Scientific journal
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ISSN 2500-0802
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CONSENSUS AND CONTRADICTIONS OF NEW POLITICAL ELITES

Titova O.N. 1
1 FSEE HPE «P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University» Ministry of Education of Russia
The article reviews the distinctive features of functioning of modern political elites, new realities reflected in the Ukranian events and the modern protest movement. The aim of the article is to analyze the possibilities of becoming a consensus between the elite and the society, modern ruling elites in the face of the deteriorating international situation, the economic crisis and the growing tension between the West and Russia. The author pay attention to the need for forming of a civil society in Russia as a real warrantor of social and political consensus, of the need to preserve the country’s political elite, of the social contact between society and power created by the success of the Sochi Olympics and Paralympics and the historic decision of the annexation of the Crimea to Russia. The article concludes that the scope of the present consensus within the elites, between political elites and society is possible with creating a civil society and compliance with the elite of their social obligations.