The purpose of the presented work is to identify objective and subjective circumstances that determine the very low level of trust of the population of power (including its fourth branch) in comparison with the developed countries of G7 and Southeast Asia (NIS). Public trust or mistrust is considered as a function of the so-called distance (from) power, introduced into scientific circulation by the founder of the theory of cultural measurements by the Dutch sociologist H. Hofstedem. Critical perception of the extensive literature on the problems of trust, which has become a key factor for achieving success in all spheres of human activity (by the way, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2018 was held under the slogan "Economics of Confidence"), prompted the authors to clarify some of the methodological positions that are the basis for numerous studies. First, the economic criterion for determining societies (countries) with a long distance from power would be to recognize not the values of the Gini coefficient ≥0.4-0.5, which only testify to the level of concentration of incomes of the population, and the coefficient of differentiation of the population by income (ratio of incomes of 10% of the richest to income of 10% of the poorest). Secondly, the main and first sign of trust is the presence in the relationship between the authorities and the people of the fact of truth (sincerity), honesty (the manifest forms of morality), as a tuning fork, the standard of humane behavior of personified power. And therefore trust ("special" or "generalized" as sociologists sometimes write) is seen as an "authorized" representative of honesty, the most important indicator of moral capital, but not social. The authors believe that the achievement by the Russian organizational culture of a low power distance is possible only if the personified moral capital enters into "combat duty" in all echelons of power.
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