This article is devoted to the analysis of the color revolutions, as a threat to national security and sovereignty of modern states. Besides, the role of the USА and Western countries in organizing and conducting the forced dismantling of the political regimes in the Middle East, North Africa and CIS countries is investigated. Color revolutions cause permanent political and socio-economic instability, threaten the territorial integrity and sovereignty of states. In these conditions close cooperation between Russia, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Belarus and other countries is required with the aim of deterring destructive Western foreign policy strategy of reformatting the world order into the norms and standards of the Western civilization, part of which have become colored revolutions.

The article reveals the essential criteria of the political regime and its typology. The main factors affecting its formation and functioning are characterized. According to the author, the political regime includes a system of institutional, social and ideological components that generate and characterize a particular way of political power. The article clearly shows that the modes of governance are fundamentally different from each other not only by means of exercising power, but also by social entities and policy orientation. This approach allowed the author to determine the political regime according to the main criterion, i.e.: to what extent it consistently provides the triumph of the principles of democracy, the rights and freedoms of citizens, and the realization of their fundamental interests.

The article considers the problem of identifying the orientation of a political party evolution. The author marks the aspects of radical left parties' activities, indicating there is a tendency towards their integration into the socio-political system of the western liberal-bourgeois society. The parliamentary activity of "non-system" political forces becomes an objective indicator of such integration. The author justifies this statement on the example of the activities of the German Bundestag deputies from the party of the «Alliance 90/the greens». This party has made its way from a "nonsystem" opposition to the member of the ruling coalition.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the processes and technologies use by the ruling party and the managerial elite. It is stated that the strategy of loyalty to the managerial elite has become the most effective due to the changes in the election legislation. Besides, this strategy is being converted into the administrative resource used for bringing pressure on the voters' electoral behavior. The managerial elite' electoral tactics consists of giving up the party's ideological strategies and of shifting the focus of the election campaign on the pragmatic technology relying on the image of a popular leader.

One of the most important tasks of any political power is to ensure its legitimacy. To reach this goal the power resorts to various means - from democratic ones to the coercion and the use of force. The choice of means of legitimation depends on socio-cultural features of the society, the experience of state-building, the level of economic development, etc. The institution of parliamentarism has huge legitimizing potential, which is the object of the present research. In the article the author sets the goal to explain the role of parliamentarism in the legitimation of political power, as well as to identify the mechanisms of parliamentarianism functioning in this process.

Modern fiction, which has become a special genre in literature, cinema and fine arts, is characterized by the use of fantastic meanings, suppositions and assumptions. Fiction is a kind of parallel universe which implies the construction of models of social and political development, the evolution of human civilization as it is. These and other questions were raised in an interview by V.A. Kovalev, the expert for the Regional Branch of the Russian Society of Political Scientists in the Komi Republic, Doctor of Political Sciences at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of Syktyvkar State University. The questions were asked by S.N. Fedorchenko, Candidate of Science in Politology, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Law of Moscow State Regional University.

The article is devoted to the study of the consciental war phenomenon, i.e. targeted total reformatting of ethnic groups and nations' self-identity in order to achieve an absolute controllability of a given ethnic group or nation. The author stresses that the main actor of modern consciental war is the U.S. and its allies. The article examines the key trends of the consciental war: “archaeological war" and profaning the prophets and postulates of the world religions.

The article analyzes the process of changing the status of theoretical knowledge of politics in the system of higher education in the United States since the XVII^th century up till now. The author studies the process of political science development as an academic discipline; and the importance of teaching political subjects in the USA universities. On the basis of the US higher education institutions curricula the author makes conclusions about the specificities of different stages of political theory and political science development. Besides, there are conclusions about the characteristic features of teaching political science in the USA.

In this work the author examines the transformation of the Russian-German humanitarian relations at the turn of the 20th-21 st centuries and marks three main periods of this cooperation. The main characteristics in developing and strengthening of Russian-German cooperation in such spheres as science, education and culture are also demonstrated. The author comes to the conclusion that Russian-German humanitarian relations can constantly develop thanks to the mutual support both of the government and civil society.

On the basis of the panel surveys conducted by the author in 1994-2014 the long- and short-term trends in the Russian political elites' formation are traced. On the analysis of public opinion and expert evaluations the author draws conclusions about the increasing influence of the personalistic component in political processes. Besides, it is stated that habitual Russian authoritarian vectors of political power are being established. The article presents a model of guiding political processes.

The article is devoted to the dynamics of a political regime in Abkhazia. The author offers the periodization of its political regime based on the specificities of political institutions' transformation and of the methods of power implementation. As of today Abkhazia is one of the most uncharacteristic examples among unrecognized and partially recognized states in the post USSR space. Despite the lack of public recognition and tacit necessity to follow the principles of internal stability its internal political cycles can't be called a conservative rotation of politicians within the usual procedures. The author concludes that studying the features of internal political dynamics of the post-Soviet territories is especially important for understanding the trends of their development and preservation of stability in the region.

The article is devoted to the most odious and related to each other problems of Russian domestic politics, i.e.: the underdevelopment as a law-based state and the extremely high rates of corruption. The factors of civilizational development of the West, East and Russia that have had a decisive influence on the formation of the key contemporary legal systems and forms of regulation of corruption are discussed in detail. The article presents special features of the Russian civilizational potential, as well as the determining problems of the legal state and the minimization of corruption.

The article covers the analysis of the achievements of the US energy security strategy and its impact on President B. Obama's foreign policy. The author underlines the fact that at the beginning of the XXI century due to the «shale revolution» the US role as a new global energy center has strengthened in the global market of oil and gas resources. The traditional OPEC actors - Saudi Arabia and Russia - act in the world policy as competitors, realizing their own national interests. The strengthening of the USA role in the global energy market may result in some changes of its foreign policy strategy in the Middle East and in the world.

The author performed a scientific analysis of socio-psychological problems the victims get as a result of military conflicts. Three categories of military conflicts victims are discussed. The first category includes active victims, i.e. they are in the first place soldiers or armed people who protect someone's interests; the second category includes passive victims - people who had found themselves in the area of an armed conflict due to some circumstances; the third category includes indirect victims of armed conflicts - they are family members and the nearest of the military conflicts participants. The article reveals the negative and positive socio-psychological effects the victims got in military conflicts.

The article is the authors' attempt to give qualitative analysis of a psychologist- consultant's work with the rejected parts of a client's “self" within the framework of Gestalt-consultation. The authors define Gestalt-consultation as a method of consultation, which enlarges a person's self-perception and makes it possible to integrate different experiences into the holistic image of “self" That results in the improvement of the client's contact with the surrounding world. The article shows that the aim of a phenomenological Gestalt-study is modeling the client's field of perception in such a way that the characteristic manifestations of the reality to become obvious, as well as to make a clear understanding of the situation under study. The projection is described as a mechanism of rejecting the undesirable aspects of a personality. The article is conditionally divided into two parts: 1) the theoretical aspects of the image of “self" within the framework of Gestalt-consultation; 2) the description and the analysis of some session fragments during which the client's rejected parts of “self" are perceived

The article discusses the features of the lexical part of speech as a component of preschool children's communicative skills. The author presents the assessment results of the children's vocabulary (only those who study in the system of coeducation) basing on the method of associative chains. The conducted research allowed to reveal that there is an interdependence between the reduction of the communicative functions of speech and the lack of preschool children's vocabulary development. It is established that the verbal communication disorder is a consequence of the lack of language means development.

The article is devoted to studying the theoretical problems of self-image manifestations and its structural components due to the ability of the individual to act “mentally." On the basis of theoretical and methodological analysis, the author proves the basic functions of self-image structural components closely correlate with the ability to build internal action plan. This relationship appears to be an imperative psychological mechanism of self-image behavioral component, which allows to adjust personal behavior, to develop motor skills and enhance professional activity. Besides, it develops personal objective understanding and knowledge about himself, creates positive perception of personal qualities, as a result of his efforts to self-development.

The article presents data on studying officers' readiness for work with the personnel, as well as their personality's motivational, value-meaningful, and emotional-volitional spheres. The criteria and levels of professional readiness manifestation are shown. Officers' professional readiness for work with the personnel characterizes their ability and willingness to reach professional self-realization. Having performed the research, the author comes to conclusion that higher military educational institutions should create all the necessary conditions to improve the quality of officers' professional training for work with the personnel.

The article is devoted to the development of the ideas about archetypes as structural units of the collective unconscious. The diversity of views on the nature of archetypes and their classification are analyzed. Modern approaches to applied usage of archetypal analysis are discussed. Some aspects of practical application of archetypal analysis within the framework of the fairy-tail therapy are disclosed. Attention is focused on different forms of symbolic running through archetypal roles as an important means of individual and group psychological work. N.M. Ognenko's classification of archetypes according to the elements of nature is thoroughly analyzed. The analysis is illustrated by the author's functional scheme.

The article deals with topical issues of social-psychological characteristics of adults during the period of study. The author reveals the concept of an adult from the standpoint of domestic and foreign psychologists. The article presents the characteristics and components of a person's social maturity as a necessary condition for adults' learning activity being successful. According to the results of a questioning preformed among the students of the Institute of Retraining and Advanced Training of Managerial Personnel and Specialists of the system of social protection of population of the city of Moscow the author comes to the conclusion that there is a socially desirable type of students' personality contributing to the success of adults' learning activity.

The article presents a brief historical background of the working out and further development of the ideas of inclusive education of children with disabilities in the U.S. and Europe, provides the analysis of the concepts "inclusion" and "integration". It is proved that a holistic inclusive approach in the learning process allows to prepare people with disabilities for independent life in society. The author gives the analysis of the difficulties and peculiarities, as well as the benefits, of inclusion in the mainstream educational system.

The article deals with the process of word formation of a class of automotive terms. The mechanisms and principles underlying this phenomenon are highlighted. The most productive ways of term-formation are given. Theoretical basis of formation of terminology in the field of automotive industry are discussed. Five main ways of term formation are presented, among which the most productive one is terminologization. Examples of how the original meaning of the word becomes field-related are demonstrated.

The article presents K. Aksakov's poetical heritage which is still not studied well enough. It is represented as a “loud poetry", civic and patriotic, and orthodox in its fundamentals but at the same time convicting naturalism in literature and wingless positivism in philosophy. The article reveals the way poetry reflected the disputes of the Slavophiles with Westerners in the 1840s -1850s. The analysis of Aksakov's poems style contains the evidence of the romantic nature of his creative activity. This article confirms the urgency of KS Aksakov's poetry in the new millennium.

The article discusses the change of the core meanings of the concept “time" within the recent fifty years. With the help of a free associative experiment, conducted among youth audience (17-24 years old), it was proved that the content of linguistic consciousness of the representatives of the Russian ethnos has changed due to the presence of quite wide functioning of the English borrowing “time" as a part of new derived words. The analysis of the concept “time" demonstrated that the majority of respondents have insufficient conceptual base of the concept.

This article examines an insufficiently known issue of I.V. Goethe's creative activity - of the great German poet - the linguistic picture of his philosophical and natural science works, forming the writer's special scientific style. I.V. Goethe's seven scientific papers are in the center of the analysis, as it is difficult to overestimate their aesthetic value. Goethe's scientific speech cannot be considered a model or meeting all the standards of the scientific style. The author argues that, most likely, Goethe's works with all determined linguistic features (active use of scientific terms, the formation of new concepts, rational and logical narrative interspersed with art, et al.) are texts that represent the scientific and popular style and are an interesting object for linguistic analysis.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the semantic paradigmatic relations in phraseology, the phraseological field “Human physic state", in particular, synonymous and antonymous relations taken as an example. The lexical field identifiers have been revealed on the basis of the author's identity field model. The author formed the rows of synonymous phraseological units and pairs of antonymous phraseological units. The composition of the rows of synonyms illustrates the specific features of the world perception characteristic to the representatives of the German culture.

In the article the history of studying the urban text in the Russian literature is highlighted and the images of Petersburg in the works of A. Blok and A. Bely are revealed. The author studies the chronotope of Petersburg's space and all kinds of details and motifs related to the image of the City. The study is based on the comparative analysis of the two images of Petersburg created in Blok's and Bely's works. In the end of the article the author draws conclusions, that Blok's and Bely's images of Petersburg were not copying each other and were not created under the one-sided creative influence. Besides, they represent two interrelated chapters of the one Petersburg text of the silver age in the Russian literature.

This article is devoted to the study of national German, English and Russian food traditions through the prism of cultural linguistics. The article presents a comparative analysis of phraseological units of the German, English and Russian languages with the substantive component, indicating food, courses and drinks. Phraseological units containing such a “gastronomic" component reflect the whole nation's world-view, the characteristic features of the linguistic personality and mentality, which determines the choice of the research subject in this article.

The paper deals with some aspects of the creation of the Bible text in English in the 16^th - the beginning of the 17^th centuries (before the appearance of King James's Bible). These aspects are unfamiliar to the Russian readers. It is mentioned that, initially Catholics often denied even the possibility of interpreting the Holy Writ into «vulgar languages' (in this case into English), whereas during the Reformation period the main point of the discussion was the opposition of the «correct' and «corrupted' translations. The authors paid special attention to the polemics between Sir Thomas More and William Tyndale, as well as to the viewpoint of the creators of the Catholic Douai-Rheims Bible (1582-1610).

This article studies characteristic features of relationships of the state power and society in the Russian Federation. The research is based on the comprehensive analysis of endogenous and exogenous factors, current social and political development. The author makes an attempt to create a modern Russian model of public administration governance guided by innovative trends, on the one hand, and corresponding Russian political culture, on the other hand. The problem of maintaining the functionality of the management model, its adequacy to the current socio-political situation is made.