Overview
- Russia said it defended vital national interests in 2025 and portrayed its actions as reinforcing a multipolar order, according to the Foreign Ministry’s annual summary.
- The ministry asserted that unfriendly states were forced to recognize the impossibility of a strategic defeat for Russia and to shift toward calls for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.
- Moscow reported enforcement of a Union State treaty with Belarus that includes mutual defense obligations to protect sovereignty, the constitutional order and borders.
- The summary highlighted upgraded ties with Iran, North Korea and China, citing a signed strategic partnership with Tehran, full use of national currencies in Russia–China trade, and a ministry claim that Pyongyang provided allied assistance in the Kursk Region.
- Officials pointed to broader economic and information efforts, noting EAEU pacts with the UAE, Mongolia and Indonesia, the start of a preferential trade agreement with Iran, and the 2025 founding of the Global Fact-Checking Network by Dialogue Regions, TASS and New Media Workshop.