The article explores the religious philosophy of Russian emigration as a holistic phenomenon with a number of characteristic features, examines its common spiritual objectives and ideals and successively reviews the main felds, where it expressed itself - metaphysics, theology, and aesthetics. In the author’s opinion, the religious philosophy of Russian emigration is defned by the synthesis and the idea of holistic spiritual existence. It was based on the ideas that Russia may be reborn based on the highest spiritual values and religious ideals.

The article is devoted to 90 years since the leading Russian philosophers were deported from Soviet Russia in fall 1922. The author compares the activity of Russian emigrant philosophers with the philosophy that continued to develop in the USSR. The main points of comparison are the amount of freedom in self-expression and the results of philosophical work. The analysis of facts reveals allows to conclude how important the work of Russian emigrant philosophers was. The author believes that the question remains open of what further development will the Russian philosophy abroad have and what perspectives lie before Russian religious thought.

In clause the contents of the basic concepts of a history developed in classical philosophy is opened. The lacks and advantages historicity are specifed. The necessity of preservation of traditions for conditions of modernity is proved.

The article considers the most important problems of the new interdisciplinary feld of scientifc knowledge of global studies, associated with the theoretical and applied aspects of use of its potential. Special attention is given to the processes of globalization, frst of all, in the sphere of interaction between nature and society, discusses the concept of sustainable development and of the noosphere, assess their importance and role in the life of modern society, including in Russia.

The article is devoted to the strong intensifcation of all contemporary global problems. It shows the necessity for organized, scientifcally-based international effort to overcome global threats with the ecological threat as the most fundamental of them.

The article takes up the problem of defnition of the concepts of the rights, freedoms and human security, in a special way being shown within socio-natural system. They are defned by comprehensive dependence of the human on the environment. His rights are adequately realized, he is free and is in safety only in the conditions of favorable environment. Destroying the nature with its activities, society encroaches on the rights, freedom and safety of individual. To achieve their adequate realization, the mankind should deal with the nature carefully, protecting the biosphere from destruction. And the people being thus the main victim, should unite and struggle for it. Keywords: socio-natural system, the rights and personal freedoms, responsibility, risk, security, s

The article considers the mechanisms of realisation of the cultural conficts and borrowings. The key role is played by the person as a source, a means and a result of the dynamics of culture.

This article considers the approaches to the understanding of the term «nature of the state», the urgent problems of culture in the context of the welfare state, the nation-state, citizenship and identity.

The paper examines the question of tradition as it was raised in the XVII - XVIII centuries and then in the XX century by leading scholars in the feld of cultural (social) anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, memory studies, etc.

The article considers one of the «eternal» themes in Japanese cultural tradition, «formless and form» (different from the analogous opposition «form - content (matter)» in Western tradition). The concepts of Japanese aesthetics are regarded as describing «corporal experience» i.e. holistic ingenious knowledge about the inherent disposition of the World Continuum. The author concludes that the «aesthetic component» is the main one within the kernel of Japanese cultural identity.

The main notions connected with cultural provincial policy and also aspects leading to agreement between offcial, artistic and social powers in respect of cultural development goals priority in Russia space are considered in the article. «Polyethnics» and «cultures interweaving» in province have become the sense giving activity in the region, the search for cultural identity, the types of activity and creativity forms. From this point of view the article information is new.

The article describes the main models of interactions between the author and the state power, and reviews several modifcations characteristic of the basic models. The main attention is paid to the model of opposition and its modifcations (in our opinion, the most artistically productive model), which are analyzed on the examples of several Russian and Soviet writers.

The paper offers an analysis of philosophic and ontological principles accounting for the high position culture has occupied in the hierarchy of the Japanese socium since the ancient times. The author investigates philosophic conceptions of authority which are presented in Japan within Shinto, Buddhist and Confucianic worldviews, reveals the role of speech etiquette and, in particular, honorifc (polite and respectful) style in maintaining the harmony in interpersonal and business relations in the modern Japanese society.