The article contains a critical view on the traditional theoretical approaches to the analysis of values of patriotism in political culture. They are determined by the wish to substantiate universal and the most adequate definition and comprehension of patriotism. There is a contradiction between the interpretation of its content and motivational functionality caused by the presence of different worldviews and ideological stances of scholars and social and political figures. In order to settle this contradiction the authors offer an original approach. According to the authors patriotism is a value actualized in a social and political context which is characterized as difficult, always concrete and permanently changing.

The article studies such theoretical and methodological problems of the history of the Russian sociopolitical thinking as the notion and essence of “sociopolitical thinking", its correlation with such concepts as “political thinking", “social thinking", etc. The concept “Russian thinking" in relation to the history of sociopolitical thinking is analyzed. The authors give grounds for the civilizing criterion to be the most adequate one, as it synthesizes in a varying degree all other criteria (ethnic, territorial and state, religious, language). Besides, the article analyzes various points of view on temporary limits of the Russian sociopolitical thinking.

The place and role of religion in the theories of modernization are specified in this article. The author offers her own understanding of the modern stage of religion politicization. It includes three stages - archaic, the dominant feature of which is clan relations; integral, the characteristic feature of which is the activity of religious organizations; and the stage of political institutionalization of religion, conditioned by formation and functioning of political religious parties. The author presents the comparative analyses of the stages of politicization of religion in the foreign countries with Christian and Islam traditions in the course of modernization reforms. It's concluded that depending on the country specificity the constructive / deconstructive role of a politicized religious institute becomes greater within the period of realization of national models of modernization.

This paper comprehensively deals with the phenomenon of the national and religious extremism, including its causes, ways to prevent ethnic tensions, the involvement of federal and regional government agencies in the fight against extremism and its prevention, laws and regulations aimed at the settlement of this sphere. The article is also characterizes the deficiencies in the implementation of the policy of counteraction ethnic and religious conflicts and crimes. This article deals with the geography and temporal dynamics of ethnic and religious conflicts.

The article is devoted to the study of the mechanisms of war development between superpowers. The wars under study are held in a special geopolitical space - limitrophs - in the second half of the XX century and the first decades of the XXI century. The author considers a limitroph to be a totality of states and non-state actors, geopolitical spaces of which are under a close control of a powerful actor fulfilling the role of a geopolitical tutor. The author stresses that the wars in limitrophs exist in different forms depending on the type of space, used as a theatre of war, and special technologies as well. This article discusses the first and most ancient type of wars in limitrophs - wars ongoing in geographic space. According to the author, the trend of their development during the second half of the XX - the first decades of the XXI century is their gradual transformation into hybrid ones.

The article investigates the kind of party elections which is rarely applied, but used in Germany, - the electoral system of personalized proportional representation. The author analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the German electoral system, on the basis of which it is concluded that such system is not suitable for the Russian election practice, though it is a better option than a purely proportional electoral system. The author concludes that for Russia it would be more rational to use the earlier version of the German electoral system that combined the advantages of party elections, thus eliminating the possibility of the party influence on the outcome of elections in single-mandate constituencies.

The main purpose of this paper is the identification and designation of the most likely risks for Russia from the rapidly developing radical terrorist group "Islamic State". The results of a scientific political analysis allow to make a conclusion about low probability of open military invasion onto the territory of the Russian Federation, in particular the North Caucasian Federal District. However, in our opinion, do not exclude other forms of threats to the national security of Russia: first of all, informational and socio-cultural ones.

The article analyzes the relations between political elites of the center and the regions. The main political, economic and administrative mechanisms of constructing the control systems of the Federal center over regional political elites are analyzed. The research covers the period from 2000 till 2014. The basic characteristics of the modern regional political elite are formulated. The analysis of the results of the elections of the heads of Russian regions in 2013 and 2014 is presented. Besides, the author gives the tentative forecast of the results of gubernatorial elections, regional Legislative Assemblies elections, as well as the elections of the heads of local bodies in 2015.

The article presents the results of empirical research of the interrelation between teenagers' psychological features and professional self-determination. It is revealed that the high level of motivation to success and low level of motivation to avoiding failures most probably defines the choice of “enterprise" professions. While the low level of motivation to success and high level to avoiding of failures mean that “intellectual" profession will be chosen. The author states that there is certain correlation between different values of personal orientations and motives of choosing a profession. The dominating value remembering about a person's own shortcomings and the drawbacks of other people defines the motive choosing a career which be in compliance with personal opportunities.

Practical aspects of the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (the BSRI) use are presented in article. The author gives specific examples of calculations of the androgyny coefficient in terms of application of original and adapted versions of the BSRI. The article describes the author's approach to calculations of the index of androgyny along with the interpretation of the results, obtained by means of the inventory. In conclusion, the author outlines the areas of further research of numerous aspects of the BSRI use.

The article discusses the ontogenetic aspect of the problem of self-realization from the perspective of synthesis of subject approach researches. The role of a subject as a dynamic characteristic with its own laws of development is studied as a main component. The process of self-realization is linked to the stair-step development of the subject. The author justifies the thesis that the meaning of subjectivity increases with age and allows overcoming the dependence on external conditions, moving in the direction to self-determination, self-conditioning and independence. The integration of systems and subject-activity approaches makes it possible to study self-fulfillment as a continuous process of self-realization during the whole course of life being conditioned by the levels of the subject. This allows to fill the process of selfrealization with new content at the each stage of ontogenesis.

This paper analyses special aspects of social integration of teenagers coming from different ethnic groups. The following social integration indicators have been defined during the research: level of resilience (involvement, control, risk acceptance), degree of social and psychological adaptation of a person. As a result of the comparative study of different ethnic groups of teenagers the author comes to the conclusion that special aspects of social integration are determined by ethnic features which are necessary to be taken into account while preventing development problems of modern teenagers and decreasing the number of conflicts between different ethnic groups living closely together, as well as while concerting ethnic, social and cultural special aspects of modern multipolar world development.

This paper examines national and cultural peculiarities of phraseological units of lexical-phraseological field“Mental activity" by the example of semantic group «think»; investigates verbalization of speaker's attitude to the intellectual process and the work of the human mind with language means of English,. Certain groups of idioms that reflect different aspects of human mental activity are highlighted. It is proved that the feature of verbalization of the investigated conceptual segment by representatives of the Anglo-American linguistic culture is in considering thought to be an active and involuntary process.

This article is devoted to the univerbation, a highly productive word-for-mation process of the modern Russian speech. The author singles out the thematic groups of univerbs, notes the changes in their structure compared with the previous periods of the language development (e.g., the emergence of the thematic group “Internet"), as well as the emergence of the univerbs with the foreign-language stems. The question of the necessity to describe the thematic spheres of univerbs within a semantic field is also raised in the article. The functioning of univerbs in many cases depends on social, historical and cultural factors.

On 15th December 2014 in Moscow State Regional University took place the round table discussion «M. Lermontov's personality: myth and reality», devoted to the 200th anniversary of the poet's birth. The personality of M. Lermontov, whose work largely determines the image of Russian culture, attracted mythmakers' attention even during his life. For some people Lermontov's creative activity became a source of learning themselves and the world, on the basis of their understanding of his personality they created their own artistic reality. For others the poet's work was a subject for speculations and shocking the public. It is clear that 2014, dedicated to the anniversary of Lermontov, as well as 2015 , declared a year of literature, are both capable of directing public attention to forming an adequate understanding of Lermontov's personality. The question of the poet's biographical data authenticity and of decent interpretation of his creative activity was discussed by the scientists of Moscow State Regional University, by scientists of Moscow branch of interregional non-governmental organization “Lermontov Society", of State Lermontov Memorial “Tarkhany", of Penza State University, of Omsk State Pedagogical University, of Tver State University, as well as by scientists of Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod - National Research University.

In this paper, a German proverb is considered as a representative of the folk genre and is identified with the concept of sentence-text. Despite the “eternal" status of a proverb, the author defines its basic properties, which allow to systematize inside the proverb all the markers involved in the formation of its temporary framework, the so-called artistic time. It is stated that they provide both laconism and expressiveness, as well as ensure the artistic unity of the studied genre of folk art.

The article deals with ethnocultural and linguo-cultural approaches to the facts in modern Russian folk dialects. The object of the study is a Russian bath as a phenomenon of traditional material and spiritual culture of the nation. The author examines the archaic conception of the oven, traditional for native speakers of Ryazan dialects. Besides, its role in various traditional ceremonies is analyzed. Therefore, the author studies the facts from the periphery of modern person's language and cultural consciousness. At the same time it's mentioned that along with the destruction of mythological notions the mythological vocabulary is preserved.

The article deals with the problems connected with interlingual translation of words having cultural regional peculiarities. It is marked that they can be considered as a special layer of words for which the so-called border between native and alien realities is typical. At the same time it is necessary to take into account that the idiom status, for which their usage is typical, can't always easily be determined unambiguously. Therefore it should be taken into consideration within interlingual/ cross-cultural communication.

The present paper contains the comparison of the history of the two Bible translations, namely into the Gothic and Slavonic languages. It is mentioned, that, on the one hand, the process of their creation and their translation methods show definite similarity, on the other hand, the future destinies of these two monuments had distinct differences. Among the reasons, which determined such differences, the authors name the religious factor (the Arianism of the Goths versus the Orthodox faith of the South and Eastern Slavs), as well as the relatively short period of existence of the Gothic states.

The article analyses the role of TV series' titles in full understanding of the movie. Considering linguistic and cultural approach to the study of TV series titles the author presents the classification of titles based on TV series genre peculiarities. The author considers the titles to be lexical units with national and cultural elements. Thus three methods of translation are pointed out: full translation; translation with applying lexical transformations; and total replacement. Moreover, each option is accompanied by a number of examples with the analysis and, in some cases the author's variant of translation is given.