The strategy of the national security of Russia to the year 2020 will be confirmed at a session of the Security Council of Russia on 20 February of the year 2009. Certain details of this document were published, as if by chance, in the local media a week before the new year.

The press reported that the probable adversaries of Russia are not directly indicated in the document. However, NATO’s plans with respect to advancing to the Russian borders are called “unacceptable”.

Russia, according to the supposedly secret document, is going to conduct a “pragmatic foreign policy, ruling out costly confrontation, including a new arms race”. But at the same time, the authors of the document admit that it is necessary to adopt all measures “with respect to maintaining parity with the USA in the realm of strategic offensive weapons in the conditions of the deployment by the USA of a global ballistic missile defense system and the realization of the conception of a global strike”.