Abstract: The goal of this article lies in the analysis of migration policy of the EU member and candidate states, including with regards to transit migrants. The authors examine such aspects of the topic as the advancement of NATO and European Neighborhood Policy, highlighting the factors of securitization of definition of the key characteristics of transit countries. An assessment is conducted of the EU policy and separate transit countries pertinent to migrants from European and Asian countries, on the example of Greece and illegal transit migrants. The materials for this research contain the official documents of EU member states, mass media publications and scientific works in the area of international migrations, Eurostat statistical data, UNHCR and European Commission (2010-2016). A conclusion is made that transit countries deal with a large migration flow; some of the transit countries play a role of a “buffer zone”, form regional transit migration flows. The changes in national migration policy can serve as the foundation for emergence of the new transit migration flows already of international level. The authors suggest dividing transit migrants into two groups: the first one – labor and other migrants; the second one – refugees. The latter are prone to continuous migration, while labor migrants seek multiple ways leading to the European Union, and look for better opportunities. Prolonged stay of migrants in transit countries can be a result of the intended acts of the governments, increasingly concerned about the fact that transit migration undermines the relations with neighboring countries, which are a desirable destination for migrants.  

Abstract: The subject of this article is the examination of risk factors of the social exclusion of elderly population of the Russian Federation based on the integral estimation of the index components of social exclusion. The authors suggest the model for assessing the factors of social exclusion of the elderly people considering the economic-structural and sociocultural aspects. The article offers and tests the specific indicators of evaluation of the social exclusion of elderly people leaning on the assessment of socio-economic (financial) deprivation, deprivation of social rights (access to social institutions and services), deprivation of security, deprivation of social engagement, cultural (normative) disintegration and social autism. The authors highlight a number of micro-level risk factors of exclusion, a part of which is nonadjustable, while another part is adjustable. The nonadjustable (independent) risk factors of social exclusion contain: gender; age (for females above 55, for males above 60); single living; status (working/non-working retiree); size of pension; marital status; religion; independent living skills; type of settlement (city/village). The adjustable (dependent) risk factors contain: physical activity; health condition; absence owned property; low level of education; coping-strategies; evaluation of financial status; unadapted after retirement.  The estimation of exclusion of the elderly population in three regions of the Russian Federation was conducted based on the results of sociological survey, which took place in Altai Krai, Zabaykalsky Krai, and Kemerovo Oblast in 2016, and involved 779 respondents in the above 55 (female) and 60 (male). Conclusion is made that the status of being socially excluded does not imply experiencing deprivation in all aspects of exclusion; the loss of physical abilities, health and mobility restrictions do increase the risk of social exclusion; practically each of the examines risk factors by increasing the contribution of some components of the overall social exclusion, inevitably reduces the contribution of other components of the exclusion.

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The subject of this article is the assessment of institutional factors of activity and role of the national cultural public organizations in realization of state national policy in the Altai Krai. The authors reveals the peculiarities of ethno-cultural situation in the region alongside the specificity of activity of the government bodies with regards to realization of state national policy. Leaning on the sociological survey data, the article provides the expertise results of the role of national cultural public organization in implementation of the policy, assessment of their inclusion into the cross-sectoral connections, as well as evaluates certain conditions for realization of activity of the national cultural nonprofit organizations. The research is conducted through the method of personal interview with the heads of registered in Altai Krai national cultural public organizations based on the structured questionnaire. The authors introduce the results of dispersive analysis and application of the procedure of scaling the expert assessments of the factors for functioning of the national cultural nonprofit organizations. The following conclusions were made: among the population of Altai Krai there is a vivid desire to unite aimed at protection of their national interests, as well as the need for preserving and developing of the cultures of diverse nationalities that populate the territory of the region. Along with the harmonious cross-national relationships between the population and national cultural nonprofit organization, there authors highlight the trusted connections, when the national cultural public organizations are open for cooperation and constructive interaction with the local community. The expert analysis also determined the insufficiently fair distribution of benefits and various positions for any of the nationalities; lack of efficiency and openness in the dialogue between the state, ethnic diasporas, and national minorities in adoption of important decisions. The most coordinate expert assessment were noticed with regards to the indexes of successful resolution of conflicts in the area of interethnic relations, control over compliance with the laws in the field of the state national policy, work of the government bodies in realization of the Russian Federation National Policy Strategy until 2025, establishment of dialogue between the state, ethnic diasporas, and national minorities in adoption of crucial decisions, supports of the national cultural public organization, and efficiency of the system of administration over the implementation of state national policy in the region.