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Russian conservative thinkers stress the importance of the spiritual factor of Russian statehood, i. e. of Christianity as the metaphysical idea. From this point of view they rejected Soviet empire as dead. So they call to overcome both the totalitarian heritage of communism and the older tradition of the dull Occidentalism: the disease of the Russian consciousness. According to them contemporary Russian occidentalists ignore the evil hidden behind the mask of western personal freedoms and welfare of the society. Democracy, free market, freedom commonly treated as necessary for healing the Russia in fact have accidental importance. Interesting, that Orthodox Church, President Putin as well as the vast majority of ordinary Russians consider the crisis of Russia in broad, global perspective. Russian critics of the contemporary culture are afraid of the possible split between the metaphysical and empirical nature of the man. The cooperation between Orthodox Church and President Putin is founded on this basis.