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<p>For a few years, the unprecedented patriotic surge of 2014 served as symbolic compensation for the socioeconomic problems that had already begun. Russians lapped up the real and imaginary threats that were fed to them, and generally assessed military action as justified, defensive, and/or preventative. Russia has opened up at times after moments of calamity and catastrophe. This message has echoed down the centuries and brooks no dissent or prospect for change.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>I got a government email saying that we had until March 14 to download all files from Instagram. We have VK (a Russian substitute for Facebook), but it’s not the same. It was rather cheap, but now I want to buy AirPods and they’re really expensive. They were 7,000 roubles and now cost more than 14,000 roubles. There aren’t long lines at ATMs any more, but we saw them a few days ago.</p><br /><br /><h2>Why do most women still take their husband’s last name when getting married?</h2><br /><br /><p>One man in his fifties said, “It is now prohibited by law to answer what you think about this topic. But the problem with measuring public opinion in a country under authoritarian rule and censorship, Botchkovar says, is that the data are highly imperfect. The Kremlin is confronting a sensitive issue because the protesting women are the wives of the very people on whom the future of the Ukrainian war depends. Shortly after the mobilization, Putin staged a meeting with several wives and mothers of servicemen who support his cause in Ukraine, although it later emerged that many of them had some connection with the government. In addition, her group calls for greater control by prosecutors and human rights ombudsmen at recruitment points and for compulsory military service to be replaced by social services away from the frontlines.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>They were not recognised by Ukraine’s central government, whom Ivan blames for what happened next.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Twenty-one per cent of TV viewers didn’t know the goal of the operation.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>While the defence alliance, Nato, and the US warn of an imminent invasion, many people are still unconvinced that war will happen or that it would be to Russia's advantage.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>The situation has resulted in contacts being terminated for political reasons as a result of changing attitudes towards Russia as a whole.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>Yet Volkov added that this tolerance, however passive, is likely to remain quite stable, even strong. “If I watched different channels, I would probably have a different opinion, but I don’t watch them,” she said. It’s not that she doesn’t know alternative information is out there, but that she doesn’t want it, lest her vision of the world come under threat.</p><br /><br /><h3>Live</h3><br /><br /><p>It could be their Soviet past, or the government propaganda that has been poured out for so many years, or just that there is too much fear and anxiety to actually allow the thought that the world is different from what they expect. Being far away from them helps because we try to prioritise keeping our relationship intact and caring for each other more than anything. Sometimes I can’t help but try to convince them, which obviously doesn’t work. For the record, they don’t support the war in general, they do want it to stop; however, they can justify it in their heads somehow. “I know activists from other countries and they support Russian activists, but they don’t understand how we can continue to live and work under the war and the current government. There are likely many others who hate Russia, but it must be remembered that it’s necessary to separate the Russian government, a mad machine of repression and destruction, and the people of Russia, who for the most part are not guilty.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Russia responded by illegally annexing Crimea, a section of Ukraine that touches the Russian border on the Black Sea. Russia also supplied military personnel, mercenaries and other resources in support of a small but militant minority of pro-Russian separatists in the largely Russian-speaking cities of Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine’s east. More than 14,000 Ukrainians have died since 2014 in fighting in the Donbas. This man has a certain political style, to which most of the Russian population is already accustomed.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Your support, no matter how small, makes a world of difference. If you can, please support us monthly starting from just $2. It's quick to set up, and you can be confident that you're making a significant impact every month by supporting open, independent journalism.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>A couple walk in front of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower and St Basil's cathedral in downtown Moscow.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>She asked Al Jazeera not to use her full name since she hopes to return home one day.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>This results in skewed samples and inflates the level of support for the war.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>But now, two months before the presidential elections, some of those families are starting to become a headache for the government.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Romanovsky is also concerned about young Russian scientists who are important to the future of climate research in the region.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>Continued approval of the army and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, she added, are key to victory. [https://matzen-larsen.thoughtlanes.net/russian-invasion-of-ukraine-uk-government-response-1707428926 https://matzen-larsen.thoughtlanes.net/russian-invasion-of-ukraine-uk-government-response-1707428926] in two Ukrainians reported in Gallup’s survey that they struggle to afford food and shelter. Experts say that Russia wants to see increasing disillusionment in Ukraine as the war drags on. As for who is to blame for the current situation, in which more than 100,000 Russian soldiers are stationed at the border in a tense standoff with the Ukrainian and Western governments, Lena is unequivocal.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Having a prosperous, modern, independent and democratic European state bordering Russia was perceived as posing a threat to Russia’s autocratic regime.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Anti-war protests have broken out in scores of cities across Russia, and many have taken to social media to express their shock and anger at the decision to attack a nation whom Russians consider kindred, and where many have family ties.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>I can do without access to the blocked social media platforms.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>But local doctors are leaving their jobs in droves, unable to cope with the numbers of war-wounded being brought for treatment in local hospitals.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>It's a chokehold - to use a judo term from his favourite sport. That a sledgehammer is now a positive symbol of Russian power in executions captured on camera and posted by MPs on Twitter. Polls suggest the majority of Russians, if not supporting the war, certainly do not oppose it. In Pskov, near the Estonian and Latvian borders, the atmosphere is gloomy and everyone pretends the war has nothing to do with them, I am told.</p><br /><br />
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<p>According to the Athena Project, a collective of sociologists and I.T. Twenty-one per cent of TV viewers didn’t know the goal of the operation. Then, as now, except for a few missile attacks, Lviv is probably one of the safest places to be in Ukraine, far from the front lines in the east and the south. Even so, rather than taking place in different public locations around the city, as usual, the forum was convened in an underground theatre on the hilltop campus of Ukrainian Catholic University, a ten-minute drive from the city center. There, for three days, panelists addressed topics related to Ukraine, Russia, war, and culture. On some level, the data likely reflect an impulse, whether born of fear or passivity, to repeat approved messages rather than articulate your own.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>At demonstrations, people are detained for several days or fined. Now, any anti-war speech can result in up to 15 years of imprisonment. Some of my friends are leaving the country right now, and I understand them. In mid-March, Aleksei Miniailo, a former social entrepreneur and current opposition politician, oversaw another telephone survey with the aim of trying to capture the effects of fear and propaganda on survey data.</p><br /><br /><h2>How Do Ukrainians Think About Russians Now?</h2><br /><br /><p>The ministry also confirmed the deaths of 89 military personnel after a Ukrainian missile struck a Russian military site in Makiyivka in the Donetsk region on New Year's Eve 2022. Opponents of Russia's war in Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin have not gained any noticeable support since the conflict began. Then 69 € per month.Complete digital access to quality FT journalism on any device.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>International sanctions have not brought Russia to the brink of 1990s-style economic collapse.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>For centuries, Ukrainians have struggled against Russian cultural dominance.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>But the problem with measuring public opinion in a country under authoritarian rule and censorship, Botchkovar says, is that the data are highly imperfect.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>It’s sunny, people are taking selfies on Red Square, while a long convoy of National Guard buses rolls by the Kremlin walls.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>While 80% of poll respondents say they support Russia's military, some have mixed feelings. The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift in "the world order."Here are some helpful stories to make sense of it all. Some of the support is more passive, Botchkovar says, coming from Russian citizens who’ve placed their faith in Putin as a political leader, but who may not necessarily vocalize that support. The common thread, she says, is a deep distrust of the West, rooted in decades of state propaganda. To put it simply, before launching an offensive, it’s worth thinking about who will fight in that offensive and how willingly, and to what extent an active conflict will prompt people to rally around Putin.</p><br /><br /><h3>Ukrainian national guardsman arrested for quadruple murder</h3><br /><br /><p>The evidence suggests that even in the best-case scenario, the mobilization effect will be nonexistent. One pattern identified by pollsters is that most Russians say they would support peace talks to end the fighting. But what kind of guarantees they would give independent Ukraine is not yet clear. From fleeting impressions and conversations it is hard to draw firm conclusions.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>I asked him how he felt about the notion of justifiable hatred in the context of Ukraine. Even so, the messages made for some jarring moments for some of those present, featuring as they often did ultra-patriotic and sometimes militaristic declarations. Many of the Ukrainian writers at the forum also expressed similar sentiments. In a panel I moderated, the Ukrainian historian and author Olena Stiazhkina began her remarks by expressing her gratitude to the Ukrainian armed forces for their defense of the homeland. “We’re all living on credit given to us by the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” she said.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>You can be horrified by what Russia has done and is doing—as of course I am—and, at the same time, be concerned about dehumanizing a whole group of people in response. But, at the same time, I can understand why this might seem like sophistry to Ukrainians who have lost their homes, their friends, and seen their fellow Ukrainians tortured and murdered. None of us wanted this war, and we stand in opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>He signed a decree on Wednesday calling for the preservation of Ukrainian identity in the “historically inhabited lands” of Krasnodar, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk and Rostov, which border Ukraine to the north and east.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Russians believe the official propaganda that there was a “democratic referendum” in Crimea, that Ukrainians shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, that there is a civil war [https://houmann-monroe-2.federatedjournals.com/bill-hemmer-fox-news-age-revealing-the-truth in Ukraine] , and that there are no Russian troops in eastern Ukraine.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Yanukovych signed the Kharkiv Accords extending the Black Sea Fleet basing agreement to 2042, and Ukraine adopted a ‘non-bloc’ foreign policy and changed its approach to national identity questions such as the Holodomor.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Ukraine is shifting its military strategy to “active defence” after its counter-offensive last year failed to deliver significant gains.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Now it has downgraded the travel warning for the regions to “all but essential travel”, while maintaining the previous warning in the rest of Ukraine.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>“My husband had already come here to work, and I arrived with our child as the shooting began,” she told Al Jazeera, adding that support from Russian authorities was not as forthcoming as she would have liked.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>A major gulf in attitudes rose regarding Crimea, whose annexation was supported by 87 percent of Russians and opposed by 69 percent of Ukrainians. In Russia, both pro-Putin supporters and anti-Putin oppositionists like Alexei Navalny and Mikhail Khodorkovsky backed the annexation of Crimea. Seventy-nine percent of Russians linked that action to the revival of Russia as a great power and a return to Russia’s rightful dominance of the former Soviet Union.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>I haven’t lived with my parents for many years, but even if I did, I wouldn’t argue with them, because it’s their business what to think.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Due to Russian cards getting blocked and Russia being disconnected from SWIFT (the international payment system), my family had to send me some money in advance, just in case, and I had to withdraw it really quickly before I lost access to it.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>And other specialised apps, like Matlab (a programming and computing platform) and Coursera (an online course platform).</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Ukraine's flirtation with NATO membership pushed those fears into overdrive.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul>

Latest revision as of 00:06, 19 April 2024

According to the Athena Project, a collective of sociologists and I.T. Twenty-one per cent of TV viewers didn’t know the goal of the operation. Then, as now, except for a few missile attacks, Lviv is probably one of the safest places to be in Ukraine, far from the front lines in the east and the south. Even so, rather than taking place in different public locations around the city, as usual, the forum was convened in an underground theatre on the hilltop campus of Ukrainian Catholic University, a ten-minute drive from the city center. There, for three days, panelists addressed topics related to Ukraine, Russia, war, and culture. On some level, the data likely reflect an impulse, whether born of fear or passivity, to repeat approved messages rather than articulate your own.





At demonstrations, people are detained for several days or fined. Now, any anti-war speech can result in up to 15 years of imprisonment. Some of my friends are leaving the country right now, and I understand them. In mid-March, Aleksei Miniailo, a former social entrepreneur and current opposition politician, oversaw another telephone survey with the aim of trying to capture the effects of fear and propaganda on survey data.



How Do Ukrainians Think About Russians Now?



The ministry also confirmed the deaths of 89 military personnel after a Ukrainian missile struck a Russian military site in Makiyivka in the Donetsk region on New Year's Eve 2022. Opponents of Russia's war in Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin have not gained any noticeable support since the conflict began. Then 69 € per month.Complete digital access to quality FT journalism on any device.











  • International sanctions have not brought Russia to the brink of 1990s-style economic collapse.








  • For centuries, Ukrainians have struggled against Russian cultural dominance.








  • But the problem with measuring public opinion in a country under authoritarian rule and censorship, Botchkovar says, is that the data are highly imperfect.








  • It’s sunny, people are taking selfies on Red Square, while a long convoy of National Guard buses rolls by the Kremlin walls.










While 80% of poll respondents say they support Russia's military, some have mixed feelings. The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift in "the world order."Here are some helpful stories to make sense of it all. Some of the support is more passive, Botchkovar says, coming from Russian citizens who’ve placed their faith in Putin as a political leader, but who may not necessarily vocalize that support. The common thread, she says, is a deep distrust of the West, rooted in decades of state propaganda. To put it simply, before launching an offensive, it’s worth thinking about who will fight in that offensive and how willingly, and to what extent an active conflict will prompt people to rally around Putin.



Ukrainian national guardsman arrested for quadruple murder



The evidence suggests that even in the best-case scenario, the mobilization effect will be nonexistent. One pattern identified by pollsters is that most Russians say they would support peace talks to end the fighting. But what kind of guarantees they would give independent Ukraine is not yet clear. From fleeting impressions and conversations it is hard to draw firm conclusions.







I asked him how he felt about the notion of justifiable hatred in the context of Ukraine. Even so, the messages made for some jarring moments for some of those present, featuring as they often did ultra-patriotic and sometimes militaristic declarations. Many of the Ukrainian writers at the forum also expressed similar sentiments. In a panel I moderated, the Ukrainian historian and author Olena Stiazhkina began her remarks by expressing her gratitude to the Ukrainian armed forces for their defense of the homeland. “We’re all living on credit given to us by the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” she said.





You can be horrified by what Russia has done and is doing—as of course I am—and, at the same time, be concerned about dehumanizing a whole group of people in response. But, at the same time, I can understand why this might seem like sophistry to Ukrainians who have lost their homes, their friends, and seen their fellow Ukrainians tortured and murdered. None of us wanted this war, and we stand in opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions.











  • He signed a decree on Wednesday calling for the preservation of Ukrainian identity in the “historically inhabited lands” of Krasnodar, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk and Rostov, which border Ukraine to the north and east.








  • Russians believe the official propaganda that there was a “democratic referendum” in Crimea, that Ukrainians shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, that there is a civil war in Ukraine , and that there are no Russian troops in eastern Ukraine.








  • Yanukovych signed the Kharkiv Accords extending the Black Sea Fleet basing agreement to 2042, and Ukraine adopted a ‘non-bloc’ foreign policy and changed its approach to national identity questions such as the Holodomor.








  • Ukraine is shifting its military strategy to “active defence” after its counter-offensive last year failed to deliver significant gains.








  • Now it has downgraded the travel warning for the regions to “all but essential travel”, while maintaining the previous warning in the rest of Ukraine.








  • “My husband had already come here to work, and I arrived with our child as the shooting began,” she told Al Jazeera, adding that support from Russian authorities was not as forthcoming as she would have liked.










A major gulf in attitudes rose regarding Crimea, whose annexation was supported by 87 percent of Russians and opposed by 69 percent of Ukrainians. In Russia, both pro-Putin supporters and anti-Putin oppositionists like Alexei Navalny and Mikhail Khodorkovsky backed the annexation of Crimea. Seventy-nine percent of Russians linked that action to the revival of Russia as a great power and a return to Russia’s rightful dominance of the former Soviet Union.











  • I haven’t lived with my parents for many years, but even if I did, I wouldn’t argue with them, because it’s their business what to think.








  • Due to Russian cards getting blocked and Russia being disconnected from SWIFT (the international payment system), my family had to send me some money in advance, just in case, and I had to withdraw it really quickly before I lost access to it.








  • And other specialised apps, like Matlab (a programming and computing platform) and Coursera (an online course platform).








  • Ukraine's flirtation with NATO membership pushed those fears into overdrive.








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