In the coming years, regardless of the economic crisis, Russia will be aiming to renew its armed forces. The modernisation of its conventional forces, which have to be better prepared to respond to asymmetric threats, especially in its neighbourhood, and of its nuclear forces, which remaina pillar of the country’s strategic deterrence component, will continue. According to the latest version of the country’s military doctrine, the strategic importance of the Arctic and Black seas will also increase. An increase in investment in the modernisation of the country’s military-industrial complex to fulfil these upgrade plans should also be expected