The article presents a systematic analysis of trends and trends in the field of research of health problems in the youth environment, which relate to the attitude to health in general, the field of preserving and strengthening health.

The author identifies significant risk factors that significantly affect both the health level of the younger generation and the life expectancy of its representatives, shows the ambivalence and inconsistency of data on the attitude of young people to their health obtained by various researchers. Based on the analysis of various sociological studies, including the author’s study conducted in July 2023, the results of the discussions conducted by domestic scientists addressing the health-saving problems of the younger generation of Russia are summarized.

The first group includes macro-social problems related to the general state regulation of public health. Among them are the lack of health care of the population among the state priorities; inadequate social policy of the Russian Federation in the field of healthcare; the activities of institutions included in the management of the health sector, including its regulatory regulation. The second group of problems is related to the conceptualization of the concept of “health” and “healthy lifestyle”, the interpretation of which is usually ambiguous. It is obvious that the normative definition of a “healthy lifestyle” has medical, physiological, psychological and social structural components, which include various external factors — the influence of family and social environment, fashion on social habits, as well as the nature of media exposure.

The data obtained by the author indicate that the greatest influence on the formation of young people’s ideas about health problems and practices for its maintenance is exerted by their own experience, social networks, family and the opinion of friends. They also confirm the prevailing trend: although the overwhelming majority of respondents (85%) are sure that people need to lead a healthy lifestyle, one in four believes that their lifestyle is unhealthy rather than healthy, and 5% of them do not consider their lifestyle healthy at all.

The author refers to a special group of problems the impact on the health of the digital media environment, into which the younger generation is actively integrated today, first of all, about the so-called “new media”, which include: internet portals of online media, blogosphere, social networks, virtual communities, virtual games and other Web resources. By broadcasting ideas, behavioral models, new media in modern society become “legislators” in various spheres of social life. To a certain extent, they participate in the construction of an individual’s behavior in relation to health, which is both constructive and destructive in nature.

This article is devoted to understanding the essence, defining the spatial and time frames, as well as describing the most significant episodes of the development of The Great Game — the policy of containing the development of Russia by Anglo-Saxon elites and powers, dating back more than two centuries. Perceiving Russia as the main obstacle to achieving its global geopolitical hegemony, Anglo-Saxon elites and powers actively waged large-scale diplomatic, economic, information wars and battles against Russia, military operations, conducted operations to organize coups d’etat and “revolutions”, trying to destroy Russia both by actions from outside and undermining it from within. The author of the article draws attention to the origin of the very concept of “Great Game”, as well as its use in a narrow and broad sense. In a narrow sense, this concept is used to denote the active geopolitical and economic confrontation between Great Britain and the Russian Empire for control over Central Asia throughout the 19th century (or according to a number of authors, starting in 1856) until 1907. Broadly, to indicate the global geopolitical confrontation between the Anglo-Saxon and Russian world from the

beginning of the 19th century and continuing to the present.

The author believes that the interpretation of the “Great Game” in a narrow sense is incorrect, politically biased and deliberately aimed at hiding the knowledge of the “Great Game” from the mass audience.

The author considers various points of view of domestic and foreign authors to determine the starting and final point, time and spatial framework of the “Great Game”. He refers to the vivid episodes of The “Great Game”: the Palace Coup of 1801 — the assassination of Emperor Paul I; “Napoleonic” wars; December putsch of 1825; Confrontation with England in Turkestan, the Caucasus, other regions; Russo-Persian and Russo-Turkish Wars, Crimean War, Russo-Japanese War; the Caucasian War and events in Central Asia and Turkestan; Financing and organization in the Russian Empire of the “fifth column”; Revolutionary events of 1905–1907; World War I; 1917 Revolution; Russian Civil War; Support for “intra-party” opposition; Bringing A. Hitler to power in Germany; World War II organization; “Cold War”, Dismemberment of the USSR; Chechen Wars; “Color revolutions” in the post-Soviet space; The 2008 war and Georgia’s “coercion” to peace; 2014 coup d’état, the subsequent civil war in Ukraine, start of Special Military Operation.

This article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of the destructive impact on modern Russian youth by foreign states, Russian and international organizations, various groups, with the aim of changing the worldview, value orientations, beliefs, behavioral stereotypes of young people, creating and spreading anti-Russian ideology, forming a negative attitude towards state institutions and traditional values of Russia, as well as undermining socio-economic and political stability in the Russian Federation. Analyzing the examples and features of this kind of influence of these subjects on modern Russian youth, the authors of the article place special emphasis on studying the specifics of this kind of impact on the youth of new subjects of the Russian Federation. To illustrate and substantiate their statements, the authors cite the results of an expert survey “External destructive impact on youth of new constituent entities of the Russian Federation”, conducted in March–April 2023 on the territory of new constituent entities of the Russian Federation among employees of relevant ministries and departments, activists of social movements, specialists in the field of state youth policy in new constituent entities of the Russian Federation (Donetsk People’s Republic and Lugansk People’s Republic).

Recognizing the fact of this kind of impact on young people of new constituent entities of the Russian Federation, analyzing the goals of which the subjects of destructive influence, the forms and mechanisms used by them seek, the authors systematize the proposals of experts on countering this impact and improving the mechanisms and forms of implementation of state youth policy in these regions.

In the article, based on the data of an empirical sociological study conducted by the authors in February 2023, certain aspects of the social well-being of Russian girls in the conditions of a special military operation are analyzed.

The study was conducted in 10 subjects of the Central Federal District of the Russian Federation, as well as on the territory of the Republic of Crimea by online questionnaire. The study sample is quota-based, stratified by gender. The sample size is 960 people, aged 18 to 29 years. The volume of the subsample of young women is 510 people.

The article examines the emotional well-being of girls, their stress level, analyzes the impact on them of the geopolitical situation in which Russia is located. The authors draw conclusions about the impact of a special military operation on the professional activities of girls, as well as on their relationships with friends and family. The article substantiates the conclusion about the polarization of young Russians depending on the degree of impact of the military situation on them.

As a result of the reforms of 1905–1907, an attempt was made to build a syncretic system — the Duma monarchy with an eye to the schemes of the parliamentary system of European countries, without conforming either to national traditions or to the historical conditions of Russia. The scheme of “right perestroika” proposed by L.A. Tikhomirov can be briefly defined as the introduction of a monarchical people’s representation into the state system, the purpose of which is to represent the opinions and needs of the people under the supreme power of the Sovereign Emperor. Representation and legislation in this case should be carried out by two different State institutions in the field of public administration. The monarchical people’s representation should be formed from the real-life estate and professional associations, as well as from newly emerging and recognized by the state, with the legitimized dominance of the voice of the Russian people in this representation. To do this, L.A. Tikhomirov proposed a new codification of the Basic Laws, which would consistently carry out the idea of the need for legislative freedom for the supreme power in its activities for the benefit of the Fatherland, which should be guaranteed by the autocracy and unlimited supreme power of the Sovereign Emperor.

The desire to ensure high productivity of each employee in each organization is characteristic of the entire modern world. However, there is no single term used for this, even within an English-speaking (or Russian-speaking) environment, just as there is no common understanding of the factors that can lead to high productivity of each employee. In Russia statistics are collected and programs are being developed that contribute to the growth in the number “High Productivity Jobs” (at the state level). In English-speaking practice, similar approaches are indicated by the abbreviations HPO, HPHRP, HPWP and HPWS. However, similar to the difficulties encountered in the implementation of the concept of “Decent Work” in the world, problems are also experienced by companies trying to apply “high-performance work organization practices”. The published results of the analysis of world publications over the past 30 years show the connection of “high-performance work systems” a) with a variety of personnel management practices (slightly less than in half of the publications); b) with an intermediary factor in the form of staff satisfaction and their sense of subjective well-being (according to some data, most discussed in publications on “high-performance systems”); c) with the effectiveness and productivity of the organization as a whole, and d) with different, not always explicit, attitudes and expectations of employees (allocated to a separate group). Nevertheless, studies periodically show not only successes, but also unpredictable deterioration of indicators that are significant for organizations. The “emotional burnout” of employees and the “imbalance of work and the rest of life” increase attention to the “psychological contract” as ensuring compliance with the complex of mutual expectations of employers and employees. Part of these expectations is related to the currently developing format of hybrid work for some categories of specialists.

In the realities of modern Russian society, the question arises of the relevance of a particular profession, a set of knowledge, skills, which is given in educational institutions of higher education, or as it is commonly called now, a set of competencies or competency maps of a future employee. Therefore, the agenda raises the question of how the current education system is currently ready to implement this practice. Or the level of professional development and competence is now more dependent on the personal perceived quality of life of the individual, his cultural capital, and all the symbolic accumulated capital is secondary. Here the question arises of the public recognition of this or that profession, this or that institution of education.

The article discusses approaches to understanding the profession and professional choice in domestic and foreign scientific thought. The key issues of the study of professional strategies and professional choice are presented in a historical retrospective.

As an empirical basis for the study of this article, students of leading educational institutions of higher education, who have been assigned a special status through the establishment of a specific legal status and educational activity, will be considered — the Federal state budgetary educational institution of higher education “Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov” and the Federal state budgetary educational institution of higher education “St. Petersburg State University”. Based on the empirical data of a sociological study conducted in February 2023, the article analyzes the strategies of universities in terms of the production of knowledge (through the exchange of scientific and teaching staff, scientific events, additional training programs) for the professional self-determination of a student (through his desire to work in this profession and desire to continue their education in this profession).

International labor migration is an important part of modern processes taking place in the world, affecting not only the countries’ economies, but also it’s political, social and demographic situation. Due to the peculiarities of the Russian economy, the attraction of foreign workers is an urgent need, however, it should be noted that labor migration carries not only positive aspects for the host countries. The flow of migrants who do not speak Russian well, who were brought up in a different cultural and religious environment and, as a result, are difficult to integrate into Russian society, forms some social development challenges for Russia. In recent years, there have been disputes in the expert community about the language proficiency of labor migrants.

This article presents an analysis of the level of Russian language proficiency of foreign workers from Central Asian countries, as well as the impact of this level on various aspects of their socio-economic adaptation. In addition, the article examines the level of Russian language proficiency of labor migrants, depending on their migration intentions, the length of stay in the host country, as well as depending on the field of activity of foreign workers. In the process of the research, the influence of the level of knowledge of the Russian language on the monthly income of a foreign worker was analyzed. It was noted that in order to eliminate the communication barrier between foreign workers and the local population, there is a need to intensify the language training of migrants by developing and implementing language courses, expanding access to them and migrants’ awareness of their availability.

The article is devoted to an actual problem that reflects a clearly visible crisis of communicative culture, which hides a deeper conflict of social values, manifested in the breakdown of patterns formed in the past, standards of action in specific situations of communication between representatives of different ethnic groups, cultures, confessions, etc. A surge in the birth of new ethnopholisms, acting as the most expressive ethnonyms, coincided with the rise to a new level of hate speech, in which the most diverse socially colored nicknames turn into a powerful tool for political stigmatization of any persons or communities that are different from the subject of this process.

The study of such a phenomenon is interdisciplinary in nature and is impossible without knowledge of the facts of history, culture, language, economic life of different ethnic groups. The study of ethnopholisms in the form of toponymic nicknames allows us to find out the reasons for the ambivalent attitude towards the trend of regionalization, when, on the one hand, it is under pressure from the same social, economic, political and spiritual processes that caused the collapse of global projects, however, on the other hand, the proximity of regional actions to local conditions, provides a basis for predicting the possibility, through the strengthening of identity, to create both a stronger socio-economic basis for the development of regional communities, and to find a new model for their interaction in the global space.

This article is devoted to the information security, which is a relevant and demanded research area within modern interdisciplinary scientific studies, key features of this phenomenon and its methods as well. The paper notes that there is an understanding of the importance to maintain information security in social scientific knowledge. This is evidenced by a number of soviet and Russian scientists’ theoretical-methodological and scientific-practical studies, which indicate the sufficient research mastery of the phenomenon. This research area has taken on increasing importance in the strategic regulatory state documents, which are responsible for the country’s national security. Special attention is paid to the most significant characteristics of social reality, its determining development factors, new trends, innovation challenges and risks. These are not only the characteristics of social reality but its bifurcation zones, which to be taken into consideration and prevented in the future. In the authors’ view, namely the risks, related to the informational component and the undermining of information security in particular, acquire importance. The article notes the key role of a sociocultural aspect in creating a desirable modern social reality for society. This is about a conscious access to manage both an individual and mass consciousness through the sociocultural aspect. Based on the results of analyzing the key regulatory documents, the authors identified methods and means of ensuring information security, which are most widespread and put into practice. They were integrated into the authors’ scheme that provides a clear picture of this phenomenon’s scientific-practical side. The article notes the extreme significance of further studying information security as a research area that has a great scientific potential and a high scientific-practical demand in the future. The management plan and practical outcome of preserving the phenomenon acquire a particular relevance within this research area.

The purpose of the study, the results of which are briefly presented in this article, was to assess the influence of traditional Chinese thought on women.

The following research methods were chosen: historical scientific method, abstract-logical scientific method, formal-legal scientific method, comparative analysis method, scientific objectivism method.

Briefly, the results of the study can be presented as follows: practices such as meditation, wushu, qigong have a direct impact on women around the world due to their use for exclusively health purposes. In this sense, it is appropriate to assume that in this way Chinese philosophy can influence the worldview of people (in particular, women). At the same time, from the point of view of Chinese philosophy, a woman plays a subordinate role in relation to a man.

The author makes the following conclusions. In our opinion, one of the ways that can adapt traditional Chinese teachings to the realities of today should be the idea of using a woman not only as a homemaker, but also as a manager, negotiator, manager (transformation concepts of Taoism). Thus, the ability to negotiate, based on modern scientific psychology, is inherent in people with an androgynous type of thinking. And in this sense, men should learn communication skills, first of all, from women. This may be relevant not only from a moral point of view, but also from the point of view of the development of modern economics. Moreover, this idea is quite applicable to other countries, including Russia.