political institutions

The article contains a comparative analysis of processes and results of formation of political systems of four post-Soviet states of Central Asia: Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Based on the distribution of powers in the triangle of institutions of supreme state power: president – parliament – government, the type of political system of all four countries – electoral autocracy – is determined.

The authors consider conceptual approaches to the defi nition of the concept of “patriotism”, analyze this concept within Russian sociopolitical discourse in a historical retrospective, investigate mechanisms of constructing patriotic narratives within the framework of state policy. Methodological toolkit of the study of the phenomenon of patriotism is characterized by complexity and multidimensionality, integrating a wide range of general scientifi c and special methods.

The article considers the main treatments of the role of institutions in political and economic life in present-day conditions, reveals the key institutional factors of interconnection of political and economic development in post-Soviet Russia. It draws a conclusion that ancestral flaws of the period of institutialization of market economy in post-Soviet Russia inevitably came out as defects of institutialization of political system.

The article describes the main conditions and principles of formation of the Russian parliamentarism, the brief description of basics of the electoral process at that time.