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The competent educational policy of the state is needed for the innovative progress of the country. Modernization of our education system is being held back bythe imperfection of the legal regulating documents. The development of the legal framework that meets the changing needs of the society will lead to the creation of modern education system and effective management of the knowledge development on the basisof research centers, national research universities and techno-parks.

In the article the author describes a technology of the professional mobility development in the non-governmental higher education institution. The author analyzes various approaches to the definition of «technology» and gives her own definition. A step-by-step algorithm is presented of the development of professional mobility in the non-governmental higher education institution.

There is considered the question of the quality of modern Russian education. The author reveals the fact that this quality depends not on the system of education itself but mainly on the State’s needs in education.

The goal of this article is to demonstrate the use of business reputation of students and teachers in the educational process. The formation and development of the business reputation of participants of the educational process should be seen as an innovative method of increasing the efficiency of vocational education. In the condition of the challenges of the present, the value of high business reputation as an element of human capital is rising sharply. The authors suggest ways of using business reputation in the modernization of the education system.

The professional reputation in the academic environment is impossible today without theproper level of mastering the terminological competence in that area of science where the scientist works. The importance of this aspect is due not only to the scientific necessity, but also to the necessity of increasingthe level of communicative skills of young scientists in the conditions of globalization of education and widening the boundaries of modern educational space. In the article,the terminological competence is considered both from the methodological and the didactic positions. Concrete recommendations on its formation by the post-graduate students and the Master Degree students are given.

The contemporary Russian society is at the stage of searching for a leading national idea. In the opinion of the authors, this idea should be based on patriotic traditions. Independent development of our country asagreatstateis impossible without the young generation, broughtupon the basis of patriotic traditions of the RussianandotherpeoplesofRussia. Taking in to ac countre al internal and Externalthreats, Russia is confrontednow with crucialchoices with respect to a number of key issues, and its very existence depends on their successful resolution.

In the Russian state-political tradition, people has never acted in the role of a sovereign, establishing the rules, norms and principles of the state structure, and also in the role of the source of the law; as a matter of fact, such roles have always been performed by the state. It is shown in the article that this circumstance cardinally distinguishes the Russian mentality, emphasizes the specificity of socio-cultural characteristics of the Russian society at any stage of its historical development as different from the Western tradition.

The article considers the experience of the Tomsk Institute of Personnel Retraining and Agribusiness in the personnel support of the development and implementation of the goal-oriented programs on the example of development of personal subsidiary farms as a factor in the transition to the sustainable rural development. To this end, the learning process is structured on the basis of expert-analytic work, lectures and consultingactivities, socio-designing work. There is shown a positive result of the progress of personal subsidiary farms in the Kozhevnikovskii district of the Tomsk region.

The Internet as a universal means of communication has ample opportunities in communication, education, and entertainment. Self-descriptiveness, openness, anonymity of the Internet, psychologically comfortable condition in the process of communication attract teenagers. Informative and communicative environment fosters the origination of a special subculture,cyberculture. In the article it is shown that the cyber subculture is a peculiar spiritual sphere of different communities, which have their own values and antivalues. An overview of foreign and domestic research projects concerning the influence of the violent computer games on children’s and teenagers’ behavior is given in the article. The studies in this sphere, different approaches and theories, contemporary data are revealed. The attention is paid to the investigation of media habits of the gamers who play violent computer games and their direct influence upon the manifestation of aggression in real life including personal traits. The results of the research on the level of students’ enthusiasm for the role-playing games are represented (on the base of the Novosibirsk State Agrarian University). In spite of many advantages, the Internet is a catalyst for many negative phenomena, such as internet addiction, escapism, virtualization of communication, information terrorism, the social danger of which is recognized by the governmentsof many countries. One of the main problems for the states in the XXI century is the absence of control over the Internet.

This paper describes a possibility of using the Internet resources for the development of economicculture of the studentsin the studying various typesofeeconomy. There is described the contentof the pedagogical supportof this processby meansof educational and extracurricular activities.

In the article the features are considered of the formation of the attitude of graduates of the Department of State and Municipal Government to the world around and their adaptation in the conditions of Russia’sentering WTO, their adaptation to the cardinally changed purposes and tasks of the education system, the changed categories of consumers and the content of needs. Education of the young experts, capable to transform and create new knowledge and spiritual values, isa social function of higher education that demands another type of organization of the system of professional education of youth according to the proposed competencies at the highereducation stage. For this purpose, there are needed awell-performing system of leisure organization, creation of the opportunitiesfor the students to satisfy their spiritual needs, to develop creative abilities: all this should be considered not simply as an applied aspect of the internal need of development of professional knowledge but also as a part of the program of social and economic stabilization and sustainable development of the society. Besides,during certification of the higher educational institutions in view of the WTO requirements, one of obligatory items and certification parameters is the adaptable ability of young experts to the activity and working abroad in the widest understanding of these processes.

The article is devoted to considering the possibilities of application of restorative technologies to resolving conflict situations in the educational space. The concept, essence and principles of the restorative technologies for resolving conflict situations in the educational space are considered in the article. The author substantiatesthe possibility and efficiency of application of restorative technologies as a resource in resolving conflict situations in the educational space.

Nowadays, the research of pedagogical foundations of the purpose-oriented somatic upbringing in the process of professional training and advanced training still has a fragmental character. The conceptual systematic scientific research devoted to the development of somatic culture and to studying the somatic youth upbringing as a holistic pedagogical phenomenon in the context of professional didactics is practically absent. Some trends of the problem situation have been the subject of quite a large amount of scientific research for the last decades. The medical science is unable to solve the above-mentioned problems without the help of pedagogics, because all the main “risk factors” have the behavioral basis.

To paraphrase a quote from one of the great theater directors,Meyerhold, “the word is born at the end of a gesture”, we can express this idea as: “Gesture is the beginning of the word.” The paper considers gesture in the historical aspect, and as part of contemporary culture. Its importance as a symbolic means of culture is analyzed through the prism of theater. A special attention is given to the art of pantomime.

The article reveals the prospects of effective application of the learning technology of legal clinic in the formation of the professional competence of law students. The author explores the educational technologies that are used in reforming education in Russia, and especially their use in accordance with the trend of introducing the competence approachinto the educational process. The article also explores the impact of technological socialization vector for the implementation of the Federal State Educational Standards of higher education of the third generation, in the direction of education of law students.

In the article results of the theoretical analysis of a problem of preparation of the innovative staff in the higher school are generalized. It is marked, that that education in modern economic development should define a level and growth of creative potential of development of a society. It is marked also, that education should be perspective, constructed on understanding of the future natural development of economy and a society. Innovative education is possible only as a result of the whole complex of transformations. First of all, it is necessary to generate the expert prepared for intellectual creativity, capable to a combination of research, design and enterprise activity.

In the article, the practical experience of modeling the educational system of the “Vasyugan’e” School of the Russian traditional culture is studied by means of traditional culture and ethno-pedagogics. Thesubstantiation is given to the methods and principles of the modern culture-creative education on the basis of ethnopedagogicaltheory and the theory of modeling.

The article deals with the problems of ecological culture of the individual. In the era of active cultural interaction, mass tourism, international educational and cultural programs,the intercultural communication becomes a special tool of influencing the contacting peoples. Some theoretical and experimental arguments in favor of using the opportunities of intercultural communication for the formation of environmental consciousness are presented.

The issues of survival and safety are gaining a special urgency. It is connected, first of all, with the global warming, gradual thawing of the Arctic Ocean, revival of the Northern sea route, intensive exploitation of the natural resources of the Arctic regions and the North

In the article there is carried out analysis and construction of scientificallysubstantiated proposals and recommendations for the development of the educational cluster. The cluster’sstructure, the directions of its development, the primary goals of the regional investment policy in the cluster’s development, and the basic indicators of realization of the cluster project are considered.

The article presents the results of sociological research (2011), regarding the inter-ethnic and inter-confessional relations in the environment of the adult and young generations in Novosibirsk. A special attention in the article is paid to the problem of introducing the «Foundations of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics» academic subject into the school education,to the attitude towards it of the young people, adults and teachers.

The paper considers an evolution of the federalism, spatial development, and regional policy in the post-soviet time - the 90-s and first decade of the new century. We show the specifics of the Russian transformations observed in these spheres by comparing them with the world trends; their defects and problems; and how to improve them. We also present a brief review of a current state of the Russian regional studies, and assess whether they are of the world level and considered to be applicable as a scientific support to modernize the spatial development of the Russian economy and society.

The paper offers a concept of how the Russian economic space could be structuralized on the base of building contrast clusters of the national economic agents. We describe the major drivers of economic activity in clusters and also present the procedures of how to arrange an estimator of driver matrix for clusters and techniques to arrange the consolidated indices of drivers which integrate partial estimates of their activities in different clusters as well as consolidated indices of drivers which integrate partial estimates of different drivers. We offer and assess by consolidated indices the theoretical incentive strategies for economic activity (strategy of public paternalism, market romanticism, pan-regionalism, and perfect universalism). The variants of such strategies are presented to assess the impacts of echeloned incentives towards economic activity. The variant of the technique is applied to analyze the investment activity in RF regions. Our analysis of investment processes made by such techniques shows that the concepts of «pure market» - a lack of the governmental intervention and effective regional competences - dominate in Russia.

The paper analyzes how different countries developed their Arctic polices and strategies in the context of the globalization processes, climate changes, and geo-political and economic trends. We also analyze the innovation aspects, resources, risks and uncertainties, and new drivers of their Artic development; problems of their sovereignty and national security; and feasibility to make such risks, uncertainties and instability less through international cooperation. A special focus is on the economic aspects of the Russian North and Arctic in the context of the global instability, risks and threats.

The paper analyzes whether a budgetary system could be decentralized in the process of current building and operating of local governments. It presents key factors which define a centralization/decentralization ratio. A special focus is on the principles of distinction between budget expenditures and revenues, and variants of correcting vertical and horizontal misbalances in the national budgeting system. We show the role which a local government plays as a key link in a federal form of governance. We offer the structure of the regional and local budget revenues and our recommendations how a local taxation should be built.

The paper discusses strategic defects of a concept of the railway transportation reform. We prove that a regional decomposition of the Russian railway network will be a factor of a strategic importance in time. To prove this thesis, we use a cluster analysis of Russian railway traffic flows. We present our arguments for the Trans-Siberian Railway to be classified as a natural monopolist. Theoretical variants of the Russian Railway Company decomposition show that we would benefit at the national level due to competitiveness between natural monopolists on a domestic railway market. A system-oriented analysis of such benefits and those obtained by a united and hierarchically governed railway system would allow making reasonable institutional decisions on how the railway reform could get away from the current institutional trap out.

The article considers what results the first steps of the Social and Economic Development Strategy for Siberia 2020 contributed to building a regional innovation system. We compare expected and actual targets of the innovation development in Siberia and several subjects of the Siberian Federal District. Having analyzed several major projects, we show the problems the innovation development variant for Siberia may face in its implementation.

The paper considers attitudes of the student-age population in the Zabaykalsky Krai towards migration and whether they are feasible within the objectives and goals of the Socio-Economic Development Strategy for the Russian Far East and Baykal Region 2025. An empirical subject of our study is the students of the largest university in the Zabaykalsky Krai - Zabaykalsky State University. We can conclude that a significant share of young specialists being educated here may leave the region as early as in the years to come. In the context of a regional human resource competition, the Strategy goals could be likely achieved with no measures aimed at building favorable conditions in the years to come in order the educated youth would be able to find jobs in regions of Siberia and the Far East.

The paper considers the strategies and forms of international education programs realized by universities of Chita (Russia) and Almaty (Kazakhstan). We also consider how international cooperation programs are realized at the national level (a strategy for internationalization of higher education) and at universities (universities' programs) by two leading universities (according to educational mobility indicators). We describe the strategy for internationalization of higher education being realized by Russia and Kazakhstan and key risks of their realization (brain drain, asymmetric flows of educational migration, and regional differentiation). We can conclude that regional differentiation should be necessarily taken into consideration in making decisions on the development of international education in Russia.

The paper analyzes the dynamics of the ethnic and demographic situation observed in the Siberian Federal District in connection with migration processes. We consider ethnic aspects of the human development in the SFD cities. We can conclude that a reduction of the population with a western trend of internal and external migrations has been observed in the SFD for a long time, and such demographic losses due to migration could not be compensated. An unequal migration exchange, including the labor migration, has taken place. We can also state that the more intensive character of mosaic structure of the SFD population as well as of variety of ethnic standards can be observed as well as higher competitiveness in labor markets and sociocultural spheres, including those by ethnic features and acceptance of intolerant behavior patterns. Currently, the indicators of the SFD population display the critical problems for its future development. The migration and migration-induced transformations taken place in the ethnic, social and demographic structure of the SFD regional communities, including urban ones, generate zones of risks.

The paper proposes an approach how to develop the mechanisms of governmental support for investment projects being implemented by oil-and-gas chemistry clusters in Eastern Siberia and the Sakha Republic. The approach is based on the application of a network and simulation model for assessing efficiency of the East Siberian oil-and-gas megaproject. Having analyzed to what degree the investment resource and timing schedules for producing and processing sectors are coordinated within different megaprojects, we offer our variants of governmental support for the clusters within the framework of the State Development Plan for Gas-and-Oil Chemistry in the East of Russia 2030.

The paper proves an urgency of applying an evolutionary approach to study how economic systems progress, and it presents the structure of the Russian steam coal facilities considered as a system of interacting agents and described by an agent-based model developed by the author. The model, in the authors' opinion, could be regarded quite applicable to analyze the industry dynamics as well as an «alternative history» of the industry in terms of competition between agents of the economic system.

We analyze market power of large firms through application of indicators for tracking the quality and stability of leadership. Our calculations are made on the open source data published by Expert Journal (Russia) concerning the leading corporations in Russia, Kazakhstan, and a number of Russian regions. To identify leaders, we use such indicators as business sales, profit-earning capacities, level of capitalization, and turnover growth. We can state that the characteristics of leadership are regionally heterogeneous. We also present our estimates of the further development and redistribution of market power.

The paper shows a necessity to develop a model of mechanisms to manage the economic and social activity. We analyze the application of the current management mechanisms and environment of the economic systems considered as a space where such mechanisms are applied. We present our model of socio-economic mechanisms; describe the elements of the environment where the mechanism are designed; and offer a scheme of a step-by-step technique for designing economic and management processes.

Having revised the theoretical and applied models for assessing competitiveness, the paper proposes a regional simulation model of endogenous economic growth where the endogenous factors of competitiveness are modeled on the base of system dynamics. To have a comprehensive assessment of regional competitiveness, we econometrically test the endogenous factors of growth. We present our conclusions which could be recommended to be applied in developing the modernization and innovation policies for the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The article deals with the current legal issues of Russia's constitutional development and its federal system. The author considers the lines of potential transformation of territorial organization of the Russian Federation within the actual constitutional framework and demonstrates the possibilities of shifting the virtual territorial organization without affecting the constitutional declarations regarding federal system of Russia. Recommendations aimed at overcoming the related theoretical and practical problems are proposed.

In the article the author considers the theory of controlled chaos which is being actively used in the modern globalized world. A special attention is paid to the foundations and consequences of application of controlled chaos, including for Russia. The influence of the applied technologies of controlled chaos on the state of national security is shown. In fact, the concept of controlled chaos is a new form of colonial policy. The importance of education, as one of the priority directions of the safety strategy of Russia, for minimization of the consequences of controlled chaos is substantiated. The potential of education has to be fully used for consolidation of the society, preservation of uniform sociocultural space of the country, overcoming the ethno-national tensions and for the sustainable development of the state as a whole.

The present work is devoted to studying the methodological specificities of the ontological and gnoseological problems of the higher education quality. An analysis is performed of the dialectical and phenomenological paradigms of the philosophy of education. The dialectical paradigm neither ignores, nor absolutizes the objective sides of functioning of the educational systems; however, it takes into account their being conditioned, to a substantial degree, by the objective (spiritual and material) sides of the social life. Moreover, this connection is a complex one; it has dialectical character and is manifested itself only at the final stage, if we consider the phenomena over wide enough intervals of historical time. The phenomenological (or the postmodernist) paradigm takes subjective reflections of objective reality as the objective social reality. Therefore, this paradigm has only formal connection even to the classical science which takes into account the objective (i.e. independent from the feelings and opinions of the researcher) existence of the objects under study. However, it is this paradigm that serves as the methodological basis of the absolute majority of modern research of the educational systems.

The article reveals the essence of norm-setting, which acquires a particular urgency in the context of globalization of education. The author argues that the problem of norm-setting is caused by the discrepancy between the tasks of the society and the state, which is particularly reflected in the education system. It is substantiated in the article that the norm-setting process is closely connected with the type of society, and this should be taking into account in the educational process. In the dialectical project, the norm-setting project is determined by that the idea of state and ideology are inseparable from each other. The objective dialectics of the collectivist society presupposes the universal connection of phenomena. As a normative one, there is considered the standard of sociality, because the socialization of the teenager is one of the main goals of any school.

The paper analyzes the government statistical materials in the field of education for the years 1990-2011, identifies some of the major problems of its dramatic condition and the dangers that threaten the Russian society in this regard in this regard. Russia is still lagging behind the developed countries in terms of intellectual potential; Russian education is being built according to the patterns of the European and American ones, where very narrows experts are trained. Overall, in our system of education there is engaged insufficient percentage of the young people; our country is not among the leaders in the development of the educational sphere.