Social and Cultural Threats to and Risks of Russia

Social and cultural security, risks of destroying cultural and social stability are paramount important for the discussion at the governmental and national levels. The present paper suggested a new instrumental system for assessing socio-cultural threats and risks of large territories. As a demonstration, an analysis of results of the all-Russian expert survey was presented making it possible to assess existing socio-cultural threats to the environment, the likelihood of emergencies, the riskiness of Russia's socio-cultural sphere, and the effectiveness of measures to maintain the social and cultural security. As a comparative analysis, new indices were empirically verified and proposed for measuring the socio-cultural sphere: the index of the probability of occurrence of socio-cultural threats and emergencies, the index of socio-cultural security, the index of social impact of threats on indices of the quality of life, and the index of the effectiveness of measures to improve and maintain the socio-cultural security. As a result of study, the structure of threats and risks of a habitat became clear, and the most effective countermeasures were determined.