Social and Cultural Threats and Risks of Russia

Social and cultural security, the risks of destroying cultural and social stability are of paramount importance for discussion at the governmental and national level. The paper suggests a new instrumental system for assessing socio-cultural threats and risks of large territories. As a demonstration, an analysis of the results of the all-Russian expert survey is presented, which makes it possible to assess the 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 social and cultural security. As a comparative analysis, empirically verified new indices are 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 the indicators of the quality of life, and the index of the effectiveness of measures to improve and maintain socio-cultural security. As a result of the study, the structure of threats and risks of a habitat becomes clear, the most effective countermeasures are determined.