The paper is devoted to the analysis of the Internet functioning as a modern space of political communication. The research results enable to conclude that the Internet space is widely used in the modern system of political control in various aspects. First of all, it is used to generate a network of information content and its viral spread among the Internet users for the purpose of forming collective meanings in the horizontal information and communication interactions. Besides, it is used to mobilize the public network, which has high potential for political activism.

The paper analyzes the role of the media and “new media” in political conflicts, and presents the author’s view of the problem. The author emphasizes that the influence of the media and “new media” on the conflicts is significant: any political conflict, regardless of its scale and composition of participants, is inscribed in a specific information context. The struggle of the parties of the conflict for power is always accompanied by an information war with huge involvement of mass-media. The article concludes that in contemporary conflicts the mass media and “new media” perform different roles. They are simultaneously a special subject, an instrument and a channel for conflict interaction.

The paper highlights main disintegrational trends in the politics of the modern European Union. The analysis of scientific researches on this matter is provided. In author’s opinion, the major challenges that the European Union faces in the XXI century have become the institutional and financial crises, as well as the crisis of multiculturalism. The paper reveals the problems associated with multicultural policies in the European Union, as well as the development of modern Euroscepticism.

The paper shows that the stable institutional confidence of the Russians to the power elite is mainly determined by the citizens’ attitude towards the figure of the president, whereas they consider the state government level (civil servants) to be actually impersonal. The author came to the conclusion that institutional confidence depends on the degree of media engagement, as we as on the activity of representatives of the state-power elite. At the same time, the interpersonal sphere of the Russians’ confidence still replaces the institutional level of confidence to a considerable extent. This situation forms certain challenges for the objective assessment of the effectiveness of the national elite by the population and, finally, creates risks for the legitimacy of the political system itself.

The round table “Global and regional security in terms of the changing world order” was held on April 26, 2017 at the Department of comparative political science of Lomonosov Moscow State University. In the course of the discussion the necessity of reevaluating the concept “security” with taking into account new challenges and threats to the contemporary world order was considered. Regional security was analyzed from the global perspective, regarding its influence on the world political processes. The delegates’ attention was primarily focused on the analysis of the Russian security policy, the tendencies of the Eurasian integration and the intergovernmental organizations activities. This round table gave postgraduate students an opportunity to exchange the ideas and to form a holistic view on global and regional security. Professor P.A. Tsygankov was the moderator of the round table.

The subject of the research is interaction between the Russian Federation and the People`s Republic of China in Central Asian region. The aim of the article is to analyze the current state of the interaction between the Russian Federation and the People`s Republic of China in Central Asian region. The author scrutinizes the measures undertaken by the two countries and the prospects of their cooperation development. The main methods used in the research are the collection, generalization and analysis of data from various sources with the aim of stating objective regularities of cooperation development between the two states. The author comes to the conclusion that the cooperation between Russia and China in Central Asian region has a great impact on supporting the regional security and contributes to the acceleration of the social and economic development of the region. In the future this process will promote the stability of the political life of the Central Asian states.

The paper considers the practical experience of the clinical psychologist in rehabilitation of the seniors with mild cognitive impairments (mild cognitive decline). The use of the cognitive method of psychodrama is described, the similarities and specific differences in the technique of conducting psychotherapeutic sessions are defined. Specific features of work of the psychologist to overcome emotional difficulties hindering the full social and psychological function of seniors with mild cognitive decline are given.

The article discusses the problem of introducing innovations into the educational process of higher education. Psychological reasons for resisting innovations are analyzed, as well as the historical prerequisites for this phenomenon. The psychological and organizational features of higher education transition to the new stage of its development are scrutinized. The “digital model” as a new stage of higher education development includes the creation of the electronic information and educational environment of a university, the introduction of electronic online courses into the practice of educating students. The issue of how to prevent the situation, when the ideas of innovation slide down into narrow limits and begin to exist for themselves and the initial purpose of their introduction is lost, are discussed. Using the example of introducing innovations into the educational process of a university, the result of the implementation of the general trend towards “digitalization” of a university is shown. Its main stages are outlined, the key implementation difficulties at each stage are highlighted, and recommendations are given.

The author conducts the analysis of foreign research approaches to social advertising. It is noted that, despite the specificity of various existing approaches, their common theoretical element is that the ideas forming the basis of social advertising, in fact, reflect the focus of the state and society to combat specific negative social processes and phenomena. The article concludes that foreign authors develop specific conceptual framework, conduct the operationalization and conceptualization of knowledge on social advertising, and summarize the obtained empirical data. That suggests that in the study of social advertising is not violating the principle of Occam, and a special research area is formed.

The author characterizes the variants of a teenager’s positions when he participates in the educational adventure. The basis for allocating these variants is the analysis of adventure literature. Teenagers’ positions differ in the degree of subjectivity. Special attention is paid to the range literary characters’ motivational attitudes. This scheme, created by means of the art analysis, corresponds to similar psychological-pedagogical characteristics. The author determines them basing on the analysis of his own more than 20-year-long work with teenagers when they were in the situation of adventure and play. The article presents the key recommendations on working with an adolescent in the situation of adventure, his position being taken into consideration.

The paper shows that the social constructivism is the methodological basis of socio-cultural modernization of education. The Russian society, as a society of risks, is considered separately. It is proved that only the sociocultural modernization of education, connected with the transition to a personal-oriented, anthropological paradigm, capable of developing individual abilities and opportunities of each, to form social activity, motivation for the success of career aspirations, will help to consolidate education as an important condition that will realize the potential of education. In this regard, the most important constructs for implementing the socio-cultural modernization of education are tolerance and trust. The final part of the work analyzes the way some educational institutions tested various psychotechnics aimed at building tolerance and trust in children of different age groups.

The article discusses the main reasons and mechanisms of developing various types of dependence on cyber-pathology. The classification of psychopathological symptoms and syndromes is described, as well as the pathogenesis of addiction. Studying individual-personal peculiarities of students who have signs of the Internet-addiction, the author singles out those which characterize young people’s predisposition to form dependences (cyber-pathology). Approaches to prevention of cyber-pathology and the Internet- addiction development are offered, as well as the psychotherapy of their symptoms expression.

This paper examines the linguistic tools adopted by Twitter English-speaking users to express their personal opinion on the immigration issues in the EU and the USA. The purpose of the current research is to define the link between the content of the message and the way it is expressed either implicitly or explicitly. The investigation is based on the content analysis of tweets collected for five months and processed by program Atlas.ti. The findings of this research illustrate how Twitter users communicate with each other and discuss political and social issues, and in what way they influence each other’s opinion using various linguistic tools while being restricted to only 140 characters.

The paper covers the issue of conceptual signs of the concept charm in modern aphorisms about charm. The judgments of Russian writers, aphorists, scientists, philosophers, linguists and culturologists are considered and interpreted. The analysis of the aphorisms enabled to identify the semantic potential of the lexeme charm. Besides, it has become possible to identify the characteristic and specific features of perception, and to identify common and differential semes realized in the context. The linguistic methods used by the authors are marked and classified. On the basis of the material researched the expanded definition of the concept charm is derived and presented.

The article analyses the interesting cases of the wrong reading and interpretation of lexical items in the dictionaries of East Slavic languages of the XX-XXI centuries. The author by the historical-linguistic, etymological and cultural analysis of the «dark places» and gaps, as well as of the realities of their existence in the texts, restores the true picture of word existence, clarifies and reconciles its semantics. So, analysing the dictionary entry «income» containing some misinformation in the «Dictionary of the Old Russian language (XI-XIV centuries)», the author shows the nature of the borrowed word in the Russian language. There are also examples of misinterpretation of the following lexemes: kma(t) instead of k[a]mat’ and polski ‘relating to Poland’ instead of the correct meaning ‘field’. Such cases will allow modern researchers of written records to refer to reliable sources and understand the importance of learning lexicographic material not only from the point of view of obtaining background information, but it will help to identify mistakes and errors.

The paper is dedicated to Friedrich Jakob Schmitthenner (1796-1850), a German scholar. He is better known as a specialist in political and cameral sciences, but this article covers his contributions to linguistic philosophy, grammar and lexicography. The paper gives a brief overview of the scientist’s professional and private life against the background of the tremendous development of German science in the 19th century. The author of the paper introduces some new and poorly known facts relating to Schmitthenner՚s fundamental works on linguistics and the way they were accepted by the scientific community of that time. The author highlights Schmitthenner՚s specific view on the protolanguage from the point of view of the language and thought interaction.

The paper is devoted to the question of secondary nomination of a person in the Russian language. The article describes the basic cultural codes, representing the secondary nominations of the person. As an illustration phraseological units, representing the external and internal qualities of the person with a positive and negative evaluation in the Russian-speaking space, were analyzed. The analysis of the extensive material of dictionaries enables to conclude about the relevance of metaphorical transfers of the following type: «flora → person», «fauna → person». As a result, the author concludes about basic cultural codes in the Russian language worldview.

The article presents some results of a psycholinguistic research which is focused on the peculiarities of using discourse markers (DM) by children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The comparison with the 10-12 year-old children of typical development is given. It is shown that Russian-speaking children with autism spectrum disorders use dozens of times more DMs than healthy children. It is proved that children with ASD are able to use the “yes” and “no” feedback markers, as well as the discourse markers of the following categories: procedural ones, markers of self-correction, deduction and interpretation, evidential ones, markers of assessment, attention attraction and of difficulties in speech production, and markers of synthesis. The conclusion is made that the peculiarities in the use of discourse markers can become an additional diagnostic criterion for exposing autism spectrum disorders.

The article studies the way the Russian literature reflects the process of women’s emancipation originated and developed. The author considers the women’s issue to become imminent mostly due to the development of realism and its attention to social problems. Besides, the growth of women’s emancipation in Europe also had certain influence. The material for the research has become the magazine «Otechestvennye Zapiski» («Domestic notes»), which was one of the most advanced Russian editions of the 40s of the XIX century. As the analysis of the magazine showed the patriarchal picture of the world dominated in the Russian literature of that time. “The women’s issue” was discussed not in the social-political perspective, but rather in moral-ethical and spiritual ones. It is stated that in spite of the domination of negative attitude to the women’s emancipation in the Russian society the growth of interest to the fate of the fair sex testified the growing importance of a woman in the society.

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the phenomenon of political Internet communications in the context of modern discursive trends. The author focuses on the problem of the possibility of using political Internet communications as an indicator of the development of public administration. The applied research methodology consists in analyzing the phenomenon of political Internet communications through the prism of the linguistic and political context. The author comes to conclusions about the variability of communication models that do not allow to establish a universal rating of the development of political Internet communications around the world. For each country it is necessary to describe specific contextual conditions of both communication links and political traditions development.

The article analyzes language tendencies in modern anti-smoking printed public service announcements in the Russian and English languages. Semantic and structural components of this type of advertising are described. The role of graphics and the degree of its interconnection with the text is reviewed. Most typical and expressive stylistic devices are emphasized. The undertaken analysis points out the effectiveness markers of anti-smoking public service announcements: brevity, realism, use of statistics, emotional colouring, forming of most negative evaluation and some others. Besides, linguistic and cultural peculiarities of English and Russian anti-tobacco public service announcements are described.