26.01.2000 14:00 VTsIOM MORE THAN HALF OF RUSSIANS DISAGREE WITH ALLEGATIONS THAT RUSSIA VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS DURING ITS COUNTER-TERRORIST OPERATION IN CHECHNYA
On January 21-24, 2000, the All-Russia Centre for Public Opinion Studies, or VTsIOM, conducted a regular representative public opinion poll among Russia's adult population (18-year and older people). Pollsters worked in 83 towns and villages in 31 Russian regions (there were 150 polling stations) with 1,600 respondents in each of them.
Admissible error is within 3.8%.
Question: DO YOU PERSONALLY AGREE WITH THE ACCUSATIONS OF SOME WESTERN SPOKESMEN THAT HUMAN RIGHTS ARE BEING VIOLATED DURING THE MILITARY OPERATION IN CHECHNYA?
Sooner not and definitely not
52%
Definitely yes and sooner yes
35%
Difficult to answer
13%
Question: WHAT, IN YOUR OPINION, SHOULD THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT DO IF WESTERN COUNTRIES INTRODUCE TOUGH ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA IN CONNECTION WITH THE POLICY OF ITS GOVERNMENT IN CHECHNYA? (The sum total of answers is over 100%, because respondents could give more than one answer.)
To ignore these actions and continue with the previous home and foreign policies
38%
To try to search for a compromise, to revise its attitude to the military operation in Chechnya
22%
To impose retaliatory tough sanctions against these countries
19%
To increase the military budget, to earmark additional allocations for enhancing the country's defence capacity
18%
To strengthen economic and military ties with Middle East countries, China and India
18%
To refuse to pay its foreign debts
11%
Others
1%
Difficult to answer
16%
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