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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">1820</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>POLITICAL ELITES OF THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS: FEATURES OF THE MODERN DEVELOPMENT STAGE</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>POLITICAL ELITES OF THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS: FEATURES OF THE MODERN DEVELOPMENT STAGE</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Rudkov</surname><given-names>Yu.I.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Rudkov</surname><given-names>Yu.I.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>yury.rudkov@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2991" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff2991"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Institute of Service, Tourism and Design (branch North-Caucasus Federal University in Pyatigorsk)</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Service, Tourism and Design (branch North-Caucasus Federal University in Pyatigorsk)</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" /><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2019-10-16"><day>16</day><month>10</month><year>2019</year></pub-date><issue>1</issue><fpage>175</fpage><lpage>181</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2019/issue/1/article/1820">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2019/issue/1/article/1820</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/1(58)/175-181.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/1(58)/175-181.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>The development of regional political and administrative elites is especially important for the states of the federal structure, which pay the closest attention to this process, since the integrity and security of this state as a whole depends on its quality. In the Russian Federation, the subjects are unequal and there is a significant asymmetry of their polities and economic potential, determined by the national and historical features of these territories. Under these conditions, local elites have different socio-economic opportunities and are forced by this circumstance to use a variety of management strategies, sometimes leading to confrontation or even conflict with each other. The task of the federal center is to prevent the growth of these conflicts and to stop them in the very initial phase of their development. How effective this policy is can be seen in the example of the qualitative state of local political and administrative elites.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The development of regional political and administrative elites is especially important for the states of the federal structure, which pay the closest attention to this process, since the integrity and security of this state as a whole depends on its quality. In the Russian Federation, the subjects are unequal and there is a significant asymmetry of their polities and economic potential, determined by the national and historical features of these territories. Under these conditions, local elites have different socio-economic opportunities and are forced by this circumstance to use a variety of management strategies, sometimes leading to confrontation or even conflict with each other. The task of the federal center is to prevent the growth of these conflicts and to stop them in the very initial phase of their development. How effective this policy is can be seen in the example of the qualitative state of local political and administrative elites.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>элиты</kwd><kwd>политическое лидерство</kwd><kwd>государство</kwd><kwd>регион</kwd><kwd>угрозы и вызовы</kwd><kwd>национальная безопасность</kwd><kwd>глобализм</kwd><kwd>конфликты</kwd><kwd>традиционализм</kwd><kwd>этатизм</kwd><kwd>elites</kwd><kwd>political leadership</kwd><kwd>state</kwd><kwd>region</kwd><kwd>threats and challenges</kwd><kwd>national security</kwd><kwd>globalism</kwd><kwd>conflicts</kwd><kwd>traditionalism</kwd><kwd>statism</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>элиты</kwd><kwd>политическое лидерство</kwd><kwd>государство</kwd><kwd>регион</kwd><kwd>угрозы и вызовы</kwd><kwd>национальная безопасность</kwd><kwd>глобализм</kwd><kwd>конфликты</kwd><kwd>традиционализм</kwd><kwd>этатизм</kwd><kwd>elites</kwd><kwd>political leadership</kwd><kwd>state</kwd><kwd>region</kwd><kwd>threats and challenges</kwd><kwd>national security</kwd><kwd>globalism</kwd><kwd>conflicts</kwd><kwd>traditionalism</kwd><kwd>statism</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>