General director of the All-Russia Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) Valery Fedorov
Photo: Ivan Makeev
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Businessmen Have Low Approval
Hardly more than half (51%) of Russians think that the activities of Russian entrepreneurs are beneficial to the state. Those data were obtained by the All-Russia Center for the Study of Public Opinion. Furthermore, the pollsters showed, 31 percent of respondents consider the businessmen harmful; 19 percent of respondents were unable to evaluate their actions.
Younger respondents had a better perception of businessmen. Sixty-one percent of respondents between the ages of favorably evaluated the businessmen, while only 46 percent of those between 44 and 59 and 34 percent of respondents older than that did so.
The poll also shows that Russians have not formed their attitude toward the reconsideration of the privatization of the 1990s. In the last five years, the number of respondents who think reprivatization would be beneficial has fallen from 47 percent in 2003 to 42 percent this year. Only 29 percent of respondents say that the process would be damaging; 28 percent were unable to form an opinion. Among Russians age 60 or over, 40 percent firmly support a revision of the results of 1990s privatizations, and another 31 percent support it with reservations. Those figures are 15 and 46 percent, respectively, among youth.
The poll was conducted July 12 and 13, 2008, in 153 towns in 46 Russian regions, territories and republics. There were 1600 respondents. The margin of error is 3.4 percent.
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