Poll: What country is under danger from Russia the most?

byYuri Zoria

23/03/2017

2 minute read

Credit: EuromaidanPress Team

Poll: What country is under danger from Russia the most?

Russia attacked Moldova in 1992 turning its Transnistria region into a puppet “state”. In the same year, Russia invaded Abkhazia, a northwest region of Georgia. Another Georgian region, South Ossetia, was occupied in 2008. In 2014 Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea and launched the war in the Donbas, the eastern region of Ukraine.

As of now conflicts in Moldova and Georgia are de facto frozen, no military actions are ongoing in Crimea, but the Donbas is still restless.

Where will Russia strike next? What country is under danger from Russia the most?

Our previous poll was about mysterious deaths of “separatist leaders” in the Donbas .

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The degree of patriotism decreases moving from West to East, if one examines the situation by regions: West (94.0%), Central (98.1%),South (93.3%), East (81.5%). Overall, Kherson and Halychyna scored "zero". Its answer to Nikita Makhalkov was also provided by the "eternally Russian" city of Odesa – 0.0%.

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The reasearch "Thoughts and opinions of the residents of Ukraine: December 2014" was conducted at the request of ZN.UA Kyiv International Institute of Sociology on

December 4-19, 2014.

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