The problem of relationship between religion and culture is discussed in the paper. The author reveals the significant role of Islam in the development of spiritual culture of mankind in general, and in the ethnic culture history of peoples of the North Caucasus in particular. The specific forms of art which are culture inherent in the Muslim countries of the East spread along with the process of Islamization in the North Caucasus. Despite the religious ban in the past, folk music, folklore, architecture, and various kinds of decorative art, which reflected the best aspirations of the people, its national character, high artistic talent, have developed significantly in the North Caucasus.

The unique temple complex of Scythian time at the farm the Red Banner of Stavropol Krai built on canons of Zoroastrian temple architecture still is object of heated scientific debate. On the one hand, influence of Zoroastrianism on emergence of the temple complex doesn't raise doubts, with another - an arrangement of the temple near a burial place, the fact of construction by his Scythians - nomads contradicts Zoroastrian canons.

The article analyzes the process of delegation of judicial powers, in particular the right of Royal pardons, the French crown during the XIII - XV cс. The basis is the content of the christian’s concept of justice and legal doctrine of the royal judicial prerogatives, judicial corporation.

Today witchcraft and occult practices are significant part of social interactions, economic and political processes in Africa. The theoretical basis of the given article are the ideas of modern ethnologists and anthropologists, which consider magic and witchcraft as a social system, regulating and supporting the tension balance of the post-colonial African societies. The starting point is the thesis of modernization models plurality in contemporary societies, which determines the idea of ​​witchcraft and magic as an integral part of single modernizations. Thus witchcraft appears not only as a relic of the past, but mostly as a volatile paradigm, the content of which may vary and take on other configurations, while remaining effective basis in the post-colonial society. Cases of a judicial incidents and political phenomena of modern African states were used in this article as arguments, they proving the efficacy of witchcraft, as part of the discourse production in the opposition press, orally transmittable rumors and gossip, as a kind of weapon of the socio political opposition to official authorities and society.

Article is devoted to the analysis of a daily life of domestic provincial intelligency of 1920 on materials Northern Caucasus. The significant attention of a role of intelligency in restoration of region after civil war, in development of formation is given. The reasons of interaction of authority and intelligency are shown. On the basis of the given archives formation of intrinsic features of intellectual elite of a new Soviet epoch is submitted.

The most typical features of such armed forces as a zofones, which were distinguishing to many cities of Northern and Central Italy in XIII-XIV centuries are disclosed in this article. It focuses on the principles of their acquisition, functions on the battlefield, offensive and defensive arms, social status of warriors.

The article discusses the conditions affecting the development of shipping and shipbuilding, analyses the radical changes in the structure of the merchant fleet of Austria: the impact of the steamship fleet, the ratio of the sea and the river navigation, the role of the state in this sector of the economy.

The article analyzes the legal aspects of the process of informatization in North Ossetia-Alania. The authors analyze the policy of the republic in the field of information, to identify existing problems.

The author considers problem of Russian legislation on legal entities. He studies ideas on representation and executive body of the legal entity. Legislative division of legal entities for corporate and unitary, public and non-public, commercial and non-commercial are analyzed. The author deals the essence of the new organizational and legal form of a non-profit organization - Public Law Company.

The article is devoted to the actual orientation called geopoetics. The geopoetics as a scientific method allows to consider a work of art as a system of geopoeticheskih images and symbols. In this article the geopoetics of «new northern prose» in Dmitry Novikov and Alexander Bushkovsky's stories is studied.

In article the idea of happiness embodied in M. Kucherskaya's prose is analyzed. Feature of the Christian context influencing a plot, creation of the art text, characters and destinies of heroes comes to light.

The author deals conditionality of structural and linguistic characteristics of a business letter by factor of gender identity and gender self-identification in the first half of XIX century. Analysis of official correspondence of A.S. Pushkin and N.A. Durova proves aspiration to achieve psychological comfort in intercourse even in the area of higher communicative functions.

The article analyzes the artistic cohesion of the poem «Death of Atlantis» by G. V. Golokhvastov, which creates a ramified mythic poetic system with a focus on cultural and historic context of Russia in the early XX century.

The article is devoted to the concept sphere, including deep foundations of the Russian mentality in sonnets of Russian «American» G.V. Golohvastov.

In this article the task to show the reflection of active philosophical search in a period of the 1830th years in the novel of M. Yu. Lermontov «A hero of our time» is set. The conditions of historical and social situation of the beginning of the century actualized a question about person`s opportunities in the world, correlation of forces of the person and destiny, fate. The main character of the novel and his personal philosophical search are representation of all human problems.

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The principles of a complementarity, relativity, symmetry as a basis of harmony of the art text are analyzed. It is considered how scientists-physicists use properties of figurative language at a formulation of the principles of the difficult phenomena of nuclear physics. Possibilities of application of a scientific metaphor in modern post-nonclassical knowledge are described.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the basic concepts of civil society in the works of European and American researchers XVIII - XIX centuries. Civil society built on ideas such as human rights and freedoms, social contract, the competition of interests, the private interests of citizens, taking into account public opinion, the functioning of civil society institutions, and others.

The article discusses the political values of modern Russian youth, their dynamics and specifics in relation to the North Caucasus region. Analyzes the causes of ethnicising politics and politicization of ethnicity. The necessity of strengthening of political nation in Russia and the displacement of ethnic markers from the field of political-ski in the area of culture.