9. STRATEGIC STABILITY AND EQUITABLE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
89.The achievement of the Russian Federation’s priorities for stable development is supported by an active foreign policy, whose efforts are focused on seeking agreement and common interests with other states, on the basis of a system of bilateral and multilateral mutually beneficial partnership relations.
90.The creation of favorable conditions for Russia’s stable development in the long term is achieved by ensuring strategic stability, including by means of consistent movement towards a world free from nuclear weapons, and by creating conditions of equal security for all.
91.Russia bases its relations with the international community on the principle of maintaining stability and predictability in the area of strategic offensive arms and attributes particular significance to the achievement of new full-scale bilateral agreements on the continued reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms.
92.Russia will assist with engaging other states, first of all those possessing nuclear weapons but also those interested in joint action to ensure mutual security, in a process of establishing strategic stability.
93.Russia believes that the maintenance of strategic stability and equitable strategic partnership can be supported by the presence of contingents of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in conflict zones, on the basis of norms of international law, with the goal of resolving political, economic, and other challenges by non-military means.
94.On the world stage, Russia will act from a position founded on an unchanging course towards joint participation with other states in the reinforcement of international mechanisms for nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, means of their delivery, and related goods and technologies; on the unacceptability of use of military force in contravention of the United Nations Charter; and likewise from a position of adherence to arms control and rational sufficiency in military construction.
95.In order to preserve strategic stability and equitable strategic partnership, the Russian Federation:
—will fulfill existing treaties and agreements pertaining to the limitation and reduction of arms, will participate in the development and conclusion of new agreements corresponding to Russia’s national interests;
—is prepared to engage in further discussion of questions surrounding the reduction of nuclear potentials on the basis of bilateral agreements and in multilateral fora and likewise will assist in creating appropriate conditions, allowing for the reduction of nuclear armaments without detracting from international security or strategic stability;
—intends to continue assisting the reinforcement of regional stability by means of participation in processes of reduction and limitation of ordinary armed forces and likewise the development and application of confidence building measures in the military domain;
—considers international peacekeeping to be a viable instrument for the resolution of armed conflicts, stands for strengthening this institution in strict accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter, and will continue its participation therein;
—will participate in efforts led by the UN and other international organizations to relieve natural and man-made catastrophes and crisis situations and likewise in the provision of humanitarian assistance to affected countries.
96.In the interests of strategic stability and equitable multilateral interaction on the international stage, during the period of realization of this Strategy Russia will undertake all necessary efforts, with minimum expenditure, to maintain parity with the United States of America in the area of strategic offensive arms, given a situation in which the United States of America is unfolding a global missile defense system and implementing a global “lightning strike” concept using nuclear- and non-nuclear-equipped strategic bombers.
V. ORGANIZATIONAL, LEGAL-NORMATIVE AND INFORMATIONAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE REALIZATION OF THE GIVEN STRATEGY
97.The state policy of the Russian Federation in the area of national security is the result of the concerted effort of all elements of the system providing national security, with a coordinating role being played by the Security Council of the Russian Federation with respect to the realization of a range of measures of an organizational, legal-normative, and informational nature.
98.The realization of the given strategy is ensured by the consolidation of the energies and resources of state bodies and civil society institutions, directed towards the defense of Russia’s national interests by means of political, organizational, socioeconomic, legal, special, and other measures, developed within the framework of strategic planning in the Russian Federation.
99.Periodic amendments to the given Strategy are realized under the aegis of the Security Council of the Russian Federation — in accordance with the results of the constant monitoring of the realization of the given Strategy and in view of developments that would have a substantial influence on the state of national security.
100.Organizational support for the realization of the given Strategy consists of the improvement of the public administration of the Russian Federation and likewise the development of a system of national security on the basis of improvements to strategic planning mechanisms geared at the stable development of the Russian Federation and at the provision of national security under the direction of the President of the Russian Federation.
101.The system of documents of strategic planning (including the Concept of long-term socioeconomic development of the Russian Federation; the Program of short-term socioeconomic development of the Russian Federation; the strategies (programs) of development of separate economic sectors; the strategies (concepts) of development of the federal regions; the strategies and comprehensive programs of socioeconomic development of subjects of the Russian Federation; interstate programs in which Russia participates; federal (departmental) special programs; state defense contracting; conceptions, doctrines, and foundations (fundamental directions) of state policy with regards to ensuring national security and with regards to the domestic and foreign policy of the state) are formulated by the Government of the Russian Federation and relevant federal organs of executive power, with the participation of state bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation, on the basis of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal laws, and other normative legal acts of the Russian Federation.
102.By resolution of the president of the Russian Federation, documents regarding issues of domestic and foreign policy can be brought up for review before the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
103.The development of strategic planning documents is executed in agreement with the order of business [parliamentary procedure] of the government of the Russian Federation, and in accordance with the system of document preparation of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation.
104.State policy relating to the fight against terrorism and drug-related crimes is formulated by the State Antinarcotics Committee and the National Antiterrorism Committee—interdepartmental bodies which ensure coordination between federal organs of executive power and government bodies of the subjects of the Russian Federation in the relevant domains.
105.Comprehensive questions pertaining to national security may be examined at joint sessions of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, the State Council of the Russian Federation, and the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, with the participation of other advisory and consultative bodies, created to guarantee the constitutional powers of the president of the Russian Federation.