CIAO DATE: 04/05

Decision Making in the Field of Security - Formal and Informal Procedures and Mechanisms in the Russian Federation

Abstract

To start with, I would like to note that the degree to which the civil society influences state national security policies depends on political and social and economic character of the state and, accordingly, on relationships between various branches of power and the society itself represented by its organizations, mass media and individuals.

Russia′s security policy of today has been shaped under the influence of political and economic changes in our state and tectonic shifts in the system of international relations. It took some time to formulate its fundamental principles and objectives. This could not be otherwise, since almost overnight this country has found itself in a completely new internal and geopolitical situation.

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