The article is dedicated to the analysis of civilizational indices in political studies. According to the author, after the famous work of Samuel Huntington, this theme gets its further development in the Western political science in bringing Eastern political thought heritage. Understanding of political, economic, social and other processes may become more systematic and verified if we take into account the historical and civilizational paradigms and patterns.

The article considers the actual state of integration process between Morocco and European Union. It studies the objective conditions and driving forces of the both sides' willingness to cooperate more closely in the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean process.

In the article the author regards the problems of definition of the refugee as a legal and social concept, and also criteria of the status of the refugee with reference to the African realities. It is underlined that for defining the status of refugees there are often no accurate criteria. In particular, it is impossible to separate refugees gone from the borders of the country from the internal migrants because both of them frequently are supervised by the same factors. The main criterion to define refugees, more likely, is to search in the fact of leaving from a permanent home place because of the further impossibility to remain there.

The author analyzes the Soviet-Ethiopian contacts in the fields of education after the national democratic revolution in Ethiopia. Conclusions and analysis are made on the broad range of sources and archival materials.

This article is devoted to the analisys of the Mediterranean direction of the Spain foreign policy under H.M. Asnar. The basic aspects of regional foreign policy of the country, main streems of the decision in difficult situations and conflicts are estimated. The most concerned are the questions of Gibraltar, Spanish - Morocco relations, the Middle East conflict.

The article considers the present situation on the different educational levels in Kenya. Despite of the government efforts one could hardly mark visual successes. The author considers traditional means to be the best in improving the quality of education.