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48% of Russian population wants restoration of USSR

15 November 2011 14:23 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. About 50% of Russian citizens support the idea of uniting of former USSR countries, says the result of survey carried out by Russian Public Opinion Research Center, APA reports. 48% Russians support such integration. It can be a restoration of the USSR either on the voluntary and equal bases (23%), or Customs Union format (15%) or Eurasia Economic Union format (10%).

8% of population is against the restoration of previous relations.

According to Russia citizens, the most stabile and successful country in CIS area is Kazakhstan, consider 42% of respondents (last year 34%). Respondents consider Kazakhstan as the most stabile partner of Russia.

The center also carried out a survey for the purpose of learning the positions of the other countries to the idea on uniting. Kyrgyzstan (67%) and Belarus (62%) support the idea of uniting most of all. The least number of supporters of integration are in Azerbaijan (24%) and Lithuania (26%).

The survey was carried out last month in Russiaâ€™s 46 districts, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan and Lithuania. 1600 respondents from Russia, 4577 respondents from the other countries participated in the survey.