No 3 (2014)

In the article there is given the definition of electoral corruption and its institutional mechanism as abuse of administrative resource of public power. The classification of the types of administrative resource of public power is given in the article as well. On the basis of analysis of the Russian electoral model the author discovered how abuse of different types of administrative resources could influence the results of elections. Corruption began to emerge in Russia in electoral cycles of parliament and presidential elections of 1995-1996 and 1999-2000. The operation “the successor” is taken under serious consideration in the article.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the institutes of public authority and city management system in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Ekaterinburg and Novosibirsk.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the characteristics and activities of mass media as an institution of political culture, which should be aimed at raising citizens' awareness and capacity objective to organize information exchange between Government and citizens. Considered social acuteness and urgency of this problem, the main functions of the MASS MEDIA, a trend increase in the role and impact of the MEDIA on the current political situation in Russia.

The article analyzes the main directions of the Russian-Kazakh cooperation. The analysis of these relations showed that both countries rank them very positively. The results of the study of their bilateral cooperation in political, diplomatic, economic and other spheres allow making conclusions about their future favorable relationship in the future.

The Eurasian Economic Union is a project of confederative union of the former Soviet Union countries with a common political, economic, military, customs, humanitarian and cultural space. The project has been widely discussed in the post-Soviet countries, including Armenia. Today it is important how will be future relations of the South Caucasus countries over Eurasian integration look like.

Today among the development of education policies in Russia, the most important is the improvement of the quality and accessibility of education, creation of the system of continuous education. One of the trends of the activity is the development and implementation of the e-learning in educational practices. This article is dedicated to the understanding of the legal framework, the stages of development and resources needing for e-learning.

This article reviews peace-making phenomenon in the contemporary system of international security. It is shown, that peace-making as a fact is a larger notion than military or police peace-making missions components. The focus of the article is juridical and practical aspects of peace-making realization at present stage, suggesting of its further development ways.

The article is devoted to analysis of issues of interaction between state and civil society. The article examines the theoretical, conceptual and practical aspects of interactions between state and civil society. The material is based on research of well-known authors, as well as own research and findings of the author. Studying of models of interaction between the state and civil society allows us to consider the proper perspective in the functional aspect.