NEW RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY DOCTRINE

Russia has adopted a new foreign policy doctrine that prioritizes reforming world politics away from the hegemony of the United States and its Western allies and supporting countries that choose to fight neocolonialists and foreign interference.

The new foreign strategy went into effect after being signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Russian Federation intends to give priority to the elimination of vestiges of the dominance of the United States and other unfriendly countries in world politics. Currently, the "unfriendly countries" list includes countries such as Albania,  Andorra, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, all the States of the European Union, Iceland, Japan, Liechtenstein, Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, New Zealand. , Norway, Korea, San Marino, North Macedonia, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, and Ukraine.

Russia would aim to "create the conditions for any state to reject neo-colonialist and hegemonic aims. According to Putin “Radical changes" in the world prompted the new policies, stressing that Russia's engagement in the international arena must reflect its view on these changes.

Russia views China and India as key allies in its new foreign doctrine and stresses the strategic importance of deepening relations and "coordination with friendly sovereign global centers of power and development located on the Eurasian continent.

Russia, as per the document, is a "state civilization" and is responsible for protecting the "Russian world" - in reference to cultures that align with that of the country within Eurasia. Russia will be tasked with protecting "traditional spiritual and moral values" against "pseudo-humanistic and other neo-liberal ideological attitudes."

According to  Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov the new foreign policy doctrine identified "the existential nature of threats to the security and development of Russia, driven by the actions of unfriendly states."

The United States of America is directly named as the main instigator and driver of anti-Russian sentiment and the West's policy is trying to weaken Russia in every possible way