The given article considers political leadership, specifies concepts and analyzes approaches. It shows the substance and features of the effective political leadership.

The article is devoted to the influence of communicative factors on citizens’ electoral behavior. It analyses the public speeches of candidates for presidency, finds the features of verbal and nonverbal communication of politicians and investigates the nuances of politicians’ presentation in the media. The article proposes a model for the analysis of candidates’ public communication in that the structure of image’s formation is used as a basis. The research presents practical recommendations for the domestic candidates to increase a number of the loyal voters by means of public speeches.

The article discusses the representation of political values in the Russian mass conscience. It considers current values, clusters in that they combine in the mass conscience, attitude to the values as well as connection between the political values’ representation and the behavior in modern Russia.

The article is devoted to the conception of power in religious systems. It deals with the functions of rulers and their responsibility to the population as well as the control mechanisms in the different religious systems. The authors conclude that in the framework of the different religious traditions boundless, at first glance, ruler / political leader’s power is limited by rigid religious rules and standards with that they must comply. Despite the fact that a political leader doesn’t have sacral status in the modern society belief in spiritual authority is preserved.

Pragmatism is of some interest to the political and philosophical research as a consecution epistemological basis of that can be observed in political practice. Just the question of truth is crucial. The article discusses the implications of the answer to the question of truth in classical pragmatism and neopragmatizme as well as it shows that different interpretations of truth give different political projects in practice.

The article deals with the substance and problems of regional disparities in terms of information system development. It provides the comparative analysis of information system development’s spatial spots, i.e. «growth points» - the major cities and «white spots» - the Russian province settlements. The spatial disparities in the information system development are emphasized as a particular object of the state edequation policy. The author describes the experience of evaluation and comparative analysis of regional differences in terms of the information system development.

The article examines on the basis of the legal framework’ analysis issues related to the definition of «innovation development territory» and legislative environment of their establishment and functioning. Lack of consistency and comprehension of government policy in relation to the innovation-active areas development is an obstacle to solving the problem of acceleration of high-tech industries growth.

The article analyzes the organization problem of interaction between authorities and business; classifies the existing models of interaction between business and government, discovers their essential characteristics; provides the sociological analysis of coordination practices of business associations and government. It draws a based on sociological data conclusion related to the efficiency of existing business associations.

The article identifies the problems associated with the control over management from active owners of company; discusses the features of interaction between the owners (expulsion from company). The article also presents tools by means of that a compromise of interests is achieved, in particular the separation between property (ownership) and control over cash flows, the implementation of preventive measures (granting owners by fiduciary duties, using goal-setting business model).

Spatial development challenges of Russia aggravate the problems of infrastructural sphere. The author gives a description of main priorities for the transport sector development in the medium term, evaluates territorial proportion of transports in the federal districts and identifies key problems of its individual modes’ development (railway, sea, inland waterway, highway, air). He draws conclusions related to the key priorities of spatial transport and infrastructure development and coordination of major measures and strategic planning documents.

The author formulates the features and functions of strategic partnership as a special and independent form of international relations.

According to the author TV experiences a unique mediarenessans. The article discovers the features of the different periods of the national TV development, analyzes trends and prospects of the present stage of its development. Transition from state to commercial TV resulted in changed functions, genres, technologies and TV values appears as the most important. The author detailed characterizes the genres and program policies of the majordomestic TV channels.

The article discusses the formation of civic identity of Russia citizens. It shows on the basis of opinion polls a low degree of communication processes in the Volga Federal District and in the country as a whole. It shows on the basis of critical assessment of the common history book for secondary schools the need for education of respect to the historical heritage of the Russia citizens by means of history.