This article is devoted to the analysis of the media space of the CIS countries in order to identify the facts of violations of the rights of Russian compatriots. The paper examines the representation of diaspora issues in regional and federal media, as well as specific examples of infringement of the rights of compatriots. Russian Russian language teaching in schools, the dismantling of monuments dedicated to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, and the falsification of historical memory in school textbooks have been identified as trends related to the restriction of the use of the Russian language in public life and education. Special attention is paid to the analysis of cases of Russophobia and discrimination based on nationality that have received media coverage. The results of the study allow us to conclude that there are systemic problems related to the observance of the rights of Russian compatriots in the post-Soviet space, and emphasize the need for active monitoring and response to such violations by both government and public organizations. The article is intended for the scientific community, experts in the field of international relations, protection of human rights and cultural heritage.

The article examines the main aspects of the historical policy of the states of Central Eurasia in relation to the problems of the Great Patriotic war and the Great Victory. Over the years of independence, the republics of the region have demonstrated various approaches to the implementation of memory policy in relation to the Soviet period of national history. After the transition of the proxy war of the collective West against Russia into an active phase, there has been an intensification of social discussions around various topics of historical discourse in the Central Asian republics. The theme of the Great Patriotic war and the participation of the Asian republics of the former USSR in it also went through various transformations in the historical policy of the republics of the region, which, in relation to each of the states, are evaluated in the article. This text is also an attempt to consider the degree of influence of the processes that can be called “memory wars” on the formation of public views in the republics of the Central Asian region on a wide range of issues related to the Great Patriotic war and its Victory achieved through the strenuous efforts of all the peoples of the fraternal republics of the Soviet Union.

In the article, the author analyzes the process of preparation and organization of the election of the head of the Belarusian state in January 2025. Special attention is paid to the domestic and foreign policy factors that ensured the convincing victory of the current President of the Republic of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.

The article examines media literacy as a key tool for users’ resistance to misinformation in the modern digital world. The author identifies the characteristic signs of false information and methods of its dissemination, analyzes the effectiveness of various methods of checking news and provides recommendations on the formation of media literate behavior in Russian society.

The article examines the party-political system at the regional level, which has its own characteristics and features. Two groups of criteria are analyzed within the framework of a theoretical and methodological framework, which allow evaluating the effectiveness of the subnational legislature as a key element of the regional party from different perspectives.

Based on the actor-institutional methodology corresponding to political-regime consolidations, the role and effectiveness of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory is analyzed in the first approximation. Based on the totality of indicators, it is concluded that the regional legislature is poorly effective.

The article presents the results of a quantitative analysis of scientific publications on the subject of Russia’s democratic transit for the period of 2003-2023. Besides, on the basis of a secondary analysis of the researches the nonlinearity of the process of democratic transit of Russia is confirmed. Based on the fact that the political process determines academic discourse, the author argues that currently in Russia the search for an optimal national-specific model of democratic homeostasis continues in the context of the weakness of democratic traditions, the complicated geopolitical situation and the actualized traditionalist views of Russian society.

The article examines the formation and development of the second wave of protectionism in the context of a new economic reality and geopolitical instability within the framework of the process of forming a deglobalizing multipolar world consisting of states with national sovereignty.

The article is devoted to the problems of the cooperative movement. Based on the data of the Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation, the negative dynamics of the development of the cooperative sector of the Russian economy is shown. It is shown that subsidies, grants, comprehensive consulting services, seminars, trainings, and conferences prevail among the main areas of support for cooperatives. Statistical analysis revealed the social cooperatives of the Russian Federation. Most of them are registered as production cooperatives and work in the production of agricultural products and handicrafts. Correlation analysis revealed the relationship between the number of newly established and supported cooperatives as of October 2024. Based on the analysis of international experience, steps are proposed to form a strategy for the development of consumer cooperation in the Russian Federation for the medium term. It may include: providing access to financing and consulting support, information promotion and promotion of the benefits of consumer cooperation among the population, maintaining up-to-date statistics of the cooperative sector in Russia, developing a system for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of cooperatives, providing support and training to members of consumer cooperatives in order to improve the level of professionalism and managerial skills, providing cooperatives with access to the market, the development of a legal framework.

Economic growth is one of the main indicators for assessing a country’s economic situation, the effectiveness of government policy, institutional structure, and resource efficiency. It is the basis for increasing the standard of living of the population, developing infrastructure and human capital. Today, developing countries in the global economy are becoming equal players with the former metropolitan areas. That is why today a new theory of economic growth is required, which will allow developing countries to achieve economic prosperity and victory over poverty and social injustice.

In the context of modern geopolitical and civilizational transformations, the study of integration processes that took place in the past is becoming increasingly relevant. The events of 1783 became a historical example of the peaceful entry of new territories into Russia. In the article, the author examines the political and socio-economic changes that took place on the territory of the Crimean Peninsula during the reign of Catherine II. The author analyzes the main administrative and managerial decisions of the Russian authorities in relation to the local population of the peninsula. Studying the early historical experience of organizing ethnocultural interactions, as well as the relationship between the center and the periphery in the Russian Empire, allows us to better understand the features of Russia’s regional policy as a multiethnic state. Among the factors that preserve unity in the management of the multinational territory of the Russian Empire, the author highlights: integration into the Russian nobility of the aristocracy from newly united territories; religious tolerance, including the creation of administrative structures for some faiths in the territory of the Russian Empire; flexible legal policy, expressed in the preservation of local legal regimes; the assumption of administrative asymmetry (involving local nobility in management) and gradual integration into the legal field of the Russian Empire.