Scientific section. Politology

The article considers the main stages of formation and development of the institute of nation-cultural autonomy, development of the international legal framework and principles of cultural autonomy. The analysis is based on the international system for the protection of national minorities, which laid the legal, political and social based of activity of the institute of nation-cultural autonomy. 

The paper studies an attempts of building of stable Russian Muslim political parties and movements. The author argues that created at 1990s Islam parties and organizations could not be able to build an effective channels for political representation of Muslim population in whole of Russia as well as at regional political level, mainlyat Volga-area.Muslim party building process was used by some political activists as an important resource for recruitment into Russian political elite through federal electoral machine.

In article the public and political position of one of acknowledged leaders of the Russian emigration of the first wave, Peter Struve, is analyzed. Various parties of political process, the ideological antagonism of the competing “centers of force” of the Russian emigration, one of which personified to P. B. Struve, are considered. Separate aspects of ideological and political fights and their reflection on pages of popular emigrant’s editions of a different orientation are researched.

Article analyzes tendency of the return of post-Soviet mass consciousness to the idea of patriotic education of citizens as a technology that provides a pre-planned result. An explanation is offeredof the reasonswhy attempts by state and public institutions to follow this idea in their public activities often lead to an unplanned result, to the spread of nationalistic sentiments in civil society.