Abstract
In the course of a round table with international participation organized by the Department of Comparative Political Science of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the electronic journal “Bulletin of Moscow State Regional University”, a discussion was held on the mobilization mechanisms of states (Russia, China, India, Canada, Great Britain, Kazakhstan, etc.) in countering the COVID-19 pandemic. The main topics of discussion include the following: state mobilization mechanisms in the situation of the first and subsequent waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, interaction between citizens and authorities, the perception of the population of anti-epidemic measures of governments, changes occurring under the influence of the pandemic in the social, economic, political spheres of society, in the areas of digitalization and education, forecasting the progress of the fight against the pandemic. The experts at the round table were political scientists of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico), Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Almaty, Kazakhstan), universities of the People’s Republic of China.