The author considers analysis shoves methodology of the domination and competition in the genesis of the global, particularly and manipulative political ideologies. The article analyses new aspects in the developing and transformation of modern political ideologies in the world and Russian Federation. New approaches and directions in the development and transformation of political ideologies in modern Russia are discussed and features of manipulative political ideologies are shown.

The article analyses an impact of the media and political discourses on constructing the social reality. A number of models, correspondent to that issue, are put forward: interactions of media, interpretations of the freedom of expression principle. The typology and genesis of social communities and political organizations are considered as well as reciprocal influence between media policy and political organized nature.

The article is devoted to the transformation of political activism practices that are considered by the example of “colour revolutions” in the early 2000s. The author argues that the organisational forms of modern protest movements correlate with the underlying trends of transition from classical to non-classical political practices embodied in the principle of “human-dimension”, the construction of reality and the closer and obvious interrelations between political theory and political activism practices. The author proposes the methods to evaluate the probability of the overturn in a country using the “colour revolutions” technologies.

The article analyses factors of political participation for citizens of Russia, considering cumulative impact of complex phenomena including the system of values, and particularly the prevalence of democratic values and traditions of political competition, the type of political culture, political activity rate, form and content of political behaviour. The author concludes that traditional values remain to have major impact, despite the existence of the institution of citizenship and formal endorsement of democratic values and institutions. This occurs on the basis of an appropriate to Russia “symbiosis” of traditional and secular-rational values. Furthermore, the author notes that Russians’ demand for a better life includes not only the drive for the order and stability, but also urge for democratic freedoms and open competition in the political life.

The paper discusses key concepts of the political dynamics theory by the founder of classical Islamic historical sociology and philosophy of history Abd ar-Rahman Ibn Khaldun as well as euristical potential of this theory for the interpretation of Muslim societies social dynamics of long-duree.

The article is devoted to the analysis of competition component in the model of modern Russian secularism. The state-religious relations are considered, as a component of secularism model. Competitive strategy of the religious organizations are analyzed and their typology is offered. An interconditionality of constitutional-legal and institutional aspects of the competition and their evolution are shown. The conclusion is drawn on formation in Russia limited institutional competition within the existing model of secularism.

The political system of the Islamic Republic of Iran is a unique phenomenon that comprises both republican and Islamic principles of organization of the state power. However elective institutions such as the President or the Parliament (Mejlis) are totally controlled by Islamic institutions. In this regard, one can observe the religious elite of the state possessing the monopoly of power. Nevertheless, during presidential election campaigns the candidates that had obtained approval of religious authorities fought for the win on the basis of real competitive struggle. In several cases the final results proved unpredictable. The election process of 2009 was highly significant for the country as it became a basis for the mass protests of the opposition that disagreed with the results.

The paper attempts to interpret linguistically main institutions used in the political and legal system of Saudi Arabia. Such concepts as “the state of monotheists”, “the kingdom of true Islam”, “Hanbali School (madhab) of Sunni Islam as the only version of Islam”, “the island of religious purity” become the key ones in the messianic language of the Kingdom, which, according to the author, has some interpretative resource while describing rules of law (Koran, Sunna, etc), Muhammadibn Abd al-Wahhab’s works and, finally, of those rules of law (Nizam of 1992) which date back to the foundation of Saudi Arabia as an independent state.

The outstanding Russian antiquity researcher M.I. Rostovtzeff (1870-1952), who was forced to emigrate in 1918 and eventually accepted a professorship at Yale University, underlined repeatedly that he managed to create his own scholary tradition in the USA. One of its intellectual mainstay was a specific understanding of the system of cross-cultural communications, the contest of the artistic styles in the Hellenistic period. In this article there is an attempt to reveal the origins of M.I. Rostovtzeff’s particular view of that issue by analyzing his pre-emigrant works dedicated to the research of the ancient Panticapaeum funerary paintings.

This article is the translation of the fragment from one of the chapters of well-known Nicholas J. Spykman’s book “The Geography of the Peace” (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944) in which the author is critically rethinking British geographer Halford Mackinder’s ideas and pointing the crucial importance of “Rimland” includings the west, the south and the south-east coastal regions of Eurasia, in terms of the establishment of the control over the entire continent. The end. The beginning ref.: Spykman N . Political map of Eurasia. Part 1 (translated into Russian by M. Grachev) // RSUH/RGGU Buletin. “Political Science. History. International Relations. Area Studies. Oriental Studies” Series. 2015. № 1. P. 41-50.

The article is devoted to the prospects of cooperation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Eurasian Economic Union. The deepening of integration processes is needed to create sustainable regional development. The interaction of large spaces (ASEAN and EAEU) will contribute to economic growth, regional stability. However, within these groups there are a number of differences, which affects both the further deepening of integration and the relations with partners outside the unions. Thus, the prospects of cooperation between the two organisations so far are limited, but there are prospects in ASEAN - Russia and EAEU - Vietnam relations.

This article is devoted to new trends in the energy policy of the EU countries, generated by economic and political events of recent times. The author analyses two main directions in solving the basic problem of overcoming the energy deficit in the EU: increasing domestic energy production and ensuring secure supplies from abroad. It is shown that at the present stage the significant increase in domestic energy production in EU countries (in atomic power plants, renewable energy sources, based on the technology of hydraulic fracturing) is impossible due to the insufficient level of technological development, lack of competitiveness compared to hydrocarbon energy, increasing environmental requirements, prevailing public opinion in European countries. The article also deals with the possibilities of energy imports increase from Russia and third countries.

Foreign political and legal experts are actively discussing a problem of the legal state in the XXI century. The key reason for that is in the USA attempts to restore the individual leadership, to extend the jurisdiction practically for the whole world and to achieve replacement of public institutes of the power and economy by rather private ones, first of all, multinational corporations. In this article some current problems which are actively discussed in the European Union countries are considered.