The problems relating to the political and legal status of parliamentarians, the procedures related to the safeguards to ensure parliamentary immunity; the procedure for dismissal from the post in the parliament. The author gives the data on ensuring a deputy's indemnity. The article presents the dynamics of money allowances of the members of the Federation Council and the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, based on Rosstat data for 2004-2014 years. Proposals aimed at optimizing the deputies' activities are given.

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of using double indirect discourse, which is constructed as a character's dialogue with himself and the missing companion. The article presents the transformation of the author's words nonintrinsic-author narration, analyzes text fragments of the story with the double indirect speech, reveals functional and semantic peculiarity of speech means. This paper shows the way the double indirect discourse naturally transits from the external point of view on the character's to the inner one, and the way the author's monologue gradually dialogizes due to the interaction of the narrator, the character and the unmarked characters.

The article is devoted to the description of geographical names - toponyms. This work considers toponyms through historical and etymological aspect. Their national language features are shown. Interdisciplinary character of toponyms is determined. The classification of geographical names is given on different grounds: origin, size, stability, frequency. In addition, the article points out the ways of the origin of toponyms, as well as the reasons for renaming geographical objects. It is stated that the most significant of them is the changes in social ideology. In conclusion, the article highlights the role of studying toponyms for science and society as a whole.

The article considers the main Syrian opposition groups on the eve of the so-called “Arab awakening" in 2011. The author analyzes the limited participation in the opposition activity of the legal (parliamentary) opposition, a member of the PNF. The article describes the main groups of Syrian secular liberal which was presented by various associations, forums and committees for the protection of civil society and human rights, many of which operated outside the country. The analysis of the so-called Islamic opposition includes the Syrian branch of “Muslim Brotherhood" association functioning abroad, and Salafi movement and activities of Sufi jamaats functioning on the territory of Syria.

The paper deals with analysis of the creative activity of Paul Scheerbart, a German fantast. The author singles put a number of motifs and images connected with generalization, inclusion of quotient into general. This group includes the "frame" image, the motifs of "swallowing" and "dissolution", the motif of "transformation into a planet". The author tries to follow the correlation of the motifs mentioned and their connection with the rhetoric figures of metonymy and metalepsis. Special attention is focused on the image of baron Munchausen in the Scheerbart's prose. All the motifs and images are included into the context of the writer's «cosmic» world view.

The article describes practical research of psychophysiological determinants of psychologists' short-term readiness for correctional activities. The comparative analysis of psychologists in this state is given, especially of those who work with children-invalids and with children with normal development. The author discloses the interrelations of short-term readiness with such personal physical and mental properties of the subject of work as: overall health, responsibility, self-appraisal of professional competence, aspiration for performing psycho-correctional actions. The article presents authentic data proving that these interrelations are not identical for psychologists working with different categories of children.

The article considers a form of electoral protest, protest voting population, as a criterion for measuring the level of public confidence in political institutions and public authorities. The author analyzes the reasons for the protest behavior of the population in modern Russia, and also gives a brief description of the most massive protest actions in the country over the past 25 years. The empirical base of the study is the analysis of the electoral statistics in the Russian Federation as a whole, and in the Komi Republic in particular, for the period. The article explores the relationship of protest voting and other electoral indices, such as: voters' turnout, voting for the oppositional candidates and others.

This article is devoted to the problem of teaching secondary school students with intellectual disabilities the basics of a healthy lifestyle, as well as to forming the motivational component in its structure. The survey data of the level of value attitude to health and motivation to assimilate knowledge from this sphere by students of special (correctional) schools type VIII are analyzed. The ways of the motivational component development in the structure of activity on preservation health of children with intellectual disabilities are given.

The author makes an attempt to describe and generalize the motivational relations in colloquial German verbal units with adverbial particles having the meaning of “space" ( ab-, an-, auf-, aus-, ein-, zu-, vor-). Besides, the variants of classifying them according to their motivation degree are given. The detailed analysis of fully “motivated"; partially, highly and fully “demotivated" lexical units is also presented in the article. The formal criterion of the verbal unit differentiation according to the motiva tion degree is the violation of conceptual and lexical-semantic collocations between an adverbial unit and a word stem. Factors both 'obscuring' motivation and contributing to the identification of relations between them are also revealed and described by the author. Special attention is also given to the word-building metaphorization as the main cause of obscuring motivational relations in these verbal units.

The article presents directions and basic requirements for the implementation of the new Federal educational standard in mathematics in special (correctional) schools of VIII type. The author notes the shortcomings of the traditional educational system and the advantages of training in accordance with the new standard. The article discloses the prospects of special (correctional) schools transition to the new standard of education. In its methodology the Federal state educational standard involves system-activity approach in teaching and educating schoolchildren.

The article examines the problem of ethnographical identity development by members of ethnic community organizations. The author substantiates the position that ethnographical identity of the members of ethnic community organizations as representatives of national minorities living on the territory of Russia is the guarantor of national security in a modern, multicultural society. In the article the author reveals the nature, content and types of ethnographical identity as a holistic psychological phenomenon, presents the results of empirical studies, on the basis of which the conclusion is made that there is a necessity to work out special programs for the development and correction of ethnographical identity of national minorities.

The V Baltic International seminar-discussion devoted to the theme "The structures of everyday life and creative experiment in Russian literature, philosophy, culture" was held from 4 to 6 July, 2015. Moscow Regional State University became a co-organizer of the event, which was held under the auspices of Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. Under the term “the structures of everyday life" the forms of ordinary life and phenomena of culture are meant that characterize human psychology within the “great lengths" and certain types of thinking. “The creative experiment" implies a “cultural explosion", a kind of “revolution" The central issue of the seminar-discussion was the ratio of continuity and discontinuity in culture. The discussion concentrated on the problem of possible coexisting of the age-old traditions and attempts to significantly change the traditional cultural paradigm in the era of modern (and postmodern), especially when there is no antagonism and unoriginal following in such coexistence. The participants of discussion were scientists from Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, Moscow Regional State University, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, State Academy of Slavic Culture, The Gorky Institute of World Literature, S. Durylin's Memorial House Museum, representatives of Moscow Writers' Union, Russia Writers' Union, as well as the writers from Finland.

The article considers the characteristic features of conservatism as an ideological and philosophical phenomenon, as well as different interpretations of the nature and essence of conservatism. Besides, the causes of its growing demand in the recent political and social context are presented. It is proved that the current drift of the Russian political system in the direction of conservatism is closely connected with the challenge of the relevant agenda of the day and meets the interests of the modern Russian elite.

The article discusses personal and professional specification in the staff selection system of an organization. Personal and professional specification is represented as psychological education of a person, reflected in a subject's predisposition to a particular kind of labor. It manifests itself through personal correspondence to the parameters of an “ideal worker". Identification and evaluation of personal and professional specifications can be performed through nominative and diagnostic ways. This article presents three independent organizations, where differing “etalon" requirements for the specialist were revealed by professional graphic examination. Key words: personal and professional specification, personal specification, personality predisposition, professional graphic method, “ideal" worker, regional specification, professional suitability, parameters of employee's personality. The article discusses personal and professional specification in the staff selection system of an organization. Personal and professional specification is represented as psychological education of a person, reflected in a subject's predisposition to a particular kind of labor. It manifests itself through personal correspondence to the parameters of an “ideal worker". Identification and evaluation of personal and professional specifications can be performed through nominative and diagnostic ways. This article presents three independent organizations, where differing “etalon" requirements for the specialist were revealed by professional graphic examination.

This article analyzes the modern interpretation of one of the most complex and mysterious literary characters. Pechorin takes an extraordinary position in the Russian literature, thanks to inherent inexplicable attractiveness, which always turned a disturbing impact on the literary-critical thought. The phenomenon of Pechorin's seduction (spreading on both characters of the novel and its readers) defines one of the vectors of modern studies that try to achieve the goal through involving psychoanalytic, cultural-characterological and typological methods. Another vector of studying the character is still the mystery connected with his ambivalence to which modern literary criticism tries to pick up the keys by using semiotics and narratology

The article describes the experience of the analysis of the concept «folk» with the use of the semiotics methodology, caused by the multi-level structure and rich interpretive possibilities of this concept. The author identifies several attributes of the concept «folk», changing over the XIX and XX centuries: insularity/openness of the concept borders, the opposition of the forming elements and the presence of permanent/variable semantic connotations. On this basis, it is proved that the concept «folk» is a translator of social relations model and the level of national consciousness.

The article reveals the role of the Internet as a new mass political communication, actually creating new social order of information consumption in national and transnational spaces. It is noted that the political Internet has become an effective mechanism of influence on mass and individual consciousness, as well as of the formation of certain philosophical and ideological positions, views and extensive installations of the Internet users, especially young ones. Special attention is paid to the so-called “digital diplomacy" actively developing in recent years on the initiative of the US Department of State. Besides, the author studies the forms of its manifestation in social networks aimed at young people in order to involve them in the ranks of the opposition forces, the organization and conduct of various political protests. It is emphasized that the ultimate goal of “digital diplomacy" is the overthrow of the existing political regime in the countries disloyal to the US.

The work focuses on the study of the phenomenon of political flash mob. The authors have analyzed the riots of 2014 in Ferguson, the US with similar processes that occured in the United States in 2011. It is shown that the strengthening of the protest movement in the United States has bared social problems of the American society, designating the risks of strengthening the role of the state above law and society. The impact of the new trend of network technology on the traditional forms of political participation is analyzed. The authors also identified the communication mechanism of political flash mobs in Russia and the US - political hashtags.

The article reveals the correlation of the following concepts: semiosphere, textosphere and political textosphere. The author provides functional characteristic of the political textosphere, as well as the justification of the fact that the political component of psychosocial being is conditioned by political textosphere. Genetic functions of political textosphere in political process are reviewed; prospects of potential development of social research of political texts are characterized.

The article presents the results of the study of the role victimhood, as well as the overcoming strategies of behavior, and adolescents' personal characteristics in the situation of a chronic disease. It is shown that the situation of a chronic disease can victimize teenagers' personality and their inner circle. The analysis of differences between viable sets of adolescents with diseases and of healthy adolescents is presented. The author proposes the trajectory of educational activities for timely and effective assistance to adolescents in the situation of a chronic disease.

The article examines the system of chronotopes in “The Other Side" (Die andere Seite), a novel by Austrian writer and artist Alfred Kubin. Basing on the material of such chronotopes as: city-archive and city-castle, the author discloses the hidden intertextual connections between Kubin's novel and works of the grotesque-fantastic literature from the turn of the 19^th-20^th centuries. Simultaneously, the critical intention towards the “Habsburg myth", exhibited by Kubin, is emphasized. Fantastic motifs of a live portrait, a magic eye, and a sleeping epidemic, described in the novel, generate a distinct flavor of the Dual Monarchy, referring to the realities of the rule of Franz Joseph.

The paper presents the comparative analysis of two translations of fragments from the Holy Writ ("Proverbs of Solomon") into the English language. There is a gap of practically three centuries between King James Bible and Good News Bible; moreover, the translators had absolutely different purposes. As a result a lot of divergences of different types can be discovered while comparing the translation of the same part. All types of divergences and thoughts about their origin are provided in the paper. Divergences of stylistic characteristics of the texts are more frequent which can be explained by the specific features of this certain fragment.

The paper presents the results of the analysis of the translation plurality phenomenon on the material of wide-meaning vocabulary. The following translation patterns of wide-value vocabulary are proved: 1) heurisemy is an independent factor of multiple, unequal, and mostly complex translational transformations; 2) translation multisubjectivity has objective and subjective investigation of wide-meaning vocabulary transmission. The whole of all of these factors determine the transcendence of the wide-meaning lexemes translation.

Western medicine became known in Korea in the late XIX century. Then for the first time it was translated into Korean for medical textbooks, in which medical terms of Japanese pattern were used. Those terms were used in Korea until 1945. After that a movement for terms "purification and simplification" began. In the fourth edition of the dictionary of medical terms many hieroglyphic terms were replaced by native Korean words. A lot of hieroglyphic terms excluded from the fourth edition were restored in the fifth edition of the dictionary, so the process of ordering the terms led to their further complication. Currently, the issue of standardization and systematization of medical terms remains unsolved.