In the article, based on the analysis of legal documents, methodological materials in the field of regulation of national and religious relations, youth policy and education in Russia, a hypothesis is put forward about the presence of a special element in the composition of national security - spiritual security. Spiritual security is understood as the security of vital values that form the basis of Russian identity and a single cultural (civilizational) code of the Russian people. In the study of spirituality, the authors use the concept of forms of spirituality and religion (cosmocentrism, egocentrism, sociocentrism), developed by the outstanding Ural scientist D.V. Pivovarov. The new spirituality expressed through the ideologemes "Russian nation", "all-Russian civic identity", "single cultural (civilizational) code of the Russian people" is considered by the authors as an attempt to create a "hard core" of sacred values of a single Russian culture and harmonize the ideals of cosmocentrism, sociocentrism and egocentrism.