trust

The article examines influence of factors of trust, distrust, and fake news on the level of legitimacy of state power and decisions taken. The position of the authors who establish a clear correlation between the level of legitimacy of the government and the level of development of its democratic institutions is disputed. The legitimacy of power is based on the assessment of the conformity of the position of authority and decisions made to the image of power formed in the civil consciousness and shared ideological positions.

Poly-ethnicity of the Russian community, intense internal and external migration flows characteristics of the last decades, complex religious processes of the post-Soviet period and a number of equally important factors contributed to the deterioration of the inter-ethnic climate in multinational territories and the emergence of interethnic and interreligious intolerance against the background of a complex socio-economic situation in Russia. The aforementioned factors are an actual problem for the formation, preservation and maintenance of inter-ethnic peace and harmony.