Scientific section. Politology

The paper is concerned with specificity of the socio-cultural integration as a tool for resolving ethno-political identity-based conflicts in the North Caucasus. The author considers the principle factors of the identity-based conflicts and emphasizes destabilizing role of the politicization of ethnicity. Among the systemic conditions of the regional identity-based conflicts escalation, the author calls: civic identity crisis, traditionalization, ethnic tensions.

Political space that is conventionally called post-Soviet, unique in its essence and nature of the occurrence. A significant amount of vertical political ties, relations and echanisms, which were United States that were part of the USSR, was replaced by a horizontal form of political interactions. One of these forms have become diverse political projects, which was initiated by the leaders of post-Soviet republics, including the Russian political elite.

This article analyzes the impact of the electoral law on the formation of Russia’s party system with a dominant party. Law «On elections» and «On political parties» are seen as tools of political engineering. Were analyzed the possibility of participation of parties in electoral procedures, the procedure for forming blocs and coalitions, changes in the electoral formula. The paper concluded that there was «favorable treatment» in the legislative sphere major parliamentary parties and, in particular the «United Russia».

The article considers main interpretations of «justice» and «injustice» within modern political science and makes critical evaluation of attempts to find universal formula of social justice’s realization. The author emphasizes an appeal to the values of social justice in the sphere of international relations in the context of their usage within realization of «soft power» strategy and preparation of «colored revolutions».