No 3 (2009)

The article deals with the cooperation between the authorities and mass-media in the most complicated period of the political and socioeconomic development of the post-Soviet Russia. Reasoning from the message that in contexts of crisis Russian authorities had to place their stake on the information resources and active cooperation with media community, the author reviews the evolution of mass-media role in the process of providing the Russian governmental bodies` stability in the other half of 1990th.

The article concerns the Islamic World's place and role in contemporary world politics with a view to its energetic, demographic and growing economic potential, as well as to the contemporary world order's substantial characteristics and to the tendencies of forming up a new world order.

British Labour government has been implementing a policy of multiculcuralism in Great Britain for the last ten years. New Labour multicultural policy is based on cultural diversity and could be built up in a society of social cohesion. But in the beginning of the XXI century the tolerant attitude towards members of the British ethnic minorities clashed with the religious consciousness strengthening among radical British Muslims. It was obvious that Labour government lacked effective instruments to deal with this group of people. Serious mistakes in immigration policy have made sufficient negative impact on Labour government popularity rates. Global financial recession have caused more troubles and made political perspectives of Mr. Brown government vaguer. Such situation in its turn leads to the increase of popularity of British Conservative party and even of far right party - British National party, which is famous for its racist statements. British observers star to talk that the political leadership faces the necessity to revise the multicultural policy.

The municipal budgetary policy defines the possibilities and prospects of the municipalities. Today the cooperation between the municipalities is of special interest because there are a great number of the municipalities in Russia, they have insufficient budget incomes and their economical potentials differ very noticeably.

The article is devoted to the regional security issues in South East Asia. The author analyses the international relations that go closely to the foreign policy and foreign policy strategy problems. The author proposes risk analysis as a new and promising method in political science to generate foreign policy plans and analyze international conflicts and problems.