Foreign Economic Activity as a Determinant of Russia's Economic Security: Assessment of Threats and Prospects for Development Under Sanctions Restrictions

   The relevance of the study is the need to study the impact of sanctions imposed by unfriendly countries against Russia in the form of a foreign trade embargo or restrictions on foreign trade in priority goods on the state of economic security of the state.
   The purpose of the study is to conduct a systematic analysis of Russia's foreign trade imports and exports with friendly and unfriendly countries, as well as to determine measures to support Russian exports and imports.
   Objectives: assessment of the negative impact of sanctions restrictions imposed by unfriendly countries on Russian foreign trade; analysis and systematization of real transactions of Russian foreign trade exports and imports on priority goods; distribution of foreign trade transactions in the context of friendly and unfriendly countries; development of specific measures to support Russian foreign trade during the global sanctions war.
   Methodology. The study was conducted using the method of statistical data analysis, the method of grouping and systematization, the method of economic analysis. The presentation of the obtained results was carried out on the basis of a systematic approach and a graphical method.
   Results. The article provides an economic analysis of real foreign economic transactions of the Russian Federation for 2021 based on the data of the Federal Customs Service. The commodity structure of Russian exports and imports is investigated. Segmentation of foreign economic transactions with friendly and unfriendly countries has been carried out. Effective state policy measures to optimize Russia's foreign trade operations during the implementation of sanctions measures are proposed.
   Conclusions. The assessment of the reserve for the transfer of export and import operations from "unfriendly" to "friendly" countries carried out in the article, the identification of countries with which foreign trade is at an insufficiently developed level and the definition of the list of the most "critical" goods for the introduction of a full foreign trade embargo allowed the authors to determine the vector of measures to optimize foreign trade in the conditions of sanctions restrictions.

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