ИСТИНА

Today financial and economic crisis takes place in Russia as well as in other countries. For Russia this is not the first crisis to face in its’ recent history. In fact it is already the third of the large-scale crises in post-Soviet Russia which are rooted in economic processes. As for political consciousness, events of 1990th have been the strongest shock for Russians. In order to survive in new political and economic conditions, people had to adjust themselves to new political representations and values. Majority of political scientists describe the changes in people's minds as a process of replacement of authoritarian values by democratic ones. But political representations of people of different ages have changed with the different speed and results. Today we can conclude that the most salient political values in all generations of Russians are "values of safety", which are a part of materialistic values (in Inglehart's terminology). The necessity of peace, order, legality we fixed is a reaction to real living conditions of citizens in transformation's period characterizing by a randomness of public processes, instability of economy, corruption of officials.