The article analyzes the reasons for increasing the role of the blogosphere in modern public policy and shows achievements, benefits, challenges and prospects of the blogosphere in Russia.

The author gives an overview of the works of some foreign scholars, considering the characteristics of the «new media», the main trends of their development. Special attention is given to the phenomenological description of the process of transformation of journalism, the emergence of its new forms in the modern world of variety of media flows.

Article retracted The article considers the instruments of strategic planning of innovative activity of industrial enterprises, as well as its resource provision.

The authors formulate the basic principles of training industry documents, as well as the requirements to basic structural elements of the sectoral strategies. Present suggestions on a uniform system of requirements to the strategies of economy branches and social sphere will help to coordinate the actions of industries and sectors of the economy, to find the most effective and comprehensive ways of solving problems, providing development of the country and national security.

The author reveals the political base of the liquidation process of the economic system and social system of the Soviet Union, which was contrary to the logic of economic science and the recommendations of the famous foreign economists. The author gives the characteristic of the threats generated by the dictates of the market and analyzes the fate of the Russian intelligentsia, which did not stand under the «pressure of the market economy».

The article considers governance issues in the context of civil society, civic initiatives, and the possibilities of increasing the quality of governance by relying on the public.

The author analyzes the main effects of positive and negative influence of the processes of the expansion of international production relations on the national economy and emphasizes the basic principles of industrial cooperation for individual countries in their development.

The article considers the questions of formation and development of agglomerations, as well as a comprehensive method of their delimitation; the evaluation of socio-economic development of the Barnaul agglomeration and reveales its advantages in relation to other municipalities. In turn, it helped to develop proposals for the further development of the agglomeration.

The article discusses the main features of urban agglomeration and analyzes how the southern capital - the city of Krasnodar is able to become the core of the agglomeration to promote the development of neighboring territories. The author identifies prerequisites for the formation of Krasnodar city agglomeration based on the market flow of labor, goods and capital, social and cultural relations of the city with suburbs and nearby rural areas. The article defines the basic management steps and appropriate measures of purposeful work on creation in the Krasnodar urban agglomeration in contrast to the spontaneously emerging processes that increase the burden on the city and weakening the periphery.

The article analyzes the legislation of Russia of the second half of the XVIII century, which helped to lay the legal foundations for effective management of the state civil service and its personnel and to create conditions ensuring career growth for the most qualified and conscientious public servants

The article analyzes the main features of the mechanism of decision-making in the United States foreign policy. The author emphasizes that the determining factor influencing the behavior of the American state in the international arena is dependent on the specifics of the relations within American political leadership. As the balance of power within the American political elite can change drastically in a short period of time, U.S. foreign policy is inconsistent.

The author for the first time used the coordination approach to the consideration of legal phenomena, through which we can examine the legal phenomenon from a new angle of view. The author conducts such research on the example of the constitutions of the countries of Northern Europe, using a wide range of legal materials.

The interdisciplinary nature of the problem of pathological mental dependency is shown in the context of the proliferation of compulsive gambling and nomophobia. The causes and consequences of behavioral dependencies are considered in the context of global changes in individual and interpersonal human consciousness of the consumer and information society. The article considers the ways and possibilities of the system solution of the problem.

In these latter days there is a transformation of needs into the different types and forms of security, primarily through the act of buying. One of the goals of this article is to find answers to the question: how and why does the process of purchase of products and services related to the solution of the problems of personal security, transform into the plan of actions, which is the most authorized and approved by the society.Keywords: need for security, «the person consuming» values of the consumer society, the cultivation of fear, the normative richness of the culture, manipulation technology.