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The author examines the connections between political system and the content of education policy for manager training. The reasons of the absence of political science disciplines in the Soviet education system are named. The appearance of political science within educational process in the 1990s is explained. The main reasons of reduction of political education are revealed in connection with Russia's joining the Bologna process and the corresponding educational reform. The basic ways for improvement of manager training in modern conditions, based on the accumulated experience and political science, are proposed.

The author analyzes the specificities of organization and legal regulation of professional training for the state and municipal service in modern Russia. In the article the characteristic features of the mechanism of professional training are characterized; there are revealed the benefits and shortcomings of the management of professional training; there are substantiated some proposals for the formation of the state and municipal service administration, coordination of professional training, conditions of realization of the basic educational programs.

Modernization of the current professional education demands the usage of active teaching technology in the education process. Before the system of professional education there are set the tasks of not only helping students to master knowledge and to form the skills, but also to develop creative and communicative abilities of the person, to form individual approach to the arising problem. The solution of the mentioned problem demanded the development of a project-based technology of teaching, helping the student to obtain necessary competencies. In the article the author introduces the basic ideas of a project-based technology of teaching on the basis of cooperation of population, authorities, business and education system.

In the article there are considered some of the current problems in distance learning associated with the specificity of the organization of the education process and the creation of modern resources for education. Distance education is characterized as a modern form of correspondence learning based on new information technologies and multi-media systems. As exemplified by the growth of distance learning in the Siberian Academy of Public Administration, the author traces the evolution of educational resources for the study of Russian language and speech culture: from instructional materials that were realized in the case-technology to more up-to-date electronic academic materials being used in the network technology of distance learning.

The main goal of the article is to discuss new methods in conducting the electronic seminars, being one of the major components in distance learning. The characteristics of electronic seminars and the main problems arising from them are considered. In addition, some ideas for improvement in the methodology of electronic seminars are proposed. The common goal of these proposals is to generate teamwork during the electronic seminars and to make them resemble classical seminars as they exist in regular education. The conditions necessary to make a transition to new forms of electronic seminars are herein outlined.

For public authorities and local government, introduction of technology of remote training has opened additional possibilities of increasing the level of professional skills of their cadres. Civil servants have got the opportunity to be trained without coming off their professional work. Development of remote educational technology (PILLBOX) has transformed it to a significant tool of andragogics, with its own conceptual apparatus and principles. In practice, the PILLBOX gives rise to many problems, in particular,  the methodical ones which have induced the author to share the revealed problems and possibilities.

The author analyses the content and meanings of the innovative development of legal culture at the present stage. He also considers the influence of the contemporary federal educational standards of higher professional education and passed federal laws on the development of legal culture of Russian society. In the article, different viewpoints of Russian scientists on the content of legal culture of lawyers as its concrete bearers are researched and compared. The ways of innovative development of the students' legal culture are indicated. Thus, there is substantiated the statement that innovative development of legal culture of Russian society depends on the activity of legislative authorities, educational structures and the legal communities themselves.

The task of the article is to show the importance of foreign language teaching in the construction of ethnic and cultural identities and how these identities can be observed through the language. The author stresses the necessity of acquiring keenness of observation in studying the other cultures using the method of comparison.