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Family values remain topmost on the minds of 97% of Russians, recently polled by the VTSiOM public opinion research center.Friendship comes a close second with 92%, followed by love and the situation in the country (86%).

Russians' attitude towards the U.S. has warmed up and become more positive over the last year, an opinion pollster said on Monday.

Decrying what it called a return to Cold War-style posturing, Russia today condemned the announcement by US authorities of the arrests in New York and Boston of 10 alleged Russian spies, and some officials suggested that law enforcement agencies were acting to undercut relations between Moscow and Washington.

MOSCOW, June 15 (Xinhua) -- An increasing number of Russians save their money in U.S. dollars rather than in the national currency ruble, according to a recent survey.

Victory in the Second World War Makes Russians Proud, but War Myths Still Affect New Generations' Life

Some 79 percent of Russians prefer to keep savings in roubles rather than foreign currency, according to pollster WCIOM.

MOSCOW - Russian Communists celebrated Lenin's 140th birthday on Thursday but the first Bolshevik leader is increasingly viewed as a dusty history-book figure while his successor Stalin still sparks controversy

As Vancouver 2010 comes to a close, it will be a worried Russian delegation that is officially handed the Olympic standard in preparation for the Sochi 2014 Winter Games on Sunday. Russians will want to avoid a repeat of this year's feeble haul of medals on home ground in 2014. But what went wrong in Vancouver?

45% of Russians believe that the Russian Armed Forces should have chaplains, the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) found after conducting a poll of 1,600 respondents in 140 populated areas in 42 Russian regions on February 13-14.

People are inclined to treat Patriarch Kirill with respect (48 percent), sympathy (24 percent), hope (24 percent), and trust (21 percent). 10 percent admire Patriarch Kirill, while 3 percent love him. Respondents infrequently pointed out to negative emotions towards him, indifference (7 percent), disbelief (2 percent) and disappointment (1 percent).

Volgogradský pivovar svérázným způsobem plánuje oslavit výročí osvobození Stalingradu. Bude prodávat limonádu se obrázkem Stalina na etiketě.

According to the results of a public opinion survey released on Thursday, most Russians are positive about U.S. President Barack Obama. A poll from the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) revealed that some 29% of respondents respected the American leader, up two percentage points from a similar survey conducted last year.

Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin, who became the first man in outer space in 1961, tops a list of Russians’ idols of the 20th century, a poll showed.

“Almost a year ago the study we did indicated almost a panic,” says Olga Kamenchuk, the spokesperson for the Public opinion research centre. “It was the deepest fall in the social mood of the Russian population. After a decade of blossom in the Russian economy we had to face a significant crisis, like the rest of the world. Now people have figured out how to adapt and they found second and third jobs. They ended up working more, making the same amount of money as before. But one way or the other they managed to find additional incomes.”

On Sunday 17 January Ukraine holds its first presidential elections since the 2004 Orange Revolution.