Power 2016, No 07 Arrangement of Russia: Challenges and Risks A. Galkin Political Stability in the Years of Changes and Shocks V. Belozerov From National Security Strategy to the Global and Perspective Strategic Project Planning S. Rastorguev Conceptualization of the Relationship between the Actors of Political and Economic Spheres Election V. Petukhov Elections to the State Duma of Russia on the Background of the Institutional Crisis S. Ustinkin, E. Rudakova, D. Eminov Evaluation of Non-Governmental Organizations Influence on the Election Process in Russia D. Ezhov Towards the Problem of Defining Trends of the Modern Electoral Process in Russia Adzhoglyan, I. Novikov Early Voting (Primaries) as an Effective Form of Political Communication with Voters B. Budaev Political Parties and Election of the Head of the RF Territorial Entity in the Baikal Region The State Policy M. Vilisov Public Policy Designing: Mechanisms and Institutions A. Krivopalov Thoughts on “Strategy-2030” A. Shestopalova Analysis of Unconventional Measures of Monetary Policy and its Adaptation in Russian Reality Zh. Dankova Monitoring of Administrative Regulations Performance as the Tool of Efficiency Enhancement of the Government Work The Political Mosaic of Russia: Current Perspective I. Grashchenkov, M. Meyer Impact Factor of the Financial and Industrial Groups on the Regional Policy O. Yanitsky Information Society: Problem and Methods of its Solution G. Timofeev, N. Rakhmanov, O. Poletaeva Politic System of the Modern Novgorod region Political Processes and Practices P. Merkulov, A. Dorofeyev Democratic Development of Society: Contradictions and Etatist Tendencies V. Tyan Power Legitimation in Terms of Political Modernization as a Stabilization Factor of the Public Administration System D. Lavrent’ev Social Equity as an Element of the System of Political Regional Governance P. Rybchak New Features of Power Legitimation in terms of Contemporary Russian Political Process Expertise A. Shvyrkov Russian Political Science: Myth, Reality, Possibility? T. Bashlakova Social Risks of Technological Development Ya. Mikhaylov Ethical Aspects of Political Communication between Mass Media and Civil Society Ideas and Meanings M. Kukartseva, M. Granovskaya Fantasy and Reality in the Political Thinking of Modern Europe A. Vorzhetsov Consolidation Problems of the Modern Russian Society D. Tombu The Power of Rules and the Rules of Power B. Nanzatov, M. Sodnompilova A New Vector of Development of Buryat Ethnic Identity Sociology I. Kuznetsov Variability of Patriotism Discourses in Everyday Consciousness of Russians N. Demchuk Conceptual Approach to the Analysis of Local Communities as an Aspect of Socio-Cultural Field History I. Grashchenkov Censorship of Literary Creativity in Terms of Stalinism E. Batunaev Mongolia: from the Revolution of 1921 till Independence I. Volkov Administrative and Territorial Functions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the Management of National Outskirts of the Empire L. Kal'mina, A. Plekhanova Towns of Transbaikalia in the Transboundary Trading Space (1880-1920s) Religion, Society, State L. Dodkhudoeva Towards the Evolution of Socio-Political Vocabulary of Islam in the Second Half of the XIXth Century –Beginning of the XXI Century: the Concept of “Dar al-Islam” Foreign Experience V. Lyublinskii Does Social Policy of the Western Countries Lose its Attractiveness for Russia? N. Mikhal’chenkova Modernization and Traditions in the Indian Higher Education Focus on Politics A. Loginov On the Question of the Legal Status of Abkhazia in the Light of the Human and Civil Rights Protection in the International Judicial Bodies