In the Russian social and political thought there is a tradition of thinking about the universal fraternity. The important role for the creation of this tradition was played by the philosopher Nikolay Fedorov. The aim of the article is to depict the sources and the evolution of the idea of fraternity. The author analyzed a number of texts created by the Russian thinkers of the XIX and XX centuries where different levels of interpreting the ideal of fraternity are given. The ideal mentioned goes back to the Sergius' Trinity image: active and religious interpretation of fraternity which encourages everybody to unite in multiunity similar to the divine tripersonality. Besides, there is a philosophical and ethic interpretation which states that all people's unity has an absolute moral value. The natural-scientific interpretation also postulates the highest value of fraternity and solidarity on the basis of belief in "deep natural laws". And the specific and applied interpretation of the idea of fraternity assumes that the principles of fraternal life can be embodied into practice.

During the "round table" organized by the electronic magazine "Bulletin of Moscow State Regional University" the essence of posthumanity and a posthuman was discussed. The risks and threats that they carry were also evaluated. Particular attention was paid to the problem of transhumanism, the changing nature of war and democracy in the conditions of postmodernism. Well-known political scientists and philosophers took part in the discussion, among them: S. Horuzhy (RAS Institute of Philosophy), L. Fishman (RAS Ural Branch Institute of Philosophy and Law), N. Komleva (Ural Federal University named after Boris Yeltsin), A. Manoilo (Lomonosov Moscow State University), V. Bagdasaryan (MSRU), I. Radikov (St. Petersburg State University), S. Fedorchenko (MSRU) and A. Abramov (MSRU).

The article presents the results of empirical research studying the way the patients of the cardiology department of a city clinical hospital go through the state of anxiety. The theoretical study is based on the analysis of domestic and foreign psychological literature on the problems of anxiety and being alarmed as factors influencing the psycho-emotional state of patients with cardiac diseases of different etiologies and staying in a hospital within the surgical and conservative treatment.

The article is devoted to the study of the internet-discourse from the point of view of a hypertext. The author analyses a sufficient number of sources devoted to the problem of hypertext, and of creolized text. Distinctive features of the phenomena "discourse" and "hypertext" are described. The author concludes that the internet-discourse can rightfully be considered a hypertext. Besides, the methods of the analyzing and synthesizing a hypertext can be applied to the analysis and synthesis of the internet-discourse. Hypertext discourses exist in parallel with text discourses. The following principles enable us to consider the internet-discourse to be a hypertext, among them: 1) globality, 2) accessibility (both for scanning and for participating in creating a hypertext and discourse); 3) automatism of initiating global hypertext ties between the elements of the information contents.

This article focuses on the metaphorical phrases as an attribute of poitical communication; it represents results of the content analysis of metaphoric material in the Russian President Vladimir Putin's Addresses to the Federal Assembly in 20122015 aimed at identifying the frequency of use of metaphorical phrases in political speech of the Head of State and determining the dominant types of metaphors reflecting the actual problems of the Russian society and values. The ranking of the observable linguistic units, based on the metaphorical transfer of the word meanings, aimed for identifying the current methods of language simulation of situations, events interpretations. Special attention is paid to the correlation of the metaphorical expressions with the dominant in system of values specific for the Russian society, as well as with the population demands, and the features of the political culture. Within the study of metaphor, the analysis of the ways of influencing the mass addressee consciousness was performed.

Reference to specialized vocabulary in the article is due to its wide range implementation in mass media. The objective of this article is to consider structural-semantic and functional peculiarities of specialized vocabulary in printed media (as exemplified in Romance languages). The authors conclude that the usage of specialized vocabulary in mass media demands caution. When a non-specialist comes across such vocabulary, the informative value of these terms is lost. On one hand, specialized vocabulary in mass media can significantly raise speech emphasis. On the other hand, industry words used without stylistic motivation overload the text with difficult of access words and expressions and darken its meaning.

The article is devoted to the work of a prominent British novelist of the twentieth century Aldous Huxley. His attitude to the national literary tradition, in particular, to the English romanticism, is being explored. Having started his literary career as a poet, Huxley wrote about romanticism and English romantics throughout his life - in novels, essays, and letters considering it to be a type of artistic consciousness. The dynamics of Huxley's philosophical and artistic positions are reflected in the change of his assessments. The analysis of the writher's literary-critical thought development allows to clarify the evolution of his creative activity.

In this article the author considers the problem of concept verbalization. The concept "our industry" was selected for the analysis as the modernization of industry has become a priority task for the state. Its effective implementation depends on a competent information policy, which basis on the correct understanding of the concept "our industry" and its characteristics. For this purpose the associative experiment was held, which allowed to determine the respondents' attitude to the subject matter. Therefore attitudes to the condition of the Russian industry, existing in the society, were revealed. The research has demonstrated variability in the perception of "our industry" concept and its dependence on audience characteristics. The author concludes that in modern discourse the concept "Russian industry" requires a serious modeling that will enable it to evolve in the process of the value-meaning components changing.

The article deals with the analysis of conflictogenous verbal components in literary works (fiction) which are included into the compulsory school educational program. The aim of the work is to consider verbal conflict components of writings in volume up to 30 thousand words as the elements reflecting their conflict core. The research is carried out by the method of the quantitative content-analysis. This research allows to determine significant potential of the frequency content-analysis of conflict lexicon in studying the verbal component of prose. Such methodology allows to reveal the conflict side of the writing in particular and, in case of application to all works of the writer, to receive a sentiment estimation of his works and to reveal linguopragmatics of the lexicon usage.