No 4 (857) (2024)

By 2024, the US has adopted a confrontational approach towards Russia while facing itself domestic political polarization. In this regard, it seems relevant to identify whether Republicans’ and Democrats’ approaches towards Russia differ. To achieve this goal, a comparative analysis of the presidential campaigns of 2016, 2020 and 2024 was carried out. The study shows that the approaches of the Republican and Democratic Parties towards Russia are converging and are determined by the established US international course, with alternatives having little influence.

This article is devoted to the use of deliberative democracy tools in Russia. The key functions of deliberation on the political landscape include establishing direct political communication, agenda setting, public political argumentation, and delegating political responsibility to citizens. The described functions are implemented with the following tools: public hearings, forums, discussion clubs, various forms of electronic democracy, national discussions. The implementation of the deliberative democracy tools in Russia serves the implementation of the most important tasks of involving broad sections of citizens in a political discussion that can demonstrate opinions pluralism, various parties' argumentation, clarify hidden mechanisms and unobvious political arguments that lead to the verified decisions.

The article identifies potential areas of economic cooperation between the EAEU and Iran, including logistics, energy and interbank settlements. Political and economic prerequisites for the rapprochement of EAEU and Iran are studied. The article applies general scientific methods: comparative analysis, induction, deduction, statistical method and synthesis. It is concluded that cooperation between the EAEU and Iran has great potential, but the full implementation of the identified promising areas of cooperation will be possible only after the elimination of existing obstacles.

At the beginning of 2020s foreign policy of the United States to realize its liberal world order model intensified competition/confrontation with leading world powers? First of all, with Russia and China, caused growth of instability in all spheres of international relations. The key problem for the international community is to find solution for existing problems. The author's hypothesis is the following: US liberal project for America and for the world is utopia, and the countries who do not accept American project need to more actively engage in constructing basic institutions of the world order satisfying the majority of world community, their historic and cultural traditions, and reflecting common laws of nature and social development.

The article deals with the problem of financial abuse of Hetman Ivan Samoilovich. To that purpose information from sources on complaints from Hetmanate population about the Hetman's abuses, the effectiveness of the financial control system, as well as Moscow's position on this issue are analyzed. The conducted research allowed the author to establish that the existing institutions of financial control turned out to be ineffective due to the strengthening of the Hetman's power in the Zaporozhian Host.

The article examines the problem of correspondence between the concept and the concept of conservative stabilization to the conditions of the concrete historical situation at the turn of the 70-80's of the XIX century. and historical sources. A series of consequences is presented, as well as a number of conditions and facts are built that gradually launched a mechanism for protecting and strengthening traditional political institutions. The author substantiates a set of prerequisites deduced from the analysis of conditions for the transition to a conservative regime of government.

The article analyzes the history of Russian's colonies in the Pacific region in the XIX century (excluding

"Russian America" - Alaska and Fort Ross in California) in respect of international relations in Asian-Pacific region (APR) of the said period. The main attention is focused on the story of obtaining and final loss of Russian's possessions in the Pacific in the XIX century - the last "colonial century" in world's history.

Based on the concept of marginality, this article outlines the directions of marginalization processes in the science of information society generated by the convergence of science and industrial production in order to create an innovative technological product. There is a need to introduce convergent education to train transprofessionals who are able to ensure the transition to a higher rate of societal development that also triggers serious marginalization processes, the content of which is being analyzed

Based on a sociological analysis, the article examines the key aspects of the perception of the holiday among young people. The research focuses on changes in the perception of holidays in the context of modern culture, the impact of socio-cultural transformations on the understanding of the meaning-forming values of holidays. A retrospective historical and cultural analysis of holiday theories is given. The conclusion is made about social expectations aimed at strengthening state support for national holidays, which have a powerful resource for the formation of national identity.

The term “professional identity” is at the intersection of sciences, as there are different approaches to its understanding: psychological, philosophical, sociological, etc. In the article we tried to systematize the existing scientific approaches, both in foreign and Russian papers.