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Abstract

The article shows the process of transition of the “Putin era” from the stage of consolidation on the basis of a public consensus of the beginning of “zero” to the current value imbalance that arose in 2012—2014 and lasts to this day. Although the current state of society can not be unequivocally interpreted as a split, value contradictions are growing. The idea of a strong state is given to the least modernized sections of the population. And in the actual state, frustration on the part of all strata of society is growing. An ever-increasing demand for change has not yet gained any political “flesh”, which makes the inevitable transit of epochs extremely risky for the country and society