To the development of institutions of interparliamentary cooperation on the eastern direction of Russian foreign policy

Parliamentary diplomacy as a soft power of influence is of significant importance in promoting the foreign policy interests of any country. Parliamentarians act in the international arena as agents not only of state policy, but also of the aspirations of their constituents. Institutions of multilateral interparliamentary cooperation, interparliamentary organizations, are the basic tools for the development of international dialogue, coordination of international positions, and adoption of multilateral consensus decisions. For Russa, in the current conditions of worsening international contradictions, the work of parliamentarians in international parliamentary organizations is of primary importance in the light of the implementation of the objectives of the Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation. In the context of the Russian parliament being excluded from cooperation by the majority of international organizations and their parliamentary structures, the author comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to intensify interaction with international platforms available for cooperation and create new parliamentary institutions, including those covering the regions of Asia and Eurasia that are strategically important for Russia