German sociologists: contacts of Crimean residents with Ukraine have sharply decreased, 1% of residents speak a language
The German center ZOiS conducted a representative survey of residents of Crimea and found out how much the ties of Crimeans with Ukraine have changed after the peninsula became part of Russia.
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This is evidenced by the results of a representative survey of Crimeans conducted by the Berlin Center for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) and published on Thursday, November 16, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports with reference to DW.
According to ZOiS, only 12 percent of residents of Crimea reported that they had visited other regions of Ukraine over the past three years, 93 percent admitted that moving around the territory of Ukraine had become significantly more difficult. Almost 90 percent of respondents noted that they would like to be able to freely cross the border between Crimea and Ukraine in both directions. Since the annexation of Crimea, only 22 percent of Crimeans have visited mainland Russia, and only 3 percent have visited other countries.
It was the isolation of Crimea from Ukraine that became the biggest surprise for the German authors of the study. “I was surprised how many Crimeans have lost contact with Ukraine. We know that it is difficult to get from Crimea to other parts of Ukraine. But we did not suspect how large a number of Crimean residents had stopped communicating with relatives in other regions of Ukraine,” ZOiS director Gwendolyn Sasse noted in an interview with DW.
Since the entry of Crimea into the Russian Federation, contacts with their relatives in Ukraine have been maintained at the same level as before, more than 40 percent of the residents of the peninsula among those who have such relatives. More than 44 percent of survey participants began to communicate with relatives in Ukraine a little less often than before the referendum, and 7,6 percent - more often. 7,3 percent of respondents answered that they have no relatives in Ukraine.
67,8 percent of Crimeans called themselves ethnic Russians, almost 12 percent called themselves ethnic Crimean Tatars, and 7,5 percent called themselves ethnic Ukrainians. The overwhelming minority of Crimeans consider the Ukrainian language to be their native language - 2,7 percent of respondents, Russian - almost 80 percent, and Crimean Tatar - 8,7 percent. Only one percent of respondents speak Ukrainian at home, while 83,7 percent speak Russian. 4,2 percent speak Ukrainian at home occasionally. 0,7 percent of Crimeans receive information from Ukrainian media, and 75,7 percent from Russian media.
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