Ревягина Наталья Григорьевна

The research is devoted to the study of the influence of the transformation of civilizational determinants on the processes of formation of the political and administrative elite of modern Russia. Through the prism of geopolitical analysis, the authors state that the current phase of globalization is undergoing deep systemic and structural crises, causing changes in the factors shaping the contours of modern civilizations. These factors are the determinants of civilizational development, the transformation of which is observed in several main areas. The authors believe that the civilizational approach to the analysis of global processes better reflects the real picture of the formation of a multipolar world and civilizations than the idealistic one, and also helps to fix and understand the metamorphoses in the generation and behavior of political elites. Thus, Russia's conservative turn towards positioning itself as a local civilization leads to noticeable changes in the process of elitogenesis, becoming nationally oriented, centralized and ideologized. Consequently, the authors conclude that civilizational factors in the near future will determine the appearance of the elite groups of the Russian state-civilization.

The article States that in the modern approach to the organization of the national security potential of regional and municipal authorities practically ignored. Understanding the need to include regional and municipal authorities in the system of national security leads to underfunding of this activity. This leads to the fact that the optimal safety performance of the state and citizens are not achieved. For example, the use of tools regional target programs to combat crime and improve traffic it is shown that the involvement of regions in this work not only leads to the achievement of positive social effects, but improves the work of state institutions.

The review of reports and speeches, made at the international scientific-practical conference "Socio-political aspects of demographic processes in modern Russia", held on 7-8 April 2014 on the basis of the South-Russian Institute of management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

The article deals with the conditions and factors of formation and functioning of the elites in post-Soviet evolution of the Russian society. Data from long-term sociological surveys carried out by the scientists of North-Caucasus Academy of Public Administration (URIF RANHiGS) in the Rostov Scientific elitological school are widely used.