Vol 19, No 4 (2017)

In this article, primarily, was the intention to show an example starting in 2017 priority project “development of the export capacity of the Russian education system” opportunities and risks that manifested itself during even the initial stages of its implementation. These risks and opportunities should be considered as phased implementation of the project scheduled for completion already in 2025. The authors associate with the project a number of observations about world trends in education, and in this regard the situation that the Russian university system faced with the need to take radical actions and measures based on the principles of project activities, political and socio-economic analysis of the related processes. As the object of analysis, we selected official documents of state structures, officials, range of events and actions that take place as we enter the process of implementation of the first phase of the priority project.

Article is devoted to consideration of process of forming of valuable symbolical space of the Russian power in the context of forming of the new model of development of society determined as one of the priority directions of the Concept of long-term social and economic development of the Russian Federation for the period till 2020. This vector of development of the relations of the state and society is determined by the author as strategy of forming of the valuable relation to the power - the purposeful, system, jointly performed activities of the power and society for creation of valuable space of the Russian power through transformation and consecutive transition each other of the following symbolical categories of the power: “identity” - “image” - “reputation” - “brand”. Content of the specified categories is opened, interpretation of measurements of the valuable field of a brand of the power on the basis of model of a four-dimensional brand of T. Ged is offered. The special attention is paid to process of forming of reputation of the power as to a subject of independent author research, on the example of studying of reputation of the regional power of the Smolensk region.

The article is dedicated to the dynamics of the scientific views on the political crisis of 1993 in Russia. The study is significant due to the found tendencies of development in modern Russian science. The scientific articles in the research were classified in several categories by the character and the approach in studying of the same scientific issue. The aim of the study is the analysis of the scientific view changes on political crisis of 1993. Materials of the study represent the set of scientific works that have been published in Russian in Russia since 1993. The papers were collected on the basis of the Rus-sian State Library, Russian science index, information platforms elibrary.ru and cyberleninka.ru. The articles were classified in several categories according to the evaluations of those political events and to the par-ticular topicality of the researches. Moreover, they were separated in several time series. Correlation analysis was the main mathematical method of the research. In the result, it was found that the number of the positive, neutral, and negative publications depends on time serious significantly. The closer to the current moment the more scientific papers dedicated to the political crisis of 1993 have been pub-lished. The number and percent of the positive articles have reduced substantially and, simultaneously, the same measures for the negative articles have risen. The percent of the neutral articles was negatively correlated with the time period since the year 1993. These tendencies will be continued in the future. The number of the common political publications dedicated to the crisis of 1993 and the one of the pub-lications on the same topic in the related scientific fields has gradually grown. However the most im-portant interdependence was found between the specific political publications and the time period since the year 1993.

The article analyzes the issue of development of regional integration processes and for-mation of integration structures within post-Soviet space. Within the last decade one of the most dynamically evolving regional integration project is so called the “Eurasian project”? connected with the creation of Eurasian economic union (EAEU). At the moment this integration structure is not a full-fledged one and is susceptible to a number of specific risks. One of the major one is dependence on the deep-rooted “bad integration practices”, or post-Soviet integration path dependence. Previously it led to slowdown of in-tegration dynamics, decrease of effectiveness as well as decay of integration structures. In order to es-cape it, the EAEU should strive to increase its effectiveness on the basic of selecting valid integration model, working out straightforward integration strategy and proper usage of mechanisms of integration cooperation.

The research object is the sociopolitical foundations of sustainable development in China. Research subject is the problem of inequality as one of the obstacles to sustainable development in China. In the article, different aspects of the issue are reviewed in the context of sustainable development, especially through the requirements of the UN Agenda 2030. These aspects include income inequality, inequality in education and health care, gender inequality. It is shown that despite the improvement trend in some specific aspects, the inequality gap in China is still large, further reduction of the inequality level remains one of the main tasks for achieving sustainable development goals in China.

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of strengthening neoconservative sentiments, i.e. neocon actors, in Germany. The paper analyzes the aims of three neoconservative actors in Germany: the party Alternative for Germany, the social movement PEGIDA and the “Identitarian movement”. It is found that all three parties have similar aims and their cooperation could lead to a serious strengthening of neocon positions both in society and on the political landscape. One of the conclusions of the article at hand is that it is too early to judge the party's ability to work as an established party. This conclusion is accompanied with the fact that the majority of those who voted for AfG were so called “protest voters”, hence they may prevent the return of the party in the next elections to the Bundestag.