| Аннотация | Due to the approach of 2024, when, under the current Constitution of the Russian Federation,
Vladimir Putin will not be able to run for President, conceptual issues related to the results of the country’s
development in the 21st century and, most importantly, its prospects for the coming decades, are becoming
more acute. One of these issues (determined, among other things, by the specifics of the modern historical
stage of development of the world civilization as a whole) consists in the problem of civilizational selfdetermination,
which, in fact, has been discussed by the scientific community in our country since the
collapse of the Soviet Union. This problem is connected with the lack of strategic goal-setting as one
of the key functions of public administration; such a situation has a lot of negative implications for the
population and national development as a whole: from the lingering unresolved social problems (poverty,
inequality, etc.) to the regular delays in the implementation of national projects and execution of specific orders of the head of state. In addition, according to the results of federal and regional studies, Russian
society does not have a distinct cultural and value-based vector of development; moreover, against the
background of the relentless need to increase the standard of living and achieve social justice, Russian
society is increasingly becoming a consumer society with all its key shortcomings such as obsession with
the material component of life, the desire to achieve personal success, ignoring the historically established
norms of morality, etc. In the context of the issue of civilizational choice becoming more important
as well as a wide range of problems caused by its absence, we analyze the Constitution of the Russian
Federation and the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation – the key federal documents
that reflect basic principles of the existing dynamics and future prospects of national development. We come to the conclusion that the ruling elites do not work to form the spiritual and moral foundations of
Russian society; consequently, the goals they set are focused on solving material problems only, which makes public administration similar to corporate governance. This poses one of the key threats to national
security and national development and makes it necessary to hold a broad discussion initiated primarily
by the government and aimed to consider practical possibilities and prospects for the implementation of the basic principles of the social state contained in the Constitution of the Russian Federation. |
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