The article examines the current state of the Taiwan issue in the context of “one China”. Taiwan’s unique importance to China ensures its priority in China’s strategy. The position of the U.S. and other influential players in the region on Taiwan influences the resolution of the issue, forming the worst-case scenario, i.e., the possibility of military conflict.

Due to negative changes in the global climate of the planet, the world community has decided on a gradual transition to carbon-free hydrogen power. This opens up favorable opportunities for Russia and its nuclear power industry in large-scale generation and supply of hydrogen.

The article contains the author’s presentation of the methodological foundations of the study of Russia’s economic diplomacy during the modern transformation of international relations with a description of the model for assessing its capabilities under the perturbing influence of the external environment.

The article uses the example of Scotland to give a scientific understanding of the socio-cultural aspects of the integration of ethno-religious minorities into European communities. It is shown that Scottish nationalism is inclusive and does not differ in Islamophobia, unlike English nationalism and British chauvinism. Anglo-Saxon policies of discrimination against national and religious minorities have led to a steady trend of expanding social and political alliance of Scottish nationalists with local Muslims. Scottish Muslims (especially young Muslims) striving for a multi-layered identity face social isolation and a sense of detachment from their community, leading to their radicalization.

The article is about the topical problems of elite formation in modern Russia. The author describes the essence of the system of elite formation, pros and cons of the soviet system of elite formation, formulates some ideas concerning the current system of elite formation in Russia.

The article analyses the Russian approaches towards ensuring the international information security (IIS) in the context of functioning of the correspondent structural unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia — Department of International Information Security. The author describes the main directions of the Russian state policy in the sphere of IIS both within the framework of international forums (UN, CES, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Collective Security Treaty Organization, etc.) and in bilateral relations.

Russian cultural diplomacy is by right one of the country’s foreign policy assets. The analysis of international exhibition events with Russian participation confirms the thesis that museums are capable of transmitting meaningful thoughts for Russia to foreign audiences, and work in the expert museum community creates preconditions for interaction in an extraordinary situation.

The author speaks about international organizations as system centers of functioning of international transport corridors. The importance of international institutions in the development of transport corridors lies in their operational monitoring and information support, which allows timely recognition of dead-end development directions and removal of obstacles.

In this paper, the authors attempted to analyze the place and role of religious organizations in the system of factors influencing the security of the statehood of Russia in legal and geopolitical aspects at the present stage.

The 100-year history of the Communist Party of China is a history of the Party and the people, which records the original intentions of the Party and its achievements, and proves that without the Communist Party there would be no new China.

The article examines I.V. Stalin’s views on the prospects for the development of the socialist state. From his point of view, the state can be preserved even under communism if the capitalist environment is not eliminated.

The geopolitical and military-strategic situation in the world is undergoing unprecedented changes since the Caribbean crisis of 1962. In the conditions of crisis macrosystemic transformations of the world order, the very development of world political processes – non-linear by definition – with their contradictions, complexities and surprises, extremely actualizes the problems associated with unforeseen risks for global strategic security.