VTsIOM: What happened in Kondopga?

On September 13, 2006, VTsIOM published the results of a survey on the attitude of Russians to the events in Kondopoga.

The survey was conducted on September 9-10, 2006 in 153 settlements in 46 regions, territories and republics of Russia. 1600 people were interviewed. The statistical error does not exceed 3.4%.

The survey showed that 34% of respondents had not heard anything at all about the fact that something happened in this Karelian city. Moreover, even in the Northwestern Federal District, as many as 19% of respondents do not know anything about it.

50% of the total number of respondents said that they "heard something about it" and only 15% rated their knowledge as "good".

Russians consider the main version of events to be "a clash on the basis of national hostility" (39%), but the positions of the version that it was a criminal redistribution of property are also quite strong (23%). However, more than a third of the respondents (34%) found it difficult to somehow characterize what happened.

To the question "What reasons lead to events similar to Kondopoga?" (up to two answers) the main answers were the following:

Clash of economic interests of the local population and visiting entrepreneurs - 26%

The clash of two ways of life - the local population and visitors - 24%

Ill-conceived migration policy of the authorities - 23%

Poverty, poor living conditions of people - 21%

Another 22% found it difficult to answer.

But given the opportunity to give three answers to the question "Who, in your opinion, is to blame for the tragic events in Kondopoga?", except for those who found it difficult to answer (50%), the opinion of the respondents was almost unanimous - local authorities - 24% of answers. The second place was given by the respondents to the federal authorities (8%). All other answers did not score more than 4%.

Sources

• Events in Kodopoga: what was it? // Press release of VTsIOM. 2006. 13 September.