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This paper contends that in late 2006 and early 2007, Russia's foreign policy entered a revisionist phase. It defines revisionism as the aspiration to radically rebuild the existing political, institutional and legal international order. The author argues that the new Russian revisionism stems primarily from the change in the Russian elite's perception of the international order and Russia's place in it, aiming to get the western states to recognize the special position of the Russian Federation.