Rusijos įtraukimo strategija šiuolaikinėje JAV užsienio politikoje ; Russia’s engagement strategy in the contemporary foreign policy of the United States of America

US-Russian relations have always been mutable and attracting attention of international community: US hostile foreign policy towards Russia was accompanied by periods of warming, and vice versa. When the presidency of B. Obama began, not always positive US rhetoric towards Russia (that was typical feature of G. W. Bush administration) was changed into the stressing the need to engage Russia into cooperation – ie engagement strategy. Therefore, experts of international relations started talking about a new phase in US-Russian relations. However, it would be incorrect to say that Russia‘s engagement strategy is the invention of B. Obama‘s administration. So the purpose of the article is to analyse Russia‘s engagement strategy in US foreign policy not only during the presidency of B. Obama and to compare its implementation during the presidency of different US presidents. In article there are given the theoretical basics of engagement strategy, there is introduced implementation of Russia‘s engagement strategy during the presidency of B. Clinton, G. W. Bush and B. Obama stressing the main instruments of engagement strategy, there is compared strategy‘s place in US foreign policy and its instruments during the presidency of B. Clinton, G. W. Bush and B. Obama.