WHAT RUSSIANS WANT TO ACHIEVE IN UKRAINE? (=Xотят ли русские войны?)
I have said it before-the times of intellectuals opining about the current affairs-and 'ordinary people' listening in awe- are truly over. Who needs intellectuals to interpret and 'mansplain' situations, preferences and the ‘actual truth’ when there are opinion polls? There, people speak for themselves. And whoever is interested in what people actually think, can look at the results of these polls-nothing added and nothing taken away, or very little… Here I present, in translation into English, the results of the opinion poll taken in Moscow on 11-14 March 2022. (Sample size of 1,000). The Russian public was asked about the way they see the Russian 'military operation in Ukraine', as the war in Ukraine is called in Russia. The results came my way via a fellow Russian demographer Dmirty Zakotyansky who did the world a favour by publishing them in his blog in Russian. 'Russian Field' was a polling agency conducting the poll at the request of Roman Yuneman,...