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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>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>

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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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