Cultural and civilizational contradictions of the XXI century and the potential of the Russian world

The article discusses the contradictions of the modern development of society: difficult to predict cultural and civilizational processes, the crisis of national cultures, changes in power maps, cultural globalization, turbulence and instability of the world, the uncertainty of world order paradigms, etc. Those cultural foundations that reflect different ways of understanding the value of the world, acting as important attributes of the civilizational development of a new rapidly developing reality. In the field of research attention of the author Russian world as a concept. The author notes a more thoroughly studied type of it, such as a political one, less - a socio-philosophical, linguo-culturological, and artistic concept, and a cultural-civilizational and value-normative civilizational and value-normative concept that requires thorough study. Revealing the features of the current stage of the historically “short era of Eurocentrism”, the author summarizes the scenarios of experts in which the prospects for the future of cultural and civilizational worlds are predicted.Emphasis is also placed on the issues of culture and cultural transformations in the context of globalization and innovative changes, which are associated with such important aspects as “viability” and a long “life cycle” of such a specific type of culture as “global culture”, as well as the culture of a specific world- system with all its attributes and characteristicsThe vectors and prospects of the Russian world, the vital foundations of its existence are indicated.