How to be the Legislative Assembly in the "Siberian Athens" (regional identity of the parliamentary culture)

Today the problem of regional parliament culture is the least elaborated one in the national politicalscience. Starting from the general definition "political culture" in its orientational and interpretative aspects the author, referring to the fewstudies on the regional political and parliament culture, shows how the regional parliament culture can display itself in the historic region. Heshares the view of the parliament culture as a public behavior of deputies in parliament, regulated and governed by parliament rules,traditions of behavior in the legislature and the parliament Commission on Ethics, if such one is stipulated by the regulations. In this regard,the parliament culture is a part of the political culture of society as a whole. Notably in this case it is a question of a belief system, views,value orientations on politics of an individual, group or society as a whole. In this case, practice confirms the famous observation thatdemocracy depends not only on the structures and institutions, but it is based on values. In this article the author pays much attention to the"external" aspect of culture in the parliament. The problems and prospects of subjective vision, and often the problems of the political realityconstruction are examined on the basis of the Legislative (former State) Duma of Tomsk Oblast. In the article the theme of historical roots ofparliament in Tomsk, of the Legislative Duma projects of important political events celebration of the past is examined. According to theauthor, history and political (including parliament) culture are associated by the fact that they create the conservative base of society, in factstructuring the society in its basic patterns and ideals. Without such a mission, the society loses its orientational foundation, and thegovernment is preoccupied only with its legitimacy. Nevertheless, the article shows that a society cannot live only in the past. Dialecticalunity of the past and the future in constructive activity of the regional parliament culture is illustrated by Tomsk science and education. Thearticle discovers the role of the Tomsk Oblast Duma in the passing process of the Law "Innovation activity" in 1999, its contribution tosupporting of talented young scientists and students. The author raises the problem of worthy application of the image-building past of theSiberian university capital to preserve and multiply the scientific and educational resources when the attitude of young people to science isnegative. The particular attention is paid to the modern conversational forms of communication by using Internet projects of TomskParliament, such as "Deputy on the forum", "43rd Deputy". This is only a part of examples of the participational and interactive politicalculture formation. The regional deputies have to pay attention to the significant dates that allow strengthening the society on the basis of thepast examples and not only on the basis of goals and values of the present and the future. All this makes it possible to consider optimisticallythat the parliament culture of Tomsk Oblast deserves the brand of "Siberian Athens".

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