Attention draws your TV, not Ukraine – Independent Newspaper

After the news of the troubles in the Crimea doubters in favor of its accession to Russia became more

 

Note to news from Ukraine in Russia continues to decline, while the number of doubters in favor annexation of Crimea, on the other hand, some rising, it follows from the last poll by the Levada Center. ” These strictly reflect the dynamics of changes in the television pictures, experts said.

  
 

The number of respondents who are interested in the events in Ukraine has decreased by almost half in the past year. If you watched 16% in January 2015 of “very carefully” from Kiev News surveyed, those that scored only 8% this January. Quite closely the events of a year ago at the neighbors watched 43%, and now there are only 25%. If you add the two numbers, you get only one-third, which means that most are already those who are Ukrainian events are of particular interest. Last January it pollsters said a total of 40%. By January of this same year, the figure rose to 64% already.

  
 

It seems that the results of this survey reflect quite clearly the content of television programs broadcast goskanalov – and nothing more. So, now we can clearly see that in the news the number of mentions of Donbass and Kiev strongly decreased. Incidentally, the Crimea has recently covered is not always a positive point of view – the Russians often talked about trips to the peninsula of electricity and food blockade.

  
 

According to the survey by the Levada Center, TV on the attitude of Russians to join the Crimea, too, clearly affected. If in May 2015, of the question “Do you support the annexation of the Crimea”, “definitely yes,” replied the maximum – 56%, while in January 2016 they have remained 47%. But less confident in the respondents answered “probably yes”, in contrast, has increased – 36% versus 29% in May. “Definitely do not support” and “rather than support the” joining of Crimea – 13% compared to 8% in May. In addition, the greatly increased number of difficult to answer the question whether accession of the Crimea to Russia brought more good or harm. In March of 2015 we did not know what to say, 12%, and now – 19%. It is in this category and it took almost all of the decrease in the percentage of polling graphs, which recorded positive responses (61% vs 70).

  
 

Director of the Levada Center Lev Gudkov said the “NG”, that the interest in the events in Ukraine has decreased because the weakened state propaganda: “Attention is now redirected to other areas. There was tension with Syria and Turkey and even anti-Ukrainian and anti-Western propaganda is not stopped, their intensity prigashena “. He stressed that the decline in interest in Ukraine – a stable trend: “I understand that the Kremlin leadership is looking for a way out of a situation in which drove itself, but saving face and the Crimea.” By the way, despite the fact that enthusiasm for Crimea weakened, the expert said, people believe – just get it, do not give the same back, but the number of self-realized negative consequences still increasing.

  
 

First Vice President of the Center for Political Technologies, Alexei Makarkin also believes that interest in Ukraine, the Russians fell because “it did not show on TV.” In the Crimea, he said, it is really growing among citizens understanding that its accession has serious costs. And even more doubters was because of the situation with the energy blockade of the peninsula from Ukraine.