The First Lapin Readings as a legacy of the conferences within the project "Sociocultural portraits of Russia’s regions’"
This article outlines the main results of the first Сonference Lapin Readings held on November 17-18, 2022 at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences in association with the Institute of Socio-Economic Development of the Territories of the Vologda Research Center RAS. The conference focused on the conceptual development of the research findings of the participants of the Program «Problems of social and cultural evolution of Russia and its regions», which has been implemented for more than 20 years under the supervision of the Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences N.I. Lapin. The theme of the Conference was Consolidation of Russian society in the new geopolitical realities. The unified ideological and methodological framework of the theoretical and empirical research conducted in different regions of Russia is of great importance since it is based on the comparative analysis. The issues discussed include the problems of Russian federalism; the relationship between the concepts of locality and civilization; opportunities and obstacles for maintaining the balance of federal centralism and regional diversity (political, economic and sociocultural); the fundamental importance of independence of administrative entities while maintaining integrity and extinguishing any antagonism; the unlocking of human potential, strengthening of the non-material culture; the importance of appealing to Russian philosophical thought in search of answers to the civilizational challenges. The main results of the conference included suggestions for future research, identification of tasks and problems, articulation of the need to revise the tools for the social network analysis.