From the editorial board. Modern orientalists and Africanists are becoming accustomed to studying the mental structures of representatives of Africa and the East, their inner world, the specifics of their personality structure, behavior and interaction. As a rule, works in this field are united by the fact that Africans and Easterners are considered in their natural socio-cultural environment, they form a unity with nature and their own community, where they are an organic part of their world. At the same time, the" challenge " of our time lies in the fact that the problems of cross-cultural interaction come to the fore in two main aspects. First, there is the interaction of conflict, tragedy, and mutual hostility and hatred, which creates the need to study and form so-called attitudes of tolerance as opposed to xenophobic attitudes. This layer of problems is directly related to the solution of such problems as the search for patterns of formation and functioning of social stereotypes and biases; the formation and change of social attitudes; and the identification of features of causal attribution in the context of interethnic interaction. The most important tasks in the context of interethnic conflict interaction are the study of socio-psychological mechanisms of aggression, situations that contribute to aggression (or even provoke it), the relationship between frustration and aggression in specific situations of interethnic and intercultural interaction, and the study of the notorious role of mass media in the processes of such interaction. In addition, the study of interpersonal communication barriers in this context is an interesting and promising area. The aggravation of East-West relations, which is observed in almost all regions of the world and results in an increase in the number of refugees and migrants from eastern regions and a predominant increase in the non-indigenous population, combined with defects in the domestic and foreign policies of governments ... Read more