RUSSIAN PEACEKEEPING MODEL IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE

Abstract

The article examines the national-state peacekeeping activities of the Russian Federation in the CIS, which is identified as a specific force peacekeeping, which in the interests of ensuring the national security of Russia allows the state to partially move away from a number of classical principles of peacekeeping and tasks of crisis settlement of the military contingents of the Commonwealth countries in conjunction with the warring parties. The modern peacekeeping model of the Russian Federation in the CIS is singled out and justified, which is implemented on the basis of a pragmatic and expedient approach in order to increase Russias strategic, political, military and other influence in the Commonwealth under conditions of sufficiently cool United similaroperations and the traditional hostile reaction of the leading countries of the West to Russian peacekeeping in the CIS. The specificity of the implementation of the named Russian model in the Commonwealth is explained by the rigid timeframes of taking urgent political decisions at the beginning of the peacekeeping operations of the Russian Federation, the scale and intensity of conflicts, their significant negative impact on the national security of the country, regional and international situation. The author formulates the concept of network peacekeeping with variable geometry, the use of which in modern Russian peacekeeping practice will increase the level of its national security.