Meleshkina E.Yu., Patrushev S.V., Philippova L.Y. Introducing the issue. Political science (RU), 2018, Issue 2, pp. 9-13. Meleshkina E.Yu., Patrushev S.V., Philippova L.Y. Introducing the issue. Political science (RU), 2018, Issue 2, pp. 9-13.ISSN 1998–1775РИНЦ: https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=35359378Posted on site: 28.08.18Текст статьи.AbstractThe articles of Political Science issue are presented, which analyze the political in Russia and prospects for the formation of a political field / space as a sphere of political practices and actions of a political state. An ideal type of political field and concept of power zone are considered; interdependence of political and gender spheres; the approach of neoclassical Republicans to the political sphere as free from arbitrariness space; deliberative turn in political theory; concepts politicization, depoliticization, institutional logics; relations between politics, quasi-politics and the political field, and their subjective dimensions - mass consciousness, identity and subjectivness; clannishness and coexistence of clan relations and rational state; para-diplomacy of cross-border interregional cooperation and the role of subnational actors; identification of semantic ideologemes as a method of studying the products of the political field; depoliticization of rural protests in China in 2011 through journalistic transformation of events in the media; application of the theory of strategic action fields for the analysis of Russian politics.