Anti-Western sentiment has reached historic levels in post-Soviet Russia, with an overwhelming majority expressing
negative attitudes towards the United
States and the European Union, a poll showed
on Monday.
Relations with the former Cold-War era rival the United
States have never been particularly warm under Vladimir
Putin, but ties appear to have come undone since the start of the Ukraine crisis more than a year ago, a new study
by the respected Levada
Center pollster showed.
“We have not seen such aggressive and strong ressentiment towards the
West since we started our monitoring,” director of the Levada Center,
Lev Gudkov, told AFP.
Eighty one percent of respondents expressed …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
