Аннотация:The article analyzes the main parameters of the modern world development, its architectonics and the most important development trends. Modern communications and principles of interaction of various social systems are also considered. As a result, the most significant cultural-cum-civilizational systems are distinguished - the West, China, the Islamic world and Russia, which represent four global trends or four vectors of power that fundamentally affect the current state and prospects of world development. At the same time, it is emphasized that the West and China have a global strategy provided by objective circumstances. The Islamic world has a global strategy, but the possibilities of its implementation are limited by objective circumstances. Russia does not have a global strategy and there are no objective opportunities to build it. At the same time, Russia's regional influence and global importance are so great that in the context of global interdependence it has a serious impact on the international situation, significantly adjusting the course of world events.