Scientific section. Politology

The main methodological problems a mass media researcher usually faces are considered in this article. The author deems it possible to overcome them by using coders, preliminary articulating controversial issues, and taking into consideration existing principles of media outlets’ functioning.

The article refers to the principal directions of strengthening of the government role in the different areas of the social life in modern Russia, which were formed in 1990-s as a result of the actions of liberal reformers in order to strengthen their positions in the Russian society. The following conclusion has been drawn: the ambition to make irreversible the process of liberal transformation of Russian society considerably defined the highest social cost of reforms and great split of the society, features of existing political regime, all the contradictions and draw

The main branches of the liberal critique of the Great Patriotic War historical memory in contemporary Russia, its official interpretation and usage for political purposes are considered in this article. The material presented in the paper allows concluding that alternative comprehension of the Great Patriotic War history, which is oriented primarily to revelation of its negative sides, objectively aims at discretization of the Soviet heritage, severance of intergenerational continuity, and delegitimizing of the current political system of modern Russia.

The article describes the basic model of interaction between the state and civil society institutions. Analyzed international practices of civic participation, on the example of the functioning of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council of France and the US Citizens Jury. Presented by the Russian model «mutually responsible partnership».