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<article 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" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Социология</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2272</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8897</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumamba</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">19181</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2272-2018-18-3-443-451</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Contemporary society: the urgent issues and prospects for development</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Современное общество: актуальные проблемы и перспективы развития</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CHALLENGES IN THE PERCEPTION OF RUSSIAN STUDENTS</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>ПРОБЛЕМЫ МЕЖДУНАРОДНОЙ БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ ГЛАЗАМИ РОССИЙСКОГО СТУДЕНЧЕСТВА</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Slisovskiy</surname><given-names>D E</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Слизовский</surname><given-names>Дмитрий Егорович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">-</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">доктор исторических наук, профессор кафедры истории</bio><email>de373@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Medvedev</surname><given-names>N P</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Медведев</surname><given-names>Николай Павлович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en">-</bio><bio xml:lang="ru">доктор политических наук, профессор кафедры политического анализа и управления</bio><email>medvedev_rudn@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Российский университет дружбы народов</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2018-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2018</year></pub-date><volume>18</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 18, NO3 (2018)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 18, №3 (2018)</issue-title><fpage>443</fpage><lpage>451</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2018-09-06"><day>06</day><month>09</month><year>2018</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2018, Slisovskiy D.E., Medvedev N.P.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2018, Слизовский Д.Е., Медведев Н.П.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2018</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Slisovskiy D.E., Medvedev N.P.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Слизовский Д.Е., Медведев Н.П.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/19181">https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/19181</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en">How are the security issues perceived and evaluated not only by the global world leaders, experts, and scientists, but also by representatives of different social groups? Can their opinions and ideas change anything and reduce the level of international tension, or nothing depends on them? Answers to these questions are the methodological key to understanding the complexity of what is happening in the contemporary world considering the challenges of its global and local security. There must be something encouraging and reducing misunderstandings and mistrust in the field of peace-keeping and harmonization of international relations, even though we recognize the high level of influence of propaganda on the attitudes of people in different countries to the issues of security and other relevant questions in both Russia and throughout the world. The article presents the results of the analysis of the data of a number of surveys conducted among Russian students to find out their attitudes to the issues of global, regional, information and personal security. Based on the sociological research the authors describe how the younger generations (students) in Russia today react to the news on international security issues, how they interpret basic concepts of security and their meanings, what are their expectations, feelings and intentions, goals and fears. The results of the analysis of the students’ ideas and representations of the international security issues prove a more positive perception of the future directions of international cooperation and provide more grounds to hope for the joint efforts of the leading countries of the world to counter security threats than one can expect relying on the mass media information, politicians’ forecasts and expert community’s estimates. Perhaps, this part of the younger generations worldview can be considered irrational and even naive. However, one should take into account that the current social status of this group will inevitably change in the near future, which promises that the Russian participation in the public and political international activities will help to decrease the level of international tension and confrontation. Thus, there are hopes for the development of dialogue forms of relations and paths to trust and joint efforts to counter threats and challenges of global security.</abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru">Как мыслят и ощущают политику безопасности не только мировые лидеры, эксперты и ученые, но и представители самых разных социальных групп, зависит ли от их мнения что-либо для понижения градуса международной напряженности? Ответы на эти вопросы - методологический ключ к пониманию всей сложности происходящего сегодня в мире в контексте его глобальной и локальной безопасности. На этом пути, несомненно, должно быть что-то обнадеживающее и снижающее градус недопонимания и недоверия в деле поддержания мира и согласия, даже если мы признаем высокий уровень влияния пропаганды на отношение граждан к вопросу безопасности и связанным с ней проблемам как в России, так и во всем мире. В статье представлен анализ данных, полученных в ходе опросов российских студентов на тему глобальной, региональной, информационной и личной безопасности. Показано, как современное молодое поколение (студенчество) в России реагирует на новости по проблемам международной безопасности, как трактует для себя это понятие и его смыслы, чего ожидает в будущем и к чему стремится. Результаты социологического анализа позволяют утверждать, что оценки российских студентов демонстрируют гораздо более позитивное видение перспективных направлений международного сотрудничества и надежд на совместные усилия ведущих стран мира в деле противостояния угрозам безопасности, чем можно было бы ожидать, учитывая доминирующие дискурсы медийного пространства, политических прогнозов и оценок экспертного сообщества. Возможно, данный срез молодежных представлений не рационален и даже наивен. Однако следует учитывать, что лишь пока социальный статус этой группы не высок, но в ближайшем будущем он вырастет, что обещает важную роль российского участия в общественной и политической международной практике с точки зрения понижения градуса международной конфронтации. Все это дает основания надеяться на развитие и утверждение диалоговых форм отношений, укрепление настроя на путь доверия и совместного противодействия угрозам и вызовам глобальной безопасности.</trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>security threats</kwd><kwd>regional security</kwd><kwd>personal security</kwd><kwd>Russia-US relations</kwd><kwd>Russia-EU relations</kwd><kwd>Russian students perception of security challenges</kwd><kwd>Russian students perception of the Ukrainian crisis</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>угрозы безопасности</kwd><kwd>региональная безопасность</kwd><kwd>личная безопасность</kwd><kwd>российско-американские отношения</kwd><kwd>отношения России и ЕС</kwd><kwd>восприятие российскими студентами проблем безопасности</kwd><kwd>мнения российских студентов об украинском кризисе</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Analyses and Press Reports. https:// www.securityconference.de/en/news/article/what-happened-at-the-munich-security-conference-2017-analyses-and-press-reports.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Applebaum A. 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