43.The provision of national security in emergency situations is achieved by improving and developing a single public warning and relief system for emergency situations of both a natural and man-made character (comprising territorial and functional segments) and integrating it with analogous systems abroad.
The resolution of national security challenges in emergency situations is achieved by increasing the effective implementation of the powers of local self-government bodies pertaining to the security of the population’s vital activities, renewing technological equipment and the technologies of production at potentially dangerous sites and essential facilities, introducing modern technological means of informing and notifying the population in public places, and likewise developing systems of preventative measures to lower the risk of terrorist acts and allay the consequences of emergency situations of a man-made or natural character.
44.The Russian Federation is strengthening national defense and providing state and public security with the goal of creating internal and external conditions favorable to the achievement of socioeconomic development priorities.
3. IMPROVEMENT OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF RUSSIAN CITIZENS
45.The strategic goals in terms of ensuring national security in the area of improving the quality of life of Russian citizens are the reduction of social and material inequalities within the population, the stabilization of population size in the medium term, and in the long term—the fundamental improvement of the demographic situation.
46.The improvement of the quality of life of Russian citizens is guaranteed by ensuring individual security and likewise access to comfortable housing, safe and high quality goods and services, and a dignified wage for active labor.
47.Sources of threats to national security could include factors such as a crisis within global and regional financial-banking systems, an intensification of competition over insufficient raw materials, energy, water and food resources, or a lag in the development of cutting-edge technologies, which increase strategic risks associated with dependence on changes in external factors.
48.National security in the domain of improving the quality of life of Russian citizens will be supported by the reduction of organized crime, corruption, and drug addiction; by preventing organized criminal groups from legalizing their economic activities; by achieving sociopolitical stability and a positive dynamic of development of the Russian Federation, as well as the ensuring the stability of the financial-banking system, broader exploitation of mineral and raw material resources, accessibility of modern education and healthcare, high social mobility and support for socially significant labor activity, superior qualifications and quality of labor resources, and finally the rational organization of migratory flows.
49.One of the main elements of ensuring national security in the medium term includes food security and the guaranteed provision of high-quality, accessible medications.
50.Food security is assured by developing biotechnologies and import-substitution of basic food products, as well as by preventing soil depletion, the reduction of agricultural and arable land, the capture of domestic grain markets by foreign companies, and the uncontrolled dissemination of food products made from genetically modified plants, with the use of genetically modified microorganisms and microorganisms having genetically modified analogues.
51.In the interests of developing the pharmaceutical sector, conditions are being created to overcome its dependence on foreign suppliers for raw materials.
52.In order to counteract threats to national security with regards to the quality of life of Russian citizens, the forces of national security together with civil society institutions:
—improve the national system of human rights protection by developing an appropriate legal system and legislation;
—assist the growth of well-being, the reduction of poverty and of income disparities with the goal of ensuring continuous access of all citizens to a quantity of food products essential to a healthy lifestyle;
—create the conditions necessary for living a healthy lifestyle, stimulate birth rates, and lower death rates;
—improve and develop transport infrastructure, increase protection of the population from emergency situations of both natural and man-made origins;
—ensure the preservation of a cultural and spiritual legacy, the accessibility of information technologies, and likewise of information on various issues of the sociopolitical, economic, and spiritual life of society;
—improve public-private partnership with the goal of strengthening the material-technical base of healthcare, cultural and educational institutions, of developing residential construction projects, and enhancing the quality of housing and community services.
4. ECONOMIC GROWTH
53.Strategic national security objectives include Russia’s entry, in the medium term, into the ranks of the top five countries by size of GDP and likewise the achievement of the necessary degree of national security in the economic and technological spheres.
54.The provision of national security by means of economic growth is achieved by developing a national system of innovation, increasing the productivity of labor, acquiring new resources, modernizing priority sectors of the national economy, and improving the banking system, the financial services sector, and inter-governmental fiscal relations in the Russian Federation.
55.The main long-term strategic risks and threats to national security in the economic sphere are the maintenance of a raw materials export model of economic development, the lessening of competitiveness and the high dependence on external economic conditions, the loss of control over national resources, the worsening of the condition of the industrial and energy resource base, the unequal development of the regions and progressive labor shortages, the low levels of stability and protection of the national financial system, the persistence of conditions conducive to the corruption and criminalization of economic and financial relationships, and also to illegal migration.
56.The insufficient effectiveness of state regulation of the national economy, falling economic growth rates, the appearance of trade and balance of payment deficits, the contraction of budget revenues could lead to delays in the transition to innovation-based growth, and to the consequent accumulation of social problems in the country.
57.A direct negative effect on national security in the economic sphere may be exerted by a deficit of fuel-energy, water, and biological resources, by the adoption of discriminatory measures and the intensification of unfair competition with regards to Russia, and likewise due to crisis phenomena in the global financial-banking system.
58.For the provision of national security by means of economic growth, the Russian Federation is concentrating its main efforts on the development of science, technology, and education, and on the improvement of national investment and financial institutions, in the interests of achieving an essential level of security in the military, military-industrial, and international spheres.
59.Threats to national security related to disproportional levels of development among subjects of the Russian Federation are prevented by means of a rational regional policy directed at the improved coordination of state bodies, local administrations, the business community, and civil society.
60.One of the main long-term directions of national security in the economic sphere is energy security. Essential conditions of national and global energy security include multilateral cooperation in the interests of creating markets for energy resources that correspond to WTO principles, the development and international exchange of promising energy-saving technologies and likewise the use of ecologically clean, alternative sources of energy.
The main aspects of energy security are the stable supply of sufficient standard quality sources of energy; the effective use of energy resources by increasing the competitiveness of domestic producers; the prevention of possible fuel-energy resource deficits; the creation of strategic stocks of fuel, reserve capacities, and standard equipment; and ensuring the stable functioning of the system of energy and fuel provision.