Current factors and threats in the development of modern Russian society and the state

Abstract

This article is a reflection of the priority factors and current threats to the development of modern Russian society and the state.

The author of the article, first of all, refers to such factors and threats: 1) the presence of Russian society in a state of spiritual and moral crisis, a kind of «yoke of false intelligence», associated with the rejection of its civilizational, national identity, originality and worship of the secular West, its anomalous, perverted values, spiritual, socio-political and economic practices; 2) the value crisis of society and most socialization institutions, associated with the active promotion by the media and propaganda of the standards of the «consumer society», the Western way of life, destructive propaganda, non-traditional values and relations for Russia; 3) the Russian Federation lacks full state sovereignty; 4) the absence of a clearly formulated national idea and strategy for national development, an ideological vacuum; 5) unfinished transformational processes taking place in modern Russian society in various spheres of human life and the associated troubles; 6) the presence and significant influence on the processes of «quasi-elite» taking place in Russian society: «fifth column» and «anti-system»; 7) the presence in power of various oligarchic clans (financial, bureaucratic and party); 8) vertical social mobility, which is almost completely absent in modern Russian society; 9) the presence of a «mass society» imported from the West and gaining a foothold in Russia; 10) the external activity of our geopolitical enemies, primarily the Anglo-Saxon powers, within the framework of the «Big Game» conducted by them against Russia; 11) the spread and growth of manifestations of extremism and terrorism in modern Russian society and the state.