ANATOMIA ROSYJSKIEGO IMPERIALIZMU ERY WŁADYMIRA PUTINA
ANATOMY OF RUSSIAN IMPERIALISM IN THE ERA OF VLADIMIR PUTIN

Summary/Abstract: This paper explains the conditions and objectives of Russia's imperial policy during the Vladimir Putin era. For two decades (2000-2021) this policy can be described as a conglomerate of skill fully executed and mutually coordinated political and economic undertakings supported by diplomatic action. Its undisputed success was to convince the majority of the remaining participants on the international scene of the need to grant Russia the status of a global player and to approve the construction by this country of its own sphere of influence. By 2022, it was being constructed on the basis of the classical principles of strategic thinking, involving the definition of the national interest, the identification of the state's vital interests in the subject and geographic areas important for its functioning, and how to achieve well-chosen operational goals. This process was divided into specific stages, during which individual objectives were achieved, which allowed for the determination of subsequent ones, enabling the realization of the national interest. The author puts forward the thesis that the national interest of the Russian Federation is to legitimize its position as a global power, while vital interests - to obtain instruments to achieve this strategic goal. It is also acknowledged that in the construction of this policy geopolitical concepts bY Veniamin Semyonov Tenshansky and Halford John Mackinder have been adopted, especially the theses on the role of the core area and the centers enabling the creation of the necessary state potential and the principles of the functioning of a land power, and the Heartland theory with its vision of the necessary expansion into adjacent areas.

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