in my lifetime seen the Russian state is not a "king of the reformer."With good reason can be attributed to them, and the current head of Russia - Vladimir Putin.
How it all began ...
beginning of a new, second millennium for the Russian Federation was marked by the unexpected appearance at the government add a new political figure - Vladimir Putin.
With the coming to power of Vladimir Putin, Russian foreign policy has undergone major changes.Even in his youth the future president wrote a paper called "Natural resources of Russia as a means of achieving foreign policy goals."That skilful management of natural resources has been put at the center of its economic and political activities.
In his tenure as head of state, President of the Russian Federation considers the mistakes made by his predecessors.In contrast, in the case of lower prices for oil and gas, Putin has created a stabilization fund, which currently exceeds half a trillion dollars.In parallel, using the high prices of hydrocarbons, Russia was able to pay off most of its foreign debt and all the debts of the former USSR.The lack of debt availability Stopfonda, high prices for oil and gas - that is what is characteristic of Putin's foreign policy today.These figures have increased the weight of the country in the international arena.
He got to respect yourself ...
reforms and conducted by Vladimir Vladimirovich, to some extent can be called revolutionary.Thanks to them, foreign policy of the state came to a new level.First of all, the state corporation "Gazprom" has been turned into a real gas Putin's baton for the disobedient.With it, the president is seeking profitable for the country relations with former Soviet republics and beyond.
Ironically, the main allies of the new Russia in Europe became the richest countries - Germany, France, Italy.Putin has established very close personal business relationships with their leaders.In order to receive a free and independent gas transit to Europe, Russia leads very expensive construction of the pipeline "Nord Stream" under the Baltic Sea.Already it built "Blue Stream" connecting Russia and Turkey on the Black Sea bottom.And plans to build a gas pipeline "South Stream" - in southern Europe, the Balkans.All this is done with the intention of removing the transit potential of Ukraine and Belarus.And considering the needs of these countries for Russian gas, such foreign policy can achieve another important goal of President Putin - a reconstruction of the former Soviet Union, albeit in a new form and a new name, but with the former imperial ambitions of Moscow.Integration processes in the post-Soviet Russia is gradually returning as a world superpower.
In contrast to NATO, Russia creates military-political alliance CSTO - Collective Security Treaty Organization.In parallel, the leaders of Russia and China form the Shanghai Cooperation Organization - an influential Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which contributes to increase the share of Russian products on the global market.Thus pursued foreign policy of the state shows conclusively that world leaders that Russia has long ceased to be a weak and defenseless as in the era of the collapse of the Soviet Union and total confusion.Now to the opinion of the country on various issues are increasingly listening, respecting the growth is increasing every year, especially since the crisis of 2008 it, if Stopfonda, came more prepared than the countries of the European Union and the United States.
wise foreign policy allows Putin to regain all that was lost by his predecessors - Gorbachev and Yeltsin.Cleverly budget allocation allowed to allocate a record amount - 20 trillion rubles - for the period up to 2020 for a fundamental modernization and strengthening of the Russian army.
Not all cabinets so farsighted.During this step, many criticized Putin since his colleague ex-Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin.But who is not a former officer of the Soviet secret police know that in the modern world are considered to be less rich, many with strong.Therefore, foreign policy of the state is carried out by Putin for multi-vector, multi-purpose way.And this way should lead to further integration of the Russian post-Soviet space, increase the economic and, therefore, the political capital of the country and in Europe, the United States drawing up a decent competition in the struggle for world leadership.
What will the future bring ...
recently in Russian parliamentary elections were held.The majority of the State Duma consists of members of the "United Russia", Putin's party.It is clear that the deputies will support all the ideas and initiatives of the leader, the more that the Duma was elected for a term of 5 years, and the president himself - to his first six-year term.And of course, that the foreign policy of Russia will be developed according to plan.But the opposition, who lives mainly on Western grants, have no choice but endless rallies on Bolotnaya Square, Avenue them.Sakharov and other places where it will do this all-powerful president of the All Russia.
