The paper is dedicated to the issues of interaction between the media and public authorities. The author analyzes the introduction of information and communication technologies as a factor in the further development of information processes and more effective development of state political and legal institutions and considers possible options for increasing the effectiveness of information support for public policy. The author believes and cites evidence that the information support of the state policy with citizens’ access to open public resources is one of the components of the national interests of the Russian Federation in the information sphere. An important condition for ensuring the information security of the individual, society and the state in modern Russia, according to the author, is the implementation of a consistent and balanced state policy in the information sphere, the basis for the implementation of which must be the regulatory and legal framework that corresponds to new challenges and threats.

The paper dwells upon the examination of role of information warfare in contemporary political practice and its ability to influence political conflict. The author analyses of some of the most authoritative concepts in the scientific community of domestic and foreign theorists. Besides, the author reveals the principal approaches to the concept of information warfare through scientific discussion on the level of independence of this phenomenon as a substantive type of warfare. The information warfare is as a tool of ‘soft power’ used by the regional political actors to influence on other sovereign states with a view to achieve certain objectives of foreign policy. The author explores all the components of the information warfare including modern technologies of influence in cyberspace, hacker attacks on computer systems and traditionally known information and psychological propaganda.

The process of globalization and the transformation of the industrial economy into knowledge-based economy (information society) have opened up new opportunities for the development of international relations in the social, industrial, cultural and trade spheres. It has also increased the migratory labor flows and demonstrated the need to develop new intercultural communication skills and new methods of administration and management in international context. Hence, the implementation and setting of management tasks in the international environment depend on the socio-cultural factors that represent the specific circumstances of decision-making processes.

The paper reveals the answers of participants in the sociological survey «Professional Intercultural Dialogue between Russia and France» (the method of semi-structured interviews and crisis episodes) regarding the effectiveness of various methods of intercultural education, as well as the attitudes of employees to the key problems of intercultural relations. Based on the received results the document provides a list of socio-cultural factors affecting the development of professional intercultural communicative competences.

In conclusion, the authors present a model of universal intercultural communicative competencies in accordance with the identified factors and show the correlation of these factors with the decision-making while solving the administrative problems of recruiting and training employees abroad.

The end of the twentieth century was marked by the end of the «cold war», but the geopolitical rivalry between the West and Russia did not stop. Strengthened as an independent, strong state, Russia is increasingly acting as a military and political competitor to USА hegemony, forcing the USА and its satellites to continue to wage a geopolitical battle with Russia for world primacy. A special place in this struggle is allocated to the youth, which is one of the most vulnerable objects of the impact of ideological, information-psychological and cultural confrontation.

Destructively influencing the younger generation of Russian citizens, Western propagandists seek to disintegrate the Russian nation from within. Analysis of technologies and the specifics of the processes of this impact allows us to justify talking about the conduct of an undeclared «spiritual war» against our country, the goals of which are the destabilization of the sociopolitical situation in Russia and the undermining of its constitutional system.

The goals of this war are achieved through the implementation of the main directions of destructive anti-Russian activity: undermining confidence in the national mentally-spiritual ideological basis of the Russian people through ideological struggle; propaganda of antisocial, anti-Russian and western sentiments through means of information-psychological influence; active realization of the cultural expansion of Western values and life style (westernization).

The consequence of the implementation of these areas of activity are numerous destructive social phenomena that threaten Russia’s national security, including a reduction in the number of young people, its spiritual and moral decay and degradation, and destabilization of the domestic political situation. In connection with this, it is necessary to develop and implement an effective system of measures to counteract the destructive Western influence on various social groups of Russian society.

Communicative processes advertising and PR, exhibit certain characteristics that distinguish them from other information transfer processes. One of the most important specific blacks of such communicative processes is such an obligatory characteristic as conviction. Despite the fact that the persuasive part of the communication process in advertising and PR appears in all communicative models, it has a private, sporadic nature that can not satisfy the requirements for advertising and PR communications. In this regard, this can be done in order to create a model of the communicative process of a fully minded representative in accordance with the goals of advertising and PR specialists. The presented article is devoted to the consideration of such models of persuasive communication. To achieve the goals of building the process of convincing communication, we recommend to use the possibilities of communicative impact on the basis of the classical chain: communicative incentives – audience – effect. Identifying opportunities for effective persuasion, the stimulating effect produced by each of the components of the communication process is important: message, communicator, channel, situation. Each of these incentives has a number of characteristics that affect the perception by target audiences of the information contained in the message. It is especially important to take into account and form the situation of information, since it is the context of obtaining and decoding information that can have the strongest persuasive impact. At the same time, under the condition of persuasive influence, it is necessary that they are in the process of communication, as well as the susceptibility of individuals to the stimulating effect of the communicator. In general, the paper allows to identify and eliminate new ways to achieve the goals of advertising and public relations.

The article analyzes the application of the four communication models of J. Grunig and T. Hunt (press agentry/publicity; public information model; two-way asymmetrical and symmetrical models) in the practice of public law enforcement communications. The author concludes that the dialogue and partnership model of interrelations between lawenforcement bodies and the population corresponds to the modern realities to the greatest extent. This gives grounds for considering the public law enforcement communications management as a process of organizing a communication system and a communicative process between the structural divisions of the law enforcement agencies and the population, civil society structures and the media in order to ensure public safety. Thus, the main task of law enforcement agencies in the field of public law enforcement communication management is to build and maintain the configuration of a relational network that allows stakeholders to enter relationships significant for ensuring public security.

The paper provides the evaluation of changes in the safety of social activity in the aftermath of the introduction of information and telecommunication technologies. Based on the data of the online poll on social networks “VKontakte” and “Twitter”, the author shows that users of these networks evaluate the activity in modern society as more dangerous, and the level of openness of their personal data in the network as high or medium. This raises the feeling of insecurity from criminal encroachments when working on the Internet. At the same time, due to the fears of victimization and a certain closeness of network communities, social network users choose mutual information as a measure to combat information threats. As a result, the author concludes that it is necessary to increase public competence in the field of information security as a component of the information and communication culture of modern man.

The Great Silk Road has appeared as a unique communication project in the history of human civilization. Its current state, the history of its emergence and its two thousand-year existence, which allowed the achievements of Chinese science and technology to Europe, as well as the philosophical and religious views of the Heavenly Empire, attracts the attention of scientists all over the world. This paper gives a brief, meaningful review of the current state of the study of the modernized version of the Great Silk Road as applied to the era of globalization. The authors indicate the unused reserves and opportunities of the scientific, technical, business, trade, intellectual potential of China and neighboring countries in line with this trunk.

The authors dwell upon the problem of communications with Russian expatriates, as well as with the state bodies of the countries of their residence. In today’s Russian society demographic problem is quite relevant. One of the means of its resolution can be a large-scale attraction of expatriates from foreign countries. In this regard, it is important to intensify communications with expatriates in order to keep them informed of the state policy of the Russian Federation towards Russian expatriates. The paper represents the analysis of legal and organizational basis of communication with expatriates, and the state bodies of the countries of their residence. The new integrated approach in communications with expatriates implies a formal modification of the message: the transformation of the message depending on the form of submission and the possibility of perception of the integrated content by expatriates. Since the integration of information flows increases the number of contacts with expatriates, both the intensity and effectiveness of interaction increase. The completeness of coverage increases as well. Integration of a number of available communication channels helps to strengthen the basic thesis of the message in the minds of recipients from among expatriates. In addition, each of the messages due to the variety of forms of submission creates the effect of novelty.

As a result of the analysis, the authors have come to the conclusion that the legal and organizational basis of communication with Russian expatriates abroad and with the countries of their residence allows to continue the resettlement of expatriates in the Russian Federation.

The paper is based on sociological survey survey conducted by the Laboratory of problems of increasing the efficiency of state and municipal management of the SouthRussian Institute of Management – branch of Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. The survey has been carried out in a number of constituent entities of Russia in November-December 2017 in preparation for the Roundtable with international participation “Problems of countering corruption in public and municipal administration and ways of their solution in modern Russia” (February 16-17, 2018, Rostov-on-Don). The authors examine some trends and results that have been marked in counteraction to corruption in recent years, identify the ‘weak links’ in communicative activity that affect the effectiveness of corruption control, and suggest the possible ways to improve the effectiveness of anti-corruption activity.

As a result of this analysis, the authors come to the conclusion that increasing the effectiveness of communicative activities to counter corruption depends on the organization of the depth of research into the nature of corruption and the forms of its manifestation in contemporary Russian society. It seems that in modern conditions, along with the repressive method of suppression of corruption crimes, the strategic direction of combating corruption should be to identify and eliminate the causes and factors that form corruption risks.

The author substantiates the phenomenon of pseudo-news as a discrete version of the news. It is determined that, being formally (structured) constructed as a news message (similar composition, stylistics, basic elements, dialectical answer to the triad of questions: ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘when’), the pseudo-news report is contentiously contrary to the main signs of news (objectivity, reliability, reflection of current reality). The author suggests the typology for differentiation of pseudo-news phenomenon into fake and post-truth. If the fake can be the result of the unintentional actions of media controllers (the pursuit of sensation, the low level of professionalism, manifested in the lack of skills in verifying the factual data), then post-truth is the result of planned techniques, the ultimate goal of which is the conscious disinformation of the audience. It is concluded, that the systemic design of pseudo-news phenomenon ultimately leads to deprofessionalization, malpractice of media and deinstitutionalization of journalism, reinforcing the ‘crisis of confidence’ in the media.

The paper is devoted to the question whether the contemporary communications can be described within the framework of the concept of the New Middle Ages, which has been elaborated by the modern cultural studies with the aim of exploring everyday life and mentality of the global society on the 21st century. It is shown in the article that certain typical medieval socio-cultural communications are reproduced on the new stage. The author of the paper dwells upon the generic resemblance between the two epochs, singling out more significant factors and traits. As a result of the analysis, the author comes to the conclusion that convincing interpretations of the communicative phenomena of today is possible and can be productive, particularly so when considering the concept of mediacracy, determined by the normative function of contemporary mass media.

This two-part paper builds on previous work by L. Kauffman and J. Mingers [Kauffman; Mingers] arguing that Spencer-Brown’s ‘calculus of indications’ (hereinafter CoI) outlined in his book Laws of Form [Spencer-Brown] provides a powerful way of notating and validating classical logical syllogisms. Part 1 gives a background to the CoI and to classical logic, showing that the CoI has clear advantages in terms of speed, clarity, and ease of use in comparison with other forms of notation such as text or Venn diagrams. Part 2 shows how Brownian notation can facilitate working with education via obversion and conversion; and working with sorites, with a note on the implications of Brownian notation for the question of existential import.

The article focuses on the quantitative interpretation of trials, including its communicative inputs. Outlines some of the shortcomings of the process of identifying guilt and verdict. In the analysis of the legal solutions introduced subjective probabilities and some of the information and communication components. While the Bayesian inference is a common method for revision of beliefs, it requires precise prior probabilities and likelihoods, usually assessed in the form of intervals. Therefore this work comments upon procedures to introduce interval probabilities to statistical reasoning that support the analysis of evidence in court trials.

This work highlights the problems of judgment in legal trials and some of the communicative elements that are present here. It emphasizes the possibilities to improve the decision analysis process in trials by adopting subjective probability as a measure of uncertainty about the level of guilt of a defendant judged upon testimonies. Bayesian and other approaches can then serve to adapt beliefs. The key element of the discussion here is the introduction of interval probability estimates and the benefits they bring to legal decision making.