Issue 2007 No. 1 (10)

The article outlines and considers the major aspects in the cooperation between NATO and Azerbaijan with the "Partnership for Peace" Program. The author provides a detailed analysis of the issues pertinent to geostrategic rivalry between and among major and regional powers in the Caucasus- ... Caspian region with a special focus on their diverse agendas and stated goals.
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This article analyses the influence of migration dynamic on the change of ethnic groups and shows the tendencies of geopolitical processes on the whole. This analysis was done upon some Caspian states including Astrakhan region.

A lot of ecological problems, having been arisen during the sea development, are seen in the article. The main problem is connected with the breach of its water system possibility of selfregulation and selfproduction. Nowadays the Caspian Sea ecological problems connected with the conservation of bi ... ological variety are not paid much attention to.
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The first parliament of Astrakhan region elections on the mixed system was held on the 8 of December, 2006. Ten parties participated in the elections. The parties of the left policy took record 38 % in sum. The authority party also reached the record level of support. Political par ... ties did not become more influential subjects of politics, turning to puppet structures.
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This article describes criminal situation in Astrakhan region. The author overlooks different kinds of crimes, gives statistical data and shows methods of struggle with crimes. The author turns her attention to the fact that the effectiveness struggle with crimes depends on the level of study of thi ... s important problem.
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Tourism is the best way of acquaintance with other culture. Cultural-cognitive tourism means inclusion of sights of cultural - historical value and also various actions for cultural realization of free time in the tourist program offered by the given region. Initially, the tourist infrastructure on ... the territory of Astrakhan region is based on the use of natural resources (fishing, hunting, beach rest) whereas cognitive tourism contains in itself huge potential, and it does not bear in itself threat for components of the natural environment.
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Burials in the so-called under-tumulus fences can be found all over the former territory of the Golden Horde. The investigators usually connect the appearance of these traditions with the dissemination of Islam among the population of the Golden Horde in the middle of the XIV c. B ... asing on the results of statistical analysis of burial rites of that historical period the author makes a conclusion about the absence of statistically reliable connection between burials in the under-tumulus fences and the process of islamization. Moreover, the author has doubts of existence of ground barrows over these fences.
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In this article the author tries to view actual for the Russian Federation problems of state ideology making. He analyses a few peculiarities which determine specific character of this process: political, normative, historical etc. Comprehension of political and business decision-making peculiaritie ... s makes him conclude that modern the Russian Federation ideology has to be based on the principles of project and branch approaches, which can help it to be more dynamic and understandable to the society.
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In this article the author examines theoretical and methodological aspects of political culture problem in American political thought of the latter half of the 20* century. In the present-day conditions the conceptions of American political scientists are considered to be the most significant. The a ... uthor focuses her attention on the analysis of the most complicated questions: the problem of the concept's definition and the problem of classification.
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Russia is a polyconfessional state. Therefore religious organizations in Russia have to find appropriate types of interaction. The aim of this article is to analyse the role of tolerance in different types of interconfessional relations. Much attention is paid to definition of the term "toleran ... ce". The author gives characteristic types of interconfessional dialogue in modern Russia. The main conclusion of the article is based on the assumption that tolerance principle in interconfessional regulation should be determined by the interaction between confessions, interconfessional agreements and establishment of interconfessional organizations.
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