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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">2504</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.54398/1818-510X.2025.83.2.012</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="udс">323.3</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>Problems of political deviation of modern western elites</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>Problems of political deviation of modern western elites</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2295-5436</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Vartumyan</surname><given-names>Arushan A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Vartumyan</surname><given-names>Arushan A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>pragpu@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4155" /></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1224-1341</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Kryuchkov</surname><given-names>Igor V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kryuchkov</surname><given-names>Igor V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>igory5@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4156" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff4155"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Pyatigorsk Institute (branch) North Caucasus Federal University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Pyatigorsk Institute (branch) North Caucasus Federal University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff4156"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">North Caucasus Federal University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">North Caucasus Federal University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" /><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-07-15"><day>15</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><issue>2</issue><fpage>111</fpage><lpage>119</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>06</day><month>02</month><year>2025</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>31</day><month>03</month><year>2025</year></date></history><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2025/issue/2/article/2504">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2025/issue/2/article/2504</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/2(83)/111-119.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/2(83)/111-119.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>The crisis of the political elites of the modern West is clearly evident in the political deviation, which has become the most important sign of the political carnival. In the context of the crisis of globalism, the crisis of the political elites associated with this project is also growing. This is especially evident in the example of the modern confrontation between the globalist (liberal) and traditionalist (conservative) elites of the United States. The world of Western elites has deteriorated as a result of their voluntaristic and elitist practices. The Western elites are suffering one crushing defeat after another. They no longer have the reputation of an undisputed world leader. Many of their achievements are being questioned and no longer stand up to open competition with other world centers of civilizations (China, India, Russia). Attempts to impose Western assessments and values on the rest of the world are causing an increase in resistance from a truly progressive humanity. Against this background, Western political elites and their leaders are plunging into a fictional world where their hegemony is not in danger. They constantly substitute concepts, distort the goals and meanings of ideas. And the most important substitution is the forgery of the political elite itself, when outright flicks and fakes turn out to be in its place. This creates the effect of a political carnival, which becomes a natural result of their decadence. This article is devoted to the issues of political deviation that we are currently observing in the behavior of Western political elite communities.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The crisis of the political elites of the modern West is clearly evident in the political deviation, which has become the most important sign of the political carnival. In the context of the crisis of globalism, the crisis of the political elites associated with this project is also growing. This is especially evident in the example of the modern confrontation between the globalist (liberal) and traditionalist (conservative) elites of the United States. The world of Western elites has deteriorated as a result of their voluntaristic and elitist practices. The Western elites are suffering one crushing defeat after another. They no longer have the reputation of an undisputed world leader. Many of their achievements are being questioned and no longer stand up to open competition with other world centers of civilizations (China, India, Russia). Attempts to impose Western assessments and values on the rest of the world are causing an increase in resistance from a truly progressive humanity. Against this background, Western political elites and their leaders are plunging into a fictional world where their hegemony is not in danger. They constantly substitute concepts, distort the goals and meanings of ideas. And the most important substitution is the forgery of the political elite itself, when outright flicks and fakes turn out to be in its place. This creates the effect of a political carnival, which becomes a natural result of their decadence. This article is devoted to the issues of political deviation that we are currently observing in the behavior of Western political elite communities.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>political elites</kwd><kwd>political carnival</kwd><kwd>crisis of power</kwd><kwd>deviation</kwd><kwd>carnival political culture</kwd><kwd>globalism</kwd><kwd>fakes</kwd><kwd>modern West</kwd><kwd>reputational defeats</kwd><kwd>public side</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>political elites</kwd><kwd>political carnival</kwd><kwd>crisis of power</kwd><kwd>deviation</kwd><kwd>carnival political culture</kwd><kwd>globalism</kwd><kwd>fakes</kwd><kwd>modern West</kwd><kwd>reputational defeats</kwd><kwd>public side</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><ref id="ref0"><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">1. 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