The purpose of this research is to conceptualize Russia’s status and role within the context of an emerging multipolar world. The focus of the study, which shapes the research objectives and structure of the article, is on civilizational identity and the underpinnings of contemporary Russian foreign policy at regional and global levels. The article provides an analysis of key concepts that facilitate the achievement of the strategic goals of the Russian Federation’s foreign policy. The concepts analyzed in this article, considered in their entirety, form the core of the Foreign Policy Concept of modern Russia, aimed at developing the status of the Russian Federation as one of the key guarantors of multipolarity, the center of the regional system of international relations, and an influential world power. The source of Russia’s special status in the emerging multipolar world is the civilizational identity of the Russian Federation and the competitive advantages of the Russian World that arise in its development. Russia’s regional foreign policy interests can be advanced through the further institutionalization of the regional system for regulating international relations, achieved via the reform of the CIS, CSTO, and EAEU, and the establishment of a dedicated CIS institution focused on humanitarian cooperation. The Russian Federation has all the necessary attributes to develop the status of an influential world power; as part of the BRICS bloc, Russia is the initiator of a new stage in the globalization of political processes. The systematization of the regional policy of the Russian Federation, in conjunction with the SCO and ASEAN, has the potential to shape the architecture of the Greater Eurasian Partnership. This, in turn, serves as a model process for the establishment of a multipolar world. In the context of decentralized global regulation of international relations, Russia’s status as an influential global power is bolstered through its engagement in global and thirdparty regional political processes, either as a participant, moderator, or observer.
Russian foreign policy; state-civilization; Russian civilization; CIS; CSTO; EAEU; BRICS; multipolar world; global governance; global regulation of international relations.