Ensuring global energy security is one of the major systemic challenges facing the global energy sector. The article shows the role of Eurasia in the modern world, analyzes the peculiarities of understanding and interpretation of energy security challenges in its major regions and groups of countries. Shows the role of Russian-Chinese strategic partnership, the problems of implementation of three major projects on the continent - the Eurasian economic Union, Shanghai cooperation organization and the Chinese land of the project "Economic belt of the Great silk road" and their possible impact on energy security as Russia and China and all of Eurasia. Justified the principle of reasonable sufficiency diversification of energy supplies and energy markets.

Growth of volumes of production of shale gas in the USA compelled Russia to pay attention to this type of resourses. The interest to shale gas in Russia was limited to discussions at the level of experts and reflection of importance of this problem in statements of politicians. In the next years in Russia don't plan production of shale gas commercially. It is connected with existence in Russia of considerable reserves of traditional natural gas, absence of exact data of reserves of shale gas, high costs of production, and also environmental risks which accompany development of fields of shale gas.

The article provides information about a research dedicated to the study of anthropogenic and biogenic pollution in the Russian seas on the basis of integrated use of satellite information, performed in Russian Space Research Institute. We discuss the goals and objectives of the project, state of the problem, methods and tools used for implementation of the project. Particular attention is paid to the expected results to be obtained upon completion of the project at the end of 2016.

In article contradictions of system of the higher education of the CIS are noted. Groups of trends of the higher school of the Commonwealth countries as results of educational policy and adaptation of higher education institutions to modern conditions are allocated and considered.

The author examines the reputational characteristics of the formation of political actors at the expense of the state budget, the specificity of the mechanism of implementation of government procurement and modern Russian practice.

The cooperation of Russia and China in the framework of the SCO in Central Asia in the field of security develops and effectively reflect the current realities of security in the region. SCO promotes the activity of Russia and China in international organizations (UN, CSTO), increases the importance of the Shanghai organization of cooperation in international organizations and in Central Asia, the fight against new challenges and threats in this region. The future of the SCO will determine the character of relations between Russia and China in a strategic region as Central Asia.

Article is devoted to research of geopolitical processes in Caspian region and to questions of regional security. In article is analyzed the influence on a situation in the region of the western countries. The questions connected with deliveries of hydrocarbonic resources from the countries of the Middle East are considered.

In article the role of the Verkhovna Rada in political processes which happened in Ukraine since November, 2013 is considered. The main attention is paid to research of a position of the Ukrainian parliament on domestic and foreign policy.

In article political aspects of hydro-energy crisis in Central Asia are analyzed. The main reasons for disagreements of the countries of the region on the matter are investigated. Positions of the Central Asian countries are revealed.

Article is devoted to research of geopolitical position of the Arctic region, its role in modern policy. Approaches of the Arctic countries and of the external regional states to realization of policy in the Arctic are considered. Geopolitical rivalry in the Arctic region is analyzed.

The article deals a new system of international relations after the collapse of the bipolar world in the post-Soviet space. The attention is focused on one of the features that characterize the current global development, regional integration of national states. The author concludes that the post-Soviet integration is only at the primary level in its development.