MOSCOW, April 1. /TASS/. The updated Russian Foreign Policy Concept is aimed at abandoning the so-called "bloc mentality" and it sends a message of building more just international relations, Andrey Koshkin, chief of a political sciences department at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, told TASS.

"The Russian Foreign Policy Concept is also aimed at abandoning the bloc mentality, as it was in the 20th century. It is now about upholding the principles and norms of the international law that would pave the way to building just relations in the world," he said.

According to the expert, the amended concept demonstrates Russia's drive for the development within the framework of the multipolar world.

Koshkin stressed that major changes are currently underway across the globe and many countries are reviewing the state of their international relations.

"Changes are underway across the globe, where even Latin America no longer wants to be a ‘backyard’ as it has been once designated to be by the United States," he continued. "Brazil backs China and Russia in their voting at the [UN] Security Council and we witness how relations between states on this faraway continent are changing as well."

"Africa as a whole is reorienting, they want to interact with China and Russia, which makes Western countries nervous," Koshkin said.

According to the expert, under the current conditions, Moscow should "not only be capable of building relations, but offering new forms of coexistence as well."

The new Russian Foreign Policy Concept that President Vladimir Putin endorsed on March 31 states that Russia is a distinct civilization, a bulwark of the Russian World and one of the sovereign centers of global development, which will defend its right for development with all means at its disposal in light of the unfriendly moves by the West.

The document states that Eurasia should become a space of peace, stability, trust and prosperity interconnected by transport corridors, and this is Russia's flagship project in the 21st century. The new concept has noticeably revised the assessments of the main trends and prospects of the modern world: It’s now going through "revolutionary," rather than "deep" changes, "elements of crisis phenomena" in the world economy have now turned into a "crisis of economic globalization," and the escalation of competition has turned into a "hybrid war" that the US and its allies wage on Russia.