The article is devoted to the study of the current state of Russia’s foreign language policy in the near abroad. The authors define Russia’s language policy abroad, identify its internal and external factors, analyze its effectiveness, and determine the specifics and peculiarities of its development in the post-Soviet space and its influence on the quality and effectiveness of integration processes in the Eurasian region. In the context of the analysis of Russian language policy in the near abroad, the authors consider the problems of preservation and promotion of the Russian language in the international space, the main among which are the following: the reduction of the geography of use of the Russian language and changes in its status in the near abroad and far abroad countries. In the concluding part of the article, the authors propose ways and solutions to strengthen the effectiveness of Russia’s language policy in both global and regional dimensions.

The article is devoted to the ramifications in the evolution of modern Russian public administration. The logic of the Special Military Operation seems to dictate the need for an additional concentration of power resources and a focus on the hierarchical relationship structure and “manual” management. Traditionally, this model was opposed by the Western approach, which called for an emphasis on the formation of effective institutions. It should be understood that the conflict with the West is, among other things, a competition of political decision-making systems. It would be strange if Russia were to start copying the well-known Western schemes now, but the preservation of traditional methods might not be the best solution either. The article proposes options for “playing ahead” (tempo battle) —  the use of digital government technologies, including modern expert systems that are still under development. At the same time, it shows that it is wrong and even dangerous to understand digitalisation of public administration only as the creation of convenient digital services.

The article discusses the current revision of Western philosophical concepts, socio-cultural practices, culture of everyday life, which hinder the formation of a nationally, civilizationally oriented worldview of modern Russian youth. Interfering with almost the main task of the national system of education and upbringing — the formation of a patriotic worldview of Russian youth. The reader’s attention is focused on the origins of postmodern concepts, referring to the works of W. Reich, G. Marcuse, J. F. Lyotard and others. The ratio of modern, postmodern and premodern beginnings in the Russian patriotic worldview is considered. It was formed over a number of historical epochs, retaining the most valuable ideological elements, primarily the intellectual concept of Count S. S. Uvarov “Orthodoxy. Autocracy. Nationality”, which has an important ideological significance today.

The article analyzes the specifics of the formation of the “green agenda” in modern Russia in the context of state environmental policy. It is indicated that this agenda is beginning to occupy an increasingly significant place in the political discourse of the Russian society. It is noted that the Russian Federation has developed regulatory and conceptual-strategic foundations for the implementation of a long-term and balanced model of environmental policy. However, today the environmental policy implemented by the state is characterized by a number of systemic limitations: administrative, functional, technological, resource as well as socio psychological. At the same time, it should be stated that the “green agenda” in modern Russia has not yet become one of the main imperatives of the political and socioeconomic development of the country. It is also symptomatic of the fact that the state is not a monopolist of all the “green” issues in all their dimensions. Moreover, environmental activism in Russian regions quite frequently has a clear protest character, accompanied by excessive politicization.

The article is dedicated to the possibility and prospects of development of the domestic economy under the conditions of economic sanctions and its transition from a raw material model to an economically developed one, through the implementation of import substitution programmes and other national projects approved by the President of the Russian Federation. Import substitution is defined by the author as a process of economic transformation carried out with the protectionist support of the domestic producer by the state, which is intended to result in the production of domestic goods and services designed to replace foreign analogues increases without compromising quality. The article presents the characteristics of the main areas that have become the object of import substitution, taking into consideration the state of the labor market. The author ranks Russian society among the societies of trauma and concludes that there is a gradual decline in demographic, labor, and industrial potential, which can be stopped due to a change in the economic model. It is concluded that it is necessary to focus on the most promising areas, which require, along with the industrial base, the development of their own engineering school and human resource capacity.

The Olympic Winter Games have gone through a difficult path of development and did not immediately gain popularity and the features and scales inherent in them now. These major international sports forums are characterized by the same problems and contradictions as the Olympic Games. Many of these problems are expressed to a much lesser extent, which is due to the lower popularity of winter sports. The team medal standings have recently become an indicator of significant interest in the analysis of the main aspects of performance of national teams at major sports tournaments, which reveals the effectiveness of the development of high-performance sports in a particular country. The purpose of the study was to determine the features of the historical development of the Olympic Winter Games as well as the position of countries in the team medal standings. For this purpose, the following research methods were used: analysis of the results of competitions, generalization, and interpretation of special and scientific and methodological literature on the history and development of modern Olympic sports, Olympic movement, and the Olympic Winter Games.

In this article, the author analyzed the changes made to the US budget bill for 2022–2031, which reflect the increased spending on programs that are the foundation of Joe Biden’s economic policy. As a result of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that the delivering on the electoral promises of the current President, does not stimulate the economy during the crisis period, but inflates the budget deficit and increasingly drives the United States into bad debts. Such a policy brings “relief” to the economy in the short-term, but it is extremely toxic in the long-term prospective. The emerging risks negatively affect the image of the Democrats as a whole, provoking intra-party divisions and giving the Republicans an advantage.

In this article, the three British parties in terms of their attitudes towards the EU are analysed. British parties are not homogenous with no single position on Europe being dominant. Nevertheless, there has been a rise of Euroscepticism across all political parties regardless of their affiliation in the recent years. Brexit referendum has become a ‘point of no return’ since no political force in Britain has questioned British exit from the EU and its results. The debate has switched to the conditions on which the post-Brexit UK collaborates with the EU but there is no discussion whether Britain needs to return to the EU. It is a question of whether British interests have been taken into account and how close the relationship with the Europeans should be. The research reflects gradual evolution of the three British parties (Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, and the Scottish National Party) and their attitudes towards European integration. It is shown that the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats had a U-turn on key policies such as free movement of people or joining the Eurozone whereas the Scottish National Party reinvented itself and became a proponent of the European integration (with some reservations). The author tries to answer the question of whether the above parties could have prevented Brexit.

This article is devoted to the assessment of the development of communications of leading economic universities with all targeted audiences and the development of their brands, in order to increase noticeability in the global space, attracting a well -known professor, talented applications, organizing collaborations in the broadest sense of understanding the term. The authors conclude that it is impossible to rest on the laurels of historical fame and the established reputation, and the university brand, although it has a funded component in time, requires constant work on maintaining and improving.

The subject of the article is the analysis of the role and place of mysticism and superstitions in everyday life of modern Russian students. The main method of empirical research: a mass survey of the students at a Moscow university. The authors show that in contemporary information society mysticism, or the magical way of mastering reality hasn’t disappeared completely from students’ everyday life although it has receded to the periphery of everyday practices of students. A large and considerable proportion of students demonstrate their commitment and adherence to superstitions to reduce their anxiety, to “attract” good luck or fortune, money, success in academic studies and other affairs. The persistence and steadiness of superstitions among students is explained by the reflection of social attitudes as well as the conditions of the “risk society” that is characterized by a high degree of uncertainty and people’s inability to identify, reveal and prevent certain dangers and risks.

The presented article actualizes the topic of teaching the General American pronunciation to students of a financial and economic profile. It is noted that the practice of teaching foreign pronunciation should be carried out in conjunction with teaching all types of speaking activity in a foreign language. Attention is focused on the main principles of a communicative language teaching approach in teaching pronunciation. The features of the General American pronunciation, the development of which seems to be the most relevant for students of the financial and economic profile, are highlighted.

Memorising words should not be painful. And recognizing this postulate how exactly can we stimulate students to memorize professional vocabulary in English seminars at a non-language university? The foundation of this article is a practical experiment based on both individual and group work with students. The article is an outline of an open-ended lesson (or, rather, a series of open-ended seminars on one topic or one thematic section of a textbook), which is essentially a professional game built on the discovery of contents in forms and forms in contents. The author touches upon the basics of poetry, makes methodological recommendations for conducting the seminars according to the principles of drama-hermeneutics, and presents the results of the experiment.

The paper presents an analysis of the genesis of German Fascism and Nazism. The ways and factors (socio-economic, the role of education, the position of the Church) that contributed to the wild spread of the extremist ideology of Nazism and racism among the masses of the German people are examined. Having formed a hatred of Russians, Soviet “subhumans” and fanatical devotion, the German people provided the ideological basis for the genocide of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. The continuity of the ideas of extreme Russophobia and genocide against Russians between the Third Reich and the criminal Kiev regime, between the German Nazism and the Ukrainian Nazism of the XXI century has been revealed. The article shows the similarities in the methods of zombifying people with the ideas of Nazism in Germany in the first half of the 20th century and in Ukraine in the late 20^th — early decades of the 21^st century. It is noted that the national (state) historical discourse plays a very important role in protecting the consciousness of the people from the impact of destructive ideologies.

The paper discusses the two contemporary media theory concepts: the concept of “excommunication”, which models the situation of impossibility of communication, which nevertheless occurs to some extent in some capacity, and the concept of “dark media”, which mediate communication or connection with something that is inaccessible by definition. Citing the example of sectarian practices of the early twentieth century, the author points out that various mediators can act as the “dark media” when a community has developed a communication system in which the source of the message is absent, and only the recipient of the message is present.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the weaknesses of the territorial administration system using programming methods in the Russian Federation and the presentation of author’s models for leveling them, by modernizing the system of interdepartmental interaction, optimizing tools and methods for working with information in public authorities, integrating digital technologies into management processes and expanding communication channels between the government and the society. In the process of the analysis and development of conceptual models, the author used the methods of systemic and institutional analysis. Despite the inaccessibility of certain information regarding the internal mechanisms of the functioning of the territorial administration system, the author identified key weaknesses that limit the effectiveness of the activities of public authorities, and he also identified the promising ways of modernization, considering existing trends in social development. Based on the data obtained, the author developed conceptual models for optimizing the system of territorial administration using programming methods.

The political consciousness and political behavior of young people are important social indicators of their internal state and the educational influence of the social environment and the institution of the family. At each stage of historical development young people have different degrees of involvement in the political life of society, support and retranslation of their ideals and values, the level of trust in the institutions of power, as well as civic position and political activity. The purpose of the analytical paper is to study the evolution of political consciousness and behavior of Russian youth in the conditions of the new social time as it reflects political processes in the country and in the world. To what extent do the cardinal changes in the world order affect the political consciousness and behavior of young people, their value orientations and life plans, social attitudes, trust, and attitude to political institutions? The article dynamically (from 2014 to 2022) examines the trajectory of changes in the political consciousness and behavior of Russian youth. This period is characterized by changes in the geopolitical processes taking place in the world, which are caused by the struggle for the formation of a new world order. These and related questions can be answered primarily by the results of sociological research, as a subtle tool for the understanding and cognition of social reality.

The article is devoted to the role of social networks in modern society. The genre of Internet commentary as solidarity and conflict is considered, the strategy of trolling and faming is presented. The role of mediation in community administration is analyzed. The principles of mediation, which must be adhered to by a public administrator, are proposed to maintain an impartial community that is free from communicative conflicts between its users and participants. In addition, the authors analyze the goals and results of the use of social networks by their administrators and users.

The article deals with the political-psychological challenges from the collective West directed at the Russian state in the modern information environment, and which the authors divide into three groups (ineffective communication with different audiences, the limitations of the Russian media, the crisis of the image of the Russian world in the minds of citizens of the Russian Federation). The authors have identified the main problems of Russian society in the information war that hinder the improvement of information skills in the use of political and psychological mechanisms of influence on target audiences, highlighted in the article. The importance of these challenges at the present stage and the need to improve the entire Russian information resource management system at the national and global level are noted.

The phenomenon of stigmatization as well as its mechanisms are being discussed in this article. The author has discovered how the stigmatization of HIV-positive people affects both the economic and social spheres in the society. A sociological study was conducted by the method of in-depth interviews from March to May 2022. With the usage of qualitative analysis, the following stigmatizing attitudes amongst students and professors of Russian universities have been detected based on the typology of Yu. S. Smirnova. The analysis regarding the estimate of the acceptable social distance between the respondents and HIV-positive persons is also provided in this paper. A causal relationship between the stigmatization of HIV persons by the respondents and how knowledgeable they were on the topic of HIV is found.