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The article analyzes the features of the current youth policy of the Russian Federation aimed at raising the political culture. Despite the current activities of the government institutions in the field under study, absenteeism, as well as the protest potential of the young people, remains at a fairly high level. In this regard, the government acknowledged the importance of forming a positive image of the state power in the eyes of young people and strengthen its influence in the sphere of forming loyal associations, which is not always positively perceived among the youth. The work focuses on the fact that raising the loyalty of youth organizations is one of the factors of political stability, both in case of internal turbulence and external influence. The authors also focus on the beneficiaries of youth protests. The authors paid special attention to the issue of forming political leadership among the youth and the absence of leaders expressing the opinions of young people in modern Russian politics. At the same time, youth protest as a social phenomenon lack class and in some cases ideological differences. The authors come to the conclusion that despite the steps taken by the government and political parties to involve Russian youth in the political agenda, the young people reject leaders of youth opinion imposed by the authorities, either cultivating nonparticipation in the electoral campagines or demonstrating latent protest voting.

The article analyzes the features of the transformation of national-state identity in Western Europe under the influence of the migration crisis. In this regard, the study examined some theoretical approaches to the issues of national-state identity that allow to identify the features of its modern transformation. The authors focus on the relationship between migration and political processes in Europe, the symbiosis of which becomes a factor in the rejection of migrants by European society and the growing popularity of political forces with conservative and partly right-populist rhetoric. Thus, the observed renaissance of national loyalty becomes the main factor in the transformation of national-state identity.