№ 6 - 1999
A Round Table, Gutorov V.A., Batanina I.A., Tolpygina O.A., Stolpovsky B.G.
Discussing the Problems and Achievements of Russia’s Political Science: V.A.Gutorov. Political Science Chair - the First Ever in Russia. I.A.Batanina. Teaching Politics in Russia’s Universities: State of Art. O.A.Tolpygina. Russia’s Political Development

Under this common headline, four accounts are published, of, respectively, four conferences that had been, each of them, timed for the celebration of the 10th year of political science in Russia. «Political Science and political process in Russia» was the theme of the all-Russia conference held in St.Petersburg on the 7th to the 9th of October, 1999. Its participants representing different schools of social and political thought, dwelled on the main lines of the development of political science in Russia, giving an account of its integration in the world political science; they were analyzing the place and role of the St.Petersburg school of the Art in the general structure of the humanities; they also recalled the history of the political science chair, first ever to have emerged in Russia. «Major problems of Russia’s political development and their reflection in teaching politics in higher educational institutions» was, furthermore, the theme discussed at the scholarly-practice seminar held on the 5th of November in Samara within the «Higher education development in Russia» mega-project of the «Open Society» Institute. The seminar was organized for teachers of political science of Samara oblast (region). It was one of arrangements that have for their object integration of Russian higher-educationalists in the process involving the regional scientific community, e.g. the process of improving both the professional skill and the once received higher education. «Teaching politics in Russia: the Art’s condition, problems, prospects» - an all-Russia conference thus entitled was held this September in Tula and gathered participants from thirty cities and towns of different regions of the country. The reports and the discussion were concentrated on problems of «fostering» professionals, specialists in politics, and on the issue of the place to be assigned to political science in the structure of their education and training. «The 21st century: facing the alternative» was the theme of an international conference held in Moscow on the 25th to the 26th of November, 1999. Alongst Russia’s scholars, it gathered their learned colleagues from China, Bulgaria, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and other countries, prominent public figures, statesmen, representatives of non-governmental organizations. Tendencies and prospects of globalization and its possible socioeconomic, political and humanitarian trajectories were discussed.