SECURITY COUNCIL

For the members and organisation of the Security Council, as well as doctrines accepted by the Security Council, see its website.

In terms of many aspects of Russia's state policy, the Security Council, working directly under the President, is clearly more powerful than the Government. The Security Council's independent role and structure has been constantly growing. In particular, the harmonisation of interests of the "power ministries" - those ministries and agencies for defence, the interior, security and justice - is supposed to be achieved within the framework of the Security Council. Therefore, the Council includes representatives from all of the power ministries and other important state bureaucracies, and is supposed to make balanced decisions in a wide range of issues in the field of security.