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The article considers the main interpretations of the concept of "soft power" in contemporary political philosophy and proves the relation of this concept with postmodern theories of discourse, temptation, fluid modernity, knowledge society, concepts of identity, symbolic politics.

Keywords: concept, soft power, political philosophy, discourse, temptation, identity, symbolic politics.

The article considers the diverse integration projects in modern Russia. Special attention is given to the integration of regions in Russia and to the formation of Perm's Region.

Keywords: integration, political integration, integration of regions in Russia.

Three main models of e-government development are considered from the standpoint of neo-institutionalism. Russian type of e-government is defined as model № 2: development driven by administrative demand.

Keywords: neo-institutionalism, e-government, e-government development index, e-government model.

The main directions of feminist sociology of techno-science are considered. Techno-feminism is chosen as methodological ground for the analysis of results of empirical research of IT adaptation in town Polevskoi of Sverdlovsk oblast'.

Keywords: techno-feminism, SCOT, domestication of technology, IT, mobile phones.

The author examines the correlation of private and public aspects in the existence of modern Russian citizen. The article analyses the evolution of private and public life in Russia (family, men' and women' roles, the substance of power in Russia), as well as peculiarities of the interaction between private and public spheres in today's Russia.

Keywords: private life, public sphere, private person, public role of citizen.

The article observes basic methodological problems in the study of the structure of local communities in Russian Federation, i.e., the issues of implosion, identity construction and formation of groups of interests in local communities. The author analyses the main tendencies in the development of the structure of local communities and presents the classification of interests and structures of local communities.

Keywords: local communities, local democracy, groups of interests, the structure of local communities, methodology of study.

The article is devoted to the analysis of transformation of family as a social institute, the loss of its social functions in the circumstances of the historical changes of state system and property.

Keywords: family, state, property, social institute, social functions, tendency of change in present-day family in Russia.

The article represents the critical analysis of the world-system views on the history of XX century. It is supposed that the type of internal structure and, accordingly, the model of development of social systems depend on the degree of deficiency as a process of gradual transformation of market world-economy into the model of self-organizing.

Keywords: bifurcation point, world-system analysis, world-system, world-economy, model of development, system, environment, resources, resource deficiency, redistribution, market, democracy.

The analysis of works of Hannah Arendt shows that hitlerian and stalian regimes, in spite of their differences, had common metaphysical bases: they considered the laws of Nature and History as highest sacral divinities that authorized the realization of political aims of totalitarian movements. The author investigates the process of assimilation and transformation by the totalitarian ideologies the previous elements of history, the terror as the method of transformation of the social structures into the homogeneous movement of the masses, directed by their leaders, and the banality of the evil in the implementation of the policy of genocide.

Keywords: totalitarism, sacralization of Nature and History, terror, the masses, social atomism, ideology, banality of evil.

The author analyzes three interpretations on G.M. de Jovellanos political-ideological heritage - liberal, traditionalist and liberal-conservative ones, - which reflected the complicated and contradictory character of the genesis of Spanish liberal conservatism in the end of XVIII - the beginning of XIX centuries.

Keywords: political ideology, liberalism, traditionalism, liberal conservatism, Spain.

The article contains the analysis of the process of emerging of the term "double standards" in political and judicial discourse. The author uses methods of structural-linguistic and comparative historical analysis and comes to the point that there are objective reasons and preconditions for the emergence of "double standards" as phenomenon and the term.

Keywords: politics, political science, double-standard politics, double standards, double-standard principle, discourse, structural-linguistic analysis, inequality, natural law, Ancient epoch, liberalism, political philosophy.