The paper describes the possibility of building a culture of self-dependent work of college students in the model of competences and productive studying of the courses and disciplines determined by the Federal state educational standard of secondary vocational education in the formation of General competences (GC) and professional competences (PC). The specifics of setting the quality of formation of the productive components of professional knowledge lies in the scope of independent verification opportunities for identifying and solving the problems of personality development and working relations.

The paper analyses the main features of forming of provincial cities territory brand. The paper reveals the problems of domestic tourism in Kuzbass. The Novokuznetsk architecture of Constructivism is considered to be one of the most significant examples.

In this paper the acmeological approach is used to analyze the effectiveness of training managers. The data on the Presidential Programme implementation in Kemerovo region are presented. The paper describes the experience of creating acmeological conditions within the framework of Management (Type A) Programme implemented by Kemerovo State University.

The paper proposes a model of social and cultural design and promotion of children’s educational programmes in museums. The author proposes to divide the model into two parts: 1) a block of social and cultural design of children’s educational programmes; 2) the communication unit of promoting children’s educational programmes. Each block is further divided into 4 components and analyzed; the author concludes that this model is effective and competitive as it optimizes the image of the museum as a modern institution of culture, appealing to children’s audiences.

The paper presents the experience of applying the individual and differentiated approaches to physical training lessons depending on the level of physical fitness and health of school children.

The research was aimed to: make a selection of hockey tests; define their specificity; perform an experimental trial of the selected tests at CHL-level players; design the score sheets for each test. 20 professional Continental Hockey League players were tested. 16 coordination on ice and off ice tests were selected; 5-point scores heets for each test were designed; correlation between 16 coordination tests was discovered. The authors discovered that quantitative and qualitative stabilometric test indicators have extremely individual character and a considerable range of variation, to obtain more comprehensive information for further research it is necessary to expand the range of evaluation of control mechanisms available for stabilometry. The study found no correlation between the different pedagogical tests assessing coordination abilities; instrumental methods allow to precisely measure only individual psycho-physical functions, or individual features of the coordination abilities: reproduction accuracy, differentiation of spatial, temporal, strength parameters of movement, while the coordination abilities as integral psychomotor formations can dot be measured precisely. The designed score sheets for various aspects of the coordination abilities are a ready tool for the practical implementation of programme selection, training and players control

The paper presents the most popular tools of pedagogical control used in sport, and in hockey in particular. The paper analyzes: the motor activity of players during competitions; the contribution of different metabolic sources providing players activities in the game; heart rate dynamics during competitions of the Belarus men’s national U-20 ice hockey team and the results of pedagogical and biochemical control during conditioning testing. Possibilities of assessing the general and special endurance of hockey players are considered. The results of the research revealed (for the first time in hockey) the phenomenon of the growth of lactate during passive rest between shifts, thus the problem that needs solving was formulated. On the material of testing theBelarusmen’s national U-20 ice hockey team the authors calculated the five-step rating scale for measuring the highly-skilled players’ special endurance at the end of the season.

The paper reveals the question of physical education of children aged 5 – 6 years old through a range of exercises with elements of Hatha-yoga, which allow you to focus on the development of the mobility of the spine strength and endurance of the muscles, joint health, help maintain good health. High efficiency of the yoga adapted to children’s body is as well due to its ability to restore the protective system of the body and metabolism, normalize the functioning of the nervous system and circulation. The authors reveal the content of the developed complex of physical exercises with elements of Hatha-yoga, which includes asanas adapted for children of preschool age. Exercise is directed on developing such physical qualities as strength endurance, coordination and flexibility. The sequence of the exercises was determined on the basis of the physical effect of the exercises on children’s body, muscle groups involved in performing asanas, as well as coordinating the difficulty for the development of positions. In practicing the complex, attention was also focused on different ways of breathing. From the inventory of the Hatha-yoga breathing exercises the authors chose to use the exercises to build children’s skills of full breath through the gradual development of the methods of abdominal (diaphragmatic) breathing, breast breathing, and surface (clavicle) breathing. The exercises to the control air flow and regulation of breathing were used as well. The paper presents the results of the pedagogical experiment, which confirms the effectiveness of the developed complex for both boys and girls of preschool age. The proposed complex of physical exercises with elements of Hathayoga is recommended for development of physical qualities of children aged 5 – 6 years old at extra-curricular physical exercise classes.

The paper presents the technique of designing the preparatory period of training of students-athletes engaged in sports aerobics. Load components were defined taking into account its distribution in each microcycle, which will allow the trainer to correct the training loads during the preparatory period, taking into account the educational activity of athletes. The author made an attempt at distributing the means of physical and technical training during the preparatory period within the academic year in higher education institution for athletes’ reaching their optimum form for the competitions. Thus it is very important to consider that students are compelled to skip training classes in due to with educational tasks or illness. The methods of pedagogical experiment and statistical data processing were used. Materials. Planning of the preparatory period within the academic year is one of the main aspects of training students-athletes for competitions. The following factors influence the design of the preparatory period: the educational process, test and examination sessions, the vacation period. At various stages of the preparatory period it is important to consider the most expedient ratio of volume and intensity of the performed work, and also the separate or consecutive development and improvement of physical qualities. The load ratio in the preparatory period at students-athletes engaged in sports aerobics in non-special higher education institutions considered in the paper will help athletes to have reached their optimum form by the beginning of the competitive period.

The paper examines the role of the influence of the higher education institution educational space and environment in the process of formation of the competitiveness of high school graduates – young specialists. The essence of the educational space as a factor of formation of competitiveness of university graduates is revealed. The characteristics, features and functions of the educational space are considered. A generalized model of the educational space of the university is presented.

The paper is devoted to the formation of competitiveness of higher school graduates in the methodology of higher education. The main aim of the study is to find the necessary pedagogical tools implementing the educational strategies for building competitiveness in higher school graduates, during which a set of methods and means of interaction between teachers and students in the educational process and the vocational-educational space of the university was defined. The complex includes the methods of active and interactive learning, student-oriented teaching and educating methods, information and communication techniques, multimedia learning tools etc.

The paper discusses the resources of modern pedagogical technologies in the organization of the process of training cadets in military technical universities to solve professional research and pedagogical tasks regarding providing the realization of the principle of problematical character, the activity model of training, the professional context of the content of education. The suitability of using the technologies of research and activity training as the most prosperous in the educational process in the considered aspect is reasoned. The basic training models which can be realized with the use of the specified technologies are defined.

The paper presents the results of experimental approbation of the model of training Directors of professional educational organizations developed by the author; the model focuses on the development of their readiness for educational rulemaking. It is proved that the implementation of this model allows providing: a balanced growth of the degree of development of all functional elements of rulemaking competence; increasing the degree of rulemaking awareness; adjusting the professional and legal self-rating of Directors. The organizational conditions for the effective implementation of this model in educational practice are defined.

The paper addresses an urgent problems of modern education – the formation of personality of the future engineer with the professional and creative abilities in the context of the existing gap between education and practice. The purpose of the paper is to identify the main tools and techniques of the process of formation of professional and creative abilities of future engineer in the process of professional education. The author considers the main requirement for innovative engineers to be the developed mechanism for making technical decisions at the invention stage and the ability of finding the necessary information and self-study. The author considers the acmeological approach to the study and implementation of the engineer’s practical improvement through the transformation of the existing professional development level to a higher optimal level. The author suggests a dual approach as a mobile communication method of two systems: education and practice. The results of the study are applied in the University educational process of to improve the quality of professional training of future engineers. The author comes to the conclusion that a new future is possible only in the priority development of human qualities, the quality of public intelligence and the quality of educational systems in society.

The problems and state of teaching the Tatar language as one of the state languages of theRepublicofTatarstanin secondary and higher educational institutions are considered in the paper. The main objectives of teaching the Tatar language to various audiences are defined by the author. The special attention is paid to the issue of using new technologies, online school and other Internet resources. Conditions and effective ways of studying the Tatar language are described in the paper, the author attempts to define the reasons of low-productivity of teaching the Tatar language to speakers of other languages at the present stage. The author specified some ways of increasing the motivation for studying the Tatar language. The conclusion is drawn that one of the most effective methods of training the Tatar language as non-native is the communicative technology.

The paper deals with the use of a synergistic approach as a methodological basis for improving the system of educational work with the personnel of the penal system. The system of education of the staff of the Federal penitentiary service of Russia can be considered from the positions of synergetics due to its complexity, multifactorial character, openness, disorder, irregularity, instability on the one hand, and on the other hand as having the ability for selforganization, which allows using synergy as a methodological basis for improving the system of educational work with the penal system staff at the present stage of reforming the penitentiary system of Russia.

In past 10 years, the main work with students was concentrated at preparing for the exams while the problems related to working with talented students took a back seat within the methods of teaching mathematics. Sustained interest in mathematics begins to form at the age of 14-15 years old. Therefore, a whole range of measures to improve the quality of mathematical preparation of students is needed. In this regard, extra-curricular work in mathematics, when interest in the subject is generated, is of particular importance. These define the urgency of the problem of creating elective courses for 8th-gradestudents.

The paper highlights research competence as a component of the modern teacher’s professionalism. The author emphasizes the correlation of teaching and research in the professional activity of a teacher. The study identified the possible ways to involve teachers in research activity in the process of retraining.

The paper presents the peculiarities of managing the pedagogical process determined by the changing society. The course target and tasks are formulated as well as its contents. The conceptual approaches determining the content of students’ professional identity formation are developed. The theoretical model for students’ professional identity formation is created and put into practice during the experiment, its efficiency being proved.

The paper describes the specifics of the inclusion of Bachelor’s Degree students in system of scientific and research work in the course of studying pedagogical disciplines. Scientific and pedagogical research provides high-quality construction of the model of the teacher’s development (acme-trajectories of formation) in terms of continuing professional education through practice-oriented implementation of the idea of development of personality of a future teacher in the model of the principal activity, ensuring a smooth transition from reproductive knowledge to productive knowledge within the technology of system-pedagogical modeling. The quality of the solutions to the problems in the structure of teacher training is regularly verified in the system of scientific research in the evaluation of the research papers published in the proceedings of International scientific-practical conferences, scientific and pedagogical journals in Russia and abroad.

The authors investigate the phenomenon of “moral position” since the modern society’s aspirations for a harmonious and respectable personality are linked with it. The paper analyzes the representation of “moral position” in various sciences, including Pedagogics. The paper reveals the meaning of “moral position”: its key features and component structure are discussed. The authors associate the understanding of “moral position” with broadcasting experience.

The authors define the criteria and levels of formation of junior schoolchildren’s moral attitude to community work as a common human value (socio-need, informative-technological, emotional-behavioral and reflective-regulatory criteria), their indicators are substantiated. The paper presents the content description of the level of formation of this phenomenon: egocentric, groupcentric, and pro-social.

The paper addresses the concept of object in analytic philosophy. It does not present a full review of this concept in philosophy, but only clarifies the difference the in views of some philosophers on this issue; the author defines and formulates their own understanding in this matter. The works of G. Frege had a significant influence on E. Husserl (prompting him to abandon the psychology in the philosophy of mathematics and logic), B. Russell, and L. Wittgenstein as well as on generations of scientists of the 20th century, largely determining the shape of modern logic. According to G. Frege, the ignorance of the logic of natural language and the structure of its semantic content is a major and primary cause of paradoxes and contradictions in philosophical arguments. Theoretical philosophy of the late 19th – early 20th centuries influenced the formation of the modern philosophy of language, speaking against psychology and speculative idealism.

The paper presents the basic ideas of the noospheric outlook in the context of solving global problems of nature, the individual and the society. Global problems are the result of human loss of the principle meaning of life, values and targets. The noosphere as a sphere of the mind is based on anthropocosmism proclaiming unity and interaction of the man and the cosmos, aimed at spiritual values.

The paper searches for relevant interpretation of a religious innovation as an indicator and a factor of social innovation. It is noted that the opposition of old and new religions accepted among experts as carriers of reactionary and modernist social tendencies does not allow to notice and correctly interpret the numerous manifestations of modern religious activity which fall out of this stereotypic scheme filled with ideological connotation s. The author concludes that the religious innovation is a cumulative result of the efforts to reproduce religious practices in the changing historical conditions. Only such understanding of a religious innovation allows apprehending the potential and the social importance of numerous manifestations of religious life in the modern society, realizing the religious practices as a source of social development.

The paper discusses the ontological and epistemological potential of the use of the categories of “everything” and “nothing” to describe the modes of human existence. People are represented as seeking for superbeing and corposana, constantly transcending themselves and the surrounding reality. Man is “the middle” between Nothing (which contains potentially Everything) and Everything (like relevance, which is always incomplete in any respect, that is, always contains Nothing as relevance). Man is defined through the concept of “soul”, which is understood as Everything that is human. People are “bigger” than the world, as the world is always “too small” for them. The paper discusses the development of the processes of understanding “everything” and “nothing” as modes of human existence in the ancient, medieval, Renaissance and modern thought. 

Louis Althusser is an eminent French Marxist philosopher of the twentieth century, whose work is widely spread in the world and has caused various interpretations, and has a strong influence on subsequent thinkers. This paper deals with the concept of “epistemological break”, which was iontroduced by Althusser to determine the contribution of Karl Marx’s theory of social determinism. Althusser emphasized that Marx founded a new science – historical materialism, which, in its essence, is the benchmark for all other social sciences. The paper examines the stages of Althusser’s ideological evolution regarding Marx’s concept of historical materialism; the author analyzes the French philosopher’s reaction to the criticism of his position by other Marxists, for example, John Lewis, as well as present an attempt to demonstrate the main conclusions of L. Althusser, to which he comes at the end of his research.

The paper addresses the example of the art of music to discuss the uniqueness of the soul of Russian culture of the 19th – 20th centuries. Russian music was an important part of the wide synthesis of arts at that time. The exchange of ideas and images between music, poetry, painting, literature and philosophy played a fruitful role in the development of each of these types of creativity. The soul of the Russian culture found its expression in all these forms of art, but music played a special role there. A number of essential characteristics of the soul of the Russian culture of the 19th – 20th centuries found their expression of in the works of the composers S. I. Taneyev, A. N. Skryabin, I. F. Stravinsky: commonality (manifested in choral and symphonic arts), elevation, irrationality, “vexation of the spirit”, aspiration for Beauty, romanticism, correlation of cosmic and terrestrial, sacred and profane, “struggle” between the divine and the human.

In the course of the research the author comes to the following conclusions: first, despite the semantic difference between such terms as “human being”, “individual” and “citizen” the constitutional and legal status of an individual on the whole is a superconcept for both the status of an individual and citizen status; secondly, the legal status of an individual serves as a basis and criterion for efficient working of the modern State, for the paramount aim of the legal State being

The paper analyzes the issues relating to the origin of taxes and taxation and their evolution. Despite the uncertainty regarding the period of the emergence of taxes and taxation, the author expresses the view according to which taxes in one form or another have existed almost since the origin of the society and the state. At the same period the taxation mechanism – a specific procedure for the calculation and payment of tax – began forming. Together, taxes and taxation have contributed to the emergence of a special kind of public activity called «fiscal activity» or «fiscal policy». Studying the taxes and taxation showed the essential difference between these interrelated phenomena. The main difference is that taxation, unlike taxes, actually contributes to the sort of change in the tax attitude, when the potential payment of tax, as a rule, is transformed into a specific person’s tax duty to alienate his own funds to provide financial support for the activities of the state and (or) municipalities. Due to the new external challenges faced by Russia, the author makes an assumption about the necessity of rethinking and adjustment of the national tax system and taxation with the emphasis on keeping the existing principles of taxation, mediating five most important properties of a «good» tax system with the taxation level, acceptable to the public and organizations and sufficient for the state.

The paper addresses the problems of scientific understanding of the activity of the bodies of Prosecutor's supervision in the Soviet period of Russian history of State and Law. The author identifies the key stages in the historiography of the problem. The contribution of legal scholars, historians of law, civil historians to the study of the Soviet system of Prosecutor's Office is analyzed. On the basis of historiographical analysis the poorly understood aspects of the problem and prospects of further historical and legal research in this area are defined.

The paper deals with the processes of formation and development of the regional Prosecutor's Office inWest Siberiain the 1920s. The problems of relations between prosecutors and the local authorities are discussed. The factors influencing the Public Prosecutors supervision, the mechanism of interaction between prosecutors and social organizations and movements involved in the implementation of the law-enforcement policy are analyzed.

The paper discusses the process of emergence of the institute for Human Rights Commissioners inRussiaat both the federal level and at the level of the subjects of theRussian Federation. The main methods of research are the dialectical method of review and analysis of the phenomena in their interconnection and development, as well as the historical method. The results of the study of substantial factual evidence revealed that during the first ten years (1994 – 2004) of the existence of the state mechanism for human rights – the institution of Commissioners for Human Rights, which was new to the modern Russian history – it appeared in 29 subjects of the Russian Federation. The field of application of the results is the theoretical generalization and practical implementation of the further process of formation and development of this institution. Basing on the study results, the author comes to conclusions about the considerable demand for theInstituteofCommissionersfor Human Rights in the political and legal system of a modern Russian society and the irreversibility of democratic reforms inRussia.

The paper is devoted to the study of the criminal law of testimonial compulsion. The author studied the feasibility and appropriateness of an exhaustive list of persons who may be the victims of this crime, and a number of persons who are its subjects according to the criminal law. The author makes the conclusion about the need to change the disposition of testimonial compulsion.

The paper focuses on the definition and attributes of justice as an object of criminal law protection. The paper studies the feasibility of referring the activities of inquiry, investigation, prosecution bodies, and the activities of defense agencies enforcing court decisions and sentences to justice. The results allow classifying such activities as justice; the authors conclude that the title of Chapter 31 of the Criminal Code needs to be changed.

The paper summarizes the experience of the interaction of the regional Prosecutor's Office officials with administrative and judicial institutions of Tobolsk andIrkutskprovinces in the context of the oversight function (late 18th – early 19th centuries). The author analyzes the problems of law enforcement in courts and other official places in the period of the two major laws: “Institutions for the management of the Russian Empire provinces” of November 7, 1775 and “Institutions for the management of the Siberian provinces” of July 22, 1822 The actual material used by the author, includes the information from the documents deposited in the Russian State Historical Archive, the State Archive of the Kemerovo Region and the State Archive in Tobolsk. The author makes conclusions about the quality of prosecutors’ work on jurisdiction questions regulation and legal acts interpretation. The author notes some limitations to the independent regulation of some questions by the provincial Prosecutor's Office according to the law on “Institutions for the management of the Siberian provinces”, due to the subordination of the Provincial Prosecutors to the authorities.

Issues of organization and efficiency of local governments is one of the most controversial topics of current research in the field of municipal law. However, the state of local government in the 21st century is the result of its centuries-old sustained development, without realizing which it is impossible to predict the effectiveness of modern legal regulation. Study of the main stages of self-government development demonstrates the ambiguity and complexity of such a long-lasting political and legal process, shows the need for basing local self-government organization on the principle of historicism, especially taking into account the specifics of the Russian city development.

Legal protection of interests of the individual is one of the priority directions of activity of the state. Honour, dignity and reputation form an inherent ethical component of the personality structure. Criminal law protection of honour, dignity and reputation is performed by criminalizing the acts that are dangerous for such objects. Criminal law protects intangible benefits ща ordinary citizens and special subjects. The need for the existence and delineation of such legislative constructions is socially determined. In this paper the concepts of honour and dignity are defined; the existing legal and other scientific definitions of the studied categories are analyzed, the author’s own judgment is suggested. The author used the research methods of analysis, synthesis, method of comparative law. The present study can be used in law enforcement and research activities in the educational process.

The paper shows and analyzes the main peculiarities of the legal status and activities of mutual insurance societies as a special variety of insurers. The mutual insurance society is one of the legal forms of insurance companies (legal entities) which provides paid insurance at their own expense, insuring the property interests of the members of the society.

The authors examined the investigative practice in criminal cases of homicide where the fire acts as a means (method) of concealing the crime and came to the conclusion that the investigator and the operative at the stage of preinvestigation checks always face the obviousness and maximum uncertainty. After identifying the features of preliminary investigation, the authors propose a generalized algorithm for verification activities, which has recommendatory character.

The subject of the study are the norms of penitentiary law governing the recognition of the convict as a repeat infringer of the established service order and the legal consequences of this legal fact. The paper discusses the implementation of the problematic aspects of the legal consequences of recognizing the convict as a repeat infringer of the established service order in the form of the transferring the convict into stricter conditions of service. The author also reveals the correlation of such penalties as placement in a punishment cell, transfer to a cell-type room, separate cell, single cell-type room and the transfer of the convict into strict conditions of serving the punishment. In addition to legal consequences, on the basis of legal practice, the author considers the following consequences: non-use of parole, non-use of amnesty, the ban to perform prison work without supervision etc. The methodology of the research bases on the general scientific (dialectical) method of knowledge and the formal-logical, systematic, comparative legal and other methods of scientific knowledge. Scientific novelty of the work is presented by the fact that the author identifies some problems of implementation of the legal consequences of transferring the convict recognized as a repeat infringer of the established service order to more stringent conditions in the practice of correctional institutions, and suggests ways of solving them at the legislative and enforcement levels.

The paper addresses the institutions of direct democracy: referendum, national and public discussions, civil and public initiatives in the law-making as the forms of direct participation of citizens in the process of creating laws and other regulatory legal acts. The aim of the research is revealing the characteristics of these forms, analysis of problems of legal regulation and practical implementation at the Federal, regional and local levels of law-making in modernRussia.

The paper analyzes the state of the environment in urban areas and identifies their main environmental problems to be solved. The author concludes that the state of the environment in urban areas continues to be unsatisfactory; there is no state policy of environmental development of cities, the basic functions of government are not designed to ensure the quality of the urban environment. The author believes that there is a need for strict compliance with environmental requirements in urban planning, a special study of the regulatory measures for the protection of the urban environment, taking into account the specifics of settlements and the urban environment and a range of negative impacts.

The paper is devoted to the issues of determining the subject matter of criminal bankruptcies, i.e. the crimes stipulated in Articles 195, 196 and 197 of the Criminal Code. The study was conducted based on the results of criminal investigations by investigative bodies inKemerovoregion in the period from 1997 up to the present. The purpose of this research was to develop basic criteria for determining the subject composition of criminal bankruptcy to improve the struggle against crime committed in the scope of the institution of insolvency (bankruptcy). The author used historical, and formal logic research methods and the methods of statistical analysis and study of documents. The present study can be used in law enforcement and scientific activities in the learning process. According to the study the author formulates the criteria for distinguishing criminal bankruptcy.

The paper is devoted to the basic criminological characteristics of a juvenile – the moral and psychological characteristics, which is a key one for recognizing the personality of a juvenile offender. This specific characteristic is the base for the application of the exemption from punishment.

The paper is devoted to one of the topical issues of exemption from criminal penalties – the age peculiarities of the personality of juveniles. The authors analyzed the age-specific features based on the methods of investigation, as well as taking into account the influence of the measures of criminal law. Analyzing the age features of juveniles, it should be noted that commitment of wrongful acts is determined by such age peculiarities of teenagers as the tendency to imitate, exposure to outside influences, contradictory views and erratic behavior, increased emotional excitability

The paper deals with problems of correlation of attempts at crime and factual errors. Тhe author analyzes the concept of attempt and the concept of factual error and comes to the conclusion that an attempt and an error are related like cause and effect and are not the same.

The paper focuses on analysis of causality in violations of labour protection requirements (Art. 143 of the Criminal Code) and criminal violations of safety regulations during mining, construction and other works (Art. 216 of the Criminal Code). The aim of this study is to determine the characteristics of causation in these crimes. The paper highlights the problem points ascertaining causation in violation of safety regulations during mining, construction and other works. The methods applied include logical methods, and analysis of law acts and system analysis. The study can be used in law enforcement and research.

The paper discusses the challenges of student recruitment which Russian humanitiarian and classical universities face during the admission campaign. The methods used in career guidance by Kemerovo State University and the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology are described with estimation of their efficiency which was received from surveying the first-year students in 2015. In this research career guidance is explored in conjunction with the methods of public relations, understood as the work of the University aimed at professional self-determination of senior schoolchildren and creation of a positive im-age of KemSU and its faculties. During the research a special influence of “opinion leaders” (school teachers of History and Social Studies) on the formation of their students’ opinion the departments (Politology/Sociology) and the Faculty was found. On the base of the results the paper offers suggestions for forming career guidance. It is recommended to intensify the work on creating a positive image of the university and the faculty in the real and virtual information spaces, including print media, television and web resources; to work more carefully with school teachers of History and Social Studies which are the main opinion leaders for senior schoolchildren – future entrants; to accumulate the methods and techniques to counteract more successfully against the information creating a negative image of KemSU and the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology in the virtual space, including the popular communities in social networks and independent web resources.

The paper covers the results of research of intergroup perception in the context of supporting of authorities. The author presents verbal portraits of authorities supporters and political opposition supporters in terms of in-group and outgroup beliefs. According to the research results there is a definite portrait of authorities supporters in the social consciousness, the perceptions of this group coincide among all the respondents. The only difference is the emotional attitude. On the contrary, the portrait of opposition supporters has fuzzy edges. Intergroup perceptions demonstrate lack of understanding of who those people are and what their values and motives are. Intergroup perception is fragmentary as well.

The paper highlights the problems associated with the processes of criminalization in the Russian society and corruption in the machinery of the government. The development of social institutions of the civil community, the strengthening of law and order, the adoption of special measures in public policy against criminalization and corruption is the priority task for the regional and Federal authorities of theRussian Federation.

The paper is devoted to the problem of content diversification in Russian media holdings and contains applied research. Through the case-method (the example of Russian companies “RBC”, “Gazprom-Media” and “National Media Group”) the author examines how the latest digital technology makes media companies repackage their product and submit tit simultaneously in different media. The aim of the study is to identify the degree of diversification of content and mutual integration of the media within media holdings. As a result the author describes three models of diversification of content, which could be also used by the media managers in their work.

The methodological cross-disciplinary research presented here touches on linguistics, philosophy, and communicology, but its main focus lies in the sphere of sociology. The research is based on the idea of the anthropometrics of language. The transition from language-produced knowledge to the cognitive mechanisms means that the cognitive abilities of human beings and the models of knowledge learned by them are reflected in the language they use. Thus, according to this view, language structures become a source of knowledge about basic mental views. We have employed this idea to bring new knowledge to the sphere of social information – in order to apply an understanding of the semantic meaning of concepts and their use in scientific contexts, we identified the sociocommunicative significance of concepts using the author’s methodology. The considered concepts comprise: social possibility, stock, capital, potential, reserve, resource, labour, all of which have a common field based on the communicative character of their contents. In the communicative community researched, fields have an overall sequence. Primacy was found in relation to the concepts of opportunity and social potential. As a result of expert analysis, the concepts correlate as “present – future”, “part – whole”, “joint – individual”. This allows a single basic understanding of both the concepts presented, and the sequence (hierarchy) of their values, in order to describe the characteristics of social processes. The methodologies and research stages are as follows: comparison of categories and concepts; definition of the fields of the concepts; application of the method of expert estimates (correlation of concepts according to the characteristics of the communicative community members); application of the method of mathematical statistics; production of an analysis of the comprehensive characteristics of the concepts; application of the Spearman rank correlation coefficient; application of the methodology of sequencing and hierarchy of concepts in the communicative community; application of the methodology for determining and researching the sociocommunicative significance of concepts; and finally, the application of the methodology for the purpose of creating a unified meaningful socio-communicative space. The unification of the contents of the concepts provides a base for the establishment of open dialog and a unified socio-communicative space. This development is a precondition for social cohesion. The methodology developed and presented here allows convergence towards a unified conceptual socio-communicative space in specific communities and in the society in general.

One of the basic foundations of democracy is the Human right to information and free informative and communicative interaction. The formation of the international and national legislation adopted today in Europe and Russia lasted for several centuries and was closely linked to the geopolitical, military and economic events, to the transformation of public administration, changes in social structures and social attitudes, to the democratic reforms and developments. The chronology of this process is briefly summarized and systematized in this paper. It is based on the states’ adoption of the most important legislative enactments on the way to democratic changes which declared the freedom of speech, press and information.

The paper acquaints the reader with the Russian and foreign authors’ researches concerning the position and role of the youth in the political structure. Each scientific theory introduces the methods of collecting information, addressing different aspects of the problem field, but the most perspective for the politological study are the concept of risk, the concept of cultural normalization of the youth and juventological researches.

The paper describes the election process in the region, beginning with the first stage – nomination of a candidate by a political party to participate in elections. The author analyzes the steps of the process: the nomination of a candidate for the party conference, preparation of documents for the municipal election commission for registration, collection of signatures in support of a candidate for the constituency. The strategy and tactics of the regional election campaign are examined.