Abstract: This article provides a comprehensive review of the modern Internet practices and virtual platforms in the sphere of politics aimed at promotion of different forms of voting technologies. The authors analyze public strategies of the political parties and candidates in the course of election campaign for the 2021 State Duma elections using the example of electoral constituency of St. Petersburg. The subject of this research is the use of digital means of communication that form virtual identity of the electorate during the 2021 State Duma elections. The object of this research is the representation of party ideologies and civic “symbolic politics”  on the Internet based on the example of the popular video platforms YouTube, Tik-Tok as well as the traditional social networks Vkontakte and Facebook. The goal lies in the analysis of interaction of public actors with the audience (followers) in the course of conducting the electoral campaign. The scientific novelty of this article is substantiated by systematic and structural analysis of the scarce elements of virtual identity of Internet users on the example of electoral strategies of representation. The conclusion is drawn on the growing trends of building the so-called symbolic politics “from the bottom” and emergence of numerous actors that create sociopolitical content in the virtual space. The research methodology employs the content analysis of virtual communication channels, relying on the classical theory of symbolic politics and political identity. This theory can be modified by separate aspects of digitalization of the political subfield, which the modern researchers consider as virtual reality.

Abstract: This article makes an attempt of comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of youth parliamentarism as a structural possibility of involvement of representatives of the  Russian youth in law-making activity. The authors formulate a definition of youth parliament, as well as describe the organizational and legal framework of functionality of youth parliamentary structures. The authors develop a model of systemic assessment of the effectiveness of youth parliamentary structures based on the five key vectors of activity of these institutions: legislative, project, personnel training, and the organization of socially significant events. The need is substantiated for implementing such methodology of assessment and comparison of the effectiveness of activity of youth parliamentary structures in different regions of the Russian Federation for the purpose of determining most successful strategies of fulfillment of their functionality. The novelty of this work consists in the detailed analytical overview of the doctrinal and legal definitions of the youth parliament, as well as in elaboration of practical approach towards assessing the activity of regional youth parliamentary structures. The main result of the conducted research lie in the original (proposed by D. A. Fedotov) procedure for calculating the key performance indicators and efficiency coefficient. It is proven that introduction of universal indicator of youth parliamentary structures would eventually stimulate the development of youth parliamentarism in the Russian Federation. The authors formulate the assessment criteria for each vector of activity of the youth parliamentary structures. The future implementation of the all-Russian rating model would increase the effectiveness and coordination of interaction between the youth parliaments and civil society institutions

Abstract: This article makes an attempt of comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of youth parliamentarism as a structural possibility of involvement of representatives of the  Russian youth in law-making activity. The authors formulate a definition of youth parliament, as well as describe the organizational and legal framework of functionality of youth parliamentary structures. The authors develop a model of systemic assessment of the effectiveness of youth parliamentary structures based on the five key vectors of activity of these institutions: legislative, project, personnel training, and the organization of socially significant events. The need is substantiated for implementing such methodology of assessment and comparison of the effectiveness of activity of youth parliamentary structures in different regions of the Russian Federation for the purpose of determining most successful strategies of fulfillment of their functionality. The novelty of this work consists in the detailed analytical overview of the doctrinal and legal definitions of the youth parliament, as well as in elaboration of practical approach towards assessing the activity of regional youth parliamentary structures. The main result of the conducted research lie in the original (proposed by D. A. Fedotov) procedure for calculating the key performance indicators and efficiency coefficient. It is proven that introduction of universal indicator of youth parliamentary structures would eventually stimulate the development of youth parliamentarism in the Russian Federation. The authors formulate the assessment criteria for each vector of activity of the youth parliamentary structures. The future implementation of the all-Russian rating model would increase the effectiveness and coordination of interaction between the youth parliaments and civil society institutions

Abstract: This article examines the symbolic practices of formation of Soviet identity in film footages and documentary photographs. The concept of Soviet identity is analyzed from the perspective of emergence of the new type of legal culture, which leans primarily on the doctrinal sources underlying the Marxist teaching on the socialist type of society, as well as in relation to the concept of Soviet constitutionalism. It is underlined that visual practices and representations allowed the Bolsheviks restructure the existing type of relationships between the former nationals of the Russian Empire and state authority based on establishment of the efficient horizontal model of participation in the political affairs, grounded on the mass agitation and propaganda of Soviet values comprising the Constitution of the working class. The research methodology contains the qualitative sociological analysis of visual materials and documentary sources, therewith the concept of Soviet identity is interpreted through the lens of cultural-anthropological concept of symbolic policy and the notion of metanarrative G. Gill).The main conclusions of the conducted research consist in the presence in the official state visual policy of identity of the early Soviet period of key concepts represented in the form of the mass collective actions: proletarian dictatorship, Soviet Constitution, commune, and others. The discourses on the formation of Soviet identity include the opposition to global imperialism, enemies of the revolution, and praise of labor as a community-building force of the proletarian state. The scientific novelty lies in the use of methodology of visual analysis of video footages as a source of interpretation of the Soviet symbolic policy and ideological activity.  

Abstract: This article examines the symbolic practices of formation of Soviet identity in film footages and documentary photographs. The concept of Soviet identity is analyzed from the perspective of emergence of the new type of legal culture, which leans primarily on the doctrinal sources underlying the Marxist teaching on the socialist type of society, as well as in relation to the concept of Soviet constitutionalism. It is underlined that visual practices and representations allowed the Bolsheviks restructure the existing type of relationships between the former nationals of the Russian Empire and state authority based on establishment of the efficient horizontal model of participation in the political affairs, grounded on the mass agitation and propaganda of Soviet values comprising the Constitution of the working class. The research methodology contains the qualitative sociological analysis of visual materials and documentary sources, therewith the concept of Soviet identity is interpreted through the lens of cultural-anthropological concept of symbolic policy and the notion of metanarrative G. Gill).The main conclusions of the conducted research consist in the presence in the official state visual policy of identity of the early Soviet period of key concepts represented in the form of the mass collective actions: proletarian dictatorship, Soviet Constitution, commune, and others. The discourses on the formation of Soviet identity include the opposition to global imperialism, enemies of the revolution, and praise of labor as a community-building force of the proletarian state. The scientific novelty lies in the use of methodology of visual analysis of video footages as a source of interpretation of the Soviet symbolic policy and ideological activity.