Democracy, the people and civil society in Russia

Purpose: Consideration of questions of self-organization of citizens in civil society on the basis of a democratic principle of functioning of the Russian state. Methodology: Authors applied historical-legal and formal-legal methods. Results: In article it was proved that civil society cannot be treated as a state antithesis as these institutes represent objectively interdependent social and political and legal phenomena. Point that elimination of the integrating state beginning resisting to individualism of subjects of civil society, is capable to lead to anarchy accession is also formulated. Participation of the state in formation of the Russian civil society should be supervised independent public institutes not to allow a manipulation process of formation of civil society in interests of the state. Novelty/originality/value: Article has a certain scientific value as contains author’s generalizations possessing scientific novelty.