The article raises questions of the socio-economic development of Russia based on strategic planning. The approaches to the essence of strategic planning, formed in the modern Russian Federation — the supporters of the strategic approach and their opponents, defending the predictive approach to planning, designed for the short and medium-term, are considered. It is proved that ensuring the consistency of the interaction of the state, transferring the state management of the economy to a qualitatively new level is possible based on a large-scale planning system, in which our country has accumulated a uniquely positive experience. The paper also analyses the modern system of strategic planning of the Russian Federation, notes the formality in the formation of goals, shortcomings in methodological support, organization of control. The author notes that the tools used in the development and implementation of strategic planning are seriously outdated and poorly consider Russian specifics.

The article examines the erosion effects of the classical majoritarian party system, which were previously described almost exclusively for proportional electoral systems in Western Europe. The significant result of the independent politician, Bernie Sanders in the 2016 US presidential primary, allowed the left-libertarian movement to gain strength New Congress” (BNC) activities in 2018 and 2020. actively involved in the struggle of candidates for the primaries and supported several dozen progressives and left-liberal candidates. Case studies of typical cases of successful election campaigns of left-libertarian candidates revealed their multi-component positioning. We Five identified key elements of the BNC-supported left-libertarian candidates’ election campaigns: 1) anti-establishment positioning; 2) stake on direct participation, volunteer headquarters and the crowdfunding system as the basis for campaign financing; 3) concentration of resources in the districts with the most robust support for democratic candidates; 4) mobilisation of ethnic groups and youth voters; 5) emphasis on personal branding and solidarity with the “simple” voter.

The need conditions the relevance of the work for a theoretical analysis of the strategic directions of higher education in the preparation of the professional elite in modern times. The currently developing process of globalization leads to the expansion of the interrelationships and interdependencies of various peoples, including in terms of revaluation of the function of education as a system that forms the value paradigms of modern society. In the context of the transition to the information society, new forms of education are emerging and developing, such as distance education and the export of educational services. The article presents reviews of sociological and statistical data in the field of development and results of international cooperation in the field of higher education. In determining the key categories, the author refers to the normative documents and opinions of leading scientists in the field of education.

The article evaluates the fundamental theoretical positions of libertarianism as one of the social and political philosophy trends. The founders of libertarianism and program works are considered. The author paid close attention to the key principles of libertarianism: the individual’s rights, individualism, free markets, the restriction of the state’s role, and its non-interference in private affairs. Also, the author presents the dynamics of the socio-political values of Russians, based on which the author concluded that libertarianism has its social base in the face of young people and part of the power elite.

The article discusses the possible reasons for the growth of corruption in the context of a pandemic and current methods of struggle. The three most vulnerable areas of activity are identified: corruption in the field of public procurement (the healthcare system is considered in detail), bribery in the provision of services, and the development of small and mediumsized businesses at the present time. Also considered are some of the important indicators (the index of perception of corruption, the level of financial secrecy of the country, the index of the rule of law), reflecting the level, specificity and development of corruption in the country, and possible ways aimed at the effective work of anti-corruption policy. According to Transparency International’s analysis, corruption not only threatens the global fight against COVID‑19 but also contributes to an ongoing crisis of democracy. The foreign experience of the two countries is considered, based on which possible additions to the anti-corruption policy of Russia were proposed, the effective work of which is possible not only in a pandemic.

The elite in a democratic society is contradictory, and one might even say paradoxical phenomenon. On the one hand, the elite, due to their monopoly on the resource, controls and determines the life of society. Consequently, they are the most important, necessary part of the social mechanism. On the other hand, the very existence of the elite contradicts the principles of democracy, especially in the extreme form in which these principles are understood now. This contradiction is difficult to resolve, but a solution was nevertheless found — elite groups must be protected from society. A mechanism is needed that would help to concentrate efforts to protect the elite from the aggression of the democratically-minded part of society. But the mechanism of mutual assistance is not enough. Therefore, a more important defence tool is needed — disguise, which will not allow the majority to find targets for their attacks. Both of these tasks are accomplished through the form of organization of the elite. Each elite group is a clan. The main function of a clan is to protect its members and the clan itself from external danger.

The article reveals and substantiates the thesis that the production of forms of communication is the main criterion for the effectiveness of intercultural communication. The concept of active intersubjectivity, which focuses on the joint meaning formation, forming a local sphere of intersubjectivity, allows us to model the production of forms of communication in intercultural communications. The article discusses the attributes of active intersubjectivity that should be considered when modelling cross-cultural communications and the features of modelling active intersubjectivity as the production of forms of communication in cross-cultural communications. Public practices of active intersubjectivity that can be used to optimize cross-cultural communication are discussed. The conclusion states that the processes of active intersubjectivity in cross-cultural communications need consulting support and lists the requirements for consultants who can provide this support.

The author writes about the manipulative technologies used in political communications and an attempt to interpret through the prism of psychological and anthropological concepts (cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology). The article discusses such political technologies as “Wait Zone”, “Victimisational Snow”, “semantic differentiation”, “Fear trade”, “false theatricalisation”, “red herring”, and “Creating a victim”. Political technologists analyse them quite superficially, not trying to understand the deep psychological foundations of their effectiveness, so an attempt is made to understand this issue with support for social, cognitive, and evolutionary psychology. The author does not claim that his explanations will be exhaustive, but it suggests that they can shed light on the particular effectiveness of media exchange techniques. This issue is particularly relevant in connection with the thesis of many specialists that humanity has entered a new media manipulation era — The post-truth era. It seems that this determines the special relevance of this article.

The regional bodies of constitutional control have existed for more than 30 years, and during their work, they caused heated debates among legal scholars regarding their necessity. From January 1, 2023, these courts will cease to exist throughout the country because the wording of the federal Constitution and the law “On the Judicial System of the Russian Federation” has been changed. The researchers consider the legal regulation of the activities of constitutional and statutory courts and the history of their activity, draw parallels with the legal regulation of such instances abroad, analyse the problems of the “high cost” of the functioning of constitutional and statutory courts, and propose approaches that could significantly optimise the financing of the constitutional and statutory courts of the subjects. The authors present a comparative table on the number of cases considered by the courts, analyse their competence, consider the problematic issues of its differentiation from the competence of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation and the possibility of assigning consideration of matters under the jurisdiction of the constitutional (statutory) courts to the courts of general jurisdiction.

This paper aims to reveal the role of the university and the content aspects of the formation of students’ spiritual values. The spiritual values of the generation are a factor in the formation of the cultural environment of society, contributing to the formation of social consciousness of the social formation. Theoretical analysis of axiological manifestations of a particular individual is an indispensable attribute of modern scientific knowledge. The relevance of the research subject is determined by the applied significance of cultural and ethical manifestations of the modern social environment. The object of the study. Spiritual values as an inherent property of individual manifestations. The subject of the study. Formation of students’ spiritual values in social institutions of socialisation and knowledge acquisition. Objectives of the study. They consist of detecting the form and content of the university’s role in forming the individual’s personality in isomorphic social groups. The methodology of the study. We used theoretical and heuristic methods of an extraspectual nature, connected with an axiological approach: analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, abstraction, generalisation, etc., due to the phenomenological and systemic principles of research.

The article discusses to the study of the image of an ideal parliament that has developed in the political consciousness of Russian citizens and includes cognitive, emotional, and dynamic elements. The normative images of political leaders and institutions of power are fundamental for citizens’ choice of an ideological platform for political participation and, ultimately, affect their actual behaviour at the present time. Constructing an image of the future, of which the studied phenomena of mass consciousness are a part, is the most important task of state policy at the present stage in the face of challenges in the domestic political environment, geopolitical risks, and crises. A purposeful, consolidated information policy is required to form a clear image of the future crystallising consistent historical, cultural, political, and ideological constants that have a strong connection with the past and reliance on the present. The revealed contradictions and informational gaps make it possible to give specific recommendations to the state authorities that ensure the retransmission of political and cultural meanings to Russian society.

The article provides an analysis of the starting positions and electoral prospects of political parties on the eve of the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 8th Convocation, which becomes especially relevant in the context of the emergence of new political forces among the participants in the election campaign. The author investigated current trends in the development of Russian parliamentary and non-parliamentary parties, relying on the methods of observation, analysis, and forecasting, data from sociological research and electoral statistics. He also assumed the possible configuration of the deputy corps of the lower house of parliament of the 8th Convocation and predicted possible ways of forming a parliamentary majority. As a result of the study, the leitmotifs of the upcoming campaign are determined, which significantly impact the evolution of the party system in Russia in the foreseeable future. The author has concluded the probable shift of the centre of the pre-election struggle to single-mandate constituencies. The perspectives of the promotion of recognizable media persons by parties as candidates in the elections are noted, which, in general, corresponds to the objectively expressed tendency to show the electoral process.

News media is an essential mouthpiece of a country’s politics, economy and diplomacy, which, as a special symbol of social culture, records social reforms and grasps the context of national development. In the process of information dissemination, the Russian government builds the mainstream media by strengthening media control and integrating national resources and maintains the political rule of those in power by making use of the mutual shaping of politics and news media. The Russian news media plays an increasingly significant role in Russian political life, realising its social control function through public opinion guidance, agenda-setting and supervision towards the government.

The article examines the current issues of reducing the multi-vector nature of modern humanities education while maintaining the key models of educational practice. The article deals with the evolution of Russian humanities education in connection with the internal and external logic of development associated with the transformation of geopolitical conditions. The existing and possible trajectories of changes in humanities education are analyzed. A comparative analysis of non-classical and post-nonclassical humanities education is carried out, and their specific parameters are determined. New approaches to the constitution of basic models of humanitarianism are justified. The research is based on the philosophical and scientific paradigm approach. Situations of autonomous and additional coexistence of educational paradigms are modelled.

In this article, the author discusses the problems of conflicts in the field of higher education the analysis of the factors of their emergence and growth. The definition of social conflict potential and its difference from conflict are given. The content of modern Russian scientific literature devoted to this issue is analysed, making it possible to determine the most significant factors in the emergence of conflict potential. The most important factor is called the socio-political and economic upheavals of Russian society caused by perestroika, the collapse of the USSR, the breakdown of all established systems of society, and numerous educational reforms. There is a high degree of psychological tension in the teaching environment and discomfort caused by a high degree of responsibility, increasing loads of classroom and research work assigned to teachers, emotional burnout of teachers, which creates conditions for a high degree of readiness for deconstructive behaviour. The author states the polarisation of the value-semantic guidelines of the participants in the educational process, the commercialisation of education, its positioning as a service, the increasing social stratification, the tendency towards an increase in the elitisation of higher education, which not only generate conflict factors, but also determine the differentiation of demand for education. It is concluded that the factors of conflict can develop into social conflicts if the accumulated contradictions are not resolved in the future.

The consciousness of self in the educational project is associated with a substantially reduced dramatic sense of alienation and emptiness in adult students. Still, the basis of this reflective mechanism remains unknown. The author tested the hypothesis that biographical reflection increases the positive effects of purpose and project education in students. This sample of convenience consisted of 250 participants at each of the ages of 17–35 years. The study focused on three aspects, which were measured: biographical reflection, and purpose in life, and educational projects. Biographical reflection was assessed via the author’s “Biographical-Reflection Test”. Purpose in life was assessed via the “Purpose-in- Life Test” adapted to the Russian context. A life project was assessed via “Personal Projects Analysis (PPA)” of B. R. Little adapted to the Russian context. A higher level of biographical reflection increases the meaningfulness of educational projects and clear purpose in adult students. It reduces the effect of projects’ dependence on social expectations when people do not think educational projects have much personal meaning. These results increase the theoretical validity of support for students’ project activities.

The paper presents in a brief form the main strategies for the development of education in the information society, gives a reflexive review of literature and practice to assess the impact of information and communication technologies on the education system. An analysis of the normative legal acts governing this still very young sphere of education demonstrates active institutional participation in integrating new technologies into all spheres of society. The paper describes the conceptual and methodological foundations of the culture of the information society, proposed for the interpretation and comprehensive assessment of learning processes, particularly the formation of digital competencies through the technology of social networks. The author noted that the sustainable development of modern society is impossible without the active involvement of the educational resource of social networks. At the same time, the humanistic significance of the information society is noted, its democratic potential in the process of socialization of the personality of each person and citizen is noted. The author concluded that, despite all the problems and difficulties, further work is needed in this important and promising direction in the context of a dynamically developing information society.

Within the framework of this article, the authors considered the problems of the transformation of foreign language education due to the spread of digitalisation trends, which influenced the systems of traditional foreign language education, especially the requirements for training and the learning outcomes of future specialists. It is emphasised that digitalisation dictates the need to optimise the professionally-oriented training of students and requires a revision of the basic aspects of teaching foreign languages. The particular emphasis we placed on the specifics of the activities of teachers in the course of foreign language education and the formation of special competence. Attention is drawn to the essence of digitalisation in relation to foreign language education and to such aspects as solving professional problems in a foreign language, developing professional thinking, and mastering a foreign language professional discourse. The authors note that the current foreign language training, even at the university, pays insufficient attention to students’ creative potential activation and development. The paper considers the case study technology as an effective method that can be used in the framework of foreign language education at a university.

The article’s subject is the gender structure of employment in the context of the new gender order establishing in Russia. The empirical base of the research is data of statistic and sociological surveys. The author emphasises new trends to women growth in occupations that required high education and an essential decrease of unqualified female labour. Based on the analysis conducted, the author made the conclusion about the new gender order established in the country.

In the article, the author analyzes the division of culture that took place during the Renaissance. Studying the later works of a Russian imperial historian Vasily Klyuchevsky, the author concluded that there were two opposing cultures — “first culture”, which represented traditional values of the state, and the new “second culture” — a culture of early modernity, which focused on liberal thought. According to the author’s arguments, Klyuchevsky was a very talented pedagogue and a very prolific political scientist, perhaps first of its kind in Russia. He developed numerous scientific approaches to history as a science, which have led to the emergence of the so-called “l’École Russe” — a school of thought and a continental system of methodic procedures that have greatly advanced European civic sciences. As an experienced political analyst, he objectively assessed the Russian state and its ruling elite. However, perhaps his greatest achievement was in showcasing the insolvency of the liberal route of development in the Russian Empire. Klyuchevsky saw a great humanitarian disaster in the advancement of liberalism in Russia, as it has fractured the national and historical system of values of the Russian people. In contemporary Russia, this problem, highlighted by V. Klyuchevsky, has become even more urgent. The defeat in the Cold War has made the country dependent on culture dominated by liberal thought, which was forcefully introduced into Russia by the supporters of the pro-western path of development in the late twentieth century. And unless a major step towards reanimation of traditional culture as well as a socio-political system is consciously pursued by the current regime, Russia might lose the remains of its sovereignty.

A market economy involves various economic interests that market participants seek to protect by various means and methods. To this end, they interact with State institutions. The state has significant material, financial, and administrative resources to support and assist businesses. The most important counterparty of state bodies are business unions. In Russian history, the most influential and authoritative business structure in the last years of the Russian Empire was the Congress of Representatives of Industry and Trade.

The article examines the didactic component of the propaganda campaign that accompanied the 1961 monetary reform in the USSR. In this campaign, the main communication channel was film and book products aimed at a children’s audience, the use of which was supposed to be in the educational process. The complex structure and strategic nature of the PR campaign were caused by the fact that simultaneously with the denomination of money in the USSR, there was a restructuring of the economy and socio-cultural relations. A system based on increased resource exploitation and de-industrialization emerged. Later, modern researchers Luc Boltanski and Arno Esker will designate a similar type of economy as “the economy of enrichment”.

The article presents the results of applied political research, which is to determine the triggers, technologies, and infrastructure of mass political protests in Russia from 2020 to 2021. The implemented event analysis allowed us to establish that the protest mobilisation is carried out in two stages: the primary — based on actions around the protest symbol, the secondary — based on dissatisfaction with the existing political regime, the socio-economic situation, and the actions of law enforcement agencies. Cognitive mapping allowed us to establish that the active use of affective methods of forming discourses enables us to ensure users’ emotional involvement in protest information flows, which affects their attitude to them. Cybermetric analysis has demonstrated that the features of Telegram as a protest platform allow for effective mobilisation and moderation of protest activity.

determine the socio-political mood of residents (qualitative methods: focus groups and expert interviews) in each city. Secondly, each of the cities analysed the election results over the past few years to determine the dynamics of support for loyal to power candidates and a batch of power. Thirdly, a cybermetric analysis of the empirical data of the responses of residents of regions on the activities of federal and local authorities in social media using the “Medialogy” monitoring and analytics system was carried out. The result of the study was recommendations for the federal and regional executive bodies to reduce the level of protest sentiment in the regions of the Far East as a whole and regional capitals in particular.

The innovative transformation of society, which began in the second half of the XX century and has affected all spheres of human life up until today, entails a change in norms and values in the minds of people and the patterns of their behaviour. Significant development and rooting of such changes occurred in the XXI century under the influence of the rapid process of widespread “internetisation” of various types of activities. Thanks to this factor, the beginning of the XXI century is characterized by the popularization of so-called sharing-relations. This type of relations is often interpreted as old socio-economic practices of sharing various benefits in a new technical and technological design. The article analyses the existing forms of sharing relations in the financial and investment sphere of society and the trends of their development.