The term of active measures (aktivnye meropriyatiya) emerged as a common name for a number of explicit and implicit techniques which Russia uses in achieving foreign policy goals. Under the authority of secret service generally, active measures occupy the focal point in the Russian inner and outer politics since the Bolshevik Revolution. They helped Bolsheviks rise to power, they were used in Soviet Union primarily against the USA as the main enemy of the regime, and examples like the cybernetic attack on Estonia in 2007, the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the interference with the USA presidential election in 2016 show that they are used to this day by the Russian Federation. Working in a systematic and analytic way shows the development of applying active measures from the very beginning of their usage during the Bolshevik Revolution to this day when it is more than obvious that they are one of Crimea’s fundamental resources for achieving foreign policy goals. By carrying out the analysis, we come to the conclusion that throughout the whole usage period, active measures follow foreign policy goals to a great extent, but methods and sources used were adapted to the time period and circumstances. Active measures in today’s Russian Federation are being carried out by a wide variety of actors at the initiative of Crimea and they are also involved in the paradigm of the new generation of warfare. Considering that Russia greatly supports the usage of IT, political, economic and other non-military warfare measures, the usage of active measurements will only keep increasing in the future. What kind of an answer will the USA and its allies provide to it, remains to be seen.