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Year, Volume, Number:
2025, Vol. 13, № 3 (51)

Pages: 121-133

Foreign policy and youth orientation: information support and impact

Liliya V. Rozhkova
Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Sociology, Economic Theory and International Processes, Penza State University, 40 Krasnaya street, Penza, 440026, Russia, mamaeva_lv@mail.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7058-4871

Vladimir P. Vorobyev
Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Management and Public Administration, Penza State University, 40 Krasnaya street, Penza, 440026, Russia, stlem2007@yandex.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1482-3740

Albina Sh. Dubina
Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology, Economic Theory and International Processes, Penza State University, 40 Krasnaya street, Penza, 440026, Russia, misurin@bk.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8797-0453

EDN: PQSTUK
DOI: 10.21685/2307-9525-2025-13-1-12

Category: SOCIAL STRUCTURE, SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES

For citation:
Rozhkova L.V., Vorobyev V.P., Dubina A.Sh. Foreign policy and youth orientation: information support and impact. Elektronnyy nauchnyy zhurnal "Nauka. Obshchestvo. Gosudarstvo" = Electronic scientific journal "Science. Society. State". 2025;13(3):121–133. (In Russ.). doi: 10.21685/2307-9525-2025-13-3-12

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Received: 08.04.2025

Accepted: 30.07.2025
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Abstract
Background. In the current conditions of the information war unleashed against Russia, unprecedented pressure in connection with the tough foreign policy pursued to defend its national interests, our country found itself in difficult conditions. The degree of information pressure is constantly growing. And ordinary citizens are faced with huge flows of information, which often contains false information that discredits our country, the army, and the government. In these circumstances, a situation may arise when our fellow citizens succumb to attempts of active informational influence, which negatively affects the general state of Russian society, and protest sentiments appear, which is unacceptable today due to the extremely important need to unite Russians in the face of external challenges. The purpose of the work is to study the information influence on the foreign policy orientations of modern youth. Materials and methods. The work is based on the results of surveys conducted by VTsIOM and FOM, as well as materials from author's research among young people, including students, conducted in Penza, Saratov, and Tyumen (2023–2025). Results. The article provides a theoretical analysis of the main parameters of foreign policy, information warfare, the features of information influence on youth, presents a sociological perspective of information support for foreign policy, and a study of information influence in the foreign policy sphere on the orientation of modern youth. Conclusions. According to surveys, young people today show an active interest in political events, and for the most part it is noticeable among international students. Young people get information about international events from online sources, demonstrating a fairly high level of trust in them. Most of the young people support the ban by the authorities on the dissemination of false information about the actions of the Russian military in their own zone, and also note the increase in the dissemination of this kind of information. At the same time, according to the survey data, the information impact that unfriendly actors are trying to implement has virtually no effect on the patriotic components of the foreign policy orientations of modern you.

Keywords
foreign policy, information support, information influence, Russians, youth, Russia

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