PROBLEMS OF FORMATION AND OPERATION OF POLITICAL ELITE IN THE TRANSITION STATES POLITICAL REGIME IN MODERN RUSSIA
The article investigates the problems of formation and functioning of the political elite in terms of the transition states of the political regime in modern Russia and the definition of the main directions of improving them. Study of the political elite, serving contemporary Russian socio-cultural space, is an important prerequisite for understanding and resolving issues related to extending the transitional period in the country, and results in a change of political regimes, government institutions, the increasing complexity of the interaction of political systems and civil society. However, decisions of the political elite, determine the changes in the political, economic and cultural spheres of Russian society. Therefore, from the ways, methods and means of realization of the government of the Russian political elite is not only evaluation of the recent past, understanding of contemporary socio-political situation, but also the prospects of development of the Russian state.