Abstract. This paper deals with analysis of conflict interaction between business and power in Russia The main purpose is to analyze features of the institutional environment of this conflict. Another purpose of the paper is to analyze several concepts of the conflict studies for their usefulness in examination of the relationship between business and authorities in post-Soviet Russia. The use of all the variety of existing approaches and methods while analyzing the Russian conflict model of business and state is supposed to be useful. Power resource is an important factor in the relations between business and authority in Russia. The existence of a power resource still has a serious impact on the resolution of disputes between the economic agents. Ties of the business and authority in Russia cause social distrust and negative attitude to both institutes. Conflict analysis in the paper is combined with empirical data to show real situation in Russia in the interaction between business and authorities.