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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kaspy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">THE CASPIAN REGION: politics, economics, culture</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic" /><issn publication-format="print">1818-510X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="ru">Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1049</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>The image of «the alien» in the modern Political Science mythology</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>The image of «the alien» in the modern Political Science mythology</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Frolova</surname><given-names>Yuliya S.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Frolova</surname><given-names>Yuliya S.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>usfro@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1877" /></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Amirkhanyan</surname><given-names>Anait M.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Amirkhanyan</surname><given-names>Anait M.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>amirknan@yahoo.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1878" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1877"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Caspian Institute of Sea &amp; River Transport</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Caspian Institute of Sea &amp; River Transport</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff1878"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2015</year></pub-date><issue>2</issue><fpage>178</fpage><lpage>185</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2015/issue/2/article/1049">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2015/issue/2/article/1049</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/2(43)/178-185.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/2(43)/178-185.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Modern Political Science mythology offers a choice of a very wide range of topics and issues that are working on the positive image of power, making it more attractive. The image of an «alien» or a «foreign» as one of mythological images is often used in a manipulative way and is indued with negative features. Accumulated scientific data let us identify both tecniques of using such mythology to justify the government and verification methods of the available falsification.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Modern Political Science mythology offers a choice of a very wide range of topics and issues that are working on the positive image of power, making it more attractive. The image of an «alien» or a «foreign» as one of mythological images is often used in a manipulative way and is indued with negative features. Accumulated scientific data let us identify both tecniques of using such mythology to justify the government and verification methods of the available falsification.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>«чужой»</kwd><kwd>элита</kwd><kwd>мифология</kwd><kwd>фальсификация</kwd><kwd>манипуляция</kwd><kwd>“alien”</kwd><kwd>“stranger”</kwd><kwd>9 the elite</kwd><kwd>mythology</kwd><kwd>falsification</kwd><kwd>manipulation</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>«чужой»</kwd><kwd>элита</kwd><kwd>мифология</kwd><kwd>фальсификация</kwd><kwd>манипуляция</kwd><kwd>“alien”</kwd><kwd>“stranger”</kwd><kwd>9 the elite</kwd><kwd>mythology</kwd><kwd>falsification</kwd><kwd>manipulation</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement /></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement /></funding-group></article-meta></front><body /><back><ref-list /></back></article>