Realpolitik, noopolitik and cryptopolitik: on the issue of the Peculiarities of the Russian Foreign Policy Course at the present stage

The subject of this research is the analysis of the features of the Russian foreign policy course at the present stage through the prism of the concepts of realpolitik, noopolitik and cryptopolitik. Based on the subject of the article, the author makes : a general overview of Russia's foreign policy, an analysis of the terms realpolitik, noopolitik, cryptopolitik, highlighting the features of Russian foreign policy characterized by the above-mentioned terms. To solve these research tasks, the following media resources were used : TASS, Kommersant, Fontaka, the Levada Center, Forbes, Reuters, YouTube , etc. The methodological basis of this research consists of using the results of monitoring various media resources, political science literature on the issue. The author used an analysis of the current, rapidly changing political situation, which gives relevance and practical significance to this research. The novelty of this work lies in the study of the features of the modern Russian foreign policy, its conditioning factors. The author of the article consistently examines the prerequisites for the emergence of the current configuration of international relations since the entry of the Russian state as a sovereign player on the international political scene. This allows us not only to single out and use the terms noopolitik and cryptopolitik, which are still poorly developed in Russian political science, but also to fill them with new content in relation to the topic of the article, as well as to put forward a whole range of recommendations for adjusting the current Russian foreign policy, mainly against the background of its conduct in Ukraine. The author of the article analyzed the current, rapidly changing political situation, which, in his opinion, gives relevance and practical significance to this study.