Issue 2007 No. 3 (12)

In the present article the problems of regional safety of Armenia Republic at the present stage (the beginning of the XXI century) are considered, the brief review of mutual relations of Armenia with the Russian Federation and the North Atlantic Union is given, the examples of coo ... peration of the Armenian party from NATO are resulted and bilateral Russian-Armenian intergovernmental agreements are analyzed. The article can be of interest for everyone who develops the problematics of geopolitic situation in Transcaucasia and prosecutes subjects of foreign policy of Armenia Republic.
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The article is devoted to the examination of modern views on the relations between Russia and world society in the conditions of globalization. The author regards three possible ways of deciding this problem, which suggests Russian and western political science: a maintenance of empire's ambitions s ... ucceeded by modern Russia to Russian empire and USSR ("neoliberal empire"), a building of nation state and an integration in the world society. The last way supposes acception of western's "rules of games", that notes refusal from empire's ambitions. This partnership with safe-keeping of national identity is the only possible way for Russia.
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At the current stage customs policy of the Republic of Azerbaijan is inseparably linked with transformations directed for the stabilization of the economy, finances and also foreign-economic activity ed of the country. The main directions of customs policy at the current stage are transfered to new ... forms, preservation of all historically gained merits and use of world experience. Subordinate legislation plays a vital role in the field of regulation of customs legal relationships. Orders and instructions of State Customs Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan are also considered as regulatory legal acts of customs bodies. Separate acts regulating customs rules are included in the documents of other fields - Criminal, Criminal Procedure, Civil, Civil Procedure Codes, Administrative Violations Code.
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In the present article the political problems of development of federalism in modern Russia (the end of the XX - the beginning of the XXI century), various aspects of mutual relations of the Federal centre are characterized and the subjects of Federation, the sp ... ecificity of the federal device of the Russian Federation are analyzed, the basic problems without which decision of federal attitudes will remain rather complex are allocated, and the political future of the Federation will look rather vaguely. The article can be of interest for everyone who develops the problematics of federalism in Russia.
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Multi-level complex method of propaganda analysis is offered by the author: it includes the carrying out of historical researches, the study of propaganda messages and mass-media, evaluation of auditorium reaction, critical study of all propaganda action (campaign). From one side, the given schema m ... akes difficulties to study propaganda, therefore its result can be unknown for a long time. From the other side, such "dialectic" approach gives the possibility for analysts to classify the applied technologies, to fix the reaction of auditorium in communication process, to determine the role and level of mass-media influence.
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The progress in the field of technology, first of all means of communication and transport, has allowed the people for the first time in their thousand-year history to be really united. But association can not occur between people, who are not capable to dialogic openness. The World became too close ... -fitting for one, not open dialogue. The Ways and instruments of the dialogue turned out to be the most important problem, vital declared about itself in condition of the world integration. The Conflict, justifying grow dark philosophy ZH.-P.SARTR, really becomes the single form of the contact. We must learn to communicate not only on the language of the aggressions and terror, but also on the language of the mutual respect and confessions of the rights of the other person or nations.
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The specific character of social-cultural approach for the analysis of political centrism, value base, factors of forming and implementation of centrism course in the Russian society were determined. The author offers "medium political culture" as a stable issue of the social-cultural base ... . The dynamic of political values of Russians was considered. The conclusion about the instability of value points of centralism in mass political consciousness was made. The transformation of the Russian political culture to "culture of compromise", "culture of consensus", and "culture of peace" will help to reinforce the long support of conciliatory strategies in the society.
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The article is devoted to the information of ancient Greek and Roman authors about the Caspian Sea and the inhabitants of its coast. These reports are very important, because they were the only information in written form about the ancient tribes, who inhabited this region in the antiquity. Ancient ... narrative sourses give us the unique information about the native ethnonymes, customs and development standards.
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This article is aimed at the forming principles analysis of the state politics in the liberty of conscience and religious freedom sphere. It is also intended to reveal the post-Soviet period problems concerning the matters in question. Nowadays Russia is a multinational and mul-ticonfessional countr ... y, and the state confessional politics is still in the making. Taking these facts into account we may conclude that these matters are of current importance and will retain their topicality for a long time.
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This article touches upon the problems of receiving authorities by government bodies in Stavropol region and Dagestan during the Soviet period. We examine the evolution of governor's post. We analyze the procedure of nominating candidates in deputies through CPSU Party Committees. We mention the pec ... uliarities of legitimation of political power in Dagestan under the conditions of multinationality. One can draw only one conclusion concerning the legitimation of government bodies, despite the fact that population of these regions was in fact kept away from participation in forming authorities.
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