The Kremlin website reported that Russian President Vladmir Putin signed Russia’s new national security strategy on July 2. “The Strategy is the basic strategic planning document, which identifies national interests and strategic national priorities of the Russian Federation, objectives and tasks of state policy on ensuring national security and sustainable development of the Russian Federation in the long term,” it said. It’s not yet clear if the 44-page document itself is available in English, so this report is based on press accounts rather than the document itself.
According to TASS, the document was posted on a government portal and quotes Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev telling government daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta in an interview that the new strategy is the result of a requirement to update it every six years. “The implementation of this strategy will contribute to protecting Russia’s people, developing human potential, improving the quality of citizens’ life and their prosperity, strengthening the country’s defense capacity, the unity of cohesion of Russian society, achieving national development goals, increasing the competitiveness and international prestige of the Russian Federation,” the document reads, according to TASS.
“The United States is pursuing a consistent policy of abandoning international obligations in the field of arms control against the backdrop of developing the potential for the global missile defense system,” the document reads further. It declared that the planned deployment of U.S. intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region posed a threat to strategic stability and international security.
