Issue 2008 No. 2 (15)

The war peril continued after the ending of cold war. The kind of military flareups was changed: local intrastate wars, interethnic and religion conflicts, large-scale terrorist sabotages replaced the military confrontation of two coalitions. Stable trend to militarization of Caspian countries incre ... ased. In the article it comes under review potential military flareups in region and their influence on military-political situation.
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The United States' policy of double standards is shown by the example of development and attempts of regulating the nuclear crisis in the Northeastern Asia. Washington D.C. has applied huge efforts for continuing the two-sided dialogue with Pyongyang, for a renewal of the six-sided negotiations of t ... he North Korea nuclear crisis. But during nearly the whole period of confrontation with DPRK, the US not only made essential diplomatic blunders and serious mistakes, but also demonstrated a rough, primordially unacceptable policy towards Pyongyang. Such an imperial policy couldn't bring to a success, to a break-through in American-North-Korean relations.
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Reforms ongoing in the country, extension of economic ties and growth of foreign investments necessitate the establishment of free economic zones (FEZs) in the republic. Disbalanced spread of economies and population further necessitates the selection of a territory for free economic zones. To our m ... ind, attention should be focused on marginal areas in territorial selection. Namely, this region has a rich natural resource potential. Specialization of FEZs should be determined based on economic and geographical location, as well as natural resource potential of a region.
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In this article we discuss political problems of judiciary in constituent territories of the Russian Federation we characterize various aspects of realization of Constitutional Court and we analyze the concepts of reforming the judiciary of modern Russia. We make accent in main problems without solv ... ing wich the judiciary would be indistinct. The article is interesting for those who study the problems of judiciary in Russia.
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In this article on the base of empirical material the origin and specific nature of ethnic and confessional relations are examined by the example of the Republic of Dagestan. The author mentions that nowadays in Dagestan reduction of conflict potential is observed as a whole, but new threats and cha ... llenges appear. Dagestan society and government must prevent potential and resolve the existent contradiction in the sphere of ethnic and confessional relations. The author analyzed the conflict factors of this process in polyethnic and polyconfessional Dagestan society.
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The article is devoted to analysis of problems of information management formation as a new type of social management in the Russian society during transition period of its development. The socio-informational context of the article gives overview of main tendencies of current information processes; ... determines leading goals, objects and vectors of information management; describes structurally functional modules of activity of press-service of organization (corporation) and an opportunity of use of PR-information for an output on a mass audience of society; generalizes factors and technologies of focused campaign in press for rehabilitation/sanitation of information sphere in the region.
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In Astrakhan region internet-media is currently at the stage of development. There are some promising online projects and trends although most of Astrakhan region Internet publications are concerned with their off-line sources. Online publishing in Astrakhan region is believed to be actively develop ... ed due to close cooperation of Caspian States, tourist industry extension, education growth and net surfers increase in the near future.
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The article is devoted to one of the important and sacred sources of Islam, where the unique of this sourse is given. This source is investigated not enough in the home islamist literature. The exposing of the point of Sunna from scientific position is the task of this source, especially from the po ... sition of its influence on consolidation the religious tolerance in polyconfessional environment.
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The initial thesis of the article is reduced to the fact that the political mythology is a part of a political culture of any time and any country. In the substantial plan it is further concretized in the analysis of genesis and development of myths about a cult of personality of the leader, about t ... he hero. In the article the general principles of ruling elites are opened and the mythology of modern ruling elites was analyzed.
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In this article the analysis of various treatment of terms of political risk in the foreign and Russian scientific researches is conducted. This notion appeared from commercial environment. Financial analysts tackled it research for the creation of the economic strategy of the activity companies on ... international level and understood political risk as probability of financial losses as a result of the influence of disadvantageous political factors of the sittings of investments in the country. The author offers usage of this term in the activity of Russian political parties. She considers political risk as probability of the negative and positive consequences of policy-making influencing on the operation of party system.
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This article is devoted to the analysis of political-and-cultural approach as a new research paradigm in American political science of the 2 part of the XX century. The author emphasizes that this theoretical-and-methodological approach overcomes the framework of structural-and-functional examinatio ... n of political reality and thus permits to take into account consequence of polical-and-cultural characteristics of society such as mentality, values, behavior stereotypes etc.
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