Society. Environment. Development

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Authors: V.A. Sulimov

Understanding the world is one of the main acts of the will of modern man. It is connected with the intellectual and moral aspects of the personality. The article is devoted to the study of the variable aspects of the realization of free will. Freedom of will is considered as one of the factors of socio-cultural dynamics. Its implementation depends on the social dominance of one of the ways of realization: the will to power, the will to participate, or the will to understand. The modern socio-cultural epoch (the epoch of knowledge) requires the individual to realize the “understanding strategy” primarily. This leads to the transformation of the features of modern man-in-the-culture in the direction of strengthening his intellectual-volitional principle.

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Authors: A.A. Alimov, I.E. Nesterova

The article examines the main US interests on the African continent, and the African continent itself as a space for geopolitical and geo-economic clashes among the leading players on the world stage. Based on the analysis of the main stages of the historical development of the continent, assessments of the system of colonialism in Africa are presented, which allow us to consider the colonial policy of the former metropolitan countries not only from the position of supercritical meanings, but also as a source of certain blessings for the colonies themselves. The authors pay attention to the actual trends of penetration and influence on the continent, under which one can talk about the formation of a model of the opposition of Africa to the “Western” (US, EU) and Africa “Eastern” (China, India). In addition, in the context of Sino-US rivalry, the article examines such instruments of US influence as AFRICOM (AFRICOM) and the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) law. It also analyzes the question of how the US policy towards Africa will be built with the election of President D. Trump.

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Authors: M. Knezhevich

Serbian and Russian peoples are connected by nature of their existence. Orthodox religion is strong connection of those two nations. Historical occasions has constantlly connected these two nations, especially in liberation wars. Continuous connections between Serbs and Russians date from Nemanic dynasty and last till now. Russian culture has influeced Serbian culture development. Russian teachers founded Serbian schools and organised education of Serbs in the 18th century. Serbian literature of the 19th century was developed under Russian influence.

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Authors: A.A. Alimov, A.I. Shestakova

The article covers cases connected with formation of basically features of ecological diplomacy. The European Union experience is demonstrated as a successful case of a regional scale. Modern literature devoted to ecological diplomacy is under special attention as a theoretical basis of a new period of international cooperation in the field of environment and development.

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Authors: A.A. Alimov

The article is devoted to transformation of American society and American understanding of democracy in connection with results of changes in public structures, influence of inner and outer factors upon the changes happened in the history of the country.

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Authors: A.M. Dregulo

The article discusses the formation of a new relationship of nature and society. It determines the causes of environmental disasters which linked with uncontrollable consumption, the roots of which is a spiritual crisis. It shows that in life of human society, nature has always been a source of necessary means of existence and Christian faith include all aspects of human life, consecrating and blessing human labor. The Christian Church in general and the Christian missionary in particular, are faced with problems that require a response appropriate to the time and essence of the Christian faith, in the emerging ecological paradigm. In consequence of that orientation of Christian churches on the social work in solving problems related to environmental disasters, where the involvement of Christian churches in the question of global ecological problems in the aspect of moral relationship with nature, have quite controversial nature because of the criticisms of Christians for the utilitarian approach to ecology.

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Authors: L.M. Nizova, C.M. Mukhametshina

The problem of social and cultural rehabilitation of the disabled, as a set of measures to improve the level of cultural competence, the implementation of their cultural interests and needs in order to integrate into the society. Disclosed institutional forms and methods of state regulation of access of persons with disabilities to cultural valueson the basis of legal acts and cultural institutions management structure in the country.The experience of the social and cultural rehabilitation of the disabled in the case of the Republic of Mari El. On the basis of monitoring and sociological research identified priorities, challenges and ways to improve the socio-cultural rehabilitation as an element of social policy. Currently, socio-cultural aspects of the state policy does not cover the entire range of problems associated with the integration of people with disabilities. We go unheeded issues of cultural competence and cultural skills acquisition activity. In the case of the Republic of Mari El disclosed the role of culture sphere management system using interactive forms of access to people with disabilities because of their psychological and physical health. Proof of this is the experience of the Republican library for the blind and National Museum of T. Evseeva. Ranking of opinions of respondents allowed to reveal problems of high social dependence, forced isolation of people with disabilities, indifferent attitude towards them in the mass consciousness of citizens, reducing the network of public libraries, reducing the number of club groups for youth, lack of strengthening the material-technical base of rural and regional houses of culture, reducing readability and al. The authors have developed the basic components of the institutional environment of social and cultural rehabilitation of the disabled, which allows to activate the role of cultural institutions in the organization of leisure time socializing.

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Authors: T. Savović

Gender equality is one of the basic human rights which must be provided and guaranteed to everyone. Social, political, economic, and cultural differences still persist and they are especially noticeable in difference in salaries, non-equal presence of men and women in political decision making, non-equal distribution of work. They are, in reality, result of social relationships built on basis of numerous stereotypes present in family, education, culture and media. In our country, leadership is chiefly related with men and they have been granted political roles. That is the reason it is a common belief that only men should be on those positions. On the other hand, the mass media (internet, daily newspapers, radio and TV) can make influence to decrease prejudices between the genders when we speak about leading functions and their representatives. The goal of this paper was to investigate the influence of mass media onto realization of gender equality and leadership. For that purpose, data from 80 participants have been gathered, as well as data about employment, in other words we made a research on participation of women in the City Assembly, managerial and supervisory bodies and leading positions in the city of Sombor. The results of the anonymous questionnaire show that there are significant statistical differences (p<0.01) among certain answers referring to the opinions of the examinees about percentage of men and women. Also, having analyzed the data about employment of women, we have come to the results which show that women take a considerable number of leading posts in the city of Sombor. The results show that the gender equality, presented via mass media, is very present in distribution of work.

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Authors: A.I. Subetto

The system genetic theory of time and space is the base of system genetics. The system genetics is the science researching laws of system inheritance in the different system worlds and in progressive evolution system. The structure of any system includes many systems, many cycles, possesses a set of system times. The cycle is the natural scale of system time. System time is a reflection of the system world on itself in the course of the progressive evolution. It generates system space which fractal organization reflects the fractal and spiral organization of system time. The reason of mankind as the observer of the Universe appears not incidentally, and the system genetic theory of time and space bears in themselves the potential of a megaspace proskopiya in process of management of soсial and natural noospheric evolution.