This article is devoted to the analysis of the ideological aspects of the US policy in the post-Soviet space. In the context of Washington’s political strategies evolution in the former Soviet space, the main ideological concepts adopted by the US foreign policy are considered. Particular attention is paid to such an ideological stamp as Russia’s desire to “re-create an empire”, which was actively used to justify the steps aimed at opposing Russian policy in the region, including those aimed at torpedoing the expansion of Eurasian integration processes at the expense of Ukraine. The thesis of Russia’s desire to “re-create an empire” was based on the idea of the historically conditioned expansionist nature of our country’s policy. It asserted itself in the American political practice and became widespread in the political-academic community as the Russian-American contradictions worsened in the post-Soviet space. This ideological stamp ignored the rational economic rationales underlying the integration processes, in effect depriving Russia of the right to have and defend its interests in the region, and thus carried a significant conflict potential for the Russian-American relations.

The objective of the research is to prove features of civil control realization in modern political process (on the example of Volgograd region) on the basis of the analysis of stages of its institutionalization in modern Russia. The tasks of the research are to operationalize “civil control”, to designate stages of the civil control institute formation at the federal and regional levels in the Russian Federation, to interpret the features of civil control realization in the modern political process in Volgograd region. The methodological bases of the research are western neoinstitutional developments (J. March and Y. Olsen’s standard neoinstitutionalism) allowing to reveal the interrelation between the formal norms and the informal rules while civil control being realized. Besides, they enable us to define the ways of interaction between public authorities and the society.

In the article the authors analyze the phenomenon of participatory budgeting in the context of global digitalization and networking of political decision-making at all levels of government. For Russia these processes are understood to be twice as important and actual as the regime of sanctions make accumulation and diligent use of internal resources critical for the economy development. As a methodological basis of the study the concept of network political governance was used, as well as the matrix of political opportunities, which provides researchers with a kind of system of coordinates, within which it is possible to answer the question about the causes and dynamics of social movements. The prospect of implementing the projects of civil initiatives is also clarified within it. Special attention is given to the process of institutionalization and participatory budgeting practices implementation. It reflects such components of the structure of political possibilities matrix as: the degree of administrative-bureaucratic system resistance, as well as the level of openness and responsiveness of government. As a result of the analysis, the authors came to the conclusion that the implementation and further development of the participatory budgeting institution can significantly affect the structure of political opportunities in the process of transition to a network model of political governance. It can be defined not only as an effective tool for budget saving and its more detailed distribution, but for depolarization and reduction of social tension. The latter is especially important for the balanced social-economic and political development of large urban centers, as the experience of St. Petersburg clearly shows.

The article describes the methodology of empirical research of the state of interethnic relations as the basis of operational political analysis. The authors propose the conceptualization and definition of the concept of “interethnic harmony”. This made it possible to single out a group of factors that are the prerequisites for interethnic accord in the region, which were used as variables during a sociological survey in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. The use of cluster analysis made it possible to create a map of the interethnic accord status across the region municipalities.

This article is dedicated to the crisis in Venezuela. The global and regional contexts of the US subversive activities against the Bolivarian leadership are analyzed. The mechanism of a new type of “color revolution”, used against Venezuela, is revealed for the first time. The scheme, in accordance with which Washington, having activated up the overthrow of the Chavista, is seeking a split among them, is revealed. The conclusion is made about the need to correct the Russian policy towards Venezuela because of the high risk of overthrowing the power of the Chavista. According to the authors actions against Venezuela should be coordinated with Cuba, which is also extremely interested in keeping the Chavista in power.

The article is devoted to the analysis of key provisions of the theory of revolution of the American historian and sociologist Layford Edwards. The purpose is not just to give an account of the concept of the author, who had an impact on the general development of theoretical studying of the phenomenon of revolutions, but to emphasize certain provisions and ideas which had a long history of genesis and development, and were popular among researchers. It’s important that some of them are rather influential up till now. In the article special attention is paid to the context in which scientific approaches of L. Edwards’ theory of revolution were formed. L. Edwards’s work relied on the sesquicentennial history of studying of the English, American and French revolutions and also on the century tradition of the research thought in the field of “the theory of revolution” as an independent direction of scientific thought. The author analyses in Edwards’s concept the problem of defining the concept of revolution, the reasons for this phenomenon, its social base, and ideology. The terror in revolutions is scrutinized both independently, and in the context of historical environment and development of the theory of revolution. Considering the fact that a number of theoretical provisions have significant effect on contemporary concepts and approaches, their analysis is useful not only in terms of studying the history of science, but also to a more detailed understanding of today’s condition of sociology of revolution.

The possibilities of the semantic analysis technique developed in linguistics and used in working with texts for the tasks of psychological study of the professional activities of specialists are substantiated. On the example of the study of risk perceptions in the work of police psychologists and practicing psychologists and teachers of the university, the advantages and limitations of the methodology are shown. The similarity of the structures of perceptions of the risk of professional activity among psychologists has been ascertained: emotional burnout and professional deformation, the use of psychological assistance methods, fear of error, legal liability, proper interaction with the client, relationships with colleagues. Double differences in the levels of professional risk reflection, the banality of risk ideas, and the harmony of the structure of representations (“Zipf’s Law”) are revealed. All indicators are optimal for police psychologists. It is concluded that it is advisable to use the methods of semantic analysis as an express risk diagnosis in professional activities.

The article presents the results of the study of the role of such individual characteristics of personality as: its inherent negotiation style, the level of emotional and cultural intelligence, tolerance to uncertainty and impulsivity in the situation of forecasting the course of the negotiation process, which is characterized by unpredictability and may have a cross-cultural character. Various predicative role of individual-personal characteristics in assessing the upcoming negotiations as integrative or distributive is revealed.

The aim of the article is to study the phenomenon of “behavioral operation” (behaviorist operation) as a means of latent modification of the behavior of society, which determined the novelty and relevance of the work. Using discourse analysis, virtual reality method and monitoring, the author identifies fragments of a behavioral operation model. Based on an analysis of the views of a number of researchers, sources, and monitoring, technologies for concealed behavior modification that are congruently embedded in the model are disclosed. Based on the study of the operation, the psychological nature and value system of the concept are revealed. The author’s edition of the definition “behavioral operation” has been introduced. Analysis of the process of probabilistic development, the conduct of behavioral operations and monitoring fragments convinces them of their effectiveness. The prospects of their use in the future are shown. In conclusion, the article formulates proposals on the need for systemic development in order to reduce the risk of using “behaviorist operations” for destructive purposes.

The aim of this article is the study of correlation of verbal and non-verbal (audial) components of the screen speech in polycode-multimodal texts. The eliminating, description and analysis of its features in a concrete text are also studied. The main bulk of the study is held on the fiction and non-fiction film texts at the level of several shots. The study progress is illustrated through the analysis of drama “Loveless” and film “Earth: One Amazing Day”. The research showed that verbal and non-verbal components enter structural-semiotic relations (of interdependence and determination), which widens the semantics of the text, the simulated reality gaining volume. In the conclusion of the article the perspectives of further studies of syncretic texts in relation to the implementation of verbal and non-verbal components are stated.

The purpose of this article is to identify the implicit information of political subtext using linguistic expertise. The main methods of research are: observation, synthesis, interpretation of results, discursive analysis. The results of the study are the identification of lexical and stylistic means of expression, which help to create the implicit information in the poetic text. The research results contribute to the theory of linguistic expertise and discourse analysis.

The article considers the Chinese media through the discourse, ideology and language linked together. The investigation question: to what extent the Chinese media form the political reality in China today. As a methodological key the author has chosen two approaches: the CDA (critical discourse analysis) by N. Fairclough and historical discourse-method by R. Wodak. Using the analytical procedure of the CDA-approaches the author demonstrates the discursive practices of the Chinese media singling out concrete ideological effects on the example of two cases - foreign and domestic political ones. The author implements new research on political discourse and shows the new aspect of the use of the discourse-technologies to the interpretation of the ideological content of the Chinese media texts.

The article is devoted to the problem of Christian culture influence on the emergence of Yakut literature. The article presents the main directions of research in this scientific aspect, which allows us to illuminate more fully the issue of the role and significance of missionary activity of the 19th century in Yakutia, when handwritten Yakut literature begins with translations of church literature. The aim of this study is to systematize historical sources and literature on the activities of St. Innokentii Veniaminov, who made a personal contribution to the development of not only the Yakut diocese, but also in general to the development of the Yakuts’ spiritual culture. Methods of analysis, generalization and consideration of issues in chronological terms were used as the main research methods. As a result of the study, it can be stated that the spread of Christianity in Yakutsk region as part of the state domestic policy of Russia, as well as in other regions, had a beneficial effect on the distribution of literacy among the population, including the appearance of church literature in the Yakut language. In this aspect St. Innokentii Veniaminov’s contribution is highlighted. During his missionary activity significant historical events took place in Yakutia, i.e. the first translated publications and the conduct of church services in the Yakut language.