THE GEOSTRATEGIC POSITION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN THE ASSESSMENT OF THE POLISH AND RUSSIAN STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THE RESULTS OF POWERMETRIC STUDIES

The chapter presents the evaluation of the geostrategic position of the Russian Federation based on the results of a diagnostic survey conducted by the author using an auditorium survey among a selected group of Polish and Russian students of security and international relations. The study was conducted in June–December 2017 at the Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, the Siberian Federal University in Krasnoyarsk and the Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin. The results of the research, due to the small research pool, should be treated as a pilot project and an introduction to broader research. The results of the survey were compared with the powermetric data obtained using the formal model. In the author's opinion it leads to interesting and worth presenting conclusions.