VTSIOM: Russian citizens think Ukrainians are one of the closest peoples
Russian citizens continue to believe Ukrainians second closest people after Belarusians despite the problems in relations between Russia and Ukraine, said the General Director of the all-Russian center for the study of the opinions of a large number of citizens (VTSIOM) Valery Fedorov.
"The civil war, revolution, independence, problems in bilateral relations was not seriously shaken the view of Russian citizens about the fact that Ukrainians are one of the closest us peoples," said Fedorov, who is quoted by a news Agency. In his research sociologists have proposed respondents 11-point scale to assess how much culture the closest Russian relatively eleven Nations (the lower the score, the greater the proximity). This research was carried out in 2012, and then at the end of 2014, "the Belarusians were closest to (2, 29 points) and the closest remain (2, 55 points)," said Fedorov. Cultural "distance" to Ukrainians increased from 2, 34 3, 34 points." for these two years, the distance increased, but not dramatically - just on point. Within the 11-point scale is not a lot, " says the sociologist. Next on the scale of cultural proximity are Slovaks - 4, 45 points, Czechs -5, 35, poles - 5, 74, Lithuanians - 6, fifteen, Germans - 7, 09, French - 7, 50, -, 8, 20." Chinese Americans have changed places - it was previously thought that the Chinese are the most distant, now Americans are the most distant, but progress is not very large, " said Fedorov. The cultural gap with China fell for two years with 9, 23 to 8, 46 points, and with the Americans increased from 8, 41 to 8, 90 points. Published last year, the surveys of the Public opinion Foundation showed that the greatest understanding Russian citizens are among Belarusians (69%) and Kazakhs (36%), and only after they are Ukrainians (17%).
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