Russia’s new National Security Strategy is not a revolutionary document, to a considerable extent simply building on its predecessor document from 2015. However, it does mark the progressive shift in the Kremlin’s priorities towards paranoia and a worldview that regards not just foreign countries as a threat, but the very processes reshaping the modern world.
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Mark Galeotti: National security strategy is a paranoid’s charter
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (R) rest during a holiday in Siberian federal district on March 21, 2021.
