Expulsion of trolls: Russians spoke out against sharing the Internet with Ukraine
More than half of Russians (52%) spoke in favor of the development of the Internet as a global space. At the same time, 23% approve of the creation of an internal Russian Internet, another 13% are ready to unite the virtual space with selected countries.
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This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM).
Among the countries with which it is worth merging the Internet, respondents most often named Belarus (30%), China (29%) and Kazakhstan (24%). At the same time, only 4% of respondents agree to unite the virtual space with Ukraine.
Russian society is gradually reassessing the value of the Internet as a global information space: if in 2000, almost two-thirds of citizens (64%) believed that its development was useful, then in 2018 there were less than half of them - 46%.
The initiative all-Russian survey "VTsIOM-Sputnik" was conducted on January 12-13, 2018. The survey method was a telephone interview using a stratified two-base random sample of landline and mobile numbers of 2000 respondents.
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