The most “unfriendly” country for the citizens of the Russian Federation at the first time became Germany, while the United States took place only fourth place.
Most Russian citizens promote “establishing” relations with western countries. This has been proven by the polls of the Levada Center.
In particular, nearly 80% of the respondents followed this position. It is 28% of Russians more than last year’s survey, which is the highest indicator for all observation times.
At the same time, 14% of respondents opposed the West relationship. This is a low record value, at least since 2015.
In addition to this, Russians for the first time in 13 years stopped to consider the United States the country’s main enemy, the May of the May of the Levada Center testified.
According to the study, 40% of respondents were called states in the “most irritable” countries in Russia. Part of such answers during the year is almost double – by 36 percent points.
The last time the United States was less than the leadership of “enemies” in 2012: the Russians then called Georgia the most “unfriendly” country. In 2006, the United States was lower in the first place in Baltic countries.
Now Germany has become most “unfriendly”: it is called 56%of respondents, though in pre-war years there are 16%, and in 2010-5%.
The second place with a result of 49% was taken by the UK. Despite the Russian war with Ukraine, our country, according to this survey, is in third place in the midst of “hostile states.” For her, 43% of Russians “submitted a voice”. At the same time, it should be noted that within three years of war, the number of people considering Ukraine that a “enemy” increased by 13 percentage points, and remained lower than 2015-18, when it reached 50%.
The “friends” of the Russian Federation Russian were considered Belarus (80%), China (64%) and Kazakhstan (36%). In the fourth place (32%) was India, which became a large Russian oil consumer after the war. North Korea also gets Russia’s top 5 “friends”. So 30% of the respondents thought – 10 times more before the war with Ukraine.
As we had written in March, the support of the war against Ukraine among those inhabitants of Russia grew to the highest. According to the Russians, “peace” negotiations and the end of the war should take place in the Kremlin terms.
Russians look forward to rapprochement in West – a survey
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