The Russian Federation foreign policy concepts and practices in soft power framework

When considered together with the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation has an important place in global politics. This state periodically outlines the foreign policy by publishing Foreign Policy Concept texts. This study is designed to explain how the Russian Federation develops conceptual texts and practical behavior in the context of soft power and public diplomacy. To this end, a study will first be made on the concepts of power, soft power and public diplomacy. Then it will be discussed in the light of the concepts of soft power and public diplomacy of the Russian Foreign Policy Concepts of 1993, 2000, 2008, 2013 and 2016. The next section covers the Russian concept of soft power and soft power activities in the Russian Federation. In the light of this data, it is observed that in Russian Foreign Policy the importance of soft power and public diplomacy have increased but the way these terms are perceived differs.