Russia prepares for extended confrontation with West, intelligence reports
Photo: Russia has embarked on a course of protracted confrontation with the West (Getty Images)
Russia has officially confirmed its foreign policy course aimed at confronting the West and expanding its influence in the world, according to the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (FISO).
The Russian Council has approved a resolution On Current Issues of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, which effectively codifies the Kremlin's foreign policy course and makes it a binding guideline for parliament, government, and agencies.
The document does not seek compromise, but rather a systematic commitment to prolonged confrontation with the West.
The key thesis of the resolution boils down to shifting full responsibility for unprecedented international tensions to NATO and the collective West. Against this backdrop, the Kremlin declares its intention to build an alternative world order that openly opposes the Euro-Atlantic security system.
This involves the formation of an architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia based on the CIS, CSTO, SCO, and ASEAN, as well as the promotion of the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity, initiated jointly with Belarus.
Particular emphasis is placed on reorienting foreign relations towards Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The Kremlin plans to deepen economic, diplomatic, and parliamentary cooperation with China, Iran, India, Southeast Asian countries, and other states of the Global South, using the BRICS, SCO, and EAEU formats.
The FISU notes that parliamentary diplomacy is directly seen as a substitute for full-fledged contacts with the West in conditions of political isolation.
At the same time, the document formally leaves open the possibility of restoring full-fledged Russian-American relations, but only on condition that the Kremlin's interests in the war against Ukraine are taken into account, which makes such readiness purely declarative.
Western sanctions are recognized as a long-term reality to which Moscow plans to respond by adapting: calculations in national currencies, countering the confiscation of frozen assets, and creating special legal regimes for cross-border cooperation.
The resolution also provides for the strengthening of the Russian Foreign Ministry's informational and ideological activities, particularly in the digital environment, to promote Russian narratives about the war and discredit Ukraine, as well as the intensification of projects under the slogans of combating so-called falsification of history and rehabilitation of Nazism.
At the same time, the Kremlin is expanding its support for networks of compatriots abroad and plans a separate strategy for working with foreign graduates of Russian universities.
"In general, the document leaves no doubt: Russia's authorities are institutionalizing a course of protracted confrontation with the West, trying to circumvent isolation through parliamentary and 'humanitarian' channels and at the same time undermine the West’s unity by relying on selective contacts and influence in the countries of the Global South," the FISU notes.
Earlier, the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine reported that the Russian economy is facing increasing pressure from so-called friendly countries, which are quickly filling the niches left empty by the investment pause.
Yes, Chinese companies are pushing Russian manufacturers out of key markets in Russia.
