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At present, the traditional material culture of the Akha people in Northern Thailand is hardly covered in the Russian science. The traditional culture, history and linguistic processes of this nation remain unexplored. In the meanwhile, the growing sociocultural relations between Russia and Thailand are calling forth the necessity of reciprocal research into the traditional culture of both countries. The urgency of investigating the traditional material culture of the Akha is confirmed by the rapid and, not infrequently, coercive integration of these people into the process of modernization of the Thai society and state. The opportunity to study the Akha as an ethnic whole may only remain possible within the oncoming few decades. In the paper an attempt is undertaken to explore the traditional material culture of the Akha people in the northern provinces of Thailand (Chiang-Rai, Chiang-Mai), to characterize the main tendencies of their sociocultural development.

The paper highlights the experience of Tomsk diocese clergy to preserve the cultural heritage in the 2nd half of the 19th – early 20th century. This study is based on the publications on local history in the pre-revolutionary official bulletin of the clergy – "Tomsk diocesan bulletin".
The author notes that one of the brightest events in the protection of monuments of spiritual legacy in the diocese was the opening of Tomsk Church History and Archaeological Society, which set itself the objective of preservation and study of the monuments of antiquity and the local church history.
In general, the author concludes that since the 2nd half of 19th – early 20th centuries the clergy of Tomsk diocese, as well as other organizations of the Russian Orthodox Church seeks to preserve the church relics and use them for the purpose of spiritual and moral education of society.

The paper proves the need of using problem situations as an active method of training. Specific features of creative pedagogical thinking are studied and on this basis the possibilities of managing its development in the course of training students of Sports higher education institutions are found out. The analysis of research results allowed to reveal three levels of creative thinking development, at each of which specific features were shown. Depending on types of solutions to problem situations, features of informative processes in students with prevalence of alarm systems are studied.
The stating experiment allowed to conclude that students of Sports higher education institutions showed the following specific features at various approaches to solving problem situations: “subjectivity”, lack of depth of the analysis and reasoning, pessimism. The received results testify that the majority of students reveal balance in the alarm systems ratio regardless of the types of solving problem situations.

The address to A. A. Kabakov’s creative individuality is actual in the context of small amount of works, investigating his prose. The novelty of the research consists in revealing a method of metaphor realization on the material of one of the writer’s little-studied stories.
In the paper the mechanism of action of the comprehensive metaphor «Project “Babylon”» is revealed, which embodies non-existence, based on the story with the same name by the modern writer A. A. Kabakov. The metaphor semantics manifests itself by means of interaction of a canonical (stable) sense of the expression «Babel», referring to the biblical story, and a secular (daily) meaning of the situation of the «pillar creation» – an élite tower house. A renewed metaphorical meaning of the idiom «Babel» is proposed. The state of «non-existence» is determined by motives of death and disappearance of the human kind, its devil’s temptation and the Apocalypse, senselessness and an existential frustration of people, a cultural degradation of the society and the ecumenical chaos.
The paper is based on a historical and literary approach, whose academic base is N. D. Arutyunova’s work on the metaphor theory.
The theoretical significance of the paper lies in the consideration of the phenomenon of poetics of the post-modernist prose. The practical significance is determined by the possibility of using its observations in university courses, devoted to actual problems of the modern Russian literature.

The paper traces one aspect of R. I. Rozhdestvenskiy’ works, namely his accusatory poems, in comparison with Vladimir Mayakovskiy’s satirical works. The satirical techniques of creating artistic images that were common for both authors are researched and classified, they are: sarcasm, grotesque hyperbole, fantasy, allusion, metaphor, allegory, paraphrase, irony, etc. Based on the analysis, the traditions of the poet of the “Silver Age” and the innovations of Rozhdestvenskiy as an accuser are traced in accusatory verses and poems by R. Rozhdestvenskiy.
The study proved that Mayakovskiy’s and R. I. Rozhdestvenskiy’s satires are organic parts of their concept of aesthetic ideals in their personal relationship to the world and the people, setting new spiritual values of the poet’s contemporary society. In mock-satirical works by R. I. Rozhdestvenskiy the

The paper presents an innovative approach to the use of resources of nonprofit organizations and volunteer associations in the task to promote social and professional self-determination and social adjustment, and to improve the quality of life for children with disabilities.
It describes the organizational conditions, the directions of their activities in implementing forms, methods, content of career guidance and training of high school students to integrate into the society. Experience of the project showed its effectiveness and is promising not only for socialization such children, but also for professional and civic development of students.

The paper presents data of sociological surveys on political participation of citizens and political actors in contemporary Russia on the Internet. The data were obtained by interviewing experts in 4 subjects of the Russian Federation (Yaroslavl, Vologda, Ulyanovsk and Novosibirsk region) and the mass survey of Internet users in 15 regions of the Russian Federation, actively participating in political campaigns on the Internet. This gave a possibility to obtain both quantitative and qualitative assessments of political participation on the Internet.
The author characterizes the main objects of political activity on the Internet. The study highlighted areas of political participation, most effectively realized by using the Internet. The paper analyzes the activity of the political opposition on the Internet.
It is stated that the Internet users can be divided into two unequal groups: activists and consumers of information. The author points out a high proportion of professionals among activists in the Internet. The biggest proportion of customers are young people.