The Russian foreign policy from the point of decision making process: 1989?2009

The Russian Federation that was established after the collapse of the Soviet Union is an important actor of the New World Order which was began to shape after the Cold War. The question of how the modern Russian state will act according to it?s new foreign policy aptitude in the periphery New World Order has become an important query for the international relations specialists.It is necessary to learn the Russian consideration system to understand how the Russian foreign policy has been shaped. As a necessity of the continuity, it is an obligation to analyze both of Tsarist Russia and Soviet Russia for to understand the contemporary Russian state. This is because, the decision making mechanism in the modern Russian foreign policy has been reached its existing structure by the effect of an evaluation process in a historical time period.Russian nation is an Eastern-style thinker society and the reflection of this fact is can be observed in it?s state administration system. But it is not possible to understand the functioning of the decision making mechanism in the Russian foreign policy only by assessing this fact. For this, it is necessary to know the formal and informal elements that involve in and effect the functioning of the decision making mechanism. In general lines, these elements for the Russian foreign policy decision-making mechanism are political currents and politicians that share these thoughts, the oligarch class who was born by privatization experienced during the reform period, the leaders of emerging power structures, and the most important, the leadership factor.In this context, the Kosovo Crisis in 1996, the Russia-Georgia Conflict in 2008 and the "near-abroad" policy were discussed to determine how the decision making mechanism functions. In this way, it could be introduced that what kind of circumstances that the modern Russian state?s actions has been depend on and in which direction it has been developed in this time period.