Majority of Russians support war in Ukraine, according to state opinion polls in Russia. However, these opinion polls cannot be trusted, according to Meduza..

First of all, they cannot be objective, since sociologists are controlled by the state..

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However, independent sociologists gave similar assessments.

“There is no reason to believe that the “state” sociologists directly falsify the results: approximately the same values \u200b\u200bwere obtained in the course of a telephone survey conducted from February 28 to March 1 by a group of independent sociologists,” the journalists write..

However, the publication noted that there are other factors that can greatly affect the results of any survey, and they must be taken into account when interpreting. Among these factors:.

Question wording. VTsIOM and FOM asked respondents about their attitude to the “special military operation”. If a different wording had been used (“sending troops into Ukraine”, “military operations”, “war”), the results could have changed.

Polls were conducted last week, from Friday, February 25th to Sunday, February 27th. Since then the mood may have changed.

Finally, it is known that not all people candidly answer such questions and often say what they think they want to hear from them.. Thus, most likely, the level of support for a military invasion of Ukraine in these polls is overstated..

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