Abstract. The author addresses the issues of understanding culture and cultural policy as the topics of interdisciplinary research. The attention is given to the specificity of regional cultural policy models in Russia, which confirms the author's statements about the need to harmonise axiological and conceptual foundations of cultural policies in every particular region, particular role of the state in this processes, and the correlation between principles of self-organisation and governance within the context of the civil society development.

Key words: culture, cultural policy, cultural governance, cultural needs, axiology, civil society

Astafieva Olga Nikolaevna,
Doctor in Philosophy, Professor,
Head of the Department for Strategies of Sociocultural Policies,
Russian Institute for Cultural Research,
Vice-Head for Research of the Department for Cultural Research and Business Communications,
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow)
e-mail: onastafieva@mail.ru