Russian federalism as a preimage of the future global multi-polarity

The article represents the author’s effort to extract a key national and cultural particularity of the Russian federalism model. Taking into account a historical experience of the federative development in Russia as well as the traditions of the Russian school of federalism, it is concluded that the key particularity of the Russian federalism is not concerning just an utilitarian distribution of powers and functions between federal and sub-federal authorities; it is first of all providing the equality of intra-societal dialogue, based on a reciprocal respect of the different ethnos and nations, forming together the multinational Russian people and, as a consequence, the united Russian state. In this context, the author arguing an idea that namely the Russian federalism model should be observed as a realistic preimage of the future multi-polarity in the changing world order.