<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<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">1606</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>Political Culture of Modern Elites: Features and Trends</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>Political Culture of Modern Elites: Features and Trends</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Siyanova</surname><given-names>T.V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Siyanova</surname><given-names>T.V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>siyanovanv@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2663" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff2663"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2017</year></pub-date><issue>3</issue><fpage>199</fpage><lpage>205</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2017/issue/3/article/1606">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2017/issue/3/article/1606</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/3(52)/199-205.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/3(52)/199-205.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Characterizing the political culture of modern elites, political science increasingly pays attention to the increasing role of political mythology and the adaptation of elites and their leaders to the falsification of political data. There is an increase in utopian thinking, creating its own virtual reality, which pushes aside the reality of the objective world. Western elites actually unleashed the most real information war against Russia, having engendered a new round of Russophobia in their countries. It is precisely Russophobia that underlies the modern political ideology of the Western elites, which testifies to the crisis of their thinking and the utopian nature of the perception of reality.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Characterizing the political culture of modern elites, political science increasingly pays attention to the increasing role of political mythology and the adaptation of elites and their leaders to the falsification of political data. There is an increase in utopian thinking, creating its own virtual reality, which pushes aside the reality of the objective world. Western elites actually unleashed the most real information war against Russia, having engendered a new round of Russophobia in their countries. It is precisely Russophobia that underlies the modern political ideology of the Western elites, which testifies to the crisis of their thinking and the utopian nature of the perception of reality.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>элита</kwd><kwd>лидеры</kwd><kwd>фальсификация</kwd><kwd>фейк</kwd><kwd>утопическое мышление</kwd><kwd>политическая мифология</kwd><kwd>манипуляция</kwd><kwd>информационные войны</kwd><kwd>русофобия</kwd><kwd>elite</kwd><kwd>leaders</kwd><kwd>falsification</kwd><kwd>fake</kwd><kwd>utopian thinking</kwd><kwd>political mythology</kwd><kwd>manipulation</kwd><kwd>information wars</kwd><kwd>russophobia</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>элита</kwd><kwd>лидеры</kwd><kwd>фальсификация</kwd><kwd>фейк</kwd><kwd>утопическое мышление</kwd><kwd>политическая мифология</kwd><kwd>манипуляция</kwd><kwd>информационные войны</kwd><kwd>русофобия</kwd><kwd>elite</kwd><kwd>leaders</kwd><kwd>falsification</kwd><kwd>fake</kwd><kwd>utopian thinking</kwd><kwd>political mythology</kwd><kwd>manipulation</kwd><kwd>information wars</kwd><kwd>russophobia</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>