Kultura strategiczna Federacji Rosyjskiej

The article „Strategic Culture of the Russian Federation” deals with the most important problems related to making the safety strategy of the Russian Federation. It does not also lack the reference to the Russian history since it constitutes an essential formation source of the contemporary strategic culture. A lot of space has been given to deliberations about the influences of the East and West cultures upon the formation of the national strategic culture. The image of the Russian Federation’s strategic culture that follows from the deliberations is ambiguous. It comes from a lack of consistent political, systemic and ecomic state transformations being consequently conducted from the basics. Unfortunately, Russian political elites, who gained influence upon the country’s destiny during the turbulent period following the collapse of the USSR, did not manage to lay strong democratic development foundations based upon the principles of democracy and the supremacy of the law. Nowadays Russia seems to be stuck between the authoritarianism and democracy, that is between the values of the West and the civilization of the East. It is also worth mentioning that the choice of the development direction to be made by Russia does not only determine its future but also the future of the whole European Continent or even perhaps of the whole international community.