US trying to turn Russia into marginal state: Poll
Most Russians believe the United States is seeking to take advantage of Russia’s “current difficulties” in order to marginalize the country, a new poll shows.
The poll was conducted on 1,600 people by independent Russian pollster Levada Center on June 19-22.
According to the results of the survey, published by Russia’s Interfax news agency on Saturday, 86 percent of the respondents believe that Washington is trying to benefit from Russia’s current problems to turn it into a marginal state. Only seven percent disagree with the idea; another seven percent are undecided.
The poll also found that 89 percent of those surveyed are in favor of Russia boosting its relations with other countries to oppose the US influence, while about six percent disagree with the idea and almost the same percent are undecided.
Some 67 percent of the respondents believe that Russia’s relations with the West will always be based on mistrust.
The poll also found that 28 percent of those surveyed believe that Russia views European countries as neighbors and partners with which relations should be developed, compared to 24 percent who say that their country sees Europe as its main trade partner.
Meanwhile, as many as 23 percent of the respondents believe that Russia views Europe as a potential aggressor consolidated by NATO or a conductor of US policies.
East-West tensions
Relations between Russia and the West have cooled sharply since Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea joined the Russian Federation following a referendum back in March 2014.
Relations were strained further after Ukraine launched military operations in April 2014 to silence pro-Russians in the country’s eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.
Over the past months, Moscow has been targeted by a series of sanctions by Brussels and Washington, which accuse the Kremlin of supporting the pro-Russians in Ukraine.
The Kremlin, however, has denounced the accusations as groundless and enforced restrictions on some food imports from the US, the EU, Norway, Canada and Australia in a tit-for-tat move. Moscow has also recently issued a blacklist of politicians from the 28-nation bloc, barring them from traveling to the Russian Federation.
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