The article is about considering of opposition potential dependency from the political system. The author considers the opposition as both an institute realizing different political interests and positions and legitimizing conflicts and a set of ideas and public opinions tied with a critical attitude to the official politics. The author points how the mechanism of the power and the opposition interaction works, while picking out such dominant character of the hybrid system as the imitation of democracy institutes in the authoritarian model of political government. That is in substance institutes of the conflict management in political systems which are corresponding neither with democracy criteria nor with the sterile authoritarianism signs. On the basis of the methodological set of instruments offered by R. Dahl and called «public impugnment» it is showed that in Russia opposition is frequently considered as a pathology of political life. The struggle with opposition removes the distinction between ideology and justice and legitimizes domestic and foreign policy while providing ideological and value consensus by the suppression of dissidence. In the Russian political practice the model of the artificial possibility of political conflicts is realized. Besides the opposition suppression expenses are higher than the permissive attitude.