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The article is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of post-truth, which has become relevant in the modern era. The modern era is interpreted by public thought as postmodernism. The rapid revolutionary changes that are taking place in the life of society, caused by globalization and the development of high technologies, objectively cannot exclude the “side eff ects” of these processes. One of these eff ects is post-truth as a representation of non-existent prototypes, events and facts. There is an idea that the world today is in the “gray” zone of its development, because there is a reassessment of the values of all spheres of social life and consciousness in a quasi-scientifi c way, for example, a mixture of styles, images, methods, etc. Liberal values associated with the rights and freedom of the individual have reached their apogee and have lost their moral and ethical foundation, while freedom mutates into its extreme form — “ freedom without borders”, permissiveness, anarchy. Consciousness is in a gap with reality, outside of clear ideological coordinates. The author considers that it is important today to build an information policy, taking into account the moral traditions of the culture of society, and to determine the limits of the sovereignty of the ideological perspective in which society will develop.

This work aims to analyze the results of an international expert study devoted to identifying global trajectories of political transformations in the contemporary world, characterized by high instability and uncertainty. The main scientifi c task was to determine the key contours of the emerging new world order and the critical threats, challenges and risks associated with this process facing humanity today. The study examines the key factors contributing to the current political destabilization at the global level, as well as the dominant trends of contemporary global development. The special place in the study is given to the Russian prospects in the system of the new world order. An essential part of the study is devoted to scrutinizing the formation of new socio-political ideologies and the corresponding value components. An equally important section of the study is the analysis of the contemporary model of globalization and the construction of scenarios for its transformation, including the emergence of new global development actors. The use of methods for combining expert assessments and scenario techniques made it possible to make scientifi cally signifi cant conclusions on the problems of the study.

It is the 100th anniversary of the Kars Conference with the participation of Russia in accordance with the Moscow Agreement signed between Russia and Turkey on March 16, 1921 and Kars Treaty signed by Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia on October 13 of the same year. The main purpose of the article is to study the course of the Kars conference, the position of the parties and the Treaty of Kars. To achieve this goal, the following questions were answered on the basis of reliable sources and offi cial documents from the archives of Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia: How was Turkey’s territorial and border issues discussed with Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia at the conference? What was the position of the parties? What attempts had been made to disrupt Russian-Turkish relations? How were territorial and border issues regulated in the agreement? What was the signifi cance of signing the document? How was the ratifi cation process carried out?

The article provides a general overview of the current state of the leading scientifi c journals in political science published in the post-Soviet countries (classifi ed by country), the United States of America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Special attention is paid to German-language political science journals. The characteristics of individual periodicals that play an important role in the development of political science and the dissemination of political science knowledge on a national, regional and global scale (in terms of the themes of publications, the circle of authors, publishers and target audience) are given. It contains information about regional databases (systems) that take into account the citation of scientific publications in periodicals.

The article analyzes the main publications on ethnopolitical problems in the “Moscow University Bulletin. Series 12. Political Science”. The first articles on the actual theme at that time were appeared in the beginning of the 1990s. The reviewed materials represent the main approaches of Russian scholars to the analysis of ethnopolitical problems and the range of issues related to them. In the context of these data, one can state a tendency towards the analysis of ethnopolitical processes in the focus of conscious and mental phenomena. This trend has been embodied in the use of the concepts of “mentality” and “identity”. At the same time, we have to state that the theoretical aspects of ethno-political science are still insuffi ciently developed.

The article is devoted to the study of the question concerning the possibility of empirical analysis and, on this basis, the assessment of the contribution of emigrant scientists to the development of Russian political thought, including scientists-passengers of the “philosophical steamer”. The research was carried out on the basis of a comparative analysis of the materials of two anthologies containing texts of Russian political thinkers. Two directions (Soviet and emigrant) in the development of domestic political thought in 1920s–1950s were compared. At the same time, the author of the article proceeds from the assumption that the compilers of the anthologies were the most competent experts assessing both the quality of the political texts of certain researchers and the ability to give a more or less complete picture of the state of political thought in a given period through a set of selected texts. Based on the analysis of empirical material, the article concludes that the contribution of emigrant researchers to the development of Russian political thought in the 1920s–1950s prevailed, both in quantitative and qualitative terms.

The article is devoted to the study of the question concerning the possibility of empirical analysis and, on this basis, the assessment of the contribution of emigrant scientists to the development of Russian political thought, including scientists-passengers of the “philosophical steamer”. The research was carried out on the basis of a comparative analysis of the materials of two anthologies containing texts of Russian political thinkers. Two directions (Soviet and emigrant) in the development of domestic political thought in 1920s–1950s were compared. At the same time, the author of the article proceeds from the assumption that the compilers of the anthologies were the most competent experts assessing both the quality of the political texts of certain researchers and the ability to give a more or less complete picture of the state of political thought in a given period through a set of selected texts. Based on the analysis of empirical material, the article concludes that the contribution of emigrant researchers to the development of Russian political thought in the 1920s–1950s prevailed, both in quantitative and qualitative terms.

In an article dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the journal “Moscow University Bulletin. Series 12. Political Sciences”, we examine the history of its formation and development from 1971 to the present. Despite the changes in the name, caused by cardinal changes in the political life of the country, the journal is characterized by a historical relationship that expresses the logic of political development and its scientifi c understanding. Since the introduction of political science into university education in Russia, the development of the foundations of political science in close connection with the study of topical issues and the development of political science education has become a priority in the journal’s activities. The creation of the Faculty of Political Science at Moscow State University strengthened the role of the journal as a venue for research and the application of results into the practice of pedagogical work. The focus of the journal constant attention is the topic of the domestic and foreign policy of Russia. In this regard, the problems of the transitional nature of the current stage of world development, ways of overcoming its inherent contradictions, dangers and crises are investigated. Another group of questions concerns the relations between the state and the market, the state and civil society, ways to preserve sovereignty and political stability in its diverse dimensions. An important place is given to issues of information and cybersecurity, digital society and the political aspects of social networks. Topics related to ideological currents and the competition of traditions, interests and values are also widely presented in the journal. The combination of academic emphasis with constant attention to topical issues of domestic and world politics, mutual enrichment of theoretical and empirical approaches, theoretical research and applied analysis allowed our journal to achieve good results in domestic and world rankings of journals with the topic “Politics. Political Sciences”, which, of course, is not a reason for slowing down, but instead, an incentive for further development.

The article deals with the history of the scientifi c journal “Moscow University Bulletin. Series 12. Political Science” in 2009–2021. The journal is the successor to the series “Theory of Scientifi c Communism”, the edition of which was launched 50 years ago — in 1971. With this series, it became possible to substantively selfdetermine two disciplines that were intensively developing abroad — sociology and political science.
By order of the rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University Academician V.A. Sadovnichy, edition of “Moscow University Bulletin. Series 12. Political Science” was transferred to the Political Science Department, and the dean-organizer of the faculty, professor A.Yu. Shutov became its editor in chief. During this time, an international editorial board was created, the circle of authors, including those from abroad, was expanded, the examination of incoming articles was strengthened, the journal signifi cantly increased its presence on the Internet, which contributes to the growth of its citation (impact factor). Thanks to the development of the edition, the journal took 1st place in the Science Index rating on the topic “Politics. Political Sciences” in August 2020 and was included in the Russian Science Citation Index on the Web of Science platform.

The review is devoted to the publication in Russian of the monograph by Roger Scruton (Sir Roger Vernon Scruton FBA FRSL), a polemical argumentation against several famous thinkers that became cult figures for contemporary intellectuals on the left of the political spectrum. The purpose of the English philosopher is to ‘protect’ the society that is commonly called “capitalist” from the destructive impact of their ideas. By and large, for Scruton the “capitalist” represents an analogue of Western civilisation, its traditional political, cultural, and social values. In his book, the English philosopher analyses the ideas of a wide range of thinkers belonging to different schools of thought. The criticism of Eric Hobsbawm and Edward Thompson, two figures that laid the foundations for the movement of the ‘new left’ in Great Britain, represents a paradigmatic example of his approach and methods. Although Scruton does not belong to the category of ‘heavyweight’ academicians used to take part in such polemics (as, for example, Raymond Aron), his work nonetheless preserves a certain intellectual value, supported by a fair amount of journalistic enthusiasm.