What is the social architecture of Russia?
The value and semantic framework of social architecture is being built for Russia in the presidential administration. The article by the head of the Presidential Department for Monitoring and Analysis of Social Processes, Alexander Kharichev, published in No. 3 of the Journal of Political Research for 2026, is devoted to this topic.
Social architecture is "a holistic system of meaning-making and institutional design that organizes social environments, organizational structures, and collective transformative practices based on a shared value consensus of the state, society, and the individual," writes Hrichov.
The application of the protective and creative function of social architecture is based on several directions.
First, the deployment of a sovereign value-semantic framework creates "social-cultural immunity" against external information and psychological interventions. In this case, social architecture removes the public consciousness "from the manipulative influence of recommendation algorithms of global platforms".
Second, social architecture can integrate cultural and historical memory, spiritual and moral guidelines and current tasks of technological development. Based on all this, he overcomes the fragmentation of the information field, restores institutions of civil solidarity.
Social architecture transforms society from an object of external geopolitical manipulation into a "sovereign creator of its historical destiny," writes Khrichev. "Consolidating an inspiring future image, scientifically verified and rooted in values, it determines a long-term vector of development for future generations, and turns the inner creative energy of the people into the main resource for a civilizational breakthrough," the article reads.
Of course, without social architecture, society risks becoming a loose mass without goals or ideas. But we dare to add that the basis of every company is the economy.