Putin's new national policy strategy targets 'foreign meddling' and aims to have 95 percent of citizens share a 'Russian

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7:14 am, November 28, 2025

Source: Meduza

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree setting out Russia’s new “national policy strategy” through 2036.

The document describes the current state of interethnic relations in Russia as “stable.” It says that for 92 percent of Russians, their main sense of identity is a “shared Russian civic identity” (rather than, for example, religious or ethnic). More than 75 percent of respondents are reportedly satisfied with the state of interethnic relations in the country.

According to the decree, Russia has undergone “significant institutional and structural changes” since 2012 — when the previous national policy strategy took effect — that have helped strengthen the unity of the Russian nation.

But the Kremlin argues that new challenges now confront the country — challenges that could threaten national security “if not adequately addressed.” Among the supposed risks are:

efforts by “unfriendly states” to destabilize interethnic relations and sow division in Russian society;
attempts to import foreign interethnic conflicts into Russia;
attempts to spread the ideologies of terrorism, extremism, neo-Nazism, and “Russophobic views”;
a “growing Russophobia in the international arena,” including efforts to discredit the Russian language and Russian culture;
the “intensification” of attempts to distort “historical truth,” including the memory of the Second World War; the spread of anti-Russian propaganda in the Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics,” as well as in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, which Russia claimed to annex in 2022; the use of NGOs to advance the interests of foreign states.

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