№ 1 - 2000
Pastukhov V.B.
National and State Interests of Russia: Play on Words or Play with Words?

The author, D.Sc.(Politics), holds that in Russia neither statehood, nor nation, in their modern forms, have yet arisen; there is no nation state, in the theoretical sense, but there are, instead, a bureaucracy state and an aggregation of ethnonational communities with differing interests. So, in view of the above, expatiations on national and state interests of the country have a rhetorical and declarative character. Russia’s integral interest is to become a sponsor, instead of a donor, in the world division of labour. Russia’s great-power intentions are the manifestation of her bureaucracy’s in-feriority complex. This concise article is written in a very original form.