The article considers the activity risks of the higher education system based on the sociological research conducted at Far Eastern State Transport University. It shows the peculiarities of teaching students of technical university, the intersection of their educational and work placements, which influence both the learning process and their educational mainstreaming.

The article examines the historical aspects of the formation and development of the post-Soviet scientific periodicals of the Khabarovsk Territory and the JAO. Retrospectively, the turn of the 1990s – early 2000s is highlighted, when key regional publications of a socio–humanitarian orientation began to appear, many of which are still being published. The issue of regulatory and legal bases of scientific and publishing activity is touched upon. The system-organizing role of academic institutions and regional universities in the development of scientific periodicals is shown.

The article touches upon the change in political parties' structural and organizational characteristics in Western countries in the XX and XXI centuries. We pay particular attention to such aspects as structural party units and their evolution, the development of intra-party democracy, party membership, and its change. The views of the fathers of party science on these problems are investigated. We analyse a party discourse of the problem of intra-party democracy and participation. Changes in the models of intra-party democracy are investigated through the prism of the transformation of political parties' historical types, such as elitist, mass, inclusive, cartel, and cyber parties. The factors stimulating the democratization of the inner-party life of Western parties are shown. We offer generalized verbal models of intraparty democracy in various types of parties. Special attention is paid to the structural features of cyber parties and the influence of information and communication technologies on the internal structure and change of behavioural strategies of traditional political groups. Changes in the membership of parties, their status in traditional and new political parties are shown. The ambivalence of the tendency to reduce the number of members for party organizations is noted. The conclusion is made about the importance of preserving traditional elements of internal organization for modern political parties.