The article explores the issues of the objective approach to managing the educational process allowing to effectively update and monitor it. The study is aimed at organizing the processes of control and management of the quality of educational programs with reduced time costs. The authors have researched the processes of methodological support of the educational process and the corresponding documents of an educational organization. An information system for monitoring and managing the quality of educational programs has been developed. The authors have developed models of the problem area, allowing one to determine the bottlenecks in organizing education quality control. The results of the study are meant for the internal audit of educational services and carrying out the procedures of public control, accreditation, or licensing of an educational organization. They allow for the quantitative evaluation of the educational program content and unambiguous interpretation of the obtained result. For this, the authors have developed an objective system for assessing the quality of educational programs. The assessment includes a set of objective indicators with a certain significance: for example, compliance with certain standards, the use of relevant peer-reviewed literature, agreed forms of education, a point-rating system, etc. All criteria are divided into blocks, each of which has a corresponding conformity assessment system. The developed assessment scale unifies the quality monitoring procedure, reduces subjective evaluations, and ensures less time-consuming monitoring of the quality of an educational program at the different stages of its life cycle.

Intercultural dialogue as a critical component of modern society should contribute to the self-identification of a person in the cultural space. This research aims to demonstrate the importance of multiculturalism— learning a second language in the Russian system of higher education. To accomplish the research objectives, 78 students were recruited at Tula State University, 158 students at Kuban State University and 152 technical students at Moscow Aviation Institute. Analysing and comparing experiments on learning a second language, the findings determine the effective methods and forms of teaching. In doing so, the research foregrounds some forms of effective teaching and indicates the ways to achieve them. In other words, the findings made it possible to identify the effective strategies for teaching a foreign language both in local and global level.

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The authors introduce and discuss a theory that looks at a contemporary Russian society as a community rapidly losing skills necessary for successful cross-cultural communication which entails not only the ability to communicate in the international space, but also knowledge related to cultural characteristics, national traditions, customs and history of different nations that is essential in building a cognitive basis for developing respectful relations to other national cultures and their representatives. It is the knowledge and understanding of other nation's features and culture that forms the basis for developing the culture of interethnic dialogue. The purpose of the paper is to distinguish the factors that contributed to the destruction of the interethnic communication culture and tolerance crisis in the modern multiethnic space society. It is closely connected with a task of determining the conditions that could bring to the regeneration of interethnic communication as it is now considered the most important strategy for ensuring civilizational security. The polyphonic approach to study interethnic communication problems has been used as in a study to provide insights for the variable and subjective understanding of this phenomenon from the point of view of its integrity, versatility, variability, consistency, equivalence and equality of all the components of this phenomenon items. The authors have identified a number of factors that influence intensively the degradation process in interethnic communication. These factors include the destruction of a single international ideology, growth of national extremism, lack of effective national policy of the Russian state and the monoethnization in the national republics of Russia. The authors introduce their view on the principles of regeneration of the interethnic dialogue culture which imply the need for knowledge and understanding of traditions related to interethnic communication participants, understanding and improving relationships between ethnic groups, equality of the parties of communication, recognition of equal rights and obligations within the borders of the common civilization, a system of institutions involved in the reproduction process and ensuring its effectiveness.

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Цель исследования заключается в выявлении оптимальной модели борьбы с COVID-19. Авторы сравнивают модель «коллективного иммунитета» Швеции и модель строгой изоляционной политики Китая. В работе установлены причины неудачи реализации различных моделей. Также в статье рассматриваются основные факторы, сформировавшие китайский менталитет, который, согласно авторской позиции, способствовал успешной реализации государственной антиэпидемической политики. Научная новизна исследования состоит в проведении сравнительного анализа статистических данных в ходе пандемии. Выявлены модели борьбы с пандемией и их социально-культурные основания: ментальные (китайская модель) и социополитические (шведская модель). На основе сравнения моделей борьбы с COVID-19 выявлена оптимальная. В результате представлена эффективная модель борьбы с чрезвычайной ситуацией, установлены возможные причины провала модели «коллективного иммунитета» в Швеции, сформулированы основные аспекты успеха антиэпидемиологической политики Китая.

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