Vol. 14 No. 6 (2012)

Extracts from President Vladimir Putin’s Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, December 12, 2012

Для России нет и не может быть другого политического выбора, кроме демократии. При этом хочу сказать и даже подчеркнуть: мы разделяем именно универсальные демократические принципы, принятые во всем мире. Однако российская демократия – это власть именно российского народа с его собственными традициями народного самоуправления, а вовсе не реализация стандартов, навязанных нам извне. Демократия – это в том числе соблюдение и уважение принятых действующих законов, правил и норм. Могут меняться правящие партии, правительства, президенты, но не должны затрагиваться основы государства и общества, прерываться преемственность национально- го развития, пересматриваться вопросы суверенитета, обеспечения прав и свобод граждан. Демократия – это возможность не только выбирать власть, но и постоянно эту власть контролировать, оценивать результаты ее работы. Мы должны уделить большее внимание развитию прямой демократии, непосредственного народовластия, в том числе речь о праве народной законодательной инициативы, я уже об этом говорил, вы знаете, когда идея, получившая гражданскую поддержку, в том числе в Интернете, обязательна к рассмотрению в парламенте.

The article deals with the 1 ^st National Forum «Public Service in Russia: Development and Management of Human Capital» which took place at the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. Major topics under discussion included the necessity of improving the efficiency of public service and public administration in Russia under conditions of a rapidly developing world and increasing competition for resources.

The author explores the latest bureaucracy related challenges in the Russian civil service system and uses the results of a social survey to analyze the attitude to this phenomenon among public officials and in the society.

The article raises the issue of determining the efficiency of personnel departments in various public bodies with regard to the prevention of corruption offences. An analysis of personnel department activities yields suggestions for target indicators of efficiency and indicators of performance efficiency

The author provides a brief analysis of innovative activity staffing, finding its current condition inadequate. A number of ways to improve human resource capacity are suggested, including: lowering the average age and attracting ‘new’ young personnel by increasing the financial attractiveness factor of research facility employment; increasing the efficiency of the educational process through the creation of new concentrations and higher educational institutions; developing links between universities and the manufacturing sector; providing professional training with account of business sector demand; and attraction of leading foreign scholars to educational institutions.

The article considers the issues of the creation of a Customs Union within the Eurasian Economic Community and the formation of a regulatory legal base for this integration. The role of the customs services of the member states of the EurAsEC Customs Union in this integration process is outlined. The author analyzes a number of international treaties and agreements regulating integration processes in the post-Soviet space and the interaction between government agencies, including customs services, in the framework of the establishment of various regional organizations: EurAsEC, Customs Union between Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation. Key directions of inter-state cooperation in the Eurasian region are identified.

The article explores the adaptation of the multicriteria analysis, a methodology used to evaluate the expediency of support to socially important investment projects from EU structural funds, to Russian conditions, as well as the application of budget efficiency indicators to provide better rationalization for managerial decisions concerning the coordination of long term interests of all participants of a government programme.

The author analyzes the evolution and country-specific differences between social security systems in the post-war world, identifying main directions of social policy development in Russia.

The formation of property relations in reformed Russian society is considered. A comprehensive sociological and socio-psychological analysis of the character of relations between the type of property relations, development of mass entrepreneurship and stability of society is provided.

Some interaction challenges between the public authorities, the government and the institutions of civil society are stated and analyzed in this article.

The author presents generation trends and stresses the importance of reputation capital for a region, suggesting some principles of its formation and evaluating the efficiency of the use of reputation capital to promote a region in the media.

The author examines the history of the emergence of Cossack villages in the Kuban river area in late 19 ^th-early 20 ^th century, analyzes the process of local self-government development in these villages, revealing the experience of self-organization and interaction with the state.

The article enumerates reasons for the necessity to create a system of specialized professional training to prepare managers capable of implementing an efficient personnel policy in the system of public administration. The author suggests ways to improve the efficiency of professional training of managerial personnel and develops a methodology algorithm for the system of personnel pool management.

The article deals with the problem of political values and their influence on the process of modernization in Russia and Poland. The authors emphasize the fact that values have a great impact on the current process of political and economic modernization in both countries and explore the changes in the system of values of the citizens.

A review of the Russian national research and practice conference ‘Strategic management in the sphere of Russian national security: subjects, resources, technologies’ organized by RANEPA Department of National Security

The author studies documents on strategic planning, management and control in the Russian Federation and emphasizes the need to develop a multi-level information system using state-of-the-art information analysis and expert analysis technologies. Topical issues of methodological, regulatory and legal support of this system are outlined.

Issues considered in the article include the prevention of informational extremism, methodologies and technologies of monitoring information resources on the Internet.

In the second part of the article the author suggests various models for the application of fundamental philosophy to the analysis of the foundations of scientific, managerial, political and other types of activity. An analysis of contemporary domestic philosophical innovatics and its set of methods and methodologies allows to come to the conclusion that the toolkit of philosophical innovatics is focused on the solution of complex systemic and interdisciplinary problems.

11 декабря Российская академия народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте Российской Федерации (РАНхигС) провела встречу международных научно-исследовательских центров «группы двадцати» (Think Tank-20/ T20).

A "green" economy is the basis of the implementation of the global strategy for sustainable development. The author identifies the origins of an economic model of a new type, its essence, the peculiarities of its manifestation in different countries.

Publication based on the materials of the 6 ^th Russian national congress of political scientists. Issues discussed at the Congress included Russia’s positioning in the global world, its competitive advantages and the balance between domestic and external policy. Much attention was given to the analysis of modernization (development) policy and political conditions for its implementation in Russia and other regions of the world.

This article focuses on the analysis of political and philosophical ideas of M.N. Epstein, particularly his concept of “transculture”. The article examines such topics as criticism of totalitarian culture in the USSR, the “critical universality”, critique of multiculturalism, Russian regionalism, criticism of neo-Marxist understanding of the intellectual, self-identity of the Russian Diaspora in the U.S.A. etc. The article is based on texts of M.N.Epstein and an interview taken by the author in 2011.

V.D. Popov. Management Culture in the Information Society

The author devotes the article to international memoiristics. Most political personalities focus their memoirs on the issues of internal policy. The topic of war prevails in memoirs of an external policy nature. Memoirs of cultural figures allow to see their authors as citizens as well as creative personalities.

The article analyzes the impact of uncertainties on the life of young people. The author discloses the concept of "ethos", and proposes to use it to study the social actions of young people under the conditions of uncertainty. Special focus is given to the connection between the uncertainty phenomenon and the level of protest sentiment among the young people.

The article emphasizes the topicality of the issue of prevention and settlement of conflict of interest in public service, stressing the extreme importance of the need to overcome a narrow view of the nature of conflict of interest and attempting to expand the approaches to the understanding of the term. A refined definition of conflict of interest is suggested.

The article focuses on the management of social environment in a metropolis through visual media. The author concludes that visual media have a significant impact on the behavioral characteristics of the inhabitants of the metropolis, and can be used to effectively manage the social environment of the metropolis.

The author focuses on specific activities designed to develop and strengthen Russian civic identity and the role of the humanities in its formation. Strengthening the all-Russian identity is a top priority of the state national policy, which is the main idea behind the development of the State National Policy by the Working Group of the Presidential Council for Inter-Ethnic Relations.

The article outlines key trends in the development of historical science in the last 20 years as well as the principal methodological concepts of the study of socio-political transformations in Russia. The author also provides a philosophical justification for the fragmentation of methodology used to analyze these issues.

The author explores the interrelation between political decisions in the sphere of stimulation of investment processes in Russia and the actual growth of Russian economy indicators, classifies key political and legal parameters for an investment decision, gives a definition of investment attractiveness and explores a range of challenges to the development of the investment sector, assesses the execution of the President’s commissions concerning investment development in 2011 and outlines key objectives for the near future.

The author introduces the term ‘communicative regime' as an indispensable feature of a comprehensive analysis of political discourse. A historical analysis of the French political culture, the Russian pre-revolution communicative regime and its adaptation to political objectives of the Soviet period allows to identify more meaningful features of political discourse.

The author explores successes and challenges in the implementation of the Single Economic Area project. A comprehensive analysis yields the conclusion that a multi-side integration approach has priority over the single-side approach, although it is less realistic. The author outlines development vectors that would neutralize the risks of the integration process.

The article studies modern experience of the USA in the fight against extremism both in the domestic context and abroad and presents the author’s approach to the understanding of key directions of this activity. The author substantiates the necessity of using the US experience in Russia and the Russian experience in the joint struggle against international terrorism and extremism.

International peacekeeping remains a powerful instrument for the settlement of armed conflicts; however, experience has shown the existence of different approaches to its implementation in the global context. The effectiveness of peacekeeping measures should be assessed according to criteria developed through scientific research, on the basis of data provided by United Nations Headquarters and its field missions. Research should be conducted by order of the UN; the effectiveness of any operation should be assessed under direct control of the UN Secretary General.

Из Послания Президента Российской Федерации Владимира Владимировича Путина Федеральному Собранию Российской Федерации. 12 декабря 2012 г. (фрагменты)

Extracts from President Vladimir Putin’s Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, December 12, 2012Country’s Primary Capital

Владимир Путин. Демократия и качество государства (фрагменты статьи). № 1, c. 4. Владимир Путин. Из Послания Президента Российской Федерации Федеральному Собранию Российской Федерации. 12 декабря 2012 г. (фрагменты) № 6, с. 4.

The authors analyze the development of the Vernadsky concept of the noosphere in the context of the transition to a sustainable future, emphasizing the need for compliance with one of the principles of sustainable development – the principle of conservation of the biosphere. It is assumed that a new stage of the doctrine of the noosphere is emerging, reflecting the greening process and globalization, and their subsequent deployment through global sustainable development.