Russia’s policies, since President Vladimir Putin came to power 24 years ago, seem directed towards achieving one important goal, which is that the world must recognize that Russia is a great country, regardless of its economic power, technological progress, and success in establishing fruitful relations with other countries of the world, especially neighboring countries. she has.
The new Russia has employed all its capabilities, most of which are inherited from the former Soviet Union, in order to achieve the goal that cannot be achieved easily or as quickly as desired by the leaders, who believe in the inevitability and necessity for Russia to play this role that they drew for it. And the latest Russian measures taken in this direction is President Putin’s decision to withdraw from the (New START) agreement to limit the nuclear arms race, concluded with the United States in 2011.
Yeltsin’s Russia also sought to advance technologically and industrially, in order to catch up with the contemporary world, which enhances its capabilities and restores its former strength and makes it a globally important country again, especially when benefiting from the gains it obtained from its leadership of the Soviet Union for seventy years, including permanent membership in The UN Security Council, broad international relations, international treaties and agreements that contributed to its formulation in its favor, cultural and economic influence in many countries of the world, and last but not least, the large nuclear arsenal, the first in the world in terms of size, as Russia has 6000 nuclear warheads compared to 5400 for the United States .