Moderate conservatism as the ideology of the Russian state-civilization

The revived sense of belonging to the world empires in Russian society, which manifested itself in relation to a special military operation, raised the question of Russia's civilizational choice in order to ensure long-term sustainable development in an unfavorable external environment. In this regard, an analysis was carried out of the concept of the ideology of moderate conservatism proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which has the potential to become attractive to friendly countries. The presence of an attractive ideology will allow Russia to form its own Eurasian civilizational community on this ideological platform, where Russia will be a civilizational, spiritual and moral leader. The study used the method of classification analysis in order to identify those ideological concepts that have historically been used to overcome problems of social development. As a result of the analysis, the authors concludes that moderate conservatism in Russia does not act as a set of ideas that directs political action to achieve the image of the country's future, but acts as a political technology that rationalizes the political behavior of existing social groups in a direction favorable to achieving strategic national priorities. Moderate conservatism (or hybrid conservatism) essentially combined the key components of the three main ideologies - liberalism, conservatism and socialism, and, ultimately, presented to society such value orientations that are favorably perceived by citizens as corresponding to their values. Such a hybrid configuration of the country's development model presupposes a public vision of value priorities and key issues, which means increased responsibility of civil society, which defends its understanding of traditional values and needs in the process of finding a balance between the interests of government, business and society. It follows from this that in Russia it is necessary to make a transition from primarily state responsibility for the socio-economic development of the country to a state-civil dominant, built on the principles of trust, reasonableness, fairness, reliability and honesty.