Scientific Journal “Issues of National and Federative Relations” Issue 1 (15). 2011.
CONTENTS
THEORY AND HISTORY OF FEDERALISM
ETHNOPOLITICS AND FEDERATIVE RELATIONS
THE NORTH CAUCASUS: CONFLICTS AND STABILITY
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND REGIONAL STUDIES
ESSAYS ON CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA’S POLITICAL HISTORY
THEORY AND HISTORY OF FEDERALISM
V.V. Gaiduk D.Sc. (political science), Professor at the Institute of Law of Bashkir State University
POLITICAL PARTIES UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF RUSSIAN FEDERALISM: POST-ELECTION TRANSFORMATION
The article examines certain specifics of the country’s political modernization when the “ruling party” is dominating and sums up the outcome of elections of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation which were held on the 4th of December 2011.
Key Words: party, parliament, modernization, political tandem, multiparty system, “vertical of power”, election system, pluralism, “ruling party”, authoritarianism.
P.S. Geleranskiy Ph.D. (political science)
RUSSIAN ELECTION AS A FACTOR OF A FEDERAL RELATIONS INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Considering the elections as an essential component of federal relations, the author analyzes the electoral law and the legal issues affecting the legal issues of delimitation of the federal government and regions of the federation. It is hold idea that the election - is the core mechanism of change and development of federal relations and the main form of political people's will in the region as a source of regional governments. Then it is a brief analysis of the regional elections transformation various stages in post-Soviet Russia, and assess their impact on the development of federative relations. The author examines in detail the regional elections as a factor shaping the regional political elite and seeks to identify trends of The Electoral Institute in Russia.
Key words: The Electoral Institute, the role of The Electoral Institute, federal relations, civil society and political system.
A.N. Oshkin Ph.D. (law), Ryazan
SOME PROBLEMS IN LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS OF RUSSIAN STATEHOOD
In the article, the author analyzes the basic problems and obstacles in the way towards the formation and development of the Russian statehood. He reveals key tasks of the Russian Federation’s state and legal policy.
Key words: statehood, law, legislation, Constitution of the Russian Federation, public administration.
D.S. Solovev The National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
IMPROVING FEDERATIVE RELATIONS: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
In the article, the author examines the issues of improving federative relations and analyzes possible trends in this process. He reveals new mechanisms of delineation of powers between federal and regional ruling bodies of public authority.
Key words: federalism, regions, powers, federal and regional ruling bodies of public authorities, decentralization.
Ya.A. Gaiduk candidate for doctor’s degree at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
NATIONAL AND FEDERATIVE ASPECTS OF CIVIL SERVANTS’ POLITICAL CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA
The article examines national and federative aspects of civil servants’ political culture in Russia and determines priorities in upgrading it.
Key words: federalism, political culture, Constitution of the Russian Federation, ethnos, nation, region, civil servant, political status, political conscience, elections, national and federal relations.
M.A. Maystat post-graduate student at the Department of national and federative Relations of The Russian Academy of National economy and of Public administration under the President of the Russian Federation
THE MAIN FEATURES OF FEDERALISM IN THE RUSSIA AND THE USA (COMPARATIVE LEGAL ANALYSIS)
This article is devoted to comparative investigation of the genesis of Russian and American federalism under its historical evolution. As a result of this research we can see that the federalism implies the whole spectrum the phenomena and relations immediately associated with federative form of state structure. Despite of usage of common model of federalism, like competitive federalism, federative structure in Russia and the USA have more distinctions then resemblances.
Key words: federation, federalism, subject of the federation, federalist model, Russia, USA.
T.A. Timerbaev head of the department handling the issues of administrative governance, public and municipal services at the Centre for Political and Legal Studies of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute for Rights Issues (Ufa)
PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF POLITICAL AND LEGAL DECISIONS IN FEDERATIVE STATES
In the article author examines political processes stipulated by the specifics of law-making processes of legislative bodies in the adoption and implementation of new laws relating to market-oriented conditions in public life. In fact, the formation of legal framework and law-making process during political transformation provide a replacement of ideological orientations and changes in the structure of a state, economy and social area.
Key words: parliament, government, federation, constitution, state governed by the rule of law, majority voted system, deputy, senator, party.
V.N. Medvedev Candidate of Law, Associate Professor Senior Researcher at the Institute of State and Law Sciences Vice-Rector of Academic Law Institute
SOME ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGISLATIVE PROBLEM OF “DUAL SUBORDINATION» OF EXECUTIVE BODIES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION’S ENTITIES
In the article, the author analyzes the essence of the principle of “dual subordination” of the executive bodies of the Russian Federation’s entities. He reveals the peculiarities in the application of the principle of “dual subordination” in the Soviet Union and in contemporary practice.
Key words: principle of “dual subordination”, executive bodies, entities of the Russian Federation, administrative reforms, regional and federal authorities.
ETHNOPOLITICS AND FEDERATIVE RELATIONS
V.I. Vlasov D.Sc. (law), Professor at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
EXTREMISM AS A FORM OF PROPAGANDA AND DISPLAY OF NATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS HATRED AND ENMITY
The author analyses the Constitution of the Russian Federation and federal laws proceeding from his own perception and phrasings and concludes that extremism is a form of an anti-constitutional activity as propaganda and the display of national and religious hatred and hostility.
Key words: Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal laws, rights and freedoms of people, propaganda, national and religious hatred and hostility, extremism.
L.F. Boltenkova Doctor of Law, Professor at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF THE OLD RUSSIAN STATE AS A CONNECTING ELEMENT BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA, UKRAINE, BELORUSSIA
Author, on the basis of analysis of annalistic materials, treaties of Rus and Byzantium, legal literature, shows that the Old Russian state was multiethnic and that its ethnic composition is a connecting element between contemporary Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia.
Key words: Novgorod, Kiev , Slovenes, Polans, Krivich, Varangian – Russians, Rurik, Oleg, Igor, Ascold, Dir.
S.A. Pistryakova Ph.D. (political science), Assistant Professor at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
INNOVATED MULTICULTURALISM AND PROBLEMS OF ETHNOPOLITICAL INTEGRATION OF ALL CITIZENS OF RUSSIA INTO A NATION
The article is devoted to the conception of multiculturalism. The author analyzes the problems and contradistinctions of ethnopolitical integration of all Russian citizens into a nation and insists on a need to working out a strategy of consolidation of Russian citizens as a nation.
Key words: ethnos, nation, ethnopolitical integration, multiculturalism, tolerance, Russian citizens as a nation.
M.B. Bekbosynov Ph.D. (political science), doctoral candidate at The Department of Political Science Russian People’s Friendship University
PECULIARITIES OF THE STATUS OF REPUBLICS AS PARTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
In the article, the author examines constitutional, legal and organizational peculiarities of the status of republics. He analyzes the provisions of the constitutions of the republics concerning the foundation of the constitutional form of government and public administration. He reveals basic trends of prospects for constitutional development of the republics as parts of the Russian Federation.
Key words: entity of the federation, republic, constitution, sovereignty, public administration, regional policy.
B.B. Nimaeva post-graduate student at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
URGENT ISSUES IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PROCESSES OF BURYAT PEOPLE (THE CASE OF AGINSKY BURYAT DISTRICT)
In the article, the author examines national policy pursued by the Russian government and social and cultural problems linked to it. Through the example of Aginsky Buryat District, he analyzes the influence of interrelation of ethnicity and civilian identity on the formation of the Buryat people and their contemporary social and cultural processes. He studies the tendencies peculiar to social and cultural processes in the Aginsky Buryat District.
Key words: national policy, federal relations, Aginsky Buryat District (ABD), Buryat people, ethnos, nation, social and cultural problems, ethnic self-consciousness.
G.V. Kettsyan Ph.D. (political science) lecturer at the Economics and Public Administration Department of the Institute of Business Infrastructure
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AS BASIS FOR EXPANDING COMMUNICATION SPACE IN THE FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS
In the article, the author examines the place and role of Russian language in the language policy of the former Soviet republics and reveals peculiarities that are typical of the language situation in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Key words: Russian language, ethnopolitics, language policy, state language, CIS member countries, former Soviet republics.
D.V. Perkova post-graduate student at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
POLITICAL AND LEGAL BASES OF ETHNOLANGUAGE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
This article is devoted to the peculiarities of the state national policy in the Russian Federation, the legal regulation of international and language relations.
Key words: national policy, the state, regional minorities, ethnic and national relations, language policy.
I.V. Tiunchik post-graduate student at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
SELF-DETERMINATION AS BASIC SOVEREIGN RIGHT OF PEOPLE
The article examines the concept of “self determination” and analyses specifics of people’s right of self-determination.
Key words: right of self determination, identity of people, nation, national interests, public administration.
THE NORTH CAUCASUS: CONFLICTS AND STABILITY
V.A. Mikhailov D.Sc. (history), Professor, head of the department of National and Federal Relations of the RANE and AS under the Russian President
SOME STRATEGIC APPROACHES TOWARDS ACHIEVING SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STABILITY IN THE “RUSSIAN CAUCASUS” UNDER NEW CIRCUMSTANCES
In the article, the author analyzes internal and external factors of social and political stabilization of the “Russian Caucasus”. He studies the role and place of the North Caucasus in Russia’s geopolitical interests. He insists on a need to search for new approaches in Russia’s Caucasian policy. The author puts an emphasis on the problems of correlation between ethnic, regional and civil political identity. After studying the North Caucasian Federal District, the author insists on reviewing its structure. In view of this, the author has formulated proposals for reforming the North Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).
Key words: the North Caucasus, “Russian Caucasus”, the North Caucasian Federal District, ethnic identity, national policy.
A.V. Ganicheva Assistant Professor at the Economic Faculty at People’s Friendship University of Russia
INFLUENCE OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEDERATIVE RELATIONS IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS
The article is devoted to the development of federative relations in the republics of the North Caucasus. The author analyzes basic trends in the given process and also the influence of parliamentary elections on the status of federative relations.
Key words: federative relations, elections, the North Caucasus, public administration.
V.A. Kadokhov post-graduate student at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President head of the secretariat under the head of the Administration, deputy head of the local self-administration staff of the city of Vladikavkaz
FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF MUNICIPALITIES IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS
In the article, the author analyzes the development of the local self-administration institution in the North Caucasian Federal District. The article says that although the federal and regional legislation is well developed, the district insufficiently takes into account the regional differences - social and economic, social and cultural, natural and geographical, historical and ethnic. The author says that lack of innovative attitude towards progressive methods in municipal administration and positive practice in carrying out the tasks of municipal administration prevails in the municipalities of the NCFD.
Key words: local self-administration institution, North Caucasian Federal District, strengthening of Russian statehood, reforms in local self-administration.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND REGIONAL STUDIES
N.A. Kutuzova candidate (philosophy), associate professor, senior researcher of the Institute of philosophy of the National academy of sciences of Belarus
I.B. Mikheeva candidate (philosophy), senior researcher of the Centre of the Strategic European studies and intercultural collaboration of the Institute of philosophy of the National academy of sciences of Belarus
W.V. Shmidt doctor (philosophy), professor of the state and confessional relations department of RAPA under the President of the Russian Federation, counselor, 1-st class category
BELARUSIAN INTELLECTUAL TRADITION FROM THE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECT
The article examines the constant of social and cultural existence of Belarus that was formed as one that “exists in a zone of civilization split and colonial, neo-colonial and post-colonial activity in historical and cultural perspective”.
Key words: Belarus, spiritual production, western Russians, Belarus-Polish and Belarus-Lithuanian ties, cross-cultural influence and social cultural relations.
A.S. Zhusupova docent of department of political science, candidate of Political Science at Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi (Republic of Kazakhstan)
Moldakhmet Bidas PhD doctoral student in political science at Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi (Republic of Kazakhstan)
Ye.Zh. Nazarov PhD doctoral student in political science at Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi (Republic of Kazakhstan)
INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL MIGRATION IN KAZAKHSTAN
The article examines the internal and external migration in Kazakhstan. In the article resents statistics of migration processes in the country. The same article includes ethnic diversity in the state during the period from 1999 to 2009.
Key words: migration, internal migration, international migration, population, ethnicity, nation, statistics, Kazakhstan.
V.M. Bogomazov Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Professor of the Diplomatic Academy of the MFA of Russia
LATIN AMERICAN “LIBERATION THEOLOGY” AND MANKIND’S SOCIAL AND HUMANITARIAN VALUES
The article studies the essence of debates over the Latin American teaching of “liberation” that were held in the beginning of the 21st century and the influence of each of these manifestations on the developments in diverse contexts in the past years.
Key words: “liberation theology”, viability, effectiveness, perspective, poverty, exploitation, mortality, global financial and economic crisis, political liberation, reforms, spirituality, sociological analysis, alternative to structured capitalism.
A.A. Abildinov post-graduate student at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Academy of People’s Economy and Administrative Service under the Russian President
INTERNATIONAL TIES BETWEEN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN: HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE ANALYSIS
In the article, the author gives an account of cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan and studies its tendencies. He insists on the importance of economic integration between Russia and Kazakhstan as part of the Eurasian Union under the condition of preserving their political sovereignty.
Key words: inter-regional ties, integration, intergovernmental partnership, integrated union, common economic space, Eurasian Union.