THE CONTENT OF INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING ACTIVITIES AND THE POLITICAL NECESSITY OF RUSSIA'S PARTICIPATION IN IT

The article examines domestic and transatlantic approaches to the problem of implementing practical peacemaking in modern geopolitical conditions, substantiates the importance of the institution of its peacekeeping for effective foreign policy activities of Russia. The possibility of our country to influence through practical peacemaking both the process of developing international approaches to determining the appearance of a promising global political system and its security model, and the formation of a system of international relations in a conflict region with regard to Russian interests, including those associated with foreign policy «reanimation» special status and position of Russia in the world. It justifies the political necessity of implementing Russian peacekeeping activities based on a rational-pragmatic approach, which in practical peacemaking determines the targeted and systemic impact on the system of international relations based on the imperative of one’s own national interests. It postulates the need to develop a Concept for international peacekeeping activities of the Russian Federation within the framework of the evolutionary development of its National Security Strategy. It justifies the need to create within the framework of the national security system of Russia a specialized federal body in order to promote the achieved results of Russian peacekeeping abroad and to form its positive image among foreigners.

международная миротворческая деятельность, миротворческие операции, национальная безопасность, национальные интересы, кризисные ситуации, конфликты, ООН, ОБСЕ, США, НАТО