The number of people who believe that Russia might attack Kazakhstan has increased from 8.3% to 15%.
The number of Kazakhs who believe Russia might attack their country has doubled in the past six months. This was confirmed by the results of a survey conducted by the Bureau of express monitoring of public opinion Demoscope together with the research center PaperLab.
As of May 2023, 21% of Kazakhs support Ukraine, 12.8% of respondents sympathized with Russia. 59.8% of the citizens of Kazakhstan are neutral on the issue of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
These data correspond to the figures of a similar survey in December last year.
However, the number of people who believed that Russia might attack Kazakhstan rose from 8.3% in the initial survey to 15%.
About one-third of respondents said their perception of Russia had worsened because of the war, more than half said it had not changed, and only 4.7% said it had improved.
In general, the events in Ukraine are of interest to 70% of Kazakhs, only 24% say that they are not worried about the geopolitical situation that has developed as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
As for winning the war, 10% of Kazakhs believe that Russia will win, 8.9% believe in Ukraine. 54% of respondents said they want a “compromise” on this issue, another 27.1% do not know how it will all end.
The survey was conducted from 3 to 12 May with 1100 respondents.
About 3 million ethnic Russians live in Kazakhstan. The country has the longest continuous land border in the world with Russia.
Earlier it was reported that the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan is investigating ten criminal cases on the facts of the participation of Kazakhs in the war in Ukraine.
Source: korrespondent
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