MOSCOW. Aug 13 (Interfax) - Drafting proposals on ensuring strategic stability in the world's ocean, deterring potential adversaries, preventing aggression towards Russia coming from seas and oceans, and strengthening Russia's defense capabilities in the world's ocean will be the key function of the Presidential Directorate for National Maritime Policy.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has endorsed the directorate's regulations in an executive order published on the official website of legal information.
Other functions of the directorate include drafting and fulfilling the state program of armaments and state defense orders to support naval activity, develop shipbuilding, and creating specialized hardware.
In addition, it will prepare materials for the president on exercising and protecting sovereign rights on the Russian continental shelf in the prospecting and development of natural resources.
The directorate will analyze the status and prospective development of the international situation, including the military-political situation, maritime activity in the Arctic, and the socioeconomic situation in the Russian Arctic, and will draft proposals for the president regarding Russia's participation in the activity of international organizations providing international coordination and international legal regulation for maritime activity.
According to the regulations, a presidential aide will carry out general oversight of the directorate's operations (Nikolai Patrushev currently holds the position).
Putin signed an executive order in June 2024 to establish five new directorates, including the Presidential Directorate for National Maritime Policy, in his administration. Sergei Vakhrukov, formerly deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, was appointed the directorate's head.