This paper aims to provide a new reading of Hegel's philosophy of nature by demonstrating its rootedness in his anthropology. This kind of anthropological analysis makes it possible to question one of the main traditional criticisms of Hegel's philosophy of nature, namely, that Hegel strips nature of all value and endorses its exploitation by man, as well as to reconstruct Hegel's own criticism of any abusive approach to nature. Hegel's politics of nature coincides with his anthropological politics: for Hegel the attitude towards nature is essentially the attitude of the man towards his own soul.

The article considers seeming contradictions in Dharmakirti's Pramanavartti-kakarika through the concept of the «ascending scale of analysis» proposed by G.B.J. Dreyfus in his «Recognizing Reality» and traces this method down to the «expedient truth» teaching as it is expressed in the Lotus Sutra of True Teaching. Refection of expedient truth in modern Buddhist education is also considered here.

The article covers the period in Russian philosophy of history, when historical epistemology emerged as an independent area of knowledge within its context. Therefore the author turns to N. Kareev's philosophico-historical search and his interpretation of the subject and objectives of historiosophy.

The author analyses historiosophical conceptions in Russian (mainly slavophilеs) religious philosophy, concerning Russian idea, the tragedy of historical process, and overcoming evil, conditioned by free choice between good and evil. In this connection one can see serious attempts to take off chortages and onesideness of dualism and monism in order to elaborate methodologic principle of monodualism in the works of Berdyaev, Frank, Visheslavtsev, Zenkovsky and other Russian thinkers.

A.V. Tyrkova-Williams, famous Russian journalist and authoress, has had a vast infuence on the public life of Russia. In this text the author studies the memorial heritage of the authoress in the context of Russian cultural and political history. The article analyses Russian social history not as the past for the sake of the past but the past as a living part of cultural experience, as the guarantee of its historical self-consciousness extension.

The article considers the problem of modern perception of historical discourse on the example of the discussion on legal philosophy problems between two outstanding Russian thinkers, B.N. Chicherin and V.S. Solovyev, which took place in the end of the 19^th century. The article focuses on its methodological and philosophical aspects.

The evolution of V.V. Rozanov's attitude to philosophical and art heritage of K.N. Leontyev is presented in the article. Rozanov's perception which published not only in great works, but also in little articles and in recently published letters is considered. It allows to give objective assessment of Rozanov's point of view to K.N. Leontyev.

The paper is devoted to the history of metaphysical search in philosophy of culture. The formation and development of philosophy of culture caused a considerable change in the metaphysical strategy of philosophy in general and opened a possibility for the metaphysics of cultural life, which fundamentally differs from traditional classical metaphysics.

Social system as an integral self-organizing system is polydetermined and multidimensional, therefore the question of involuntary resettlement requires a complex approach. Involuntary resettlement in many respects depends on the center-periphery relationship. Various forms of social metabolism are analogous to negentropical sources, replenishing the process of order formation, which allows to provide a social system with additional resources, to renew its economic, cultural and information potential. Population movements bring the exchange of human resources, which is a form (channel) of penetration of cultural innovations into a society.

Nuclear disaster in Japan restored public discussion in Russia over safety of nuclear power and whether it makes sense to develop it in future or not. Many media reports contained information on nuclear safety, which was not quite true in refecting the current situation. The main reason for that is the activity of state-owned nuclear power industry, which desperately needs to clean up its public image. This article represents the most common myths about nuclear power and gives correct information on it.

The problem of what to do with burnt fuel rods from nuclear power production has not been solved yet. In many countries, attempts to build underground repositories for disposing of the high-level nuclear waste have caused social conficts. Some countries, such as Switzerland, have reacted to this by reforming nuclear waste management towards nuclear waste governance, involving the interested public in decision-making processes to different degrees. Other countries, like Germany, have continued their muddling-through approach. In this article, we analyze nuclear waste governance in those two countries with a focus on modes of modern nuclear waste governance, but also problems governments face during such modernization processes. Finally, we discuss the applicability of our fndings to countries in transition.

A philosophical and anthropological sketch of life of a person in the Chernobyl disaster liquidation zone. The anthropology of the memories of the participant of those events is described as through the existential experience of duty, destiny, humour, manliness, etc., and through the existentials of everyday life - food and drink, life of things in the domain of risk and death, through change of character and structure of the person's vital space, where he expresses heroism.