Cultural-Civilizational Dialog as a Way of Solving Problems in the Modern World

Abstract

Contemporary world is entering the time of turbulence; this is the result of globalization that
integrates it and yet leaves it ungoverned as before. The best approach to the multiple problems
thus created would be constructive dialogue that would take into account both cultural diversity
and civilizational unity of the many countries and peoples. In present-day Russia this type of dialogue is hindered, both internally and internationally, by the nation's civilizational retardation;
overcoming this retardation becomes the top national priority.