Communist activists rally against Georgia's assault on South Ossetia. The slogan reads: "America, Go Out of Georgia!"
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Number of Russians with Good Attitude to the U.S. Is Half As Much
The number of Russians with good attitude to the United States went down two fold in the last five years, signaled July-September polls of All-Russian Center for Public Opinion Studies.
The polls that covered 1,600 showed that no more than 21 percent of respondents were of good opinion about the United States in September vs. 47 percent three months ago and 43 percent five years ago.
Some 2 percent of the polled thought the relations of Russia and the United States were good-neighborly, 2 percent thought them friendly, 14 percent found them normal and calm, and 19 percent said they were rather cool. At the same time, 37 percent said the relations became tense and 11 percent found them hostile.
According to the Russians, the reason of the relation deterioration was the conflict in South Ossetia and the following war with Georgia (25 percent). What’s more, each fifth respondent pointed to the impact of anti-Russia’s policy of the West (19 percent), 18 percent said the reason was that Russia stood up and emerged as the competitor for other states, while 7 percent thought it was the battle for world leadership.
Of interest is that 43 percent of respondents said the chance of Cold War return was very slim, while 8 percent were absolutely sure in it and 32 percent didn’t completely rule out such possibility.
Roughly a third said Russia’s standing in the world wouldn’t change as a result of the conflict in South Ossetia (32 percent), 9 percent were sure that the affairs of Russia were getting worse, but each fourth (23 percent) said they were improving.
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