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62 % of Russians consider future disintegration Russia
04.05.2005 - 16:18:23
According to a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Fund (FOM) this month, a majority of Russians believe their country will be disintegrated, posted by fom.ru.
Among the countries interested in seeing Russia collapse, those surveyed named the United States, Japan, China, Israel, Ukraine, Georgia, and the Baltic states (in that order)...
62 % of Russians consider future disintegration Russia
According to a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Fund (FOM) this month, a majority of Russians believe their country will be disintegrated, posted by fom.ru.
Among the countries interested in seeing Russia collapse, those surveyed named the United States, Japan, China, Israel, Ukraine, Georgia, and the Baltic states (in that order)...
According to a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Fund (FOM) this month, a majority of Russians believe their country will be disintegrated, posted by fom.ru.
Of some 600 respondents in 100 Russian cities 62 percent said they think the chance of Russia breaking apart is big while 25 percent said they do not view it as a danger.
Moreover 32 percent consider the threat of disintegration as having grown since last year 36 percent said the possibility has not changed and 14 percent said the chance of it happening has decreased.
Some 35 percent believe the government underestimates such a threat while 25 percent think the government has a proper understanding of such a risk and 8 percent believe the Kremlin overestimates the danger of disintegration.
Some 52 percent believe the reason for a possible disintegration would be acute domestic problems such as social inequality regional disparity and interethnic conflicts.
Nearly 60 percent believe there are outside forces that purposefully and persistently work for Russia´s disintegration.
Among the countries interested in seeing Russia collapse, those surveyed named the United States, Japan, China, Israel, Ukraine, Georgia, and the Baltic states (in that order).
During the interrogation it was found out that respondents considered the social inequality, regional distinctions in the standard of living of the population and a low standard of life as a whole, unemployment, interethnic discord to be the main things among explosive problems.
(Agency Caucasus)
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