—the persistent growth of criminal acts, directed against the individual, property, state power, public and economic security, and likewise acts connected to corruption.

38.The main long-term directions of state policy in the sphere of state and public security must be the reinforcement of the role of the state as guarantor of the security of the individual, first of all children and adolescents; the improvement of normative legal regulation of the fight against and prevention of criminality, corruption, terrorism, and extremism; more effective defense of the rights and lawful interests of Russian citizens abroad; and the expansion of global collaboration in law enforcement.

39.Long-term state and public security will likewise be supported by the increased effectiveness of law-enforcement organs and special services, by the creation of a single state system for the prevention of criminality (first of all concerning minors) and of other unlawful acts, a system which will encompass monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of law enforcement practices, and developing and applying special measures directed at reducing the level of corruption and criminalization of social relations.

40.In order to ensure state and public security:

—the structures and activity of federal organs of executive power are being improved, a National Anticorruption Plan is being implemented, a system of discovery and response to the global threats and crises of modernity is being developed, including international and national terrorism, political and religious extremism, nationalism and ethnic separatism;

—mechanisms for the forecasting and neutralization of social and interethnic conflicts are being created;

—a long-term concept for the comprehensive development and improvement of law-enforcement organs and special services is being formulated, social guarantees for their employees are being strengthened, scientific-technical support for law enforcement activity is being improved, promising specialist means and technologies are being adopted, a system of professional cadre training is being developed in the area of state and public security;

—a regime of secure functioning of the enterprises, organizations and institutions belonging to the country’s military-industrial, nuclear, chemical, and nuclear energy complexes, and likewise of essential support systems for the life of the population;

—the social responsibility of bodies providing state and public security is being increased.

41.One of the conditions of national security is the reliable defense and protection of the state borders of the Russian Federation.

The main threats to the border-related interests and security of the Russian Federation are the presence and possible escalation of armed conflicts near its state borders, the Security threats to borders include the activity of international terrorist and extremist organizations which base their emissaries and terrorist means in Russia and organize sabotage on Russian territory, and likewise the increased activity of transnational criminal groupings engaged in the illegal transfer across the Russian border of narcotic and psychotropic substances, goods and cargo, water and biological resources, other material and cultural valuables, and in the organization of channels for illegal migration.

A negative effect on the reliable defense and protection of Russia’s state borders is exerted by the insufficient level of development of border infrastructure and of technological equipment for border-related bodies.

42.The resolution of border security problems is achieved by creating high-tech and multifunctional border complexes, particularly on the borders with the Republic of Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, and likewise by increasing the effectiveness of state border defense, particularly in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, the Far East, and on the Caspian.

43.The provision of national security in emergency situations is achieved by improving and developing a single public warning and relief system for emergency situations of both a natural and man-made character (comprising territorial and functional segments) and integrating it with analogous systems abroad.

The resolution of national security challenges in emergency situations is achieved by increasing the effective implementation of the powers of local self-government bodies pertaining to the security of the population’s vital activities, renewing technological equipment and the technologies of production at potentially dangerous sites and essential facilities, introducing modern technological means of informing and notifying the population in public places, and likewise developing systems of preventative measures to lower the risk of terrorist acts and allay the consequences of emergency situations of a man-made or natural character.

44.The Russian Federation is strengthening national defense and providing state and public security with the goal of creating internal and external conditions favorable to the achievement of socioeconomic development priorities.

3. IMPROVEMENT OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF RUSSIAN CITIZENS

45.The strategic goals in terms of ensuring national security in the area of improving the quality of life of Russian citizens are the reduction of social and material inequalities within the population, the stabilization of population size in the medium term, and in the long term—the fundamental improvement of the demographic situation.

46.The improvement of the quality of life of Russian citizens is guaranteed by ensuring individual security and likewise access to comfortable housing, safe and high quality goods and services, and a dignified wage for active labor.

47.Sources of threats to national security could include factors such as a crisis within global and regional financial-banking systems, an intensification of competition over insufficient raw materials, energy, water and food resources, or a lag in the development of cutting-edge technologies, which increase strategic risks associated with dependence on changes in external factors.

48.National security in the domain of improving the quality of life of Russian citizens will be supported by the reduction of organized crime, corruption, and drug addiction; by preventing organized criminal groups from legalizing their economic activities; by achieving sociopolitical stability and a positive dynamic of development of the Russian Federation, as well as the ensuring the stability of the financial-banking system, broader exploitation of mineral and raw material resources, accessibility of modern education and healthcare, high social mobility and support for socially significant labor activity, superior qualifications and quality of labor resources, and finally the rational organization of migratory flows.

49.One of the main elements of ensuring national security in the medium term includes food security and the guaranteed provision of high-quality, accessible medications.

50.Food security is assured by developing biotechnologies and import-substitution of basic food products, as well as by preventing soil depletion, the reduction of agricultural and arable land, the capture of domestic grain markets by foreign companies, and the uncontrolled dissemination of food products made from genetically modified plants, with the use of genetically modified microorganisms and microorganisms having genetically modified analogues.

51.In the interests of developing the pharmaceutical sector, conditions are being created to overcome its dependence on foreign suppliers for raw materials.

52.In order to counteract threats to national security with regards to the quality of life of Russian citizens, the forces of national security together with civil society institutions:

—improve the national system of human rights protection by developing an appropriate legal system and legislation;