The article raises a very difficult question about the cultural code underlying the Russian civilization. The author analyzes the structure of political culture, singles out its “ontological” component, offers his own version of a set of constants that determine the basic foundations of national DNA. At the same time, as a result of a comparative analysis of the imperial, Soviet and post-Soviet experience, their rootedness and continuity in the domestic political culture can be traced.

The object of the study is the historical continuity of generations and influencing factors. Modern Russian society is constantly changing, which affects all spheres of people’s lives. The relevance of the continuity problem of generations is growing, which handles the link between the past and the present, as well as determines the vector of the future development of the entire country. The paper studies the mechanisms of transformation and translation of the historical continuity of generations in modern Russian society. The authors conducted a secondary analysis of sociological studies addressing this problem and also presented his own interpretation of the data obtained. The material touches on the key issues of the sphere of historical continuity of generations.

The paper considers a complex of problems that arise in the framework of changing the mechanism for transferring spiritual experience among generations. The authors claim that the major factor of the influence are technological processes of society, rapid scientific and technological development, as well as the emergence and ever deeper introduction of new means of communication (primarily the global network Internet). Thus, the sweeping growth of various social systems requires the working out alternative approaches for the spiritual sphere of society, which can be more consistent with the new world. The authors conducted this study had been using systemic, institutional, and statistical methods.

The paper summarizes the major studies of contemporary Russian authors concerning the problems of the formation of the national-state identity of Russian citizens, identity politics and the identity impact on the socio-political stability of Russian society. In a dynamically changing political reality, these problems require a new level of understanding of the theoretical and empirical aspect. This historiographic review presents contemporary political, sociological, historical, and philosophical research. Domestic authors note the special role of the state in forming a national-state identity, as well as analyze the goals in details, objectives, components and results of such a policy.

The paper considers of scientific research issues of the so-called strengths of the USSR. The author states aim difficulties when addressing this topic, demonstrates its actual presence not only in the sphere of public space but also in modern foreign analytical works, even those that are not directly related to the history of the Soviet Union. The research noted the dialectic of the formal chronological limitation of this problem and its semantic going beyond the Soviet period. The author postulates the relativity of the definition of the strengths of the USSR and often their direct connection with those aspects of reality that can be defined as weak. The strengths of the USSR are considered through a general message about their commonality, at least partially, within the framework of the Russian civilizational model and partial continuity in relation to modern Russia. The author outlines several characteristics relevant to the definition of the strengths of the USSR: the actual continuity of the Soviet state education (its historicism); the size of the territory; population; stable ideological and propaganda patterns that provide support for the Soviet Union abroad; ideocracy, international composition and a high degree of elites’ political consolidation, their focus on modernization, raising the general educational level of the population.

The article examines and analyzes the causes and course of development of the “culture of cancellation” and Russophobia as socio-political and cultural-ideological phenomena. Their historical roots and prerequisites for wide distribution both in the West and in Russia are briefly investigated. The key elements of the concepts of “Russophobia” and “cancellation culture”, as well as correlations for the main political, social, ideological and cultural parameters are established. The alleged prospects for the development of Russophobia as a manifestation of the “culture of cancellation” as a political tool of the “collective West” are determined.

For the first time, this work explores the social factors that determine the birth and evolution of an individual’s being. Existence is a negative state of the human soul that depressingly affects the consciousness and behavior of a person. Based on the analysis of philosophical, psychological publications on existentialism and artistic existential literature, the authors identified the major factors that form an individual’s being. For the first time, the paper as in the philosophy of existentialism revealed the principal ways of relieving the existential stress of the individual, which allows developing a methodology for providing social, medical, psychological and pedagogical assistance to people with aggravated life.

University graduates may face challenges when solving actual business problems because of their lack of soft skills, which are often inferior to their hard skills. Their knowledge (hard skills) may be at a good level, but they often lack developed universal competencies (soft skills). The paper discusses the methodology for assessing the meta-professional competencies of university students based on the results of the pilot year of the project “Assessment and development of managerial competencies in Russian educational institutions”. The research developed psychometric methods and applied as assessment tools: a universal personality questionnaire, a vitality questionnaire, tests for the analysis of numerical and verbal information. The paper provides descriptions and justifications for the validity and tests reliability used to diagnose universal competencies, as well as the procedure for creating a composite construct. The authors propose a method for creating a composite score to combine the results of assessment using a battery of tests and questionnaires. The resulting composite score makes it possible to consider the links between the evaluated constructs and simplify the interpretation of the evaluation results.

The paper shows that the discourse is inherent, performing several related functions that are subject to discrimination and study. The research’s aim is to study discourse and text, which are social practices, when language is used to create and maintain power relations and, as a result, is a means of controlling and handling society. A matter of determine the theoretical and methodological options for studying a language in the controlling process is to clarify the initial properties of its genesis, features of functioning, everything that makes the language as a tool of power relations. The authors consider the process of control and society manipulating and implementing feedback as the most important function of the language, from theoretical and methodological positions and the addendum to the legislation of several foreign countries.

The Department of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation is growing the status of an international platform for the research into Cognitive Linguistics and Professional Linguodidactics (PLD). It reflected the outcomes of that research both in the community-significant and large-scale conferences, and in the innovative educational process. The actualization of the inseparable connection between the research and the social and education practice is due to the opening of the undergraduate program in linguistics that was launched at the Financial University in the 2021–2022 academic year. The materials of this article reflect the first results of implementing the master’s program ‘Actual Problems of Linguodidactics and Methods of Teaching a Foreign Language. The core idea of this program rests in the definition of the linguodidactic foundations that reveal the structural and the content model of the development of the information and analytical competence of a future professional who would be capable of ensuring the information security of an organization by linguistic means. In the discussion part, the authors argue it proved the scientific and the practical interaction of the university teachers and their undergraduates to be embodied, on the one hand, in the course of the theoretical substantiation of the axiological strategies of foreign language education. (The latter determining the key concepts that play the role of the wording of the principles of PLD, i. e. the academic field that gained a new sound in the present research.) On the other hand, this interaction affects the selection of the adequate technologies that is necessitated by the said principles and the development of the specific target tasks that bring to life the mission the program’s focus, i. e. the linguistic support of the information security of an organization.

The research aimed at testing hypotheses about the link between various types of internal conflict and women’s impulse purchases. The most detailed consideration is the value-semantic conflict as a phenomenon caused by the interaction of the most important personal structures. The author studied consumer values, subjective financial and personal well-being, as well as varieties of irrational consumer behavior as additional ones: conspicuous consumption and orientation towards materialism. The paper revealed the consistency between certain types of internal conflict of the individual and a certain type of impulse consumer behavior. The patterns found open a wide scope for further development of this problem by introducing additional personality constructs, expanding the sample, and using more accurate diagnostic instruments.

The history of the Taliban, an Islamic radical organization banned in Russia, dates back to the 90s of the twentieth century. Created with the active assistance (including financial) of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the UAE, it has become the main enemy of the United States and other Western countries for many years. Having overthrown the power of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) in early 1992, the Taliban held it until 2001. Having put a significant part of the country under its domination, the Taliban proclaimed the creation of a new type of state — the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, recognized by several countries, including sponsors. At the very end of 2021, the Taliban forced the United States and its allies to leave Afghanistan in a hurry and took power in Kabul again (the Taliban in translation from the Pashto language is a student of a madrasah, a religious school. The article is devoted to the internal and foreign policy that the Taliban seeks to pursue in Afghanistan. Time will tell whether society and the world will accept this policy, whether it will be successful. Considerable attention is also paid to various assessments of the world community of the events in this country, in which the civil war has been raging for more than 40 years. In connection with this topic, the author of the article also recalls his long-standing conclusions related not only to the PDPA, but also in general to the policy of the USSR towards the countries of the “third world”, accompanying them with his modern assessments.

The paper analyzes the historical process of the expansionist policy of world powers in the Middle East, especially at the present stage, which is taking place in the transformation’s context of the global system of international relations. There is a gradual weakening of the influence of the US spatial expansion policy in this region. The author considers the possibilities of the Russian concept of an inclusive security architecture in ensuring stability, peace and order in the Middle East. Also, the author noted that its important component was the potential for expansion, which could open up new horizons for cooperation both at the level of the member states of the structure and in protecting the interests of third countries. The study concluded that this format of the security system could counteract the expansionist policy of the United States, and either to restrain the destructive (for Russia) policies of cross-regional powers in the region, and in that area, meets the global and regional national interests of the Russian Federation.

The paper examines the factors that allowed the Greater Middle East monarchies to survive the protests known as the “Arab Spring”. The author considers the popular argument in scientific and media-political discourse about the culturally conditioned legitimacy of the Middle Eastern monarchies, and also presents several cases of successful anti-monarchist revolutions in the region (Egypt, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Yemen). In addition, the work develops the idea that it can conditionally divide all the monarchies of the Greater Middle East into two types: individualistic and clan. The paper shows that patrimonial ties, which have been carefully built over several decades, are an important element in the stability of monarchies.

Countries help each other within the framework of a certain policy, which is the basis for establishing friendly relations between states. In the past, such assistance was mainly concentrated in the military sphere as to provide an advantage on the battlefields to the opposite side. Nowadays, international organizations, as well as advanced states, help each other in various fields. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemiс in March 2020, the importance of cooperation and mutual help has become more tangible and clear. In this paper, the author tried to reveal how to evaluate assistance during an outbreak of morbidity, using the example of the General Consulate of the Republic of Turkey in Kazan, and considered the regional results of this aid.

Communicative and active learning is recognized as a dominant didactic model in foreign languages teaching and learning paradigm, wherein Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) seems to be very promising. The key principle of CLIL is its dual focus: learning a subject through a language and learning a language through a subject. The focus of a CLIL lesson is on the subject content, which students need not only to understand and learn, but to interiorize in a foreign language. Being placed in a specific cultural context, the content gains certain linguistic and cultural features which are country specific for each professional sphere. The article also addresses how the students develop Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP). The students not only master the subject but also improve foreign language skills by mastering lexico-grammatical patterns and discourse formulas focused on a specific subject area. Using several foreign languages (plurilingual approach) would allow the students to master the subject even more effectively.

Nowadays, the problem of developing the creative activity of the younger generation is of particular attention. Modern economic, technological and socio-cultural realities, technical modernization of industries, scientific achievements determine the social need for initiative, creative people, often with a substandard view of the problem, flexible thinking, the desire to transform reality and expanding the boundaries of experience, as well as going beyond it. Mainly, it is being correlated with the state vision of the education results in a non-linguistic university and modern global trends in the modernization of education. The paper provides a theoretical analysis and an assessment of the results of a pedagogical experiment on the approbation of a model for the development of students’ creative activity in the framework of foreign language education. The research describes the author’s model for the progression of students’ creative activity and applies diagnostics of its effectiveness. The authors used almost the same diagnostic tools in order to ensure objectivity and the possibility of comparing the initial and final stages results of the trial.

The paper describes the analysis of the teacher’s role as a guarantor of maintaining the quality of the educational process in a higher educational institution in a distance learning format. The author provides a detailed description of the Distant ecosystem, its positive and negative sides. The basis of the research is the collaborative method of teaching. The author considers learning features with the help of distance technologies, both from the view of a student and from the teacher’s one. The study interpreted a lecturer’s personality as a conductor of collaborative and motivating roles. Particular attention the author paid to the collaborative teaching method, which turned out being the most effective in distance learning. This method heads to maximum interaction between the considered dyad of communicants in the educational process. The results of the study allow to determine the major factors affecting the quality of the educational process with the use of distance technologies. Also, the research defined the key third-party elements to either hinder to achieve the maximum quality of education during distance learning.

Nowadays, there are loads of various ways to the study of international relations and the foreign policy of states, but the problem of structural analysis of the foreign policy of world leaders remains open. This problem solvation becomes in demand when there is a transformation in the balance of power in the international arena. Since ancient times, every powerful state has sought to expand its sphere of influence and establish itself as a hegemon. The study of foreign policy projects proposed or imposed by a Big Player helps to evaluate the effectiveness of the tools and predict the likely outcome. Russia has a long history of geopolitical struggle for a place among the globe powers. This work offers a new toolkit for the study of foreign policy activity — from the ideological level to practical implementation. As a part of the example, the author formed the Pax-model of modern China and showed the Pax-models of Russia during different historical periods.