18.Russia will strive to build an equitable and valuable strategic partnership with the United States of America, on the basis of shared interests and taking into account the key influence of Russian-American relations on the international situation as a whole. In terms of priorities, these will continue to be the achievement of new agreements in the sphere of disarmament and arms control, the reinforcement of confidence building measures, and likewise the resolution of issues surrounding non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the development of antiterrorist cooperation, and the regulation of regional conflicts.
19.In the sphere of international security, Russia will maintain its adherence to the use of political, legal, economic, military and other instruments to defend state sovereignty and national interests.
The execution of a predictable and open foreign policy is inextricably tied to the realization of Russia’s stable development. The successful integration of Russia into the global economic space and the international division of labor is inhibited by the slow pace of transition of the national economy towards an innovation-based development trajectory.
20.For the prevention of threats to national security, it is essential to guarantee social stability, ethnic and denominational harmony, increase the mobilization potential and growth of the national economy, as well as improve the quality of work performed by state bodies and formulate effective mechanisms for their interaction with civil society, in order to realize the right of every Russian citizen to life, security, work, housing, health and a healthy way of life, accessible education, and cultural development.
III. NATIONAL INTERESTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND STRATEGIC NATIONAL PRIORITIES
21.The national interests of the Russian Federation in the long term consist of the following:
—developing democracy and civil society, and the enhancement of the competitiveness of the national economy;
—ensuring the solidity of the constitutional system, territorial integrity, and sovereignty of the Russian Federation;
—transforming the Russian Federation into a world power, whose activity is directed at supporting the strategic stability and mutually beneficial partner relationships within the multi-polar world.
22.The internal and external sovereign needs of the state with regards to ensuring national security are realized via the strategic national priorities.
23.The main national security priorities of the Russian Federation are national defense and state and social security.
24.In order to ensure national security, the Russian Federation, as well as achieving the basic priorities of national security, concentrates its efforts and resources on the following priorities of stable development:
—increasing the quality of life of Russian citizens by guaranteeing individual security, high standards of living, and economic growth which is achieved first and foremost by developing a national system of innovation and by investing in human capital; science, technology, education, healthcare, and culture, which are developed by reinforcing the role of the state and improving public-private partnership;
—ecology of living systems and rational resource use, supported by balanced consumption, development of progressive technologies, and expedient use of the country’s resources;
—strategic stability and equitable strategic partnership, on the basis of Russia’s active participation in the development of the multi-polar model of the international system.
IV. ENSURING NATIONAL SECURITY
25.The main components of the provision of national security consist of the maintenance of legal and institutional mechanisms, and likewise of the resources of the state and society, at a level corresponding to the national interests of the Russian Federation.
The state of national security of the Russian Federation is directly dependent on the economic potential of the country and the effectiveness of the system of provision of national security.
1. NATIONAL DEFENSE
26.The strategic goals related to improving national defense consist of preventing global and regional wars and conflicts, and likewise of realizing strategic deterrence in the interests of ensuring the country’s military security.
Strategic deterrence presupposes the development and systemic realization of a range of interconnected political, diplomatic, military, economic, informational, and other measures, intended to forestall or reduce the threat of destructive action on the part of a state aggressor (coalition of states).
Strategic deterrence is realized with the use of the state’s economic resources, including support for the forces providing national security, by means of the development of a system of military-patriotic education of Russian citizens and likewise of military infrastructure and administration systems for the state military organization.
27.The Russian Federation provides national defense on the basis of principles of reasonable sufficiency and effectiveness, including by means of non-military response, mechanisms of public diplomacy and peacekeeping, and international military cooperation.
28.Military security is ensured by developing and improving the military organization and defensive potential of the state and likewise the allocation of sufficient financial, material, and other resources for this purpose.
The strategic objectives of national defense are realized by developing the system of national security, implementing a long-term military-technological policy and developing military infrastructure, and likewise by improving the system of administration of the state military organization and by realizing a range of measures increasing the prestige of military service.
29.The long-term state policy of the Russian Federation in the area of national defense and military construction, including within the framework of the Union State [with Belarus], is oriented towards the improvement of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, other troops, military formations and bodies, called upon to ensure the security, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of the state, under any given conditions of the military-political environment.
30.Threats to military security include the policies of a number of leading foreign countries, directed at achieving predominant superiority in the military sphere, primarily in terms of strategic nuclear forces, but also by developing high-precision, informational, and other high-technology means of conducting armed warfare, strategic non-nuclear arms, by unilaterally creating a global missile defense system and militarizing space, which could lead to a new arms race, and likewise policies directed at the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological technologies, and the production of weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems, or their components.
Negative influences on the military security of the Russian Federation and its allies are aggravated by the departure from international agreements pertaining to arms limitation and reduction, and likewise by actions intended to disrupt the stability of systems of government and military administration, rocket attack warning systems, control of outer space, the functioning of strategic nuclear forces, nuclear weapons storage facilities, nuclear energy, nuclear and chemical industry, and other potentially dangerous sites.
31.The Russian Federation realizes the long-term state policy of national defense by developing a system of foundational conceptual documents, and likewise of documents concerned with planning and developing norms of legal regulation of state bodies, of institutions, of enterprises and organizations of the real economy, and of civil society institutions, in times of peace and war; and, moreover, with the improvement of the forces and means of civil defense, as well as the country’s communication networks and transport infrastructure in the interests of national defense.