Everything else stems from the main definition of Russia's status as a sovereign civilisation. No longer feeling the need to conform to the global West, Moscow in its new foreign policy concept directly and harshly attacks Eurocentrism, rejects Western hegemony and equates globalisation with a new cycle of imperialism and colonialism.
The text of the concept states that the centre of humanity is steadily shifting towards non-Western regions of the planet - Asia, Eurasia, Africa, Latin America.
The unbalanced global development model, which for centuries ensured economic growth beyond that of the colonial powers by appropriating the resources of dependent territories and states in Asia, Africa and the Western Hemisphere, is irreversibly becoming a thing of the past. The sovereignty and competitive opportunities of non-Western world powers and regional leaders have been strengthened.
This is the essence of multipolarism. The West has not only lost the technical ability to remain the world hegemon in politics, economics and industry, it has also lost the moral right to lead.
Humanity is experiencing an era of revolutionary change. The formation of a more equitable and multipolar world continues.
In this context, Russia's aspiration to further strengthen multipolarity, actively cooperate with other civilisation states (primarily China and India) and fully support various alliances and regional integration associations is declared a positive agenda.
To help adapt the world order to the realities of a multipolar world, the Russian Federation intends to prioritise (... ) to strengthening the potential and increasing the international role of the BRICS interstate association, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), the RIC (Russia, India, China) and other interstate associations and international organisations, as well as mechanisms with significant Russian involvement.
The world is becoming irreversibly multipolar, but the old unipolar order is not going to give up without a fight. This is the main contradiction of the modern era. It explains the significance of the main processes of world politics. The fact is, it explains the concept, that the liberal, globalist West, realising that the days of its leadership are numbered, is not ready to accept the new realities and in the throes of agony begins to fight desperately for the preservation of its hegemony.
This explains most of the world's conflicts and, above all, the Western elites' hostile policy towards Russia, which has objectively become one of the most obvious and consistent poles of the multipolar order. Precisely because Russia has declared itself a state of civilisation, refusing to recognise the universality of the Western world order and its rules, i.e. the unipolar model of the world order, it has become the object of attack by the West, which has built a broad coalition of countries hostile to Russia and directly set itself the goal of depriving Russia of its sovereignty.
The United States of America (US) and its satellites, seeing the strengthening of Russia as one of the modern world's main centres of development and considering its independent foreign policy a threat to Western hegemony, have used the measures taken by the Russian Federation to protect its vital interests in Ukraine as a pretext to aggravate their own long-standing anti-Russian policy and have unleashed a new type of hybrid war. The aim is to weaken Russia in every possible way, including by undermining its creative role as a civilisation, its power, its economic and technological capabilities, limiting its sovereignty in foreign and domestic policy, and destroying its territorial integrity. This path of the West has become all-encompassing and is enshrined in doctrine.
In the face of this confrontation, which is the main content of the transition from unipolarism to multipolarism, while the West tries in every way to delay or disrupt this transition, Russia as a sovereign state-civilisation, as a stable and reliable multipolar world pole, already established, declares its firm intention not to deviate from its chosen course, whatever the cost.
In response to the hostile actions of the West, Russia intends to defend its right to exist and develop freely by all available means.
This, of course, includes the right to use against the enemy (which in the present circumstances is the collective West, which seeks to maintain unipolarity at all costs and extend its hegemony) in the event of a direct attack and also for preventive purposes any kind of weapon - up to and including nuclear and advanced development weapons. Should the very existence of sovereign Russia and the Russian world be threatened by mortal danger, Russia is prepared to go as far as is necessary in this case.
The concept of foreign policy as the apotheosis of multipolarism and the catechism of sovereignty