POLL: ARMENIANS AND BELARUSIANS STRIVE FOR EU MOST OF ALL

Regnum, Russia
June 14 2007

The Eurasian Monitor International Research Agency conducted polls
in several CIS countries in May to find out what social attitudes of
the population are. The polls were conducted in Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan. REGNUM publishes
some results of the survey.

The highest level of social adaptation is registered in Kazakhstan.

73% are satisfied with their lives there, and 24% are not. In the
other countries the answers were as follows:

Russia: satisfied – 51%, dissatisfied – 46%

Belarus: satisfied – 65%, dissatisfied – 32%

Ukraine: satisfied – 35%, dissatisfied – 61%

Armenia: satisfied – 49%, dissatisfied – 51%

Azerbaijan: satisfied – 41%, dissatisfied – 52%

Kyrgyzstan: satisfied – 65%, dissatisfied – 35%

Speaking on the economic situation in their countries, 10% respondents
in Kyrgyzstan assessed it as good, 45% as middling, 45% as bad. In
Azerbaijan, the figures are 41%, 36%, 14% correspondingly, 9% found it
difficult to answer. In Armenia, 7% find it good, 45% – middling, 52%
bad. Numbers for Kazakhstan are 45%, 49%, 2%, 4% found it difficult to
answer. 19% Belarusians say the economic situation in their country
is good, 60% find it middling, 15% bad and 6% find it difficult to
answer. For Russians the figures are following: 11%, 57%, 25% and 7%.

During the survey, the respondents were also asked with what countries
their nations should unite. The number of those willing to unite
with Russia is high in Belarus (52%), Ukraine (55%), Kazakhstan
(60%), Armenia (65%), Kyrgyzstan (77%). The number of such people in
Azerbaijan is 12%.

In Russia, the number is high of those willing to unite with Belarus
(42%), Ukraine (36%), Kazakhstan (30%). Least number of respondents
in Russia would like to unite with Georgia (11%) and Turkey (4%).

17% Russians speak for joining the European Union. The figures for
supporters of the idea in the other countries are the following:
Belarus (27%), Ukraine (24%), Kazakhstan (22%), Armenia (39%),
Azerbaijan (21%) and Kyrgyzstan (12%).

Over 1,000 people participated in the survey in each country. Survey
tools and analysis of data was conducted by TsIRKON Research Group
(Moscow).