Interesting that the approval ratings were highest when press freedom in Russia was at its highest. I believe the figures do reflect a certain amount of real animosity with the US even if we could estimate and remove the effect of the anti-US bias in the dominant state controlled media. Almost three quarters of Russians have a bad opinion of the United States according to research by an influential independent pollster. The Levada center survey shows 71 percent of Russians are upset with US policies, the highest figure in modern Russian history. In the early 1990s the number of Russians unhappy with US policies was under 10 percent. Huge peaks of dissatisfaction were registered in 2003 and in 2009, but this is the largest ever. The attitude to the EU is also the worst in decades with about 60 percent of respondents saying they had a negative attitude towards it. The news hardly comes as a surprise given the current situation in Ukraine and the US support to the openly anti-Russian regime in Kiev. It should be noted that Ukraine ranked second after the USA in the list of countries that Russians consider most hostile. Other hostile nations mentioned by Russians were the former Soviet republics in the Baltics – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - all considered to infringe the rights of Russian speakers. rt/politics/163892-russians-usa-bad-attitude/
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:40:43 +0000
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