Universal Human Values: Cross-Cultural Comparative Analysis

AbstractThe article is aimed at analyzing universal human values from the cross-cultural prospective. The research is based on the analysis of questionnaires completed by the Russians living in and outside the Russian Federation as well as foreign citizens. The questionnaires are focused on revealing respondents’ attitude to nationality, national values and traditions, universal values and traditions as well as peculiarities of socio-cultural interaction among representatives of different nationalities. The authors of the article come to the conclusion that the main values bringing nations together include cooperation, communication and kindness as the basic means of human interaction, whereas the main reasons of misunderstanding among nations are connected with lack of coordination in the sphere of politics, different mentalities and religious intolerance