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Nikitin I.M. [National security of the Russian Federation: Central Asia] Political Science and Technology, 2022, Vol. 2, Iss. 4 Available at: https://politicjournal.ru/PDF/01PK422.pdf (in Russian).

National security of the Russian Federation: Central Asia

Nikitin Ivan Michailovich
Russian State Social University, Moscow, Russia
E-mail: imnikitin25@yandex.ru

Abstract. The modern foreign policy strategy of the Russian Federation has a clear bias in the eastern direction. Russian foreign policy, which took a course of diversification in the 2020s, gradually built a constructive dialogue with the countries of Asia and the Middle East from 1994–1996, at the same time declaring the unfair attitude of the United States of America to Russian strategic and political interests. In the last decade, the rhetoric of the United States in the international arena has become more aggressive and is expressed in the form of interference in the internal affairs of a number of states or in the aggravation of local conflicts in order to divert Russia’s attention from those geopolitical regions that are of greatest interest to it. Taking into account the current conjuncture of the international space and in the light of past international events, the Russian Federation, during the period of conducting a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, sanctions and diplomatic pressure from the West and the United States, is increasingly exploring the possibilities of implementing a policy on the eastern vector. In this article, the author analyzes the zone of socio-political instability in Central Asia, in particular, through the prism of history to study the relationship of Russia’s most important allies within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Collective Security Treaty Organization: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The paper also explores the semantic load of the «Anaconda Loop» geopolitical strategy. Some of its aspects are reflected in the specifics of the emergence of socio-political zones of instability around the territory of the Russian state, which cannot be regarded otherwise as an encroachment on the national security of the Russian Federation.

Keywords: geopolitics; national security; Central Asia; Heartland; NATO; «Anaconda Loop»; geopolitical strategy; SMO

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