Digital Space and Political Stability of Russia

Today digital space is one of the most significant social niches. The unique value-behavioral patterns related to basic spheres of social life, including political-administrative field, are formed within it. On the one hand, digital space requires more time from many modern people, on the other hand, the latter declare their needs in new ways, creating social request and present-day problem field. As a result, misunderstanding and lack of precision in understanding such requests by authorities can lead to formation of vacuum in the informational picture of the world, which other political actors, as a rule, pretend to fill, including those who pursue destructive goals. All that radically changes requirements not only for the level of interaction and dialogue between authorities and society but also for the principles of the interaction. Ignoring the mentioned state of affairs can involve risks of political stability and safety of states. The given article is aimed at identifying peculiarities of political-administrative digital space in Russia and defining possible preventive works for exclusion and neutralization of this kind of threats. According to the central conclusion of the article, the key step in this direction should be development of channels and mechanisms of policy feedback in the digital space allowing authorities to understand social requests and problem field of society timely and as accurately as possible and prevent the political picture of the world from distortion of social-political reality. All this should contribute to the formation of the so-called “social immunity”, which is extremely necessary for maintain political stability in the current conditions.

political-administrative process, digital space, political stability, safety, Russia, informational picture of social-political reality, digitalization