ON DIFFERENCES IN THE PERCEPTION OF DEMOCRACY IN WESTERN COUNTRIES, FORMER SOCIALIST STATES OF EUROPE AND IN RUSSIA
The article is devoted to the analysis of differences in the perception and understanding of democracy in Western countries and the former socialist states of Europe (where it is regarded as an absolutely positive phenomenon), on the one hand, and in modern Russia, on the other. The author comes to the conclusion that Russian attitude to this Western invention is quite different and can be characterized as critically-distrustful and apathetic-indifferent (at best). At the request of the editors, in this paper, (to fully disclose the topic), we presented both new studies and previously published results.