Journal “Issues of National and Federative Relations”. Issue 2 (29), 2015
CONTENTS
THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT VICTORY
POLITICAL PROBLEMS OF NATIONAL RELATIONS
BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES. Autonomous Nonprofit Organization "International Association of the Advancement of the Abaza, Abkhazian ethnos "Alashara""
THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT VICTORY
N.I. KONDAKOVA Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Full Member of the Academy of Military Sciences, Head of the Museum of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Russia, Moscow
CONTRIBUTION OF THE UNION REPUBLICS IN THE WINNING OF THE SOVIET VICTORY IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR OF 1941-1945
L.O. TERNOVAYA DSc (history), Professor at the department of sociology and management of the Moscow Automobile and Road Technical University (MADI), Russia, Moscow
THE CITIZENS OF EASTERN EUROPEAN STATES IN THE RED ARMY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
S.V. FOKIN Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of Russia's Foreign Policy Chair of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Russia, Moscow
HOW GALICIA FOUGHT FOR UKRAINE IN WORLD WAR I
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, Russia, Moscow
MEMORY SCORCHED BY WAR
N.P. MEDVEDEV D.Sc. (political science), Professor at the Peoples’ Friendship University, Russia, Moscow
FROM THE RECENT HISTORY V.P. KAZIMIRCHUK, MERITED SCIENTIST OF THE RSFSR, VETERAN OF WORLD WAR II
POLITICAL PROBLEMS OF NATIONAL RELATIONS
M.W. KYRCHANOFF Dr.Sc in History, Аssociate Professor Department of Regional studies and Foreign Countries Economies Faculty of International relations Voronezh State University, Russia, Voronezh
NATIONALISM IN TRANSITION SOCIETIES: MACEDONIAN EXPERIENCE OF THE 1990s
Nationalism is one of the most influential political ideologies in the modern world. The processes of political transition, social and economic transformations, transition from authoritarianism to democracy actualize the controversial role of nationalism. The role of nationalism in transition societies varies enormously. Nationalism can act as social consolidation or fragmentation factor. Macedonian nationalism was among the most influential ideologies in the early independent Macedonia in the 1990s. The nationalism develop as predominantly political movement. Nationalism became a factor of Macedonian statehoods consolidation and strengthening.
Key words: nationalism, Macedonia, political transit, national consolidation.
О.N. МАXIMOVA PhD (political sciences), head of Department of international relations of the Orenburg State Agrarian University, Russia, Orenburg
ETHNO-POLITICAL CULTURE AS AN OBJECT OF STATE POLICY IN THE FIELD OF ETHNIC RELATIONS
The article analyses conditions and characteristics of ethno-political construction of ethno-political culture as a factor of political change. On the example of the Orenburg region, the author shows the nature of the influence of public authorities on ethno-political culture of the region and identifies possible transformation of the ethno-political culture.
Key words: ethno-political culture, ethno-national relations, regional political sphere, regional ethno-political management, inter-ethnic tension.
D.V. PERKOVA Candidate of Political Sciences head of the press center of the National Union of Political Scientists, Russia, Moscow
INTERNATIONAL AND RUSSIAN PRACTICE OF IMPLEMENT OF THE PROVISIONS OF FRAMEWORK CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES
This article is devoted to the peculiarities of law enforcement in the context of the Convention, the Russian specificity in the subject field of the document, in particular, during the period of its signature and at the present stage.
Key words: Russian Federation, a national policy, national minorities, the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, the Council of Europe.
М.N. NIKONOVA post-graduate student working for a PhD at the Department of National and Federative Relations of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Russia, Moscow
REFLEXIVE CONTROL IN THE PROCESSES OF COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING (Part III)
This work is devoted to one of the most important elements of the mechanism of political control, namely the technology of collective decision-making activities.
The following part discloses in details the technology of the ranking and selection of D-sphere (sphere of decisions) in order to minimize the total entropy.
Key words: mechanisms of political control, decision making, group decision, entropy, measuring the quality of decisions.