Individual Access to Implementing Foreign Policy: A Perspective from Russian Constitutional Law
Journal: Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences
Year: 2015

The role of civil society in implementing Russia’s foreign agreements belongs to the most relevant themes of this article. Various avenues for such participation are studied on the basis of disparate provisions of Russian political documents, the decrees of the public authorities. According to the 2013 Concept of External Policy, Russia is increasingly relying on "soft power" in promoting its foreign political course, exemplified hereby by Nordic-Russian co-operation. Insofar as the mechanisms o