In the article the author draws attention to the subject of the Non-Aligned Movement, examines key periods of its evolvement as well as compares various points of view on the role and place of the Non-Aligned Movement in the contemporary world. More importantly, the author regards as one of the crucial problems the question of a further organization's development within the confines of current international relations; as well as analyses following transformation of its goals and aims in response to the threats of the changing world.

This article is devoted to a problem of security of the Arctic region. The author portrays the contemporary state of the Arctic region, indicates changes which happened in the region after the end of "the cold war", analyzes the role which regional and non-regional institutions can play in the security protection of the Arctic, and also focuses attention on the Russian approach to a problem of security of the Arctic.

In the article provides an analysis of the situation in Afghanistan in advance of the withdrawal of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) from the country and contains a forecast of possible developments in the next period. The author considers that critical importance for the future of Afghanistan has its integration into the world economy.

The article considers the questions connected with the strategy of the U.S. in Central Asia, which has long-term character. In this connection, the author notes that successive governments of the USA, the American political and expert community, business circles traditionally in the last twenty years pay particular attention to this region, bringing to secure the U.S. presence in the region the concept of "Big Central Asia".

The article analyzes the possibilities of building long-term relations between the Western intergovernmental organizations, first of all, NATO and the European Union, and BRICS, considers the prospects for the strategic co-existence between them. Considering the commitment of the countries of the BRICS the norms and principles of international law, the author believes that the central place in the agenda of their relations with the United States and the West in general can take the task of expanding the legal framework of relations between them, the further development of the practice of the decision of the international problems solely on a legal basis.

The article examines the impact of tribal structure of the Libyan society to the political processes in the country in the years of Muammar Gaddafi and in the period after the victory of the Libyan opposition, expressed opinions about the possible development of events in the future. In particular, the author does not exclude the prospect of federalization of Libya.

The article focuses on the role of the moderate islamists movement «The Muslim Brotherhood» in current political situation in Egypt. «The Muslim Brotherhood» is the most organized and powerful force in contemporary Egypt. The author deals with ideology and strategy of the movement, the relationship with other political forces, internal differences and opportunities in power. He concludes that the «Cairo effect» caused long overdue tectonic shift in the Arab region. Egypt has begun its move to build up a democratic state but with their own specifics. The future situation in the country will depend on the relationship «The Muslim Brotherhood» with the army and political secular powers. The country has just started to move in the way that Turkey did a few decades ago

The question of influence of opposition groups on world politics is studied in the article. The author gives short historiographical review of main works dedicated to the interaction between authority and opposition, lists basic classifications of oppositional groups and analyzes their main functions. The peculiarities, problems and contradictions of opposition development are shown by the examples of opposition groups in Poland and Belorussia.

In article the history and the modern factors providing success of the logistic companies is considered. Questions of their participation in modern system of the international relations and world politics are especially considered. The main tendencies which have created the international logistic companies are given, key factors of their influence on participants of the international relations are studied. The assessment is given to interaction of the state and the logistic companies

This paper introduces the characteristics of youth organizations as contemporary actors of the world politics, identified their key features and specific activities, the main issues and conflicts which are involved in their operation processes, and the key perspectives of their development. The paper analyzed the specifics of cooperation between youth organizations and other actors of the world politics, and also the influence of the political and financial elites on the youth policy in general. Also considered the largest and the most dynamic recent youth organizations

Different types of non-governmental financial organizations influence onto states and world politics is being investigated in the article. Structure of contemporary international financial systems is shown and specificity of their influence onto real sector and state policy is explained. Special attention is aimed at offshores role in financial system and world politics.

World politics of a present-day demands a very specific combination of usage of the traditional foreign policy’s instruments as well as “new ones”. Universities as well as international science & education networks play an important role in providing support of the foreign policy’s initiatives of the global or regional dimension.

Article focuses on the problem of classification of modern and prospective cyber weapons. Suggested complex of characteristics, based on analytical approach allows for type determination for existing and future cyber weapons. Current wider-known samples are classified and their respective niches are pointed out among different aims for cyber weapons application. Working criteria for differentiation between information warfare and practical cyber warfare is suggested for proper classification of malware, espionage toolkits, hacking tools and combat software.

The article gives the review and highlights the importance of the system consisting of such broad and key concepts for the government, as the national human capital, defense industry complex and aerospace defense. The article also gives the analysis of the correlation of elements of this system and their unconditional necessity in the modern state as obligatory attributes of safety of the country in the modern world. The problems of the system and the influence of "soft forces" are exemplified by the current situation in the Russia Federation.

Using less-known documents from American and British archives the article examines the impact of developments on Soviet-German front in late 1942 on military-political planning in U.S. and U.K. with a special emphasis on the second front problem. It is demonstrated how deeply the German defeat at Stalingrad affected Anglo-American military and intelligence estimates of situation at Soviet- German front and prospects of the war in general.

This article is about: The Battle of Stalingrad is drastic turning point in World War II. The Battle of Stalingrad is discussed by western historians in markedly different ways. Methods and techniques of perversion the historical significance of the Battle of Stalingrad. Different ways to expose misrepresentation of crucial events and results of the Battle of Stalingrad.

The article deals with the the problems of Shiites community in Saudi Arabia. To this end, issues such as the position of the Shiites in the KSA, the problem of their participation in the public life of the kingdom, the growing protest movement in this community are analyzed. The author assess the prospects for the settlement of inter-confessional conflict between Sunnis and Shiites in the kingdom.

The article presents the analysis of the political, demographic and other aspects of the Palestinian community in Jordan, which has become a major factor in the Jordanian political life since the beginning of Arab-Israeli conflict and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. The results of the research show that political and social-economic reforms of Jordanian King Abdullah II haven’t improve the status of the Palestinians, especially the status of the Palestinian refugee camps residents in Jordan. In contrast to the indigenous population (Bedouin population and some Caucuses or Circassian communities) they have no political representation, no access to power, no competitive education and business activity is under restrictions. Today the Palestinians and their descendants make up in Jordan at least two thirds of the population and most of them support the Hamas and other radical Islamic groups. Since the aftermath of the Black September Civil War (1970-1971) they continue to be the main factor that can destabilize the internal situation in the Hashemite Kingdom. Current unfavorable economic conditions and the extremely volatile situation on the borders of Jordan with Syria, Iraq and the area of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are most likely to the growth of Islamist activity, including Islamic extremists calling for the overthrow of the Hashemite monarchy. In this context the possibility of mass anti-monarchy protests can’t be excluded. At the same time King Abdullah and his political proponents are well aware of this challenge and the dependence on the development of the situation in the Middle East, as well as financial and military support of powerful Western States and the Golf oil-producing monarchies. In seeking to preserve the existing status quo Jordanian authorities would deliberately put the country in a state of dependency on the political interests of the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, in return for all kinds of preferences, including military aid if a threat to the security of the Kingdom is expected.

The article analyses the problems of macroeconomic policy implementation in an open economy with substantial external debt and current account deficit.

The article deals with investment activity of BRICS countries as their role in global political and economical processes is growing at a quick rate. The author analyses the main trends of export and import of foreign direct investments, defines geographical and branch directions of investment processes, explores the main forms of inflow and outflow of BRICS investments and highlights investment attractiveness of every country. The author draws special attention to the transnational companies of BRICS countries – the driving force of investment flows.

The article describes current stage of the Russian-Indian trade-economic cooperation. The Author analyses the issues which business have to face approaching the markets of Russia and India. Special emphasis is laid on the measures for the optimization of cooperation.

In this article the author publishes the results of his survey of Russian investors’ offshore activity made in the form of an interview of businessmen and consultants from offshore business. The analysis of the collected data is carried out.

The article is devoted to this little-studied problem in modern family law as the consummation of marriage. The author analyzes the role and importance of this legal phenomenon in the various religious and legal systems, starting from old Aryan Vedas and ending with the current legislation of several contemporary states. The author arrives to the conclusion that the consummation of marriage has not lost its relevance in the modern family law and still serves as a legal fact, which generates important consequences for the marital relationship.

The term “misuse of the rights of a taxpayer” is analyzed in this article. Foreign law doctrines on misuse of the rights of a taxpayer are examined, foreign legislation and court practice.

Research issues related to indirect communication engaged paralinguistics studying the factors that accompany speech communication and engaged in the transfer of information. The funds, which are called paralinguistic can give meaning to a variety of shades of expression, including direct antonymous sense, transmitted verbally.

The article deals with traditional ways of understanding human cognitive processes in terms of key ideas of philosophical, cultural, and linguistic sciences, as well as modern ideas concerning the nature of mental representation.

This paper investigates the German and USA system of post-graduate training, with a special focus on the institutional features of the postgraduate courses. Based on the German statistical databases, it undertakes a detailed analysis of sociodemographic characteristics for doctoral students (рromovierende), the types of employment, the financing of projects. This paper will also highlight the peculiarities of mobility processes in the framework of the national post-graduate courses. The authors take note that the key points for the organization of scientific research are the public recognition of science and social status of scientists.

The article considers the scope for the shift to personality-oriented paradigm through the personal inclusion into specially organized information and communication activities in the Internet environment; the authors also give the essence, specific features and functions of those activities.

The article offers a historical survey of the British university system as part of the history of education. The author stresses the importance of the cultural aspect in preparing Russian university students and staff members for internship, language training and further education in British universities within the system of European academic mobility.

The paper reviews the major speeches of leading scientists at the last Congress of the largest associations of French-speaking sociologists. Analyzed the most pressing problems and the processes described in the work of the scientific forum dedicated to new approaches to the study of uncertainty in almost all spheres of human life, society and the state.

The article indicates the general trends leading to the transformation of contemporary terrorism from national to transnational stage, above all the global role of the cosmopolitization. It contains a collative analyses of the two types of terrorism. One of them, existing at the age of industrial modernity, and another one corresponds to the contemporary societies.

The article highlights the problems encountered in sociological research, the customer is State authorities of subjects of the Russian Federation. Also the article discusses the methods of picking the participants of placing the order as an open electronic auction, open tender, quoted bid. The article contents comparative analysis of given methods, considers their benefits and limitations, touches on the practical questions associated with the funtioning one or the other method.

Modern Society as a Complex Dynamic System is Affected by Unforeseen Fluctuations. By Historical Standards, the Recent Introduction of the Nonlinear Approach into the Scientific World Picture put the Classical Understanding of Space and Time to the Obstruction. Consequently, there Appeared the Problem of Human Adaptation and his Worldview to the Asserting Complexity of the Society

The article deals with career space in views of residents of Rostov region. The author analyzes the views of career opportunities, the place of work, the channels for employment and career advancement, the preferred occupations, limits of career and legitimization of career movements. It is stated that the movement in the career space is determined not so much by the professional resources, as by "family capital", and the lack of informal capital triggers rapid attainment of a career limit

This article analyzes the main approaches to the study of the social comfort, its manifestation in the space of everyday life within the modern Russian reality. Some approaches to the everyday life and the main approaches to the nature of social comfort and its dynamics are diseased.

The article analyzes the role of presuppositions, which are widely used in the Spanish political and journalistic discourse as a means of manipulating language, and are focused on strengthening the management capacity of language to provide a hidden impact on recipients. Presuppositions implicitly convey information; they are convenient and effective means of imposing a particular point of view, alien description and vision of reality. Presuppositions impose situation and action assessment, which does not coincide with the one that recipients of the information could form on their own.

The article represents theoreticomethodological analysis of linguistic modality. It deals with the question of correspondence between the notions of modus and modality in philosophy and linguistics, as two related, but not identical categories. The author notices fundamental logico-philosophical conceptions of the modality and studies their impact on development of linguistic approaches to this category.

The article addresses the problem of public debt restructuring in seven largest countries of Latin America. Over the last decade there has been a steady decline in nations’ external debt liabilities. This process was originated by two main contributors: worsening borrowing conditions on the world credit market, encouraging governments to deleverage their external credit position, and a solid financial standing underpinned by a positive external environment. It is LAC-7 countries’ strong fiscal position that propelled the development of national debt market and attracted international investors. But as the present report reveals international capital inflows into public debt market is highly volatile, concentrated in the short term segment and insufficient to finance constantly rising needs of the emerging nations. Finally, the author considers debt management options for local government policies weighing the implications of the ongoing global financial crisis and the scarcity of external credit resources

This article considers communicative stereotypes of cross-cultural communication of England and Germany taking as a source literary work of the beginning of the XX century. As communicative stereotype is a source of information about axiolgical constituent part of «cultural code», its reconstruction on different levels of existence including its consideration in “the mirror” of another culture is an important means of optimization of cross-cultural interaction.

This article is devoted to a new scientific theory about the possible modelling of the relations between Russia and the United States. On the basis of the research conducted on two centuries of Russian-American relations, universal political science hypothesis about 14- year cyclicality of the international bilateral relations is also put forward.