION IN THE CUSTOMS UNION
This article focuses on topical issues of transformation of the legal status of thecustoms bodies of executive power under the Customs Union.
Key words: customs, customs union, functions, powers, concept.
G.S. Abdiraimova Doctor of Social Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi (Republic of Kazakhstan)
A.S. Balapanova Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor of Department Political Science at Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi (Republic of Kazakhstan)
K.M. Primbetov PhD doctorate of department of political science Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi (Republic of Kazakhstan)
KAZAKHSTAN'S PRESIDENCY OF THE OSCE IN 2010 (THROUGH THE EYES OF THE YOUNG)
The article presents the quantitative and qualitative analysis of students' opinions of Kazakhstan's chairmanship to OSCE in Almaty and describes the organizational arrangements for research, especially evaluation of the OSCE's role in the system of international relations, Kazakhstan and OSCE: advantages and opportunities.
Key words: OSCE, youth, Kazakhstan, presidency, foreign policy, the international relations, cooperation and security, public opinion.