President Reagan's foreign policy has become the object of a strident Soviet propaganda offensive. Clearly Moscow has been stung by the criticism over Afghanistan and Poland. However, there are deeper, underlying questions at issue: military parity or superiority; the framework of East-West relations; the nature of developments in the third world; and the position to be accorded by right to the Soviet Union as a superpower claiming interests - and a voice - in world affairs. But what are Moscow's interests In world affairs? What kind of American foreign
Policy do they think they deserve?
Henry Troflmenko , who is head of the foreign policy department at the Institute of US and Canadian Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, talks to John Eidinow.
Producer DAVID MORTON