Modern Russia: problems and risks of modernization in the situation of the modern challenges
The paper shows that the problems and risks of Russia's modernization are clarified with the understanding of the practice of converting all achievements and failures that fit into the Russian social reality in the context of the challenges of modernity. The author assumes that the problems and risks in the context of Russia's modernization matrix as standard set of backbone problems are seen in the general logic of transformational changes. Among them are: a) the political class and political will; b) the social base of modernization; c) possible ways to promote the values of freedom, rights, democracy and the market; d) social inertia in the context of modernization; d ) distortion of historical memory.