While considering the rise and fall of the consumer cultures the author drives to a conclusion that the consumer cultures should be replace by sustainable cultures. Just like the paradigm of consumerism promotes defining a wealth of people by means of the norms of the consumption, the paradigm of sustainability will be directed to finding other aspirations and strengthening them through the cultural institutions and motivations.
Transforming cultures is of course no small task. It will require decades of effort, in which cultural pioneers – those who can step out of their cultural realities enough to critically examine them – work tirelessly to redirect key cultureshaping institutions: education, business, government, and the media, as well as social movements and long-standing human traditions.

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The article considers the concept of “internal agent” as an important ethnic feature. It is underlined that weakening of “self-efficiency” of ethnos might become a manifestation of transgeneration (coming through the generations) trauma caused by the coercive actions over the Armenians which had been chronicity for ages and became one of the reasons of catastrophic losses in a result of the Genocide.

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Due to the self-accelerating development of human civilization, amid the information age, importance of scientific estimation of the public opinion, registration of behavioral features and preferences of definite social and economic groups is getting even more topical. Particularly for the fundamental research of such an important section as intrastate conflicts in the context of the state stability, profound analytical and theoretical elaborations, in which the latest scientific directions are used, are necessary. In this aspect, in our opinion, no researched sector of social life of the state can be considered full-fledged unless sociological, social and psychological, ethnic and national and particularly mathematical analytical constructions and tools are used.
Increasing information burden on a person brings to an appropriate complication of modeling of social and economic and political systems, which, in its turn, raises significance of the analysis of political violence as rather one of the main interpreting than registering social disciplines. Studying of the phenomenon of political violence is one of key elements of the complex assessment of the issue of political stability in the state.

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The article aims to derive the typology (tools) of the publicity of power. According to the author, publicity of power has three material forms of realization which are identical to forms of general communication. Forms of realization of publicity are texts-signs which are used as symbol signs in their absolutive functioning. The referent of imperative signs- forms (texts) used in absolutive functioning is not only the order itself but also some of its characteristics or types which set some functional “ascription” of particular forms of publicity to separate types of publicity. The form of texts of publicity of power used within the conditions mentioned above is none other than meta-communication which sets a modus for the coming moment of communication. The types of publicity of power are as follows- direct imperative, indirect (latent imperative) and ritual imperative.

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One of the directions in which the materials and ideas expressed in this article could be practically useful is the continuation and development of the traditions elaborated over the previous five years as well as critical understanding of shortcomings in the work of Inter-Parliamentary Commission and foremost among them is the control over the implementation of the decisions taken. It would be wonderful if the Inter-Parliamentary commission of the 5th National Assembly started its work taking into consideration this and other shortcomings.

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This article will take stock of the Armenian-Chinese relations to discern whether Yerevan has been effective in its response to the ongoing rise of the Middle Kingdom as the two countries prepare to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations this April. The article will compare Armenia’s policy vis-à-vis China to that of Georgia and Azerbaijan and identify areas where Yerevan could be doing more to advance the bilateral relationship. The article will conclude with specific recommendations on how Armenia can transform the relationship with China into a special partnership that would increase both Armenia’s benefits from the rise of China and China’s stake in the peaceful development of Armenia.

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One of the most interesting phenomenon of the newest period of international relations are the so-called unrecognized states – de-facto independent states which faced problems with their recognition. Appearance of such states has been the consequence of military and political and ideological confrontation of the Cold War times, as well as collapse of bi-polar system and inability of international community to choose a common approach to this category of states.
Despite the fact that the so-called unrecognized, semi-recognized and defacto independent countries face the problems of political character in their relations with international community, they actively cooperate with different countries including great powers. The People’s Republic of China is actively contacting with such countries either. The article considers peculiar relations of the PRC with unrecognized states.

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