Post-Soviet dynamics of the development of national ideology in the context of spiritual safety of Russia

The article considers dynamics of the development of the national ideology in Russia at the turn of the 20th-21st centuries. The author distinguishes two stages of this process - that is deideologization and reideologization of public consciousness. The first stage (late 1980s - early 1990s), associated with the liberal reform of the period of restructuring («perestroika»), is characterized by criticism of Communist ideology, denial of the need for any ideology. The second stage (mid-1990s - present time) is associated with the process of searching for a national idea and guidelines that consolidate society. By the end of the 1990s, the search for a national idea was increasingly based on the values of religious teachings. The author believes that this approach contradicts the principle of separation of religious institutions from the state and it seems necessary to focus on the common efforts of all institutions capable of socially useful activities.