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Russians Are Glad Foreigners Are Gone
The All-Russia Center for the Study of Public Opinion (Russian abbreviation VTsIOM) released survey data today showing how Russians have reacted to the ban on foreigners trading on open-air markets. Only 45 percent of Russians noticed the foreigners' absence. Another 33 percent were convinced that the number of foreigners working in markets had not changed. Eleven percent thought that their number had increased.
The Russians who thought that there were fewer foreigners in markets were asked about their attitude to that fact. Seventy-five percent of them considered it “positive,” with 31 percent saying “unconditionally positive.” “Probably negative” was the answer of 14 percent, and 1 percent said “unconditionally negative.”
The survey showed that 56 percent of Russians would like to see only Russian citizens working in open-air markets, up from 53 percent in January. Thirty-nine percent were indifferent to the nationality of market traders and in the Russian Far East, that figure rose to 50 percent. One percent of Russians wanted foreigners trading in the markets (6 percent in the Far East).
The survey was conducted March 10-11, 2007, and is based on the responses of 1600 people in 46 regions, territories and republics. The margin of statistical error is 3.4 percent.
www.kommersant.com
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