The article deals with the regularities of development of political processes and transit in modern Russia. As a Eurasian country, Russia did not follow the path of European transit, choosing its own path, which is based on its own understanding of the state and rights. The transformation had its own logic and sequence. If the first stage of transit was dominated by the principles of liberalism, the second stage is characterized by the centralization and unitarization of power, the definition of state priorities as the basic values of society.