Residents of Russia – for expensive gas and visas for Belarusians
More than half of Russians (56%) are against providing discounts on oil and gas to allied states, even in exchange for support from them. The opposite opinion is shared by 38% of participants in a survey conducted by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM).
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69% of respondents are against the sale of energy resources to Belarus at a price below the market price. 34% of respondents agree to deliveries at reduced prices.
Given the abolition of visas by Belarus for citizens of 80 countries, 78% of respondents were in favor of returning the visa regime with the neighboring state. Only 16% of survey participants were in favor of maintaining the border between Russia and Belarus only as a formality.
At the same time, as data from the daily Sputnik survey show, in general, the majority of Russians perceive Belarus as a friendly state (40%) and a trade and economic partner (35%). The shares of negative assessments are small: competitor (4%), adversary (3%).
“It’s interesting that representatives of the older generation, who have seen the blossoming of the ‘friendship of peoples’, advocate such ‘rigor’, while young people, familiar with it only by hearsay, demonstrate a ‘breadth of nature,’” Stepan Lvov, head of the VTsIOM Research Department, comments on the survey data.
The initiative all-Russian survey “Sputnik” was conducted by VTsIOM on February 8-9, 2017. The survey method was a telephone interview using a stratified two-base random sample of landline and mobile numbers of 1200 respondents.
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