The author discloses the importance of the first
wave emigrants memoirs for the study of Russian estates
history. The article presents the heterogeneity of the texts discovered
by the author and reveals their diversity. Due to this
fact the author divides the memoirs into three groups according
to the degree of their information importance. The author
considers those, entirely devoted to the estates, to be the
most important, and those, containing only short fragmentary
information, to be the least important. The published documents
as well as the archive materialsare used. The author
considers the reasons of the estate theme popularityamong
the Russian emigrants and discloses the reasons why memoirists
included the texts about estates in their works.

The author mentions the pecularities of N.
Krivosheinas memoirs. The author considers this memoirs to
be one of the most important and authentichistorical sources
of information about the fate of the Russian emigrations first
wave to France.This first wave turned out to be the most
numerous one. Most of those who left Russia after the1917
Revolution prefer redto live in France, as there were very extensive
and deep culturalties dating back to the XVIII century
between the two countries. N.A. Krivosheina, being absolutely
literary gifted and having a raretalent for observation,
critical thinking, and being a true Russian, was able to create
one of the most remarkable monuments to the history of the
Russian emigration.

The article is dedicated to describing the activities
of the «Green» Party in the works of the authors,
representing the conservative trend in historical-politological
literature of the FRG. The subject of analysis is a number of
publications of the last two decades as being the most scientifically
significant. Much attention is given to the analysis
of some conceptual approaches and evaluative judgments,
characterizing the rights understanding of the political essence
of the «Greens».

The paper examines the structure of law enforcement
system in the city-state of Assur.The functions and
role of various legal institutions are restored with the use of
public law sources and private documents from Kanish (Merchants
of Assur played the leading role in the creation of trading
colonies system in Asia Minor).
The representative of the city of Assur in Kanish played a
special role in the judicial system: he appeared in local courts
as a lawyer and witness.

The article analyzes the history of Seljuks state
under the rule of their last sultan. Sultan Sanjar was an outstanding
statesman and military leader. In particular, he finally
conquered and added to his empire the state of Ghaznavids.
Sanjar stabilized the internal political situation in the empire.
However, the fate of the great sultan was full of dramatic
events. He was defeated by the Carakitaiys. In the end of his
life Sanjar was captured by the nomadic Oguzs.

The author reviews the concept of Motherland,
one of the main concepts in the outlook of the Russian society
of the first third of 19th century. The period described in the
article is connected with The Patriotic War of 1812, one of the
greatest shocks in the first third of 19th century. By that time
the concept of Motherland had gained the same meaning
we see in it now. The author states that love for Motherland
and patriotism were most evident in that period.

The article deals with some aspects of political
culture formation in Iran.The article considers the main
stages of the origin and development of the Shiite doctrine,
and its significance for the Iranian society. The author tries
to elucidate the process of evolution of Shiite doctrine influenced
historical fortunes of the Iran society. The author gives
his personal point of view and makes an attempt to clear up
rather the real influence of the Shiite doctrine than its ideological
importance. This approach allows to comprehend not
only the role and the types of the main trends in Shiism, but
also the norms of the historical period, which gave them their
status. The article assesses the functional role of political and
religious values in the Iranian society. The analysis confirms
that the conservation of the traditional political heritage is one
of the main steps towards the solution of the problem of Irans
national identity

M.P. Panteleieff (1887-1958) was a gifted operatic
singer and a prominent Russian musician who worked inthe
US in 1920-1930s. In 1931 he founded the Russian Grand
Opera Company in NewYorkCity which staged the operas in
Russian (Boris Godunov, Khovanchina by Moussorgsky, The
Golden Cockerel by Rimsky-Коrsakov).The cast included I.V.
Ivantzoff, Т.I. Sabanieeva and other famous operatic singers.
The part Boris Godunov was the main in Panteleieffs repertoire
(bаriton) and he performed it brilliantly. The Russian
Grand Opera performances had great success and won a
high appraisal of the American musical community.

Australias participation in both Korean War and
other international military conflicts is one of insufficiently
explored themes in Russian historiography. This article describes
the struggle of main political parties of Australianon
the question of the countrys entry into the Korean War of
1950-1953. The article is based on the publications of The
Canberra Times, one of the leading Australian newspapers
in 1950-s. The author comes to the conclusion that the political
elite of Australia quickly reached full agreement on the
countrys entry into Korean War. It was due to the fear of the
world communismspread. The cold war escalationmade
Australia go under the US protection and become their ally.
As a result, the Australian military units took part in all military
conflicts in Asia, held under the U.S. auspices in the second
half of the XX - early XXI centuries.

The article is devoted to thestrategic conceptions
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization since it came
into being till 2010. The article mainly presents the analysis of
the concepts of 1999 and 2010. The author points out those
concepts expansionary character and states that it contradicts
the fundamental articles of the Washington Treaty, establishing
NATO 1949. The analysis given in the article is
based on the texts of the documents.

The article covers the problem of the influence
ofthe military factoron the world oil trade. The situation in the
Middle East region in second half of XX century is chosen
as an example. The author investigates the peculiarities of
the USA-USSRs participation in this process. The participation
of the Gulf States (Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq) is also
considered. The article describes three levels of the problem:
the USA - USSR global antagonisms; their allies military and
political support; and the role of the arms traffic. The main
attention is given to the arms traffic factor as a main factor
having influenced on the situation in the Middle East.

The article presents in the form of a scientific review
the progress and trends, significance and consequences
of the Soviet-North American Hockey confrontation to Russia
during the cold war. The author proves the scientific value
of studying the elite sport (in this case, ice-hockey) as a social
institution. The article presents both the authors basic
conclusions on his theme of dissertational research and the
problem of interdependence of the world policy and sports as
a social institution.

The article analyzes the experience of such
structures, as The Committee of Experts on Terrorism (CODEXTER),
Eurojust, OSCE Counter-Terrorist Unit, which coordinate
their anti-terrorist activities in the European Union.
The author studies the problems of information distribution,
including the intelligence data. The article covers the questions
of security, defence and law enforcement agencies
consulting as well as the process of development of mutual
anti-terrorist counteraction mechanisms under the new conditions.
The article is prepared within the Federal Special-Purpose
Program Scientific & Pedagogic Personnel of Innovative
Russia, developed for the period of 2009-2013 by the
Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science.

The author reviews the concept of Motherland,
one of the main concepts in the outlook of the Russian society
of the first third of 19th century. The period described in the
article is connected with The Patriotic War of 1812, one of the
greatest shocks in the first third of 19th century. By that time
the concept of Motherland had gained the same meaning
we see in it now. The author states that love for Motherland
and patriotism were most evident in that period.

The article explores the organization of the nobility
trusteeship in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries.
The author studies the nobility trusteeship functioning
basing his research on the example of the nobility trusteeship
of Moscow Uyezd and other trusteeships of Moscow Province.
The main objective of this research is the description of
the nobility trusteeship problems. The author states that the
institution of nobility trusteeship was successfully functioning
up to 1917 in spite of numerous problems. There have already
been some researches made studying nobility trusteeships
of various provinces of Russia, but this very article is the
first research of Moscow Province nobility trusteeship.

The article presents secondary school students
suicides at the beginning of the 20th century as a social phenomenon.
Using the documents from the archives the author
analyses the reasons of suicides connected with the school
life factors. They are: fear of getting bad marks, conflicts with
teachers, and parents disapproval of poor studying, living
without family. The author estimates and typifies some specific
circumstances, making young students commit suicides.
The article gives examples of teachers, parents and students
attitude to such suicides.

The atrticle is devoted to privat-docents, the
category of teachers at Russian universities in XIX-XX centuries.
It was during this period when the private-docent institution
became most common. The article considers the reasons
for its expanding through the University Regulations 1884,
such as: status, size, financial position of «junior lecturers»;
attitude toward private-docentsat universities; junior lecturers
experience of self-organization. Basing on the analysis of
laws and regulations, archival sources and previous studies
the author concludes that private-docents were important, but
not completely implemented elements of the Russian university
life in XIX-XX centuries.

This article reveals the reasons of the Central
Asian peoples revolt against the Russian authorities and
Russian peasants-immigrants during the World War I. The
authors analysis of various historical sources presents the
well-known historical facts in a new light. It is concluded that
the Governor-General A.N. Kuropatkin played a key role in
suppressing the revolt, peace restoration and peoples return
to civilian life. The author describes the peculiarities of the
military operations in Central Asia

The article considers the history of the national
economy management reconstruction dating back to 1957.
The author gives special attention to the definite issues of
establishing the economic councils. He also analyses the reasons
for switching to the territorial form of administration in
that period. The article describes the reform as being realized
in haste and poorly thought-out. The article examines the inner-
party struggle as a period during which Khrushchevs opponents
tried to prevent breaking of the departmental system
of administration.

The article is dedicated to the study of international
links of the Russian Federation higher school in 1990s
and shows the influence of the integration processes in the
field of education on the development of Russian universities,
both in the Centre and in the regions. The author notes that
the decentralization of the Russian education management in
the 1990s led to the rapid growth of educational organizations.
As a result they got an opportunity to establish international
links in the field of higher education and science. One more
opportunity was to act in the international arena as subjects
with certain powers.

The article is devoted to the German right radicalism
ideology, aspiring to modify its content at the expense
of borrowing certain aspects from the arsenal of ecological
science, as well as from the programs of nature-protecting
parties and movements. The author states that thus they are
trying to expand their influence on the socio-political life. Exposing
such theoretical conclusions of the right radical ideologists
to the critical analysis the author shows their identity with
those of the classical fascism ideology. Its stated that they
have a speculative character and are supposed to prove the
necessity of a reactionary dictator shipcoming to power. The
author investigates the possibility of such political scenario
realization.

The article analyses the way the young Russian-
speaking population of the CIS countries estimates Russias
diaspora policy.The author investigates the sociopolitical
models of the compatriots behavior and reveals the amplifying
tendency of the Russian youths intention to move from
the former Soviet republics to other foreign countries forgetting
education, work and permanent residence. This category
of compatriots gradually has less intention to return to the
historical Native land. At the same time, in the conditions of a
demographic crisis and annual reduction of employable population
the Russian Federation is interested in an increasing
number of young men from the near abroad. The research
results contain some recommendations for Russiasmore effective
cooperation with the diaspora

The article considers and analyses some aspects
of Russian-Ukrainian near-border cooperation at the
present stage. The author is concentrated on such a new
form of near-border cooperation as the Euro-region. In particular,
the article analyses the successful experience of such
inter-regional cooperation in euro-region Slobozhanshina.
The author comes to the conclusion that such relations can
become more active only due to the peoples diplomacy and
political will of regional officials.

Corruption is a threat to the national security of
Russia. It delays thelarge-scale economic and social transformations,
the political development of the Russian state. Corruption
expands the sector of shadow economy, reduces the
tax revenues to the budget, makes using of budgetary funds
ineffective. It has a negative impacton the countrys image,
worsens the investment climate

The author puts forward the thesis that the political
and government activities in the sphere of public relations
should be considered on the basis of the methodology which
is going back to commercial marketing. The author proves
that such approach allows to avoid ideologizing and idealization
of the public relationconcept. Besides, it helps observe
the relations of such concepts as advertising, public relations
and propaganda. The authors definition of public relations is
of some interest. He states that public relations area kind of
activities, carried out in the field of management and is directed
on ensuring the most effective communications between
the subject of activity and the social audience (from the point
of view of the management purposes).

The article analyzes speechwriting, as a special
technology of political consulting. The author studies the
political speechwriting basing on the referents work with the
heads of the Soviet State and modern Russia. The author
analyses the Soviet referents main methods of work as the
predecessors of modern Russias political consultants. Particular
attention is paid to the clients influence on the political
text.
The article presents a comparative analysis of speechwriters
work with Russian presidents.The author concludes
that Russian speechwriters are under the influence of political
consumerization, the phenomenon meaning the marketization
of the political sphere.The article states that modern Russian
speechwriters are professionally inferior to the Soviet ones.

The article considers education as one of the
questions of the highest national priorities, through which the
state needs in ensuring national security are realized.
The strategic interests of Russia (such as: its capability
to self-preservation as a self-replicating civilized integrity in
multipolar and changing the world) assume preservation and
development of the countrys educational space. The author
discloses the basic components of the mechanism of ensuring
the countrys educational space safety. It is stated that they
allow to carry out the blocking ofthe destructive elements,
properties and processes destroying the given system, and to
stimulate its constructive elements, properties and processes
promoting its functioning and development as an identifying
whole.