MOSCOW, September 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has largely overcome the crisis caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union, the deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council said Monday.
Nikolai Spassky told an international security conference in Moscow: "There is now a strategy for transforming Russia into a powerful democratic law-based state with a socially-oriented economy."
He said Russia's main strategic objective was to adapt to globalization and to develop into a modern power.
Spassky said Russia was focusing efforts on establishing a belt of good neighbors along its borders, on fostering cooperation with the former Soviet republics, and establishing interaction with other centers of power, such as the United States, China, India, and the European Union.
