Scientific section. Politology

The authors analyze the results of the massive social surveys and focus-group investigations conducted in November-December, 2015 in municipal districts of Saratov region which are the parts of Saratov district constituency. People’s informational preferences, their attitude to the government, politicians, and elections were probed. Specific recommendations on elaborating electoral strategies in the run-up to the State Duma elections have been formulated.

In this paper analyzes a theoretical and metodological approaches toward study Islamic factor in modern Russian politics. The author sctutinize this process in the context of globalization and development of activity of the Islamic extremist forces in different regions of the contemporary world.

The paper is devoted to research of theoretical approaches to analysis of sociocultural integration as a tool for resolving regional conflicts. Author focuses on the ability of sociocultural integration to transformation of destructive identity-based conflicts. The author considers the systemic factors of the identity-based conflicts and emphasizes destabilizing role of the politicization of ethnicity.

The author considers the problem of correlation between the notions of political competition and political conflicts in the context of an electoral campaign in contemporary Russia, evaluates their functionality as parameters of the political system’s degree of democracy, and characterizes the main types of institutional and interpersonal conflict relations within the electoral period.