Diplomatic Herald. Law, Economics, Politics

The article examines the prospects for increasing Russia's soft power in Africa and the geopolitical factors that contribute to its growth in the world. The main national resources of domestic influence on the African continent are substantiated and the main obstacles to its spread on the territory of the latter are identified. The political and legal demand for conceptualizing Russia's soft resources in a separate doctrinal document is substantiated, as well as the advisability of forming a corresponding federal structure with the involvement of patriotic business. The promising potential of Russia's soft power and its objective relationship with the strengthening of its sovereign statehood and the geopolitical results of the SVO in Ukraine are revealed.

The author has shown in a number of previous publications that the Russian management system largely reproduces the flaws that were created on the basis of Marxism in the USSR. This hinders the development of competition in political life and in the economic sphere, and slows down social progress. There is a need for a more in- depth study of the development features of the leading Western countries during the formation of capitalism. Having analyzed data on the leading industrial sectors of Great Britain, the author provides evidence that the driving force behind the rapid development of the economy and the growth of the population's standard of living was the scientific and technological revolution. The classics of Marxism, without taking into account its mechanisms and potential, presented an alternative program for achieving social justice through the implementation of a proletarian revolution. English society rejected it. At the same time, the leadership of Great Britain, harshly suppressing the transfer of new industrial technologies outside the country, realizing the destructive nature of the ideology of Marxism, created conditions for its formation and export to rival states.

Particular attention was paid to Russia. For sustainable growth, our country needs to disarm Marxism, to expose the negative in it, which has caused enormous damage to the states that tried to implement it. We need an Ideology that meets modern requirements, and an adequate Strategy for Economic Growth.

In order to discuss the agenda of the BRICS 2024 Summit, the authors of the article analyze the Roadmap for the innovative development of the BRICS. The conducted research aims to familiarize the scientific community and practitioners with the results of work on building an algorithm for joint actions of the BRICS countries in the field of development and widespread introduction of innovations, primarily in the field of information and communication technologies. The authors argue for the correctness of the developed strategy and invite interested parties to participate in the implementation of the BRICS innovation development program, and also try to answer some problematic questions by way of feedback.

Based on sociological information, the author analyzes the impact of the stratification o f our society depending o n the well-being o f various groups o f the population on the possibility of using the so-called "social elevator" for career growth. A comparative analysis of the use of human IQ indicators abroad and in our country is carried out. The author's proposal on the topic of the article is formulated and justified — the introduction of our IQ analogue to assess a person's mental development after leaving the education system in order to move up the career ladder, first of all, in the country's public administration system.