Socio-political Guidelines of the Religious Community of Modern Russia in the Context of Ensuring National Security

The guidelines of the socio-political practices of the religious world of modern Russia are considered in the context of the tasks formulated in the National Security Strategy adopted in 2021. The author identifies the areas of security to which the religious community can make a serious contribution: human potential development; maintenance of civil peace and harmony in the country, development of mechanisms of interaction between the state and civil society; protection of traditional Russian spiritual and moral values, culture and historical memory. The problems of the activity of the religious world in these areas are presented, attention is focused on the formation of the civic identity of Russians within the framework of secular state-confessional relations.