Civilization as key feature of the Russian political system

15 years ago Russia strongly declared the intentions to leave the communistic past and to make radical turn aside democracies, the market, political and economic freedom. Today's Russia shows obvious problems with bringing of these intentions into life. Now in Russia it is a question of no more further development of democratic freedom, but of deduction of what was already reached. Political scientists and public figures both inside of Russia, and in the West pay additional attention to this turnover in a direction of political process in Russia.

Not situational factors connected with personnels, economic conjuncture, concrete circumstances but the factors of deep character carrying cultural, civilizational character lay in the basis of the today's stage of development of political process in Russia.

The analysis of a today's situation in Russia from positions of the theory of the Russian civilization allows to draw a unique conclusion, that by 2007 public and state structures in the country corresponding specificity of the Russian civilization (vertical of authority, restriction of mass-media's freedom, raw extensive character of economy, etc.) have affirmed. And, on the contrary, processes have been blocked and institutes which mismatch specificity of the Russian civilization (free elections, freedom of mass-media, division of authorities, local self-management, innovative economy, institutes of the civil society, independent court, etc.) are curtailed.

Reaction of majority of the Western and part of the Russian political scientists on the changes which have taken place in Russia in 2001-2006, can be characterized, as bewilderment and disappointment.

As a result of crash of communistic system in the end of 80th years of the XXth century the concept of the end of history in Hegel's variant has been renewed by Fukuyama and now is put in a basis of the analysis of the general situation in the world, conditions of development of this or that country, planning and forecasting of political processes. Supporters of this concept start with a presumption of existence of uniform process of movement of History, its uniform inner meaning and the uniform purpose.
For those who adhere to the similar concept, the events in Russia cause regret and anxiety.

However, from the point of view of civilization's theory, the question on sense and the purpose of historical process is represented to be more complex. Supposing simultaneous existence of various strategies of development competing among themselves, expressed in specificity of local civilizations, civilization's theory puts Judah-Christian model of uniform process of consecutive progress of human History's development under doubt.

Исходя из теории «мультипроектной» стратегии развития человечества, в которой каждый из народов осуществляет реализацию своего собственного особенного «проекта» развития можно сделать выводы, которые заставляют по-новому взглянуть на многие аспекты сегодняшней международной политики, в частности на:
Proceeding from the theory of "multiproject" strategy of mankind's development in which each of people realizes its own special "project" of development make it possible to draw conclusions that force to look in a new way at many aspects of a today's international policy, in particular on:
- goals and strategy of globalization
- conception of "monopolar" world
- purposes and borders of power pressure application,
- degree of the account of socio-cultural variety of the world at planning of the policy

As to a question of prospects of development of political process in Russia it is possible to make following conclusions:
- changes of last years are caused not situational, but the fundamental reasons,
- returning of Russia to the way of democratic transformations is not rejected basically, however it becomes possible not earlier, than in the country will occur deep transformations, allowing to lead essential updating system of traditional Russian values,
- as for now, the necessity of carrying out similar fundamental transformations is not realized in Russia not only ruling elite, but also the basic part of the population.