No 3 (2011)

The article is devoted to the question of creation of civil society in the democratizing Russia after the demise of the Soviet Union. The author argues that the shrinking powers of the state and increasing degree of diversity of society requires transfer of functions of political governance to the structures of civil society. But the decision on the applicability of Western liberal democratic model of civil society for a multinational and multiconfessional Russia and the participation of government in this process demands much attention.

The interaction of civilizations is studied by the different areas of political science, and the significant achievements in this area have been reached due to the neorealism and neoliberalism. Actualization of the problems of political modernization and the spread of the Western values in traditional societies led to the formation and development of theories of civilizations' clash and interaction. Conceptualization of civilizational discourse generates heuristic concepts to predict the processes of stabilization and destabilization.

Today France shows rather good indicators of participation of women in legislature. These indicators are rather low in comparison with other European Union countries, but very high in comparison with earlier periods of political history of France. Favorable influence on similar changes has occurred thanks to an adoption of law about parity. The opinions of politicians of the benefit of the law of parity and its need disagree on many topics. But the fact of its introduction and approbation shows us the essential changes in mentality of French people.

This article is devoted to the analysis of the most frequent use of everyday language used in the speeches and statements of President Dmitry Medvedev. From the research it becomes clear that the main target is the Russian audience. However, some statements of this type aim also to influence foreign listeners and readers. At the same time, one purpose is to influence internal recipients differently from external recipients. This means that everyday language plays a different role in domestic communication from that in international communication and needs to be analyzed separately.

This article is devoted to research of institutional aspects of «Government Relations» (GR) phenomenon as a specific form of business-authorities relations in the modern Russia which is connected with change of institutional environment and directed on improvement of public administration efficiency and corruption level reduction. Special attention in the article is granted to interpretation of place and role of institution of Government Relations in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) system in the modern Russia. GR is considerated as a political form of public-private partnership (PPP), as a kind of «political basis» which determines the main principles and mechanisms of PPP in the others spheres, and first of all in the economical sphere.