This bachelor thesis is focused on definition and description of geopolitical concepts in contemporary Russian Federation. In first chapters of this bachelor thesis we will describe the importance of the term geopolitics and why is this term significant. Subsequently, the classical geopolitical concepts were presented, of which the new geopolitical theories, that are relevant for contemporary Russia, comes from. In the main part of this bachelor thesis we focused on three main geopolitical theories- atlanticism, eurasianism and "Russia as an island". In the last part of this thesis, the theories were demonstrated in practice with an objective, which was to find an answer for question if is contemporary Russian geopolitical thinking based on science or ideology
