A Word to Young Sociological Scientists

The article examines the labor practices of foreign students studying at the universities in Saratov region, with a focus on their adaptation to the Russian labor market. The study is based on the results of a quantitative (survey, n = 200) and qualitative (in-depth interviews, n = 12) analysis. The main employment sectors of foreign students, such as the hospitality industry, delivery services, and taxi driving, are identifi ed.

The article discusses the specifics of military personnel after the end of military service, their problems of transition to the civil society. It is noted that they retain their connection with the army, a social institution consisting of a rigidly hierarchical large armed aggregate of people, under the control of the state, ensuring the protection, defending national interests and providing assistance to other countries in confl icts.

The military pension is often only a part of the institution of special payments to military personnel. Due to the fact that pension provision for military personnel is a specifi c system and diff ers from general pension payments, it is necessary to understand it. This article analyzes the features of the modern pension system for military personnel of all law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation, refl ecting, on the one hand, the global trends and, on the other hand, the specifi cs of the Russian military pension system.

Today, the Russian Federation, in the new dynamically transforming realities: the confrontation of Western ideology, the cultivated "culture of cancellation", as well as conducting of a special military operation of Russia on the territory of the Ukraine (SVO), faces many tasks protecting the population from aggressive information and the infl uence from the outside. Especially vulnerable to digital "stuffi ng" are young people – a socio-demographic group characterized by an unformed worldview and value attitudes.