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The article deals with the circulation of elites, describes the concept of the life cycle of the elite, its content as a tool of political analysis, to determine the spatial and temporal scope of the development cycle. The main result in terms of substantive content of the category «life-cycle of the political elite» is amodel for determining the functional state of the elite in the form of a generalized matrix variable life cycle analysis of the political elite. This article is disclosure of performance’s theses at the forum of Young Political Scientists VII Russian Congress of political scientists RAPS (Moscow, November, 19-21, 2015).

The author focuses on the formation of topical agenda in the political space of modern Russia. The article attempts to substantiate the author’s position on such aspects of the political agenda as its complex composition, the degree of effectiveness, the degree of official agenda being congruenced with real needs of social development, the problem of dominating an agenda of a certain type as an instrument of political domination.