«They» and «We»: Russian Citizens&amp;apos; Perception of Their Own and Foreign Countries
Journal: Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost
Year: 2021

The paper is based on the results of political-psychological study of Russian citizens’ images of their own and foreign countries. Methodology included a survey with a number of open-ended questions, in-depth interviews, methods of cartography, semantic differential and a projective test. The study has shown that perceptions of a country are influenced mostly by such factors as the events context, cultural traditions, psychological conditions of Russian society and communication. Our results pro