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The News

• Russia has recently unveiled a new national security policy.
• It was released by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The News

Russian National Security Strategy

• National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation is a strategic document outlining the means by which citizens, society and the state are to be protected against external and internal threats in every sphere of national life.
• The first such document was created in 1997, and it has been continually updated to account for new developments.
• The current strategy replaces the previous version of the document, which was approved by Putin in 2015.

The Economic Threat

• The text of the new strategy document suggests that Russia will demonstrate its ability to withstand foreign sanctions pressure, and notes that work to reduce dependence on imports in key sectors of the economy is to continue.
• Economic security is to be ensured by increasing competitiveness and resilience to both internal and external threats, and through the creation of suitable conditions for economic growth at rates higher than the global average.

The Dollar Threat

• The strategy also deems the reduction in the use of the dollar in Russia’s foreign trade as one of the means to securing the country’s economic security.

The NATO Threat

• The strategy points to NATO on increase in security risks faced by Russia & the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons in wartime.
• It also points to dangers due to creeping militarization of outer space.
• The document also highlights efforts by the armies of some countries to train to disable critical information infrastructure in Russia.
  • Foreign intelligence services have intensified their intelligence and other operations in the Russian information space.

The Domestic Threat

• The strategy warns that “destructive forces” both within Russia and abroad are trying to use certain “objective difficulties” facing the country to try to destabilize the situation in Russia.
• The dangers stemming from these problems can be addressed if governance is improved and society’s need for social justice is addressed.

The Cultural Threat

• The strategy also emphasizes on the need to neutralize threats be associated with the distortion of history, the breakdown of basic moral and ethical norms, and attempts to inculcate foreign ideals and values in Russia in the areas of education, culture, and religion.
• In response to these developments, the strategy includes a new national priority – centered around the protection of traditional national spiritual and moral values, culture and historical memory.
• The strategy designates cybersecurity as a new strategic priority amid what it says is a significant rise in the number of attacks against the Russian IT sector and its information resources -with the purpose of these attacks said to include interference in Russia’s internal affairs.

The Overall Threat

• The strategy suggests that there is growing geopolitical instability and conflict.
  • There is weakening of generally recognized norms and principles of international law and the exhaustion or elimination of existing international institutions and treaties in the field of arms control. Some countries are hoping to dictate their own rules, use unfair means of competition, apply unilateral sanctions or openly interfere in the internal affairs of other nations.
• In these conditions, the document stresses the legitimacy of the use of both symmetric and asymmetric means to suppress or prevent “unfriendly actions” by actors which seek to threaten Russia’s sovereignty or territorial integrity.

New Priorities

• The Russian National Security Strategy document includes the expansion of strategic cooperation with China and India in the list of Russian foreign policy priorities, with a view to creating mechanisms to ensuring regional security and stability on a non-aligned basis in the Asia-Pacific region.

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