Abstract: The subject of this article is the analysis of perception of civic images in representations of the population of Russian boundary regions based on examination of the images of the “other”, which reflect the social attitudes towards civic positions. The object of this research is the civic images. Special attention is given to the existence of the constant set of constructs that serve all elements for estimating the profiles of civic role positions, including the solidarity, lawfulness, affective comprehension of the country’s past and present, relation to the military duty. The study based on general methodology of experimental psychosemantics. Method of the research is the structuring of semantic spaces. Based on the modified techniques of semantic differential and repertory grids, the authors present and test the questionnaire that contains the five objects for estimating the civic identity: “I am a citizen”, “Ideal citizen”, “ordinary citizen of Russia”, “regional inhabitant”, and “citizen of the world” (cosmopolite). It is determined that the role positions “I am a citizen” and “Ideal citizen” were estimated as fairly  similar and containing similar constructs; the image of “ordinary citizen of Russia” is vague and undetermined, same as the “regional inhabitant”; the image of “Cosmopolite” was described quite different from the others. It is concluded that between the certain groups of role positions and descriptors there are substantial interconnections that testify to the existence of latent variables (factors), which explain the perception of civic roles and manifesting as the conceptual determinants of civic identification. Also, none of the independent factors, separately or combined, did not have a significant impact upon the estimation of the role positions.

Abstract: The goal of this article is the evaluation of the character and direction of interdependence of how the migration processes affect the state of public processes.  The research was conducted in the four neighboring regions of the Russian Federation in the form of a survey of the expert community representatives (scientific-pedagogical society, heads of public unions, representative of legislative and executive authorities, and representative of local self-governance). This research also carries out an expertise of the specificity of migration mobility of the bordering regions’ population. The analysis of data from the sociological examination of expert opinions with regards to directing influence of the bordering regions upon the specificity of the migration processes; the influence of the bordering position of one or another region upon the migration processes within it is being determined. As a rule, such regions often have a migration exchange with the neighboring states and regions, or they serve as transit territories. The description on the qualitative, as well as quantitative changes of the migration situation of the examined regions is considered as most meaningful.