Scientific Journal of KubSAU

The article represents an author's look how character and sources of threats to national interests of Russia from the world financial market have changed in new geoeconomical and geopolitical conditions. The main objective of research is, on the one hand, justification of methodological approach to studying of influence of the world financial market on finance and economic system of the state. The second subtask is studying the new threats to national economy caused by the external economic and foreign policy instability. For achievement of the specified tasks authors investigated the scientific approaches to definition of "economic security" presented in works of the Russian and foreign scientists. It allowed to prove their own interpretation of this category, and to formulate why there are different approaches to definition of "economic security". The authors offer the system called "economic security – the financial market". It is presented in the form of the flowchart opening elements of this system. On a plan of authors, it has to serve as methodological basis when the analysis of character, the directions and extents of influence of changes of the world financial market on economic security of the state is carried out. As an illustration of this theoretical position, there is an assessment of external threats to Russia's national interests related to political events and economic transformation in 2014-2015