Friday, August 15, 2014

COUNTERMEASURES TO SANCTIONS? Russians See Sanctions As Tool To Weaken Nation, But Feel No Effect

A customer at the fruit counter in the Lenta hypermarket in Novosibirsk. (RIA Novosti / Alexandr Kryazhev)


Almost all Russian citizens claim that they feel no effect from the sanctions against their country and most maintain that the campaign seeks to weaken Russia and its position in global politics, reports RT.
According to the results of the latest poll released by the VTIOM agency on Friday, 92 percent of Russians said that the Western sanctions had not touched their interests in any way, 4 percent replied that they had noticed an increase in retail prices and only 4 percent declined to answer or reported actual problems, such as frozen bank accounts or the loss of a job in a foreign-based company.
Further, 62 percent of respondents said the sanctions would not have any effect on Russia. Fifteen percent said that after the start of the sanctions campaign the life in the country had only become better and the same number claimed life in Russia had deteriorated.

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