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<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. In 2010, with the election of Viktor Yanukovych, Russian attitudes toward Ukraine dramatically improved, doubling to a 70 percent approval rating. 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. In contrast, during the same period, the percentage of Russians holding positive views of Ukrainians plummeted from 55 to 34 percent.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>As the war rages on, thousands have been killed according to Ukrainian authorities and many more injured.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, an outcry has arisen around the world.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Images on social media have shown long queues forming at ATMs and money exchanges around the country in recent days, with people worried their bank cards may stop working or that limits will be placed on the amount of cash they can withdraw.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Many ordinary Russians decline to participate in polling for fear of government retribution—and those who do are likely to indicate higher levels of support for Putin for the same reason, Botchkovar says.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <li>You don’t know when your friends and family will be taken away for mobilisation.</li><br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>But with the invasion of Ukraine, the dream of Russian collaboration in the project stalled, he says. "We're having a meeting at the end of February," he says, "and it's basically Alaska, Canada and Scandinavia. There's no one from Russia coming." Unsurprisingly, Ray said, 0% of respondents support the Kremlin, and only a sliver of Ukrainians back the Chinese government (Beijing is Moscow’s top trade partner, and one of its closest political allies). Ukraine’s two greatest military aid providers are the U.S. and Germany.</p><br /><br /><h2>Kira*, 20, Moscow – ‘I don’t want to live in isolation here’</h2><br /><br /><p>Putin is seeking to turn back the clock to a time when the Soviet Union and the West had defined and relatively stable “spheres of influence” in Europe. During that time, there was a military balance achieved through parity in nuclear arsenals. This was also known as the “mutually assured destruction” policy, which suggested that neither the United States or the Soviet Union would go to war because the ensuing nuclear battle would be devastating for both countries and the rest of the world.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>One person shouldn’t be in power for a long time, all this power twists and corrupts people.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>It seemed to me that all this was not real and could not last long.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Also, prices for some ordinary things, like cosmetics and food, have doubled, but in many cases, we have no alternative because there are no factories here that produce those products.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>"We're having a meeting at the end of February," he says, "and it's basically Alaska, Canada and Scandinavia. There's no one from Russia coming."</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>Putin is seeking to turn back the clock to a time when the Soviet Union and the West had defined and relatively stable “spheres of influence” in Europe.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>Many ordinary Russians decline to participate in polling for fear of government retribution—and those who do are likely to indicate higher levels of support for Putin for the same reason, Botchkovar says. Additionally, data suggests that up to 30% of Russians say they’re not closely following the situation in Ukraine, she says. Most ordinary Russians are in the middle, trying to make sense of a situation they didn't choose, don't understand and feel powerless to change. Many who study and report on Russia, me included, believe a small percentage of people actively support the war, and a small percentage actively oppose it.</p><br /><br /><h3>Ukraine war: Why so many Russians turn a blind eye to the conflict</h3><br /><br /><p>One local family visiting St Petersburg were shocked to find nothing had changed while their own lives had been turned upside down. For Russian climate scientists who started their careers in the Soviet Union, the current situation can feel eerily familiar. [https://bagge-albrechtsen.mdwrite.net/ukraine-crisis-whats-at-stake-for-the-uk https://bagge-albrechtsen.mdwrite.net/ukraine-crisis-whats-at-stake-for-the-uk] walk next to a cracked panel apartment building in the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk in 2018. Climate change is causing permafrost, or permanently frozen ground, to thaw across the Arctic. When the earth thaws, it can destabilize building foundations, roads, pipelines and other infrastructure. A few years ago, Tape helped start the Arctic Beaver Observation Network, so scientists all around the Arctic could collaborate and share data.</p><br /><br /><ul><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>He is not a bright leader, and not the tyrant that the opposition paints him as, but he is definitely not the best thing that could happen to Russia.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>People who are from disadvantaged groups are suffering the most, he adds, because they don't have the resources to adapt.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>By that, he means that those who were most connected to the outside world might have been less inclined to support Putin's military operation, but now find themselves cut off from the West.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>It is impossible to write off Russia just like that, as many people do, predicting defeat, reparations and so on.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br />  <br /><br /> <li>But by Monday customers of Russia's biggest state-backed bank, Sberbank, told BBC Russian they could not order cash via the app at all - they had to go to its office and sign a form to do so.</li><br /><br />  <br /><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /></ul><br /><br /><p>After such colossal losses, the army will have to be rebuilt again. “Since the Russian Federation is the largest state in the world at the moment with a huge population, it follows that this is a dangerous beast. It is impossible to write off Russia just like that, as many people do, predicting defeat, reparations and so on. Polls have suggested that even though they are the least likely to support the invasion, many still back it.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Online, most independent news websites are blocked or restricted, and so are Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Russia was unnerved when an uprising in 2014 replaced Ukraine’s Russia-friendly president with an unequivocally Western-facing government. Moscow’s move against Ukraine, once a member of the Soviet Union, is sure to increase fears over the security of other former Soviet countries in Eastern Europe.</p><br /><br /><br /><br />
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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 />

Revision as of 07:25, 10 February 2024

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.







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.



Why do most women still take their husband’s last name when getting married?



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.











  • They were not recognised by Ukraine’s central government, whom Ivan blames for what happened next.








  • Twenty-one per cent of TV viewers didn’t know the goal of the operation.








  • 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.








  • The situation has resulted in contacts being terminated for political reasons as a result of changing attitudes towards Russia as a whole.










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.



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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.







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.





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.











  • A couple walk in front of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower and St Basil's cathedral in downtown Moscow.








  • She asked Al Jazeera not to use her full name since she hopes to return home one day.








  • This results in skewed samples and inflates the level of support for the war.








  • But now, two months before the presidential elections, some of those families are starting to become a headache for the government.








  • Romanovsky is also concerned about young Russian scientists who are important to the future of climate research in the region.










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 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.











  • Having a prosperous, modern, independent and democratic European state bordering Russia was perceived as posing a threat to Russia’s autocratic regime.








  • 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.








  • I can do without access to the blocked social media platforms.








  • 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.










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.



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