Country’s strategic borders depend on power of foreign policy — Dmitry Medvedev

Strategic borders of a country depend on how widely its foreign policy is spread, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said.

 "Strategic borders of any country directly hinge on how far its foreign policy power lies, how strong and sovereign this state remains, as well as, of course, its authorities," Medvedev said in a lecture at the Knowledge. First educational marathon.

Talking about strategic borders, he noted that people "try not to talk about them, because it is a sort of bad manners." "As usual, these issues are the most important," Medvedev emphasized. According to him, these borders are not determined by country’s size, airspace or territorial waters, as well as are not tied to the sovereignty directly.

"The more powerful a nation is, the further its strategic frontiers extend beyond its state borders, and the larger is the strategic space on which such a country exerts economic, political, social and cultural influence. This is the zone of the nations' national interests," Medvedev pointed out.

According to him, "strategic borders and national interests are not synonymic, but they are close to each other."

•  The territories on both banks of the Dnieper River are an inseparable part of Russia’s borders, and all attempts to cut them off are doomed, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said.

"All our adversaries should understand this simple truth firmly and forever: The territories on both banks of the Dnieper are an inseparable part of Russia’s strategic historical borders, so all attempts to forcibly alter them, to cut them off, are doomed," Medvedev said.