32% of Ukrainians call Russia brotherly country – poll

(Interfax – KYIV, June 12, 2013) Seventy-eight percent of the Ukrainians believe Russia ad Ukraine have more thins in common than they do different things, and more than half of the respondents see Russia as a brotherly or friendly country.

The poll was conducted by the company Research&Branding Group in all regions of Ukraine, in Crimea, and in the cities of Kyiv and Sevastopol on April 19-29, 2013. The poll surveys 2,079 respondents older than 18. The poll has a margin of error of 2.2%.

According to the results of the poll presented at a press conference in Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday, 42% of the respondents call Ukrainian-Russian relations generally good and good-neighborly.

Twenty percent of the respondents believe Ukrainian-Russian relations are tense and 4% were undecided.

Thirty-two percent of the respondents consider Russia a brotherly country, 24% consider it a friendly country, 17% see Russia as just a neighbor, 14% see it as a strategic partner, 5% see it as a competitor, 4% see it as an enemy, 3% see it as a source of threat to Ukraine, and 3% were undecided.

Seventy-eight percent of the respondents believe Russia and Ukraine have more things in common than they have differences, 17% said the two countries have more differences than things in common, and 5$ were undecided.