The article is devoted to the substantiation of applying the cluster-network analysis of network communities of the region. This type of analysis reveals the structure of communication links between actors, which in addition to the content analysis allows to explore the stream space of the region with the identification of the most significant interrelations between the actors. The author applies personally developed methodology of complex analysis which includes the cluster-network analysis based on the Terenin-Bresler method, the content analysis of the judgments of actors with the identification of actors in the stream space of the region that significantly affect local political processes.

The article considers the problem of increasing the efficiency of preventing ethno-religious conflicts in Russia at the regional level. In the article the questions of the causes of such conflicts, the legal framework, practical interdepartmental interaction and cooperation of government institutions and public organizations are discussed. The authors analyzed the regional experience of both prevention and suppression of ethnic and religious conflicts. The analysis allowed the authors not only to systematize cause-and-effect relations of conflicts on ethnic and religious grounds, but to provide a comprehensive system of measures for prevention and mitigation of possible conflicts and harmonization of inter-ethnic relations on the territory of Moscow region.

The article examines the impact of the Syrian crisis on the internal political situation in Lebanon. The analysis helps to reveal the fact that the activity of armed radical Islamist groups is enhancing in the country, which negatively affects the security of the population. The increase in the number of Syrian refugees alters the demographic situation, contributes to the deterioration of economic development indicators, to the increase of poverty, unemployment and street crime, as well as to the aggravation of social tension. Despite the efforts of the Lebanese government to maintain neutrality, the country is drawn into the Syrian conflict: the Shiite group Hezbollah is fighting on the side of Syrian President B. Assad, while Lebanese Sunni groups are helping the oppositional Free Syrian army. According to the author’s conclusion, despite the toughening of the struggle between the pro-Syrian and anti-Syrian blocs, centrist moods are growing in Lebanese society. They are related to the search for a compromise between the opposing sides.

Studying the image of Russia abroad is a sufficiently developed problem in modern political science. Much less researches are devoted to the issue of Russia’s image in the minds of its citizens. This problem is dominant in this article. Among the factors that determine perception, the authors chose three characteristics of the subject: gender, age, education. On the basis of the studies conducted in 2014-2016 it was concluded that gender identity affects the images consciousness and emotional perception of Russia. Age identity influences the perception of power, considering it as one of the components of the country image. Higher education is not reckoned to be an important factor of perception.

The article is devoted to the problem of the social component of radical mass forms of social protest. Analyzing such phenomena as civil wars, revolutions, insurrections, revolts and mass anti-government actions, the author comes to the conclusion that the basis of radical mass protests is made up of young people and educated sections of society that belong to the social categories of “intelligentsia” and “middle class”. In case of protest actions transition into a civil war all sectors of society are involved into the struggle. As it is stated by the author, the role of the peasantry in protests decreases as the historical development goes on, their quantity declines, and the proportion of urban residents (from the middle class and the intelligentsia) is growing.

The article presents the results of studying to what extent success in administrative work is stipulated for strong-willed qualities of a head of organization. The importance of taking into consideration the volitional qualities of the organization leaders is empirically proven, as being a condition that ensures success in professional activity. The necessity of including the evaluation of volitional qualities into the existing system of employees’ evaluation for appointment to managerial work is substantiated. Rating places of volitional qualities that determine the success of management activities are determined.

The article is devoted to occasional modification of phraseological units (PUs) in the German TV-comedy “Stromberg”. The authors consider such type of PU modifications as lexical substitution. The original classification of various ways of lexical substitutions is given. The techniques of creating a language game with the use of this device are described. The article states that in this television series, besides synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, or paronymy, precedential information or nonverbal means can be the basis of lexical substitution.

This article is devoted to the analysis of logical and semantic structure of proverbs and sayings enclosing social stereotypes of a man represented in the Russian and English languages. Logical-semiotic constituents and invariant realia pairs are analyzed, the combination of which forms the plane of content. The collected corpus of proverbs is also explored in the plane of expression: kernel and peripheral references that reflect national worldview and disclose key objective features of household are singled out. Resulting from the analysis of the plane of content and expression the universal and idioethnic features in their structure and semantics are singled out. The represented stereotypes are analyzed with greater precision.

The article is devoted to the study in axiological aspect of the cognitive modeling of real and virtual group communication in the form of dialog interactions of speech-thinking activity in terms of the use of the directed graph theory. Temporal assessment of cross-cultural communication is built regarding the attributes of speech and mental acts of discourse on the basis of approaches of psycholinguistics and combinatorial analyses of dialogues and group communication. This assessment is implemented from the set of alternatives by constructing discursive flow of the maximum intensity using the algorithm of Ford-Fulkerson’s theorem. The obtained results in conjunction with the appropriate semantic analysis provide temporal assessment of the intensity of the discourse in terms of cross-cultural interactions and allow us to determine the temporal boundaries of dialogues and the group members’ speech-thinking workload, as well as the duration of communication within the study of the effectiveness of educational and professional communications.

During the International Round Table organized by the electronic journal “Bulletin of Moscow State Regional University”, the essence of the text, forms of its being, features of linguistic categories implementation, as well as text functions were discussed. Besides, the specificity information broadcasting and its perception by the addressee were also highlighted. Such complex entities as: cortext, hypertext, and creolized text were considered. Trends and innovations highlighted in the political discourse, literary, journalistic texts served as material for reflection. Special attention was paid to the problem of text transformation and its figurative-aesthetic organization in artistic-stylistic purposes and for attracting the addressee’s attention, his beliefs, and impact. Well-known linguists, political scientists, and philosophers from different universities of Russia and Belarus took part in the discussion.

The aim of the given article is to study evaluative expressions existing in the English language. Evaluation is considered here in the light of the theory of speech acts. In the paper the task is set to describe the potential of this or that speech act in its ability to express evaluation. English idioms are used in the article as research material in the content of which the evaluative component is presented. The character of expression of evaluative meanings within different speech acts is studied on the basis of English fiction literature. Discourse analysis is the research method of the material of the article. The result of the paper is that it proves a principal ability to express evaluation by means of expressions representing speech acts.

The present paper is devoted to the study of stylistic and functional peculiarities of language units that objectify sensory experiences in works of fiction. Their importance for forming the main character’s image is defined. Language units are analyzed with regard to text analysis. The text is considered as a coherent whole. The author concludes that the semantics of lexemes objectifying sensory experiences possesses considerable expressive potential.

The article analyzes vocabulary expansion processes in the Russian language and problems of capturing neologisms in dictionaries. Main focus is on new technologies for analyzing activity levels of word-usage, its first definition and definition forms (the Internet resources “Word of the Year”, “Dictionary of the Year”. “Change Dictionary”, etc). High usage frequency in media supports actualization of certain words and expressions. In the end of 2016 - beginning of 2017 “current moment” words became such words as Trump, trumpism, trumpocalypse, etc, this was a result of wide media coverage of the US Election.