Extremism among young people as a threat to Russia's national security in the context of globalization

The paper discusses the features of the manifestation of extremism in the youth environment in modern conditions of global social mobility, information interpenetration of subcultures and ideologies. The author considers the main political directions of extremism: right-radical, left-radical, religious, paying particular attention to the analysis of the manifestations of the latter, its peculiar attractiveness for the youth environment. Political radicalism in unfavorable socio-economic conditions may be a key factor that will determine the civil-political activity of youth, the way of “self-realization”, which will lead to destabilization of the political situation. The ideas of the radical type of various extremist groups seem attractive to the younger generation because of the “presence” in them of pseudo-ideals of freedom, justice, choice, spiritual development and social significance, etc. The author concludes that as the main way to increase the effectiveness of the prevention of youth extremism in Russia, it is necessary to optimize youth policy (supporting an affordable education system and targeted job creation for young professionals), as well as argues that effective countering extremism in modern conditions of open borders and community interaction is possible only with a democratic form of government with a developed system of civil control, the development of social about the oriented economic model of the state, the expansion of rights and freedoms in society, the formation of skills of constructive self-organization and self-government in the youth environment.