Novye Izvestiia also had an article on Wednesday about this poll. An English translation was sent around in Johnson's Russia List but is not available on the JRL website. Here are a couple of excerpts:
Novye Izvestia
August 17, 2005
AS LONG AS PRICES DON'T RISE
By Andrei Gulyutin; Translated by Denis Shcherbakov
During the last few months, our fellow citizens have not been worried by politics, only about the economy. First of all, rising prices produces anxiety, as well as unemployment and setbacks in production. These are the results of the polls done by the Yuri Levada polling agency. Experts say that we are like the Chinese in this sense. [...]
The Chechen war is not even in the first ten of Russian fears. And the infringement of civil rights and liberties, for instance freedom of speech, does not disturb our citizens at all.
According to experts' opinions, such results speak about low level of social development of the society. "When respondents place monetary problems on the first place, that proves the fact that our country is an economically developing state," analyst of VIKA Alexander Generalov told us. "The same results were shown in China, as well as in several countries of the former socialist camp." At the same time, according to Generalov, the Czech Republic's citizens are not worried by economical problems, as their country in at the stage of economical rise. "Polls in that country in the 1990s indicated that the Czechs were worried about inflation and unemployment, but now foreign and social problems are in first place," Generalov notes. So, we are lagging behind the Czech Republic by ten years.
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