The paper analyzes the collective perspectives on the future of refugees and displaced persons who arrived in Russia. The researchers conducted 17 semi-structured interviews with them during their stay, both in temporary centers for internally displaced people (IDP) and elsewhere. The study’s results showed that the move to the Russian Federation was voluntary: refugees and internally displaced people considered all alternative options and chose Russia, where they could satisfy their basic need for security. Difficulties with paperwork and bureaucracy have become common problems of adaptation for all. Another burdensome circumstance was the low level of respondents’ legal literacy. The key actors who provided support and assistance to refugees and forced migrants were the state and nonprofit organizations (NPO’s), from which the respondents continue expecting comprehensive support, starting with psychological assistance and simplification of bureaucratic procedures and ending with housing benefits. The authors found that refugees and forced migrants consider the future as one of the most pressing issues and a subject that requires urgent discussion. They also identified a quick planning horizon, which is determined by the achievement of immediate goals, such as successful employment. Therefore, it is unnecessary to discuss medium-term or long-term planning. Furthermore, their adaptation process, the external context, and the course of their work significantly influenced the planning horizon of the studied group.

The paper discusses the quality of life capacity as a factor in maintaining the stability of national-state identity in modern Russia. The authors reveal the topic based on the analysis of data from quantitative sociological research for the period 2013–2021 (surveys by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion and the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences). The theoretical basis of the study is the concept of social identity by G. Tajfel and D. Turner. The authors conclude that, by the mid-2010s, a consensus formed among most adult citizens in a Russian society that the quality of life was the key or one of the primary criteria for the national greatness of the country. The model of irrational prestige consumption has become widespread, the extrapolation of which was facilitated by increased access to relevant media content through increased Internet penetration and improved methods of simulation getting status goods and services. The described situation creates risks of destroying the empirical basis for supporting in-group favoritism of Russians and out-group discrimination of communities speaking on behalf of the principal opponents of the Russian Federation in the external domain. Because of this, the quality of life in the medium term gains the role of one of the key factors providing the sustainability of the national-state identity of Russians.

This paper evaluates the use of digital communications and discusses the integration of residents from the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR, DPR) into modern Russia’s sociocultural expanse. The study uses cyber-metric analysis, as well as the method of constructing and analyzing social graphs. The research concludes that strategies for using digital communications in new regions are heterogeneous. Also, the authors highlight two issues. First, there is a low representation of political parties, public associations, and projects in the regional digital communications system. Second, the digital infrastructure of new regions is currently being set up.

The scientific goal of this paper aims to use interdisciplinary analysis to show how reforms of Peter I had a devastating impact on Russia. These reforms had a devastating impact on Russia, which was the last state stronghold of the OrthodoxSlavic world, in favor of Protestant models of Roman-German civilization. The aggressive rejection of Eastern Christianity characterized these models. The political system’s transformations are most clear in its cultural and ideological sphere, where art becomes a means of self-expression for those in power. The author of the article, thus, focuses on architecture as a major type of art and shows the completely pro-Western nature of the country’s reform. And if the power and society were one before Peter I reform, then since the XVII century they became divided into alienated civilizations. Moreover, the Russian authorities subjected the field of art to Western influence, leading to an indirect “foreign yoke.” This fostered antagonistic contradictions within society, culminating in the events of 1917, when the “Alien” power was finally overthrown.

The paper explores the history and essence of the modern era concept. It is logical to preserve the original meaning of this term, which developed in Western Europe during the Renaissance and designated the period starting from the 15^th century. The flawed approach that shifts the boundaries of the modern era to a later date in the history of other states and equates this milestone with Westernization deserves attention. Both the civilizational specifics and the global nature of the historical changes that occurred in the 15^th century are being ignored. In Russian philosophical and theological thought, the author stresses their view that the modern era coincides chronologically with the history of the Third Rome — Russia’s Orthodox world empire and the successor to medieval Byzantium.

The study examines the energy strategy and achievements of the Soviet Union in building the world’s largest oil and gas complex (OGC). The paper analyzes the causes of decline in the domestic oil and gas industry after the Soviet era and proposes recommendations for enhancing Russia’s energy policy, considering experiences. Within the framework of the energy policy of the Russian Federation, the author discusses a diverse set of state tasks. These tasks encompass ensuring stable growth in proven reserves, optimizing hydrocarbon resource usage, fostering progress in new oil and gas regions, and developing industry personnel through training programs.

Nowadays, there is a tense geopolitical situation because of the advance of NATO to Russian borders, the threat of violation of its sovereignty. The collective West aims to dismantle Russian statehood and undermine social cohesion, law and order, national values, and socio-cultural values. They fixate on restoring neocolonialism and imposing global dominance on sovereign states. The paper focuses on the aggression of the collective West towards Russia’s cultural values, posing a threat to its national historical code. The subject of the study is the actions of cultural wars between brands and countries, which caused adopting anti-crisis measures. The purpose of the study is to analyze and provide possible strategies and models of brand behavior during crisis situations caused by culture wars. The research deals with the following issues: the modern phenomenon of culture wars; the role of the cultural brand in relation to culture wars; the possibility of using commercial brands as a tool of soft power; the influence of brands on the formation and changes of cultural, national and traditional values; the phenomena of culture shock and brand cancellation culture, as well as methods of countering crisis situations.

In the USSR of 1950s, the sociocultural foundations for the functioning of social practices and institutions were the opposite to those in subsequent periods of the USSR history and modern Russia. In addition, they are opposite to the currently dominant trends in world’s development, depicted in “Retrotopia” of Zygmunt Bauman. In the culture of that time, people poorly expressed mass nostalgia as they searched for an emotional community with collective memory. Rationality was the main defining feature of the 1950s. From this point of view, the author examines narratives aimed at correcting the “Soviet” discourse, discredited during the Second World War and political changes in Soviet society in the late 1940s — early 1950s. There are two types of narrative: the belief and prediction, which were broadcast through commercial advertising and science fiction literature. The prediction narrative remained a specific attribute of the1950s culture and did not receive further promotion.

The research significance is determined because over the past three years the Russian labor market has gone through two waves of transformations. The COVID-19 epidemic caused the first wave of transformations, which continued until the end of 2021. The second one, caused by introducing sanctions against Russia, began in February 2022 and continued to this day. The subject of the study is the functioning parameters of the Russian labor market and the major new trends in its development. The paper aims to identify problem areas in the labor market and analyze measures for its development. It also examines the reform of the public employment service and improvement of labor legislation. Information sources: Russian and foreign scientific publications, specialized studies, as well as official open data from the state bodies. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the multidimensional approach to the analysis of the Russian labor market transformation in two waves, trends and for its outlooks growth.

The study reveals methodological approaches to the philosophical analysis of the Chinese national character and the peculiarities of the Chinese thinking. The author shows the difference between the concepts of national mentality and national character, which partly coincide and partly differs. The author suggests that national character and its salient features make up an essential aspect (level) of the national Chinese mentality. The research examines a methodological problem of whether it is possible to define Chinese thinking as predominantly figurative, in contrast to the predominantly logical one of Europeans. The author hypothesizes and supports the idea that the emergence and formation of the Chinese mentality is auditory. The explanation clarifies the reasons for the birth of an “imbalanced individual” with clip consciousness. The Chinese have a longstanding tradition of developing practices in response to sound, without distinguishing between the material and the ideal, as they have never faced the problem of subject and object.

The paper examines the problem of the emotional intelligence configuration among lecturers and the importance of the role that this construct plays in their professional activities. The author notes the need to practice emotional intelligence in higher educational institutions to prevent teacher burnout syndrome. The study presented survey results of employees of the Department of English Language and Professional Communication of the Financial University conducted with based on the Rotterdam Emotional Intelligence Scale (REIS) methodology. The author concluded the data obtained can develop and coordinate actions to create a specialized course. This course aims to prevent professional burnout among lecturers by focusing on the major components development of emotional intelligence.

The study focuses on the relevance of identifying the communicative features of network agents’ interaction with a youth audience. This aims to enhance the effectiveness of the strategy for educating young users in traditional values by examining the broadcasting of constructive/destructive interpretations of value orientations.

The theoretical object of the research is the network infrastructure of the Internet space on a socially significant agenda.

The study’s issue is the communicative specificity of the information field dedicated to the transmission of interpretations of value orientations to an audience of young Russians. The paper examines a group of authors from a specific digital stream in the period from June 1 to November 1, 2023. The analysis involves 118 thousand units (385 VK communities) and 3011 respondents’ questionnaires.

The purpose of the study is to determine the communicative characteristics of network agents producing content dedicated to the value agenda and young Russian users.

The paper analyzes the geopolitical situation in Latin America and the Caribbean (LACB), examines the prospects for expanding the BRICS interstate association in the region and the advantages of this organization that attracts LACB countries. Based on the criteria the authors carried out put forward, the analysis of scenarios to expand the BRICS in the strategic interests of the Russian Federation in the international arena, the directions for the most favorable cooperation and ensuring the interests of Russia in the conditions of a tense political situation and a hybrid war launched by the collective West against our country are determined. The role of BRICS is increasing in a change in the balance of power in the UN, G20 and G7 groups after the start of a special military operation by the Russian Federation. The work is based on neorealism, which considers both the global situation in international relations and Russia’s possibilities for promoting its interests in interaction with various actors. The major methods used: situational analysis and document analysis. The paper’s aim is to determine the strategic advantages of implementing Russian foreign policy interests associate the potential expansion of BRICS in Latin America.

The paper’s goal is to update socio-psychological technologies for personal security in the Brittle Anxious Nonlinear Incomprehensible (BANI) world. To accomplish this, the following tasks need to be completed: determining the essence of the BANI world, proving the feasibility of socio-psychological security, clarifying the content of socio-psychological technologies, and determining their role in ensuring personal security in the BANI world. The authors used results of scientific research and modern press, researched methods of analysis and content analysis of interdisciplinary publications on this issue; methods of systematization, extrapolation, design and modeling, theoretical generalization. Theories and concepts of social interaction that inherently include a person serve as the basis for the content and classification of socio-psychological technologies for personal security in the BANI world. The study analyzes the socio-psychological technologies of three groups from the perspective of representing security at three levels (cognitive, affective, and conative). The authors consider the possibilities of information and communication technologies as a promising direction for providing socio-psychological assistance.

TThe paper focuses on issues of building students’ mindsets at leading British and US universities according to global universities’ ratings and serving as elite training centers for international organizations. The major research question aims to uncover the key ideology that shaped the Anglo-Saxon higher education system. The ideology that shaped the AngloSaxon higher education system is evident through the design of Social Sciences and Humanities programs at British and US universities, targeting world leaders and global organization employees. The research method employed was contentanalysis of a range of international studies devoted to educational pathways of leaders,leadership training programs,structure and contents of the two eminent undergraduate Oxford University 3-year courses: Philosophy, Politics and Economics (BA), Global Governance and Diplomacy (M. Sc.), an interdisciplinary program Human, Social and Political Sciences (HSPS) offered at the University of Cambridge, as well as missions of a select world leading universities (the case of Harvard). The authors conclude that graduates of European and US university programs tend to identify themselves as “exceptional” and privileged Euro-Atlantic actors of international relations, which, in turn, largely influence the current state of global affairs.

The research examines the strategies and historical context of forming a constructive image of the Russian Federation in the national segments of the post-Yugoslav mass media — Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro. The work uses a neoinstitutional approach to analyze the institutional configurations of political actors in the former Yugoslavian countries. Appling the event analysis method, the author conducted a study on mass media publications about Russia, examining the reasons, goals, opportunities, and strategies. The paper presents data from the author’s automated content analysis of media materials from the countries of the former Yugoslavia from 2022 to the present.

Modern television broadcasts the most interesting sports events, not only promoting sports but also influencing social values in favor of active physical education. Owing to the interaction of the International Olympic Committee and television, the Olympic Games have become the main sporting event in the world. Nowadays, television is the major source of material wellbeing for the Olympic movement. Television is one of the key partners of sports, providing its financing through the purchase of broadcasting rights and through the sponsors’ television advertising. The further development of any sport entirely depends on television, which adapted sports competitions to its modern requirements at the turn of the 20^th and 21^st centuries. But there is also a negative point in mutually beneficial cooperation: television creates a hierarchy, at the top of which are the most popular sports in a particular country. The purpose of the study is to analyze TV broadcasts of the 2022 Winter Olympics on public Russian television channels and determine the most popular winter sports among Russians.

Chinese wedding culture has a long history and rich tradition. In its development, it went through two stages and from traditional to modern. This process is a sign of social evolution and progress. The author analyzes the evolution of traditional Chinese wedding rites and customs in six representative periods: the Qing (221–207 BC) and Han (206 BC — 220 AD) dynasties; the Tang (618–907) and Song (960–1279) dynasties; the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1616–1911) dynasties; Republic of China (1912–1949); the time after establishing the People’s Republic of China until the Cultural Revolution (1949–1976), as well as after the start of the reform and opening-up policy (since 1978) to the present days.

In the context of society’s informatization, confidence as an economic factor becomes especially important because of the growing value of information as a resource. Despite this, researchers mostly scatter studies in this field, including those related to assessing confidence. Thus, the paper’s aim is to identify existing scientific gaps in the research of public confidence in financial institutions. The methods used were general scientific methods, including an analysis of Russian and foreign scientific studies. Finally, the authors concluded that a comprehensive approach is necessary to study confidence in financial institutions. This approach should cover a wide range of factors and conditions, allowing for a fuller understanding of this phenomenon and identifying trends in the financial sector development.

The paper analysis of social transformations affecting broad sections of the population in the progress’s dynamics of the Russian stock market in the 18^th–20^th centuries. The author examines the historical path of the securities market advancement in Russia. Also, the research states that starting from its inception and ending with the closure of exchanges in the 20^th century. The study examined the stock market participants, their social class, goals for entering the market, and the conditions under which they operated. The author also brings up the point of whether social mobility was possible in the 18^th — 20^th centuries through securities trading?