Its ultimate goal is to bridge the gap between academic research and practical politics, to ensure that its work is relevant and that the conclusions are easily applicable.
After leaving the Kremlin Kostin remains in good relations with the first Deputy head of the presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin, is his Adviser.
Mr. Kostin told Izvestia daily the essence of his foundation: 'We align ourselves closely to the RAND Corporation, a leading research ‘think tank’ in the USA.
Observers noted that the Kremlin changed the format of cooperation with the expert community: it was decided to attract specialists to work on government projects special funds-operators.
Director of Fund of effective policy Gleb Pavlovsky believes that Konstantin served as one of the most important links in view of the Kremlin with the realities.
"And if our opposition leaders will pass from spells and outdated slogans to real political work, right now realize that this is for the regions, and begin to act, then in 2014-2015 years they have somewhere will have good chances».
Kostin said that street policy is a global trend, which will be actual in Russia, but the «new protest wave is over», and the social groups, once united in December, «no longer feel a sense of community».
The Foundation is launching new, large-scale project researching new media in Russia, using software from the Crimson Hexagon system – an analytics platform which automatically scans and sorts online content.
He is quoted as saying that "The Foundation for Civil Society Development utilises a clear and simple methodology: percentages are converted into points and summarised”.
The main task ahead according to Mr. Kostin was to create a platform for meaningful and interesting discussion on political agendas and also the exchange of ideas between specialists, politicians and civil servants.