33 percent of the Russians favor authoritarian ruling. The poster of 1936 reads: "Thank you to beloved Stalin for our happy childhood."
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1/3 of Russians Prefer Authoritarian Ruling
Of 27 states of Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, Russia manifests the lowest support for democracy (36 percent), concluded the analysts of EBRD and World Bank, Vedomosti reported. At the same time, 33 percent of the Russians favor authoritarian ruling.
In other countries, the analysts of world banking authorities said, democracy enjoys the support of roughly 50 percent of respondents, and Romania (27 percent) is closer to Russia in terms of authoritarian preference.
The life is quite good for roughly a half of the Russians (and for about 70 percent in Belarus). Asked to evaluate their welfare, 40 percent of respondents in Russia think it has improved since 1989, but exactly the same 40 percent feel it has become worse. In most of the countries, they believe they are living better than in 1989, and Albania leads with the optimistic attitude shared by 75 percent.
In Russia, 40 percent of the polled prefer planned economy to the market one. Mongolia favors the market economy more than others (70 percent).
According to the poll that All-Russia’s Center of Public Opinion Study held in July of 2007, 42 percent here would like Russia to be the democratic country with market economy, and only 16 percent spoke in favor of the socialist state with communist ideology, while 3 percent preferred empire, monarchy similar to Russia of the 19th century. Of interest is that 21 percent would like Russia to be a state with peculiar structure and peculiar route.
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