The article deals with the main content of the All-Russian Conference «The Trajectories of Political Development: Institutions, Projects, Actors» with international participation, organized by the Russian Political Science Association, which was held on December 6-7 in Moscow, at Moscow State Pedagogical University. About 500 political scientists representing universities and research centers from 50 regions of Russia and more than 10 countries of the world took part in it. The main objective of the conference was to determine the paths of political development of Russia, the search for a new agenda for the country and its future as an object of political science research. The conference reflected the crisis state of modern political science, certain gaps in the idea of an internal political agenda, a general request for political responsible development, the need for justice, the complexity of political identification and an open idea of the political future in the context of a complex and uncertain world.