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The '''Institute of Socio-Political Research''' under the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]]  (ISPR RAS) is a Russian academic research center. It is engaged in a fundamental and applied research of social and socio-political processes. It was established in 1991 in Moscow.

The basic areas and directions of the scientific researches involve: global problems of contemporary civilization and Russia; analysis and forecasting of Russia’s socio-political development; social dynamics, structure and stratification of Russian society; methods and instruments for sociological research; sociology of management; political and [[economic sociology]]; demographic and migratory processes; sociology of federate and interethnic relations; social problems of [[national security]]; sociology of [[human rights]]; sociology of youth; [[Social ecology (theory)|social ecology]], etc. The Institute makes a socio-political analysis of the decisions made by the governmental, legislative and executive bodies.

It publishes some scientific journals including ''Eurasia'', ''Nauka. Kultura. Obshchestvo'' /''Science. Culture. Society''/ (previously known as ''Nauka. Kultura. Predprinimatelstvo.'' /''Science. Politics. Entrepreneurship''/), methodical materials and manuals on sociology.

The International [[UNESCO]] Chair of Social and Humanitarian Sciences has been set up at the Institute.

The ISPR maintains links and with scientific institutions of the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]], academic and scientific circles of the former USSR member-states, as well as with Great Britain, Germany, Israel, China, Netherlands, USA, France and other countries.

==See also==
*[[Vilen Ivanov]]
*[[Dzhangir Kerimov]]
*[[Gennady Osipov]]
*[[Rudolph Yanovskiy]]
*[[Vladimir Martynenko]]
*[[Alexandr Kapto]]

==References==
*[http://www.ras.ru/index.aspx?_Language=en Official RAS site]

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