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Russia is the country with rather specific attitude to notion of common goods. This notion is translated in Russian as consuming goods. The term of “so-called common” (in proper sense) goods existed in Russia during the long socialist time period of history (70 years) and stands for “goods” belong for everybody (in reality mostly to state) and nobody in particular. These “common” goods included lands, environmental and other resources, equipments of collective and soviet enterprises. As long as they remained “common”, they cannot be mostly marketable products. During the last decade all over the world the traditionally dominant ideas of material product-based well-being started to be changed by idea of immaterial “access-based” well-being (availability of access to immaterial goods: to services, information, education, to places of pleasure), what is more coincident with ideas of freedom. Although this differentiation is rather rough and conditional. The similar changes are happening in Russia during the period of economy restructuring and market economy development.