No 1 (2016)

The model of social policy implemented in the country, is entirely determined by the features of the existing socio-economic system. For countries where the economy is built on the basis of social-democratic approaches, the most characteristic of the Scandinavian model of social policy. In countries with a reduced role of the state in the economy is used residual and institutional types of social policy. Conservative type of social policy is a reflection of the social market economy. Russia doesn't fit in any of these models as its socio-economic system has a rather contradictory structure: features of early and late capitalism, something from the socialist past and you can even find some characteristic features of feudal society. It is a low wage, the highest in the world differentiation of property and income that do not correspond to today's realities, the system of compulsory social insurance. As a guide may be selected Norway is a country close to Russia in structure of economy, export-dependent, in all other respects they are totally dissimilar. Norway world and European leader in the socio-economic development. According to the author to explain such results is possible only in the presence of normal political competition, thanks to which they take into account the interests of the majority populations.

At the present stage of the development of social relations the information acquires the value of the most important resource in global policy and world economy. At this conjuncture the global information sphere becomes an arena of inter-state confrontation using the methods of information-psychological war. The scientific attitudes to the definition of the term “information-psychological war” are considered in the article on the base of Russian and foreign materials. The course of and interim results of the informational opposition between Russia and the block of the Western states is analyzed in relation to the political crisis in Syria and Ukraine. According to the author, the transition to “positional information war” based on using “the image of the enemy” is dangerous because of the rise of chauvinistic moods and serious deterioration of international relations. The author considers that the realization of the state information policy must be based on the long-term national interests.

Analyzing the spatial determinants of agrarian production, the author reconstructs the theories of “geographic school” in the agrarian science, i.e. the ideas of J. Tunen, V. Lawnhardt and A. Veber, and the Russian scientists A.N. Skvortsov and A.N. Chelintsev. In this context China’s experience in agricultural production and rural development is considered. Shown is the importance of spatial factors in the agrarian development and food security of Russia.

Charity in Russia is a complex social phenomenon and has its own history of development. The aim of the research is to study the development of Russia's patronage and charity from the time of the Slavic communities to the early XX century and their impact on the social strata. Examples of implementation of charitable and philanthropic activities of representatives raised concerns in the context of the period under review.