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170597
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Interaction and long-term strategies are essential in today’s globalized world, yet both Russia’s foreign policy and its relations with its Western partners are deteriorating. The Russian government frequently sends out controversial messages: from sovereignty, its own agenda, and “a turn to the East,” to coherent integration with the global, or Western, agenda. This is especially true when it comes to education. Russians are highly educated; thus, education is automatically perceived as a soft power tool. However, in reality, major obstacles can emerge. The paper analyzes perceptions and attitudes of foreign students towards Russia: its image, political system, and role in the contemporary world. A survey conducted in 2017 (online and offline, half-closed anonymous questionnaire N100) involved foreign students, some of whom studied at Russian higher education institutions and some who did not. The students were asked about how they perceived Russia’s role in the modern world, its soft power resources, political regime, and values. The research revealed a clear difference in the perception of those factors. It also showed that educational migration sometimes provides unexpected results that can contradict the aims of Russian education policy
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189827
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The article analyzes the QAnon phenomenon and the anti-vaxxer movement
of COVID-19 deniers1 as typological manifestations of conspiratorial
“alternative rationality.” A number of hypotheses have been proposed:
during a pandemic and a parallel infodemic, conspiracy thinking quickly
becomes transboundary; all conspiracy theories share certain features; they
are discursive (according to Foucault) and underlain by the question of
power; growing public distrust of the government is one of the fundamental reasons for the popularity of conspiracy theories. The article proves that
the transboundary nature of information contributes to the global spread
of conspiracy theories, but they cannot be universalized because they have
local specifics in each country (region).
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