Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of prerequisites for the metropolises becoming political process subjects at various levels. The author establishes the key tendencies for the role transformation of the big cities within the framework of their historical development. One of the global development tendencies, showing sustainable historical dynamics for latest decades, includes on one hand growing number of cities, and on the other hand, growing number of its population. Currently, more and more people live in the big and ever-growing cities, and concentration of people in them is only getting higher.

Keywords: political science, politics, society, metropolis, Russia, communications, transportation, values, urbanizations, interests.

Abstract: The article concerns main specific features of the planning and administration processes in emergency situations (ES). The authors establish and solve the problem of optimal planning of preventive measures against emergency situations in a region, which includes choice of a complex of arrangements in order to prevent (to exclude the causes of appearance and lower the gravity of the consequences of its development) of emergency situations. The authors offer to use the following efficiency criteria: possible human losses, amount of material harm caused by ES, or amount of summary costs for the involvement of forces and means in order to implement preventive measures and to prevent an emergency situation. The problem is reduced to the integral (Boolean) programming, and it may be resolved by standard means. The authors provide formalized methods for problem-solving within operative processes planning for prevention and liquidation of consequences of emergency situations of various types. The authors evaluate a complex of issues regarding higher efficiency of use of temporal, resource-based, structural and technological, natural - climatic, environmental and physiological reserves in order to solve the problems of operative management in emergency situations. The authors solve the problem of minimizing maximal period of time for the complex of emergency rescue and other emergency works at the management objects with the limitation of the amount of final losses, harms and costs of using necessary means and forces. The results of problem solving allows the regional administrative bodies go have a basic prevention plan for the actions in case of appearance and development of an emergency situation in accordance with the formed regional scenario and the relevant graph of causes and effects in emergency situation. The problem belongs to the class of problems of integral programming. The authors provide the results of efficiency analysis for the use of scenario approach in order to solve planning and administration problems in an emergency situation. It is shown that the widely ranged application of normative basis in the process of scenario analysis guarantees the possibility for a complex approach to resolving administrative problems in order to prevent and liquidate the consequences of an emergency situation, since it allows simultaneous evaluation of interrelated and principally different events and processes. It allows providing efficient provision for factors and threats of terrorist, fire, radiation, chemical, energetic, environmental challenges to security within a single scenario model.

Keywords: security, planning, administration, scenario analysis, imitation model, forecast, threat, emergency situation, harm, reserve.

Abstract: The article includes analysis of causes and effects of the Islamisation, which took over the European continent. The comparison of sociological data characterizing the religious level in European states, Russia and the USA shows that Islamisation of Europe is a consequence of the de-Christianization and demographic crisis. The growth of Muslim community in the European states (its quantity being over 44 million people) shall continue due to high birth rate in Muslim family and immigration. It is supposed that the most harmonious solution for the problem of conflict in the relations between the native Europeans and the European Muslim community may be the renaissance of Christian values and morals among the native Europeans, leading to improvement of demographic situation and refusal from the mass admission of immigrants. Additionally, renaissance of Christianity in Europe shall allow to improve the relations between the two communities (Christians and Muslims) using the Islamic dogma on peaceful co-existence of representatives of different monotheistic concepts.

Keywords: social studies, demography, crisis, Muslims, Christians, Islamisation, secularization, Europe, family, values.

Abstract: The article includes differentiation between the involvement of migrants into a social structure (integration) and culture (assimilation) of the basic society. The author describes the social characteristics of migrants with various level of integration, provides social portraits of fringe migrants groups, showing the contradictory character of integration of the Middle Asian migrants in Russia.

Keywords: social studies, migration, integration, assimilation, biculturalism, multiculturalism, identification, acculturation, de-ethnicization, Muslims.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of involvement of citizens into administration of municipal unit. The article contains an overview of measures, which are taken by local municipalities of Canada in order to involve the citizens into municipal self-government. The materials for the article were collected in three Canadian provinces: Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick. In order to collect the information, the author analyzes the documents, took expert interviews and used participant observations.

Keywords: political science, involvement, participation, information, consultations, self-government, accessibility, transparency, interest, discussion.

Abstract: Municipal self-administration is an intermediary between the state and society, between central and local government. The value of municipal self-government is due to its potential to support a dynamic balance of state and social interests, to develop administrative interactions and organization practices, which most adequately respond to complicated character and variety of social problems. The municipal self-government is regarded in the modern concepts for public administration in this aspect.

Keywords: political science, municipal self-government, public administration, state, society, concepts, system, reforms, theory, practice.

Abstract: The article concerns topicality of the term “strategic political planning” and its scientific value. It includes its complex definition and a conceptual scheme for strategic planning. The object is regarded by the author as a complex, including a systemic point of view and its place within the context of state administration problems, as well as other aspects. The article presents principles of strategic political planning, its types, subject and object, as well as basic interests of the society around which the planning process is formed (identity, security, fairness, well-being). As a result a scientific vision of an object is formed, and it may serve as a basis for the further studies. The article may be useful for political scientists, sociologists, specialists in state administration and management.

Keywords: political science, planning, administration, values, society, forecasting, projects, politics, strategy, decision.

Abstract: The author studied the social life phenomena, which serve as social administration factors in some conditions. The author provides the methodology of political forecasting. The parameters of social system status allow to show social dynamics.

Keywords: political science, forecasting, administration, society, culture, prediction, methodology, analysis, social studies, parameters.

Abstract: The goal of the study is to analyze the sustainability of the Russian economy, to define and analyze the criteria, characterizing sustainability of an economic system, its correspondence to the long-term principles of sustainable development. The results of the study showed that the general structure of investments in the Russian Federation is not satisfactory from the viewpoint of goals and aims of sustainable development. In particular, a rather small share of investments is directed into agriculture, forestry, high-technology industry. The unreasonably large share of investments is used for infrastructure and consumption. The disproportion in the economy development structure grew in the last decade. The study of dynamics and investment processes showed that the real growth of investments is present in infrastructure and consumption spheres. The level of investments into agriculture, processing and extracting spheres has lowered, which stands for stagnation and lack of growth. The study showed that development of the economy of the Russian Federation does not meet the goals of sustainable development, as set forth in the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation till 2020. In the XXI century Russia should formulate and consistently implement the sustainable development with the modernization of production, agriculture, public education on preservation of resources and environmental protection.

Keywords: economics, sustainable, development, investments, national, security, branch, structure, environment, modernization.

Abstract: The article concerns foreign experience of modernization implementation in the conditions of totalitarian, authoritarian and democratic decision-making models. The efficiency evaluation is given for the administrative decisions of the government of Germany, Chile and the USA at various stages of their political development.

Keywords: political science, modernization, state decision, decision-making models, state, Chile, the USA, Germany, Roosevelt, efficiency.

Abstract: This article is devoted to the legal issues regarding improvement of the innovative potential of the Russian technical implementation SEZ in order to formulate the possible amendments for the legislation, which should stimulate scientific and technical development in the territories of the SEZ of this type.

Keywords: jurisprudence, special economic zone, free economic zone, investments, innovative state policy, innovative development, technical implementation type of SEZ, civil legislation, legislation on investment activities, jurisdiction.

Abstract: Balkan peninsula is treated as a special case: as powder keg of Europe and the term “balkanization” has negative connotation. Events of last twenty years did not disappoint such terminology, both within Balkan and outside. There was collapse of socialist economies, disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia with not optimal political solutions. External conditions such as an ailing EU, political turmoil in Near East had negative influences on Balkans. The aim of this article is to investigate what has happened with Balkan economies in the last twenty years. In particular, the author focuses on the consideration of the long term trends in economic growth and its stability (is catching-up to developed Europe taking place?); on the impact of global financial crisis on Balkans (was Balkans with less developed financial structure insulated from negative consequences of global financial crisis?); and on the success in integration of Balkan economies to the globalizing world (is Balkans still “an isolated island” in the world of progress?). Basic criteria for a selection of analyzed countries is geographical position of country in Balkans. Thus, 11 Balkan countries are analyzed (Cyprus is not included). The quality of macroeconomic performance and long term development strategy used is measured by dynamic of GDP growth, the stability of growth in period 1991-2010 and resistance to the effects of global financial crisis. The first part includes two indicators of welfare: growth and stability, the second includes the effects of creation of bubble in period 2005-2008 and its bursting in after that.

Keywords: financial bubble, integration, economy, analysis, macroeconomic, balkanization, Balkan, dynamics, Eurozone, global financial crisis