Geopolitical problems of antagonism among Russia, Turkey and Iran in the Central Asia and Transcaucasia are considered in the article. The author analyzes in detail the main features of foreign policy of the specified countries in the given regions of the world, since the period after disintegration of the USSR up to now. Besides, the important place is given in the article to the analysis of ideological and political contradictions between Turkey and Iran, Russia and Turkey, Russia and Iran.

The article investigates the main geopolitical approaches of the Western researchers to the Ukraine. The author draws attention to their contradictory assessments of the Ukraine. On the one hand, the Western analysts attach great significance to this state due to its unique location. On the other hand, such location is regarded as insecurity and a kind of hindrance for being any important political actor. The Western geopolitics consider Ukraine not as an independent geopolitical unit with its own foreign policy interests, but only as an object for increasing pressure on Russia.

The article deals with the peculiarities of the contemporary state of global innovation space and possibilities of its improvement in the Russian Federation in the future on the basis of realization of a number of measures of both economic and infrastructure, legislative and technical nature. The authors consider innovative space of the Russian Federation as an element of the international system developed in the context of the world trends, but has its own specifics. A significant role in its formation and development, according to the authors, is allotted to the state, to create the mechanism of adaptation of international experience.

The article discusses the features of the socio-political situation in the regions of the spread of Islam on the eve of the establishing of the Organization of Islamic Conference, as well as the role of Saudi Arabia in the creation of this organization.

Activity of the enterprises of various branches is comparable to functioning of modern system of the state. In any organization, irrespective of the direction and the maintaining sphere, administrative activity is closely connected with processing of data and production of final (output) information. The article deals with the analysis of the development of the informational technologies in higher education management in Russia.