Monitoring the Problematic Situations in Culture as a Management Tool for Counteracting Socio-Cultural Threats to Russian Society and the State

The article discusses the ways to counteract the threats to the national and cultural identity of Russian citizens, preserve and protect the identity of the people of Russia in terms of improving the management mechanisms for monitoring and controlling the progress and results of strategic planning in the field of culture, the implementation of priority tasks of the national state cultural policy and national security policy. The study analyzes the concepts of “all-Russian cultural identity”, “cultural sovereignty”, “problematic situations (conflicts) in the cultural sphere”, gives original authors’ definitions and classification of conflicts in the sphere. The development of management tools for monitoring problem situations in culture is considered as an important element in improving the system for assessing the effectiveness of the coordinated work of government and administration bodies, state organizations and civil society institutions in the field of protecting traditional Russian spiritual and moral values, culture and historical memory. Monitoring problematic situations in the sphere of culture will contribute to an objective determination of the Russian nation’s identity protection degree as well as the national and all-Russian cultural identity protection degree and indirectly characterize the actions (inaction) of public authorities in matters of protecting cultural sovereignty and national interests.

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