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The paper is devoted to the problem of government body transparency and interaction between the state and civil society institutes in the modern Russian Federation.

The article is devoted to the examination of national interests of the Russian Federation, their structure and peculiarities and their influence to the external economic process. Different approaches to the definition of the national interests within the bounds of scientific and political conceptions are reviewed.

The paper discusses peculiarities of the formation of youth parlamentarianism as a tool to form a civil society in the modern Russian Federation, its trends and contradictions are assessed.

In this article examined Russia's national defense challenges from ethno-confessional factors of modern global political process in form of growing panturkism, islamic fundamentalism, international terrorism. Examined their influence on country defense, especially on south borders. Offered ways to decrease level of country safety threats. In particular, offered to deepen and increase variety of russian-islamic relationships.

The paper discusses peculiarities of the formation of youth parliamentarianism as a tool to form a civil society in the modern Russia Federation, its trends and contradictions are assessed.

The paper analyses the practical implementation of Ukrainian legislation in the field of liberty of conscience, which governs interactions between the state and religious organizations. Main trends and priorities in the confessional policy of the government have been revealed Possible directions to improve Ukrainian legislation regarding liberty of conscience are suggested.

The article is about find out a degree of understanding of the political idea of N.V. Ustrjalov. He is the Russian emigrate and the founder and the main theorist of the nationalism-bolshevism. This article emphasizes the Russian thinker's heritage is important for the analysis of all political ideas in modern Russia.

Specific representations of social-political conflicts as a factor of the formation of a "sovereign democracy" model are considered in the paper. The transformation of the party and elective systems and strengthening the power vertical in the modern Russian Federation are estimated at this angle.

The article focuses on the possibility and research perspectives to apply the definition "gender gap" in political science discourse. This term appeared as quantity index in the electoral research. It is nowadays used in the extended meaning and makes it possible to study gender distinctions in the political life on different levels of analytic activity.

The paper presents the research results of modern Russian politolo-gists in the field of political and state ideology. Various interpretations of ideology, its models, functional efficiency, structural elements, and the formation of specificity of different approaches to scientific studying ideologies are considered.