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In the article it is offered to consider the notion of “the region” as a collective social entity possessing innovative human capital. Its development is one of the factors promoting regional success in the global competition.

 

A brief characteristic of the dualistic and co-operative models as well as their positive and negative features are given in the article. Different points of view on these federalism models are presented.

 

The specificity of the state cultural policy in the post-Soviet period, its levels and trends are considered through the appearance of new and changes in cultural institutions, forms and practices. Special attention is paid to the problem of interrelation between federalism and regionalism in the state cultural policy.

 

The analysis of scientific views on the development of social and economic systems is presented in the article. Reasons, on the one hand, aggravating the problem of their sustainability from the point of view of observing centeredness of economic growth and increase in the level and life quality of the population and, on the other hand, preserving the environment are ascertained.

 

Problems in the formation of the strategy for regional security in Russia in the contents of the provision national security of the state are considered in the article. Basic approaches to understanding of the phenomenon of regional security with the account of specificity of the political and territorial structure of Russia are considered. The structure for the formation of the system of Russian regions security in the shape of the complex of economic, ecological, legal, geo-political and other conditions is offered.

 

In the article it is shown that the resource potential of regional interest groups allows determining the positions of actors in the political space and forecasting their dynamics. Different types of political resources at the disposal of the regional interest groups are analysed. Basic models for actors’ behaviour conditioned by the availability of these or those resource types and volumes are presented.

 

Problems in social and economic integration of the northern and southern districts of the Tyumen Region in the interest of the population life level and quality increase connected with the specificity of the region as the Russian Federation constituent entity comprising of the Yugra and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District are considered in the article.

 

Instruments for innovations management with the application of mathematical instruments of game theory in the conditions of competition intensification are determined.

 

The analysis of the results of the inquiry of the Republic of Tatarstan residents devoted to the problems and perspectives for the innovative development of the republic is presented in the article.

 

Ways for the recovery of such centres of Russian automobile industry as Togliatti andNaberezhnye Chelny which are mono-orientated cities are considered in the article. A comparative analysis of strategic plans for the development of these mono-grads is presented.

 

The mechanism applied by the Treasury of the United Kingdom for automatic regulation of amounts of financing public expenditures of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland while changing amounts of public sector of economy financing either in England and Wales or in the whole territory of Great Britain are under research in the article. This mechanism has been called “the Barnett formula”. Main reasons for the formula criticism and perspectives for its further application are determined.

 

The process of the innovative system formation in Russia is considered. Characteristics of two infrastructural centres – innograd “Skolkovo” and technopark “Mordovia” – are given. In the authors’ view, the development of the country innovative system is the main objective for technopark structures formation.

 

In the article it is emphasised that industrial clusters aimed at the technologies commercialisation of the regional innovative enterprises are key elements for innovative infrastructure in the Ulyanovsk Region. Cluster policy implementation helps to overcome the problem connected with the delay in innovative technologies transfer in the territory of this region. By the example of the aviation cluster the advantage of cluster policy is underlined.

 

The contents of the budget and tax security of municipal entities are highlighted in the article. For estimation of the level of the budget and tax security of municipal entities a system of indices is offered. The analysis of the dynamics of these indices allows characterising the existing state of local budgets. By the example of the Republic of Mordovia the typology of municipal entities by the level of the budget and tax security has been made.

 

Methodology for the formation of the system for entrepreneurship development financial provision is considered in the article. Characteristics of small entrepreneurship entities in the sphere of science and scientific service in the Republic of Mordovia are presented.

 

A consolidated evaluation of basic contextual variables influencing the formation and functioning of the system for project management of an industrial organisation is made in the article. Key elements in the project management contents are marked; conditions for projects implementation in the Republic of Mordovia are analysed.   

 

The article is devoted to the search of structural and dynamic resources for mechanic engineering enterprises complex development. It appears that increase in innovative and technological potential in mechanic engineering is the basic factor for provision of high quality product and its competitive ability. Its development presupposes a precise conception of management mechanisms including those by functional feature from the point of view of the system approach on the different levels of the enterprise management.

 

On the basis of the expert advice rating estimation of economic entities of the Republic of Mordovia is made. Their typology by financial circumstances is presented.

 

An attempt to analyse problems arising in the development of the domestic agri-industrial complex in the comparison with the development of this sphere in the Republic of Mordovia is made.

 

The necessity for the development of insurance as instrument for risks management in agriculture is substantiated in the article. The development of agro-insurance market in the Republic of Mordovia is analysed. Foreign experience of risks management in the agrarian sector is considered.

 

The essence and main components of the society innovative structure are shown in the article. The role of social and economic institutions in establishment of the rules for innovative processes participants’ behaviour is brought to light. The analysis of economic and institutional, motivational, educational, organisational and managerial and geopolitical components of the society innovative structure is presented. Variants for national innovative system choice are considered.  

 

On the basis of the theory of total quality management (TQM) a criterial model for post-graduates training quality: “the possibilities” and “the results” of the system is presented. It is offered to apply a standard criterial model characterising quality of post-graduates training provision (quality of educational programmes and innovative environment of the University) for the evaluation of “the possibilities”. A competence model characterising quality of each post-graduate readiness for professional activity is supposed to be applied for the evaluation of “the results”.

 

A process model for monitoring effectiveness of state civil officials educational programmes is presented in the article; a mechanism for its implementation promoting increase in its effectiveness is offered. The results of the approbation of the model developed in the Penza Region are analysed; measures for increase in effectiveness of state officials additional professional education programmes implementation are offered.

 

On the basis of the analysis of the data of sociological researches problems in continuous professional education of state and municipal officials are analysed in the article. It is demonstrated that continuous purpose professional and educational training of state and municipal officials provides growth in their professionalism, increase in their competence, adaptabilities to new conditions, combination of strategic thinking and efficiency in their functional duties fulfilment.

 

On the basis of a sociological research conducted by the Volga-Vyatka Academy of State Service (Nizhny Novgorod) organisation of training process on the basis of the comparison of its different forms: semester, module and distance has been analysed.

 

The analysis of education financing in Finland is presented in the article. This country possesses a rich cultural heritage of the Finno-Ugric type that is also characteristic of the Finno-Ugric republics of Russia. This fact preconditions the necessity of studying the experience of that country and its full or partial approbation on the republican level.

 

Main theoretical and methodical approaches to the research of the regional identity are analysed in the article. The necessity in sociological development of issues connected with the formation of the regional identity of the modern Russian society is substantiated.

 

On the basis of a sociological research conducted in the Republic of Tatarstan the analysis of rural population life quality by different indices is presented. A comparative analysis of life quality of the countrymen and the townspeople has been made. The results demonstrate that the gap between them is broadening.

 

Main trends in efficient motivation system development as one of the most important elements of social and labour relations in an organisation are considered in the article. The results of the researches in the sphere of the applied wage system in regional organisations from the point of view of labour activeness stimulations have been summarised. The scheme for enterprise motivational programme formation is offered.

 

The notion of the image is considered in the article; the manager image structure is presented; main types of the image and the process of its formation are treated.

 

The notion of “the family” is treated as a social institution; the analysis of the family status of the provincial youth and their reproductive plans is made; the results of the research of demographic policy pursued in the Penza Region are presented.

 

The market of regional advertisement (its weak and strong aspects) is analysed in the article. Key innovative advertisement forms, preconditions for their appearance, advantages and possible problems in its application are considered.

 

Basic forms of the demographic function of the right enforcement (informative, orientational and legal regulation) are considered in the article. The way they are in action in the Republic of Mordovia is demonstrated.

 

Functions of mass media in the process of political mythologisation are considered in the article. Attention is paid to the fact that myths are transformed into symbols of life; they precondition axiological orientations systems and determine rules for social behaviour. The research of mass media, mythologisating and heroising the crime, occupies a special place.

 

The present state of the regional insurance market in the Republic of Mordovia is treated in the article; tendencies for its further development are analysed. Regional insurance market leaders are marked. The analysis of basic indices of the regional insurance market has been carried out; measures for its modernisation have been developed.  

 

Specificity of urban development in Russia and peculiarities of modern housing construction in Moscow and the Moscow Region becoming the object of special attention of state power and industrial construction companies are presented.

 

The research of tourist services market of the Republic of Mordovia has brought to light a number of considerable barriers hampering its development and modernisation. In accordance with them priority trends in modernisation of the tourist services market in the region are determined. The model for the regional tourist product formation is considered. The analysis of tourist companies existing in the region is carried out.

 

The process of demographic development of the Finno-Ugric peoples is analysed in the article. Special attention is paid to the social and economic aspect of their development.

 

The analysis of the history of settlement of the Jewish people in the Orenburg Region is presented in the article; problems in their ethno-cultural development are considered.

 

The contents of the notion “modernisation” are analysed. Regional modernisational processes taking place in the conditions of modernisation and playing an essential part in the development of the modern society are considered.

 

The problem of the dialogue institutialisation conditioned by the altered public needs having no adequate reflection in the structure and functions of the corresponding social institutions is considered in the article. The conclusion on the necessity of the development of functional public (dialogue) institutions as basic factors and conditions for the existence and the development of the society is made.

 

The article is devoted to the non-agricultural occupations of the Spass Uezd of the Tambov Province peasants in the last quarter of the XIX century. Economic reasons for the broad address of the crafts by the population are analysed. The population craft activities connected with wood processing are treated. The geography of the crafts as well as their characteristics are presented.

 

An attempt to determine the connection between the dwelling of the Russians residing in Mordovia and a ritual culture of the ethnos is made in the article. On the basis of the field data the analysis of the preservation degree of the rites of the Russian population of Mordovia connected with the dwelling and household outbuildings is presented.

 

Social and psychological roles of the ornament culture applied for anthropological challenges satisfaction are analysed. The article explains how natural forms and principles of their development are applied in ornamental messages. The attention is concentrated upon the fact that the culture is transliterated through symbols penetrating it. The ornament is treated as a symbolic ritual in which the physical human being is sanctified in the social (the cultural) substance.