Over the recent decade the attitudes of Russians towards the development of democracy in Russia has considerably changed for the better.

MOSCOW, June 16 2011. Russian Public Opinion Research Center VCIOM) presents the information describing how Russians assess the process of democratic development in Russia. For more information about that please visit: 

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Over the recent decade the attitudes of Russians towards democracy development has considerably changed for the better. Whereas in 1991 only 8% called this process successful, now the share of such respondents makes up 28%. As before the majority  is not satisfied with the process of building the democracy  in Russia (62%); however this figure is smaller than it was in  1991 (73%).

The progress in democratic development of Russia is recognized mainly by the supporters of the United Russia (39%), Russians younger than 45 (32-35%), and active Internet users (36%). They are opposed basically by the adherents of the CPRF (77%) and Fair Russia  (76%) parties, respondents aged above 45  (64-65%) and those who do not use the Internet (64%).

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The initiative Russian opinion polls were conducted on June 11-12, 2011. 1600 respondents were interviewed at 138 sampling points in 46 regions of Russia. The margin of errordoes not exceed 3.4%.

*In1991 the sample was 2292 people.

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