PERCEPTIONS OF EU FOREIGN POLICY AND THE FOREIGN POLICIES OF ITS MEMBER STATES BY RUSSIAN CITIZENS

Karen E. Smith starts her book - “European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing world” with extremely interesting and important questions: “What sort of international actor is the European Union? What values, interests and objectives does it promote internationally? What is its ‘international identity’?”1 We can find very different answers to these questions articulated by respected scholars or involved politicians, while it could be very interesting to ask citizens of neighbouring country, especially citizens of such a discrepant country as the Russian Federation