Karpovich O.G. New challenges and threats to National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation

Abstract: This article is devoted to the analysis of the new edition of the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation, approved by Presidential Decree from December 31, 2015. The object of study is the national security of the Russian Federation; while the subject of research is the new challenges and threats to national security of the Russian Federation, as well as the form, methods and trends of its provision. The purpose of this study consists in giving a comprehensive assessment of the new strategy of ensuring Russia's national security in relation to the current foreign policy situation, and analyze the nature and content of the new challenges and threats (such as the color revolutions, new forms of international terrorism, hybrid war) first mentioned in the new edition of this Strategy. The methodological basis of the study is the systematic, structural and functional, comparative political approaches, methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, observation. The new National Security Strategy revision of the Russian Federation dating back to December 31, 2015 represents a fundamental (doctrinal) strategic planning document policy of the Russian Federation in the sphere of ensuring the security of individuals, society and the state, in which the aforementioned goals and tasks, directions and priorities of foreign and domestic policy of Russia in security are  formulated; in the prescribed order, in accordance with the internal hierarchy represented by the national interests of Russia, threats and challenges of e security, including new, not previously included in the scope of attention similar documents are presented: new types of network of international terrorism, the color revolutions, coups, hybrid war. This makes this strategy an extremely precise document containing not only the exact (from a legal and factual point of view) assessments of the causes of Ukrainian crisis, Syrian civil war, and international terrorist alliance led by ISIL, but also the role of the color revolutions in these processes, and the ideological evaluation and orientation that formulate the objective image of the world.

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