Cultural Sovereignty: The Content of its Legal Definition and Enforcement in Strategic Planning

The paper provides the author’s vision of implementation of the definition of «cultural sovereignty» in order to counter socio-cultural threats to Russia’s national security and the characteristics of some of its properties. Ensuring cultural sovereignty is considered as a key element of coordinated actions in the field of strategic planning of public authorities and civil society institutions to protect state sovereignty, achieve the goals of strategic administration, protect the foundations of the constitutional system of Russia and axiological foundation of statehood and historically established constitutional identity. In the author’s opinion, the properties of cultural sovereignty are disclosed in the results of state policy that are measurable from the point of view of strategic administration, requiring the implementation of a set of management measures and efforts. The property of cultural sovereignty «protection of the people and the state from destructive ideological and informational impact» should be expressed in the measurable results of coordinated actions of all structures of the State to suppress the destructive impact on culture with the active participation of civil society. «Preservation of the historical memory and identity of the people» as a property of cultural sovereignty requires expression in the results of state policy that are measurable from the point of view of strategic management, including a decrease in the number and activity of transnational «identity communities» in the country that are not complementary to all-Russian civil and cultural identity. «Conducting a national policy in accordance with traditional Russian values» as a property of cultural sovereignty should find its expression in the concrete results of strengthening the existing historically established institutions of public authority in terms of their modernization in order to achieve strategic goals of ensuring national security and development on the basis of the constitutional principle of solidarity, which forms civil unity and self-awareness. The quality of cultural sovereignty of Russia is defined by maintenance of spiritual powers of the state and the people, the main public institutes at the level necessary for formation of sovereign political will and achievement of the goals of strategic management.

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