Theoretical and regulatory foundations of state youth policy in the Russian Federation
The article analyzes the purpose and specific functions of the youth as the main carrier of the innovative potential of social development, which determines the content of the state youth policy. The conceptual understanding of this policy is associated with the creation in society conditions enabling young people to fully realize in everyday life the functions and tasks assigned to it that are crucial for the country. This approach also made it possible to comprehend the importance for the Russian state of managing social transformations in the youth environment, the need to influence the formation of value ideas, life guidelines and interests of multinational multiconfessional Russian youth. Based on the conducted sociological research, the article identifies the main socio-professional problems of modern youth, outlines ways to solve them. The work proves the need for further improvement of the state youth policy in the Russian Federation through comparison with models of other countries. It was this approach that made it possible to show that the adoption of a federal law of direct action on youth policy, which guarantees a solution to the socio-economic problems of Russian youth, in accordance with democratic standards, is the most important element in the modernization of the studied sphere in our country.