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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kaspy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">THE CASPIAN REGION: politics, economics, culture</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic" /><issn publication-format="print">1818-510X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="ru">Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">106</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>Key characteristics of the public opinion towards the issues of foreign policy</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>Key characteristics of the public opinion towards the issues of foreign policy</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Grigorev</surname><given-names>Alexandr V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Grigorev</surname><given-names>Alexandr V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>proeu@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff140" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff140"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2013</year></pub-date><issue>1</issue><fpage>296</fpage><lpage>300</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2013/issue/1/article/106">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2013/issue/1/article/106</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/1(34)/296-300.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/1(34)/296-300.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>This article observes the key characteristics of the public opinion towards the issues of foreign policy. Among of them we studied the intensity of public opinion, its competence and event character. As a result we came to the conclusion that the studied public opinion has low competency, medium level of intensity, which highly increases after important incidents in foreign policy, that proves its event character.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This article observes the key characteristics of the public opinion towards the issues of foreign policy. Among of them we studied the intensity of public opinion, its competence and event character. As a result we came to the conclusion that the studied public opinion has low competency, medium level of intensity, which highly increases after important incidents in foreign policy, that proves its event character.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>public opinion</kwd><kwd>foreign policy</kwd><kwd>key characteristics of the public opinion towards foreign policy</kwd><kwd>Russian public opinion towards foreign policy</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>public opinion</kwd><kwd>foreign policy</kwd><kwd>key characteristics of the public opinion towards foreign policy</kwd><kwd>Russian public opinion towards foreign policy</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement /></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement /></funding-group></article-meta></front><body /><back><ref-list /></back></article>