ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors deal with Russia's economy, its society, its political culture, and its media. The basic dimensions of the Russian value-attitudinal structure also appeared to be persistent over time and comparable with the French ones. Russian polity taken as a whole is politically and ideologically fragmented, as the elections demonstrated. The Russian polity is divided because of very different perceptions of the efficiency of reform politics, values, and opposite views in regard of Russia's past, present, and future shared by significant groups of people. Today the process of major structural changes in the Russian economy is largely completed. Negative social, political, and psychological consequences of such a rapid and radical economic and political transformation, probably inevitable, are profound too.
