SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA AND SYSTEM CHALLENGES

Abstract

The texture of the world of increasing complexity is polyionticity, multipolarity, nonlinearity, procedurality, riskiness. Complexity becomes layered, fractally spreading out in micro, macro, mega and meso continua. Sociocultural dynamics, international relations, financial markets are in a situation of global uncertainty. Uncertainty, turned into a category, becomes the main concept of ontology and epistemology, as well as social philosophy, when probability comes into force, which excludes the possibility of unambiguous and accurate linear forecasting of events and phenomena. Culture is not a crossroads where an ethnic group chooses one path and follows it without turning. Neither this is a metaphysical reality with which a man is born. Rather, culture is negotiation, selection, and hybridization. “Russians” is a civic culture, which is not an ethnic designation, given the history of Russia and the number of peoples that make up the wealth of its country. To be a Russian means to be in the rhythm of Eurasia, in its dialectic of settled life and nomadism, cities and villages, Finno-Ugric and Indo-European, Turkic and Mongolian, Uralic and Altai. Today, when the national unity of Russians is hampered by contradictions between the rich and the poor, when more than half of Russians believe that there is no national unity in the country, “every man for himself”, “the people live in poverty”, “there is no single goal, idea, patriotism, solidarity”, Victory in the Second World War is one of the few that unites Russians, their unity in resisting predatory invaders. However, one cannot live by past victories. Equalizing the living standards of Russians can prevent social division. We live in an era of rapid social changes, which our consciousness, our language, our world outlook cannot even keep up with. The state is a living project that needs constant support. This is our resilience. Healthy statehood of Russia is the need for the survival of such a large territory inhabited by different social groups.