In this paper specific feature of Russian public awareness campaign during war and reason for its inefficiency is studied. The author shows how Russian society’s attitude towards Russian prisoners of war depended on propaganda and military defeats.

The article discusses the relationships between district councils of south-eastern Russia and the government in 1913 - 1917. The author examines the mission, forms and types of activities of local institutions, as well as the specifics of their relationships with governmental agencies of different levels. The author studies the process, features and mechanisms of relations between government bodies and local authorities in such specific region as the south-east of Russia. The experience accumulated by district councils before and during the First World War is summarized.

The article deals with scientific dynasties which existed in our country and contributed to the development of its scientific and intellectual potential. The authors describe some of the Russian academic dynasties which produced outstanding talents throughout several generations. Some of them are the dynasties of the Struves, the Beketovs, the Lyapunovs, the Vorontsovs, the Skrjabins and others.

This paper is devoted to the spiritual atmosphere and factors of its influence, and also a condition of the humanities as to elements of intellectual space of the Soviet Union after the Great Patriotic War termination.

The article deals with the history of the independent foreign policy of Romania towards the USSR in the mid 1950-s -early 1960-s in such issues as ideology, cooperation within the COMECON and the world labour and communist movement.

In the contemporary history the immigration phenomenon has become massive. In the German discourse there appeared a question concerning the intercultural interaction of immigrants and the society accepting them. Social, governmental, political and religious institutions have got involved in that dialogue.

The article deals with potentials of sources of personal origin, particularly, epistolary heritage for doing biographical research. The author studies “Caucasian Letters” by A.P.Ermolov - a person whose name symbolizes a particular era in the history of the Caucasus. The letters contain interesting observations on life in the North Caucasus in the XIX-th century.

This article is devoted features of conservative model of development of social legislation in Austria, which was aimed to improving the conditions of the working class and artisans.

The article deals with the process of formation of Hungarian community in the USA as a result of immigration in the XVII - the first half of the XIX centuries. The author focuses attention on the participation of Hungarians in the War for Independence and the Civil War, as well as problems of adaptation of Hungarian immigrants in America.

The article highlights the status of the Holy See in the international arena as the oldest sovereign subject of international law. Unlike nation-states, whose international personality is based on territorial sovereignty, the Holy See possesses a spiritual sovereignty, which makes its international status unique. Based on the study of international agreements, the arch of canon law of the Roman Catholic Church and the Holy See documents, the article examines the specificity of participation of the Holy See in international relations at different levels.

The author concentrates on the evolution of the Soviet official view on the Hungarian events of 1956 in the years of Gorbachev’s “perestroika” in connection with the crash of Communism in Central-Eastern Europe.

One of the leading political and cultural centers of Renaissance Italy was the city of Florence at the end of the XV-th century. It became a field for reform activities of a Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola. Dominican's preaching was a primary means of communication and a way of influence on the congregation. The article is devoted to the analysis of the specifics of the ancient heritage representation in Girolamo's public speeches.

The article is devoted to the formation of the «Caucasian issue» in Russia in the early twentieth century. The author discusses a range of issues related to the speeches of the deputies of the first three state Dumas who represented the Caucasus, as well as the promotion of Caucasian subjects in the framework of the Russian Parliament.

The article provides the analysis of modern pedagogical technologies of legal education of schoolchildren. The author analyses practical application of ideas of deviations and delinquency prevention.

The article deals with dissenting opinions in the courts of common law, history of dissenting, pros and cons of dissents.

The article is devoted to such an urgent and controversial problem as bringing public legal institutions to account for damage.

This article examines the legal framework and the competence of the UN International Court of Justice. It also analyzes the issues and contents of interstate disputes which are brought to this court, as well as the results of the court's activities on specific issues (making decisions or advisory opinions).

The article deals with the concept of adoption and problems of protection of children rights and interests in case of adoption in the Russian Federation.

The article is devoted to the analysis of lexical-thematic groups in journalistic texts in economic sphere. Two main lexical-thematic groups have been found out: «money» and the lexical-thematic group of words denoting processes and phenomena of financial, economic and bank activities. Words belonging to these groups are mostly borrowed from the Italian and English languages.

The article is devoted to the research of cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic aspects in the regional toponymic system of the north-west region of Stavropol territory described synchronically and diachronically.

The article analyzes the translation of the poem «Dream» made by V.V. Nabokov. Nabokov endowed this poem with a special semantic status assigning him the role of a semantic key to the novel «The Hero of Our Time». The focus of the article is an analysis of Nabokov's interpretation of the poem "Dream" and its translation into English.

The article deals with the processes of interaction and transformation of national cultures in modern globalizing world. The dynamics of social and cultural changes is characterized by a number multidirectional processes. These are: the formation of global mass culture, trends towards isolationism and hybridization of cultures. The author analyzes the changing nature of interaction between local cultures under the conditions of the global media space and amplification of heterogeneity of national cultures.

The article discusses the influence of ethnic identity on the originality of the artistic culture of the people, analyzed various aspects of the creative process and stresses the importance of preserving ethnic identity of artistic forms.

The article reveals the importance of family in the formation of patriotism and analyzes the stages of this process. Particular attention is paid to the historic events and heroes in the process of patriotic education in the family.

The paper analyzes the changes of philosophical discourse which are typical of contemporary intellectual situation and viewed through the lens of transformation of scientific rationality and intellectual practices in general. It is noted that in contemporary culture the field of rationality has been expanding and there has been a steady trend of changing the format of philosophical discourse in the direction of literature and literary criticism. The author proves the idea that the modern philosophical discourse is characterized by fundamental differences in comparison with the classical standards of philosophical rationality.

The article discusses the current problems of modern democracies. The various scientific approaches to the concept of democracy in modern political science discourse are analyzed. The authors examine new approaches to the concept of democracy such as functional democracy, the concept of democratic participation, e-democracy, which currently attract more attention of researchers and policymakers.

The article deals with urgent problems of modernization processes in the political sphere of modern society. The author has identified the signs of modernization in some spheres of the society and agents of modernization as well as pointed out the controversial character of this process in the «Western» and «non-Western» societies.

Reflections on the book: Yasi O. The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy. Translated from English by O.A. Yakimenko. Scientific editing, comments and afterword by A.G. Irapetov. -M: Tree kvadrata, 2011.