ArmInfo.Only 12% of Russians consider Armenia a friendly country, Russian Levada center Friends and Enemies survey results evidence that.
According to the survey, published on the website of the organization, on the request to name 5 countries close to Russia, TOP-5 entered Belarus-46% of people named it ally, the second place occupies China with 39%, third line occupies Kazakhstan-374%, then comes Syria-15%, fifth place got India-14%. Armenia got only 6th position. TOP-10 also involved Cuba, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Azerbaijan. In 2015 13% of Russians considered Armenia a friendly country for Russia.
Meanwhile, the main enemies of the Russians consider the US, Ukraine and Germany. According to the respondents, the worst relations between Russia and the USA (69%), Ukraine (50%) and Germany (24%), Latvia and Lithuania 24% each, Poland 21%, Estonia 16%, Great Britain 15, Georgia 9% and France and Turkey 8% each. Since 2015, Russians have changed their attitude to Turkey much more. If in 2015, before the incident with a downed Russian plane, only 1% of respondents considered it an enemy of Russia, then in 2016 - 29%. Now 8% consider it unfriendly. Almost equally divided voices of citizens on the question of whether Russia is in international isolation. 46% of Russians believe that Russia has been isolated, 45% - deny it. At the same time, only 44% of those who believe in international isolation of Russia are concerned about this.
The survey was conducted May 19-22, 2017 on a representational all-Russian sample of urban and rural population among 1600 people aged 18 years and over in 137 localities in 48 regions of the country. The survey is conducted at the respondent's home by a personal interview method. The distribution of answers is given as a percentage of the total number of respondents together with the data of previous surveys.
STatistic error with sample of 1600 people, (with a probability of 0.95) does not exceed: 3.4% for indicators close to 50%; 2.9% for indicators close to 25% / 75%; 2.0% for indicators close to 10% / 90%; 1.5% for indicators close to 5% / 95%.