Abstract Blockchain technology is analyzed in various spheres: power-managing activities, banking sector of the economy, health care and logistics. It is supposed that the application of this technology in the election campaigns of municipal, regional and federal levels will make the struggle with electoral absenteeism more effective. Besides it will boost the electorate attendance regardless of the level of elections, thus making the electoral process more transparent. On the example of Sierra Leone, where the presidential elections of 2018 were held with the use of blockchain technology for the first time in the history, the merits of this system are demonstrated. Both positive and negative aspects of this system application are identified.

Abstract In modern contradictory conditions of development, the role of interaction between civilizations and, in this connection, education, as the basis for understanding and the tool for forming human capital, is growing. The article discusses the need of forming and realization of educational projects in Arab countries as a prerequisite for stable socio-economic and political progress. The necessity to work out high-quality programs of educational system development is shown. The mechanisms for their realization are also metioned.

Abstract Today migration processes has become an important factor of modern state development. The article scrutinizes the main tendencies of the modern immigration policy of China. They are: the transformation of China in the global migration order, the fight against illegal migration, the policy towards the overseas Chinese, the involvement of international specialists, the attitude to refugees, the problems of migration legislation.

Abstract This paper discusses the assessment of the Ukraine crisis, which began in 2013-2014, by five right-wing Eurosceptic parties of the EU, notably the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Alternative for Germany (AfD), the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), and the French National Front (FN). All the aforementioned parties blame the crisis mostly on the EU leadership who were eager to expand eastwards without proper consideration of such predicaments as public opinion in Ukraine and the EU as well as the interests of Russia.

Abstract This work is devoted to the analysis of challenges associated with the introduction of digital technologies into contemporary political practice. The article analyzes the potential of Big Data technologies in relation to the functioning of traditional institutions of power, identifies the key problems associated with the formation of negative scenarios of social and political development in the conditions of digital inequality and global digital control. The paper concludes that modern reactive models of political management do not allow effective adaptation of traditional political systems to the intensive paradigmatic and technological changes in the Internet space.

Abstract This article examines the peculiarities of the Moldovan- Transnistrian conflict at the beginning of the 21st century. The authors analyze the conflict settlement process and show the reasons that hamper it. One of them is the choice of different foreign-policy vectors: Moldova - the European Union, Transnistria - the Eurasian Union. The article shows the role of Ukraine and Moldova in the deterioration of the economic situation in Transnistria, the strengthening of political pressure on the Transnistria republic. Much attention is paid to the elements of the customs and economic blockade, attempts to stop the Russian peacekeeping operation in Transnistria, the aggravation of the Ukrainian-Transnistrian relations, plans for the unfreezing of the Moldovan- Transnistrian conflict.

Abstract The article deals with the aging of the Russian population as a key political problem that needs to be studied. The process of population aging in a series of demographic problems is analyzed. The consequences of aging of the population in Russia for political processes are singled out and described. The author comes to the conclusion that the aging of the population has a significant impact on the socio-economic and political tensions in society and creates a significant burden on the social security system. Another negative consequence of aging is the reduction of the state’s military-mobilization potential, which in turn jeopardizes the national security in the Russian Federation.

Abstract The article is devoted to the analysis of the contemporary urban street protests which are the form of social and political activity of today’s youth. The authors pay special attention to the phenomenon of “Monstration” that is still poorly understood by social and political science, but every year is actively getting more popular among the youth. The characteristic features of the phenomenon under investigation are allocated and described. The article brings some results of studying the phenomenon of “Monstration” on the basis of the authors’ qualitative research which is a deep interview with 25 respondents, the main organizer of the event being A. Loskutov. The authors come to the conclusion that monstration with its content and its organization often contains some elements of the political event.

Abstract The article analyzes the development and use of the blockchain technology in Russia. The authors assess the implemented solutions of the “distributed register” technology, the national blockchain platform Masterchain and the “Digital economy” program in particular. The process of developing solutions for the digitalization of different sectors of the economy is considered. Support of the “digital” trend of the country development by the first persons of the state is also scrutinized. Having analyzed the political practice and legal framework, the authors come to the conclusion about the need for joint work of all branches of the government on the construction of a digital society in modern Russia.

Abstract The article is devoted to the cooperation of Russia and China in the Arctic, in particular, the identification of the potential and prospects of the Russian-Chinese partnership in the Arctic region. Three main stages of bilateral cooperation are considered: China’s desire to join the Arctic Council as a permanent observer; access to the North Sea, providing access to navigation; access to natural resources, oil and gas. Based on the results of the systemic and comparative analysis, it was concluded that Russia and the PRC in the Arctic have more common approaches than disagreements, and Russian-Chinese cooperation in the Arctic can become mutually beneficial.

Abstract The object of the author’s research is terrorism, as a threat to the national security of the Russian Federation. The subject area is the problem of terrorist recruitment on the scale of the post-Soviet space. The main purpose of the article is to assess the risks of terrorist recruitment for the Russian Federation in a special territorial angle - the post-Soviet space. The authors completed the following research stages: selection of potential collaborating countries of the recruitment system, the comparative analysis and ranking of these states with subsequent identification of the most likely participants in the system, identification of forms and potential scenarios of terrorist recruiting. The researchers come to the conclusion that the conditions for terrorist recruitment have developed to the greatest degree in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan. Probable form of recruiting can be, for example, prison jamaat, and the environment for it- a migration corridor or a pseudo-religious community.

Abstract In the article, on the basis of the results of the political and legal analysis of the legislative base of social advertising in the Russian Federation, a number of conclusions were drawn about the peculiarities of the legal design transformation as well as of the specificity of the institutional design. The connection between social advertising and the political sphere is based both on the recognition of the state as the leading actor in this sphere and on the allocation of specific functions of social advertising as an effective tool for stabilizing the political system and the mobilization mechanism. The author opinion considers the role of the NGOs and socially responsible business has been strengthening in the area under consideration in recent years but that does not mean that the state refuses to step up its activity in one of the key areas of social policy. First of all, the necessity for a special law regulating social advertising is being discussed. Besides, it is important to develop a general strategy for the development of social advertising within the framework of interaction between the state, civil society and the business community.

Abstract The article deals with the problem of human dimension of politics in the new social reality. Profound changes in the modern world give new meanings and opportunities not only of technological, but also of ideological and socio-cultural character. An attempt is made to analyze a new type of personality - a “networked political man”; his characteristic features and competencies acquired in the information age are identified and described. Special attention is paid to communicative connections and relations in the space of virtual communications. The author substantiates the idea that personal projection of communicative interactions is important for the “networked political man”. Based on the content analysis of a number of sociological studies, the authors conclude that in a networked society the “networked political man’s” possibilities to influence the socio-political processes through communications are expanding.

Abstract The article deals with political activities and creative work of Fyodor Burlatsky (1927-2014) in the period of perestroika in the USSR (1985-1991). The historical-political and political-textual analysis of Burlatsky’s works, conducted by the author on the topic under research, leads to the conclusion that Burlatsky did not only made a significant ideological contribution to perestroika in the USSR, but also was able to implement part of his proposals into practice.

Abstract The article shows China’s experience in countering manipulative technologies in social networks of the Internet. The author examined China’s legislative and organizational measures against the dissemination of unwanted information in the Chinese Internet segment. Besides, the author gives concrete examples of the actions of the Chinese leadership on countering manipulative technologies in 2011, when the opposition made attempts to initiate protest moods in accordance to the Middle East scenario and in 2014 during the protests in Hong Kong. It is concluded that the Chinese leadership intends to take full control of the Internet functioning and development in the country.

Abstract The article is devoted to a political hologram - an innovative element of political communication in the form of a three-dimensional image in order to increase the recognition of the image of a politician among target audiences. As a scientific methodology the author uses the comparative analysis of case studies of political holograms of India, Turkey, Spain, France and Russia. It is concluded that despite the user’s euphoria from technological innovations, political hologram on the background of low political awareness of citizens and the lag of the regulatory framework from the technological revolution can serve manipulative purposes. Three-dimensional holographic images, due to their maximum proximity to real people and objects, will have a powerful emotional and psychological impact on the users. Besides, those who are interested in politics will rather use human feelings from euphoria to a different plan of fears.

Abstract The subject of the study is an analysis of the main trends in the development of cyberterrorism. The goal is to study the main areas of cooperation between China and Russia in countering cyber-terrorism. The author proposes the definition of the concept of “cyber terrorism”, and highlights the most common ways of committing cyber-attacks. Besides, the forms of cooperation in the field of combating cyber terrorism, including its legal framework, are analyzed. The article examines various aspects of cooperation between the two countries in the fight against this threat. The steps they have already taken and the prospects for cooperation are given. As a result of the analysis of the facts, the author comes to the conclusion that the cooperation of Russia and China in the fight against cyberterrorism is the most important direction of strategic partnership and fully meets the national interests of the parties.

Abstract The article examines the factors influencing the development of modern Russian-Chinese relations in the context of regional and global security. The author analyzes the specifics of the current development of the Asia-Pacific region countries, among which China holds the leading position. The reasons for the need for cooperation between Asian countries (primarily China) and Russia, in particular, within the framework of interstate cooperation in the format of SCO are given. Besides the prospects of the Russian-Chinese strategic partnership are outlined.

Abstract The article solves the research problem of considering the theory of intergroup adaptation (IGA) in organizations as a platform for managing a policultural organization. More than 120 scientific sources on the problem have been analyzed: 3 doctoral and 17 candidate dissertations, more than 100 articles devoted to the IGA in political organizations, economic organizations, humanitarian education, social and medical spheres, military and law enforcement structures. On the basis of large empirical material, the possibilities of the regularities, mechanisms, and features of the IGA, substantiated in the concept and tested in practice, are proved. The IGA model in organizations is congruently supplemented with such concepts as: landscape, matrix of landscape, organization as an average group, knowledge platform. The presented empirical and theoretical materials can fulfill the role of sailing directions in the rough sea of problems connected with the modern Russian multicultural organization. They are able to optimize its management. For researchers the results obtained become a benchmark for the empirical study of various aspects of the IGA in the organization.

Abstract Abstract. The article is devoted to the identification of interrelation of behavior normativity with the types of attitude to dangers at senior school age. 173 senior school students of a number of schools of Cherepovets participated in the research (88 young men, 85 girls). The authors’ questionnaires were used to identify the type of the attitude towards dangers, as well as the diagnostic techniques for determining the level of behavior normativity. As a result it has been established that senior school students with high level of normativity aren’t inclined to ignore dangers, the adequate sensitive type dominates among them. Besides, young men demonstrate anxious sensitive type more often, but girls - the anxious type with low sensitivity. It is revealed that schoolchildren with low level of normativity show the tendency for ignoring dangers. Girls can demonstrate the uncertain type with low sensitivity. The received results can be used in practical work on forming youngsters’ behavior normativity and adequate type of attitude to dangers.

Abstract The article describes the content of the construct “personal infantilism” in the space of psychological counseling (by the analysis of the Internet-forum www.b17.ru). The empirical analysis includes more than 3000 thousand messages of “consultants” (professional psychologists who provide psychological assistance online) and “clients” (participants of the forum who initiated the discussion about their own difficulties which they consider to be the manifestation of “infantilism”). The results show that the “clients” and “consultants” have unequal contents of the construct “personal infantilism”, and this difference is a factor which reduces the effectiveness of the psychological counseling.

Abstract The article considers the family values of a mother raising her child in a single-parent family and particular characteristics of her interaction with the child. The family values and ideas of family roles distribution of single women are characterized in comparison with those of married women. Connection between the family values of mothers and the nature of their relation to the child is analyzed. It is demonstrated that the family values of single women determine their relation to the child to a greater degree than it happens to women raising children with a husband, judging by the particular features of their co-existence with the child. Conclusion is made about the particular features of family values of women, the distribution of roles in a family being a condition of their constructive or destructive attitude to the child.

Abstract The article scrutinizes the actual problem of experiencing the subjective well-being and satisfaction with the quality of life by adults. The author empirically studies the peculiarities of the way adults experience the subjective well-being, the adults under study being engaged in techniques of personal and spiritual development. Besides, these results are compared with the control group of people who are not specifically engaged in self-development. The analysis showed that people specially engaged in techniques of personal and spiritual development experience the subjective well-being and satisfaction with the quality of life differently.

Abstract This article analyses the Russian and Polish political terms in the formal grammatical aspect. Basing on political terminology the author provides a comparative analysis of morphological structure inherent in socio-political terms and word-forming models. Consequently, the author comes to the conclusion that extra-linguistic factors together with inflexional filiation between the two languages influence the similar productivity of Slavic terminology.

Abstract In the article, examples of grammatical units of written and oral speech of residents of Latin American countries containing the most popular emotional-estimated suffixes are analyzed by means of linguistic observation and description. As a result, the importance of traditions and culture, pride in parents and seniors, the worship of beauty, love, friendship and family is determined, and various types of their manifestations are demonstrated. The author concludes that the Hispanics’ value representations are manifested in the communicative process and determine the speech behavior of the partners in communication.

Abstract The article reveals and analyses socially marked lexis from one of Hemingway’s stories. The author’s research is based on the methods of discourse analysis and comparative analysis as well as on the principles of world perception developed by R. Barthes, poststructuralist. The analysis if socially marked lexis showed that in Hemingway’s works (who belonged to the group of ‘lost generation’ writers) the description of overcoming and destructing social norms and values typical of bourgeois society prevails. Besides, they are substituted by the values of a new society where a personality is the most important. The research results make it possible to form new and important directions of studying modern texts, which will make results of the analysis more valid.

Abstract The article scrutinizes the analysis of advertising texts in glossy magazines as a text of a mixed type, where the message is transmitted through the combination of verbal and nonverbal components. The problem of such texts nomination remains controversial. The article determines the priority of using the term “polycode” as the most appropriate to the object of the study. The lack of unified classifications of polycode texts is noted. The classifications mentioned have been analyzed in regard to advertisement texts in glossy magazines. Four models of polycode texts involved in fascinating and suggesting the recipient are singled out. They are: text and image; text, image and special material/form of the page; text, image and odor; text, image and an item of the advertised product/pull-out supplement.