The article is devoted to the questions of interrelation of intellectual elite and elites of power in the process of geopolitical thought forming. The author examines the dynamics of development of scientific and ideological approaches in development of recent geopolitical thought. The description o...
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The war peril continued after the ending of cold war. The kind of military flareups was changed: local intrastate wars, interethnic and religious conflicts, large-scale terrorist sabotages replaced the military confrontation of two coalitions. Stable trend to militarization of Caspian countries incr...
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It’s mentioned, that the destabilizing influence of nuclear weapon expansion on the world policy demands huge efforts for saving stability and peace. For this sake, the positions of countries, interested in political regulation of the Korean crisis, are analysed in details, as well as the differen...
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The article presents the deep analysis of religious terms defining different cult places, places of devotions and shrines. The authors elaborated a typology of cult places in Astrakhan region and give their main characteristics. Using sociological methods the researchers clear up the population's at...
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The USSR disintegration led to the communism ideology crash, for hundreds years stimulated development of spiritual life of people, living on the USSR territory. This phenomenon led to reflection of ideology role and place in the spiritual life of society and government. There was no ideology in the...
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In this article the author analyzes culture as one of the most important sphere of social life. The author stresses on consideration of society’s contemporary condition through the prism of culture, which helps to explain many contradictory processes in social and spiritual life of Russia. The aut...
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This article is devoted to the information of Ancient Greek and Roman authors about the Caspian Sea and the inhabitants of its coast. These reports are very important, because there were sole information in the written form about the ancient tribes, who inhabited this region in the antiquity. Ancien...
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The theoretical approaches to the policy implementation are analysed in this article. At the approach В«top-downВ» the basic attention is given to the ability of the policymakers to put the precise policy purposes and to supervise a stage of policy implementation. At the approach В«bottom-upВ» stree...
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Groups of interests arise on the basis of objectively existing variety of people’s interests and enquiries. Active purposeful (reasonable) activity about the comprehension and realization of their interests by men is necessary for their formation and function. Groups of interests are the main cano...
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The article is devoted to the analysis of motivations and confirmities of forming the electoral behavior under the influence of the political-cultural factors. The emperical methods of the electoral behaviour analysis are interpreted in it applying to the motivations of the townspeople’s choice, t...
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