MOSCOW: Russia views itself as a bulwark of the Russian world and a sovereign power maintaining the global balance of power, according to ...
MOSCOW: Russia views itself as a bulwark of the Russian world and a sovereign power maintaining the global balance of power, according to the Concept of Russia’s Foreign Policy approved on Friday by President Vladimir Putin’s decree.
"More than a thousand years of independent statehood, the cultural heritage of the preceding era, deep historical ties with the traditional European culture and other Eurasian cultures, and the ability to ensure harmonious coexistence of different peoples, ethnic, religious and linguistic groups on one common territory, which has been developed over many centuries, determine Russia's special position as a unique country-civilization and a vast Eurasian and Euro-Pacific power that brings together the Russian people and other peoples belonging to the cultural and civilizational community of the Russian world," the concept reads.
It is said that Russia’s place in the world is also determined "by its significant resources in all areas of living, its status of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, participant in the leading intergovernmental organizations and associations, one of the two largest nuclear powers," and the successor state of the Soviet Union.
"Russia, taking into account its decisive contribution to the victory in World War II and its active role in shaping the contemporary system of international relations and eliminating the global system of colonialism, is one of the sovereign centers of global development performing a historically unique mission aimed at maintaining global balance of power and building a multipolar international system, as well as ensuring conditions for the peaceful progressive development of humanity on the basis of a unifying and constructive agenda," the concept said.
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