PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

• Presenting this Issue
• Chugrov S.V. The Fourth “Berdyaev Readings” Forum. ISEPR. Vladivostok

THEME OF THE ISSUE: SOCIOLOGY OF POLITICS IN RUSSIA

• Drobizheva L.M. Civic and Ethnic Identity and Perception of the Preferable State in Russia
• Petukhov V.V. Participatory Democracy: Institutional Crisis and New Prospects
• Nikovskaya L.I. Yakimets V.N. Formation and Advocacy of the Public Interests in Russia: from “Administrative” to Partner Model

ORBIS TERRARUM

• Kravchenko S.A. Risks of Energy Security: the Need For Humanistic Geopolitics
• Pantin V.I., Lapkin V.V. Ethnopolitical and Ethnosocial Processes in Post-Soviet Countries (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine Cases)
• Lyublinsky V.V. The Political Dimension of Social Inequality and Poverty (Comparative Experience)
• Concept of Tolerance in the Ideological Confrontation of European Think Tanks
• Influence of Cultural Context on Formation of Science Policy (French Experience)

POLITICAL THEORY

• Musikhin G.I. Conceptualization of Political Symbolization
• Yanitsky O.N. Critical State of an Environment: the Methodology and Theoretical Issues

HISTORY RECENT AND REMOTE

• Galkin A.A., Krasin Yu.A. Perestroika – Glance from the 30-Year Distance

INTERVIEW

• Shaping The Elections Mechanism. How It Was in Moscow

REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT

• On Russia in the World and the World in Russia (N.E. Bazhanova: Ad Memoriam)
• Why Fair Elections are Worth a Damn