In 2022, one of the challenges to the stability within the ‘traffic light’ coalition in Germany was the issue of operating the last NPPs beyond their statutory duration. The acuteness of the debate is due to a combination of unique historical and principle political elements. This article focuses on these aspects. From a historical perspective, the problem of building new nuclear reactors and the consequences of the anti-nuclear movement growth in the Federal Republic of Germany are discussed. It is argued that the anti-nuclear orientation of the green movement in the FRG fits into the categories of the Busan/Waver securitization concept. Numerous legal acts of the Federal Government of Germany (energy concepts; amendments to the Atomic Energy Act) as well as policy documents of individual parties and coalition agreements are used to analyze these issues. The second part of the paper coverages the political debate on the possibility of lifetime extention of nuclear power plants in Germany in 2022-2023. To address this, statements by leaders of the ruling parties as well as the opposition are used as sources of information. After analyzing the public-political debates around the NPPs, the author concludes that the unilateral decision by the German chancellor Olaf Scholz about the NPPs decommission no later than the 15th of April played a significant role in conflict resolution between the ruling parties within the coalition.

The article suggests key factors that reveal the reasons why the phenomenon of the "Indigenous Renaissance" (greater political involvement of representatives of the indigenous peoples in Latin America) did not lead to a significant change in the socio-economic situation of the indigenous population of the region. The key factors include the preservation of the traditional way of life, the ineffectiveness of state policy, the underrepresentation of Indians in the political system of the region’s countries. The authors’ hypothesis is tested based on  considering the socio-economic situation of Indians in four Latin American countries: Guatemala and Bolivia (with a large proportion of the autochthonous population), Colombia and Honduras (with a small proportion of the autochthonous population). Upon completing the analysis of the relationship between the phenomenon of the "Indigenous Renaissance" and changes in the socio-economic situation of the Indians, the authors came to important conclusions, including the vagueness and marginality of the phenomenon of the "Indigenous Renaissance" and the undesirability of its application ("neo-indigenism" is considered preferable), as well as the inability to identify a causal relationship between the share of Indians in the total population of the selected countries and the socio-economic and political status of these groups.

  This article is devoted to the study of the peculiarities of Russian energy security under conditions of political and economic restrictive measures and ways to strengthen it in the context of international energy security. Due to the events of 2020-2023 many elements of international energy security have lost their relevance, the Russian energy industry faced several challenges in technological, tax, pricing and geopolitical aspects. The novelty of the work lies in a comprehensive analysis of the current situation (2020-2023) and the geopolitical conjuncture, the consideration of options for the development of the oil and gas industry in Russia, as well as assessing the impact of import substitution on the profitability of the oil and gas industry in Russia. During the research there were set the following objectives: to consider the optimal variant of redistribution of export of energy resources from Russia, to assess the prospects of import substitution in the energy sector and the development of exploration in Russia, to analyze possible measures to maintain acceptable oil and gas revenues in the budget, to present proposals for a possible scenario of formation of the domestic market of energy resources in Russia. The research involved the following methodological apparatus: in addition to general scientific methods (comparison, analysis, synthesis), the work used the hypothetic-deductive method, economic-mathematical method, factor method, which allow to analyze the current state of the Russian oil and gas industry and assess its prospects in the context of ensuring national energy security.

  States have been sending their military forces into the territory of other states since the birth of international law. However, for the first time, states deployed large numbers of troops on foreign territory on a semi-permanent basis in peacetime at the beginning of the Cold War. The deployment of military forces on the territory of foreign countries has become a common feature of modern international relations. The presence of foreign troops on the territory of another state raises a number of legal issues. However, all of them are regulated either by the national legislation of states, or by international treaties between countries. There is no regulation, establishment of general principles and norms in international law. This article analyzes legal aspects of the experience of the Russian Federation and the United States in this field of international relations and possible prospects for the development of international law in this area.

This paper attempts to reveal the configuration of conditions allowing the electoral victory of right-wing parties and their coalition building in the aftermath of the Autumn 2022 Italian elections. The paper is scientifically new, because the event under study is very recent, and therefore the number of studies written about it is quite small. Italian society and its voting behavior were analyzed following the logic of Angus Campbell's funnel of causality (a set of factors influencing the final vote, arranged along the temporal axis according to their significance so that some causes are the consequences of others). The study found that the key ingredient for the success of right-wing parties was the social demand for change, spurred by economic stagnation (a serious drop in economic growth rates) and political crises (regular changes in governments as a result of parties leaving coalitions), which have become permanent in Italy over the past few years. The trends that permeate the structure of Italian society, provoking social cleavages, which motivate a number of voters to opt for right-wing candidates, also played an important role. Other reasons for the right-wing victory were related to the measures taken by the coalition itself, such as its consolidation, which enabled the parties to act as a single coordinated force (something that cannot be said about its rivals on the other side of the ideological spectrum), successful rebranding, consisting both in a change in self-representation and in softening rhetoric towards competitors, and a revision of foreign policy positions.