POLIS Contents ¹ 4 - 2008



PRESENTING THIS ISSUE
Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issuep.5

THEME OF THE ISSUE: ETHNIC CONTRADICTIONS AND POLITICAL CULTURE OF RUSSIA’S REGIONS
Kozlov N.D. Political Cultures of Russia’s Regions: An Equation with Many Unknown Quantities p.8
Kolosov V.A., O’Loughlin J. Socio-Territorial Dynamics and Ethnic Relations in the Northern Caucasus p.27
Lamajaa Ch. Political Culture of Tuva p.48
Sukhanov V.M. Bashkortostan: The problems of Identity in a Multi-Cultural Region p.55

RUSSIA TODAY
Melville A.Yu., Timofeyev I.N. Russia 2020: Alternative Scenarios and Public Preferences p.66
Kozyreva P.M. Legal Consciousness and Trust p.86
Kakabadze Sh.Sh. Institutionalization of Coordinating the Interests of the RF Subjects: the Changing of Legislation and New Political Realitiesp.102

WE IN THE WORLD, THE WORLD IN US
Musikhin G.I. Beauty Will Save the World? Ideology as Aestheticsp.112

ORBIS TERRARUM: ALTERNATIVE MOVEMENTS
Khaliy I.A. Environmental Social Movement and the Power: Forms of Interaction p.130
Maksimov M.A. Questions of Strategy and Tactics of Modern Anti-System Movement p.140

VERSION
Gadzhiyev K.S. Westernization or a Special Way of Modernization? p.148

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND CONFLICTS
Bezhanishvili Z.R. Between Conflicts and Partnership: Contemporary Development of Russian-Georgian Relationsp.163
Novikova O.O. European Union in the System of International Security: New Instruments of Crisis Settlementp.174

LIFE IN SCIENCE
Information. On the 5th All-Russian Congress of Political Scientists and on Preparation of the 21st World Congress of the International Association of Political Sciencep.185
Smirnova N.Yu. N.N. Moiseev: on Political Science and the Future of the Humankind p.188