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and specialist hardware, and the innovation-based development of the Russian Federation's
defense industry complex.
38. The improvement of the forms and methods of deploying the Russian Federation Armed
Forces, other troops, and military formations and agencies includes the timely consideration of
developments altering the nature of modern wars and armed conflicts, the creation of conditions
for a fuller implementation of the combat capability of troops (forces), and the development of
requirements for future formations and new methods of armed combat.
39. The Russian Federation's mobilization readiness is to be increased by improving the planning
of mobilization training and mobilization measures in the Russian Federation and ensuring they
are implemented to the extent required, and by updating and maintaining the military-technical
capacity of the national military organization at a sufficient level. Important aspects of the
improvement of mobilization training are preparing the economy of the Russian Federation, the
economy of Russian Federation components, and the economy of municipal entities, and
preparing organs of state power, organs local self-government and organizations, the Russian
Federation Armed Forces, other troops, and military formations and agencies to perform tasks in
accordance with their mission and to meet the state's requirements and the population's needs in
wartime.
40. The readiness of civil defense forces and assets is ensured in advance by holding defense
training and training on defending the population and material and cultural assets on Russian
Federation territory from dangers arising from military conflicts or as a consequence of these
conflicts, and also during natural and manmade emergency situations.
41. National defense is ensured based on the principles of rational sufficiency and effectiveness,
including responses using nonmilitary methods and means, peacekeeping and diplomatic
mechanisms, the expansion of international military and military-technical cooperation, arms
control, and the use of other international legal instruments.
State and Public Security
42. The strategic aims of state and public security are to defend the constitutional order, the
national and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation and the basic human and civil rights
and freedoms, to maintain the civil peace and the political and social stability of society, and to
protect the population and the land from natural and manmade disasters.
43. The main threats to state and public security are:
-- intelligence and other activity by special services and organizations of foreign states and
individuals that causes harm to national interests;
-- the activities of terrorist and extremist organizations aimed at changing the constitutional order
of the Russian Federation through violence, disrupting the operation of the organs of state power,
destroying or disrupting the functioning of military and industrial facilities, critical public
infrastructure, and transport infrastructure, and intimidating the population, including by the
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