The famous Russian proverb reminds: tell me who your friend is, and I'll tell you who you are.

Another echoes it: with whom you are led, from that and you will be typed.

These proverbs illustrate not only interpersonal, but also interstate relations.

Levada-tsentralbnarodal results of the next survey of Russian public opinion on the issues: "Name the countries:.

A) what can be called the closest friends, allies of Russia?.

(B) What are the most unfriendly, hostile to Russia? ".

The attention of observers seems to have been most attracted by the fact that Ukraine was "enemy number two". Judging by the questions and comments of Ukrainians, they are also worried about this.

This fact, strictly speaking, is not news. In the eyes of the part of the Russian population subject to official propaganda, Ukraine has been occupying the "enemy number two" place for the fourth year in a row - since the spring of 2014. However, it is much more important that in its "hostility toward Russia" in the minds of many Russians, Ukraine found itself in a very decent company - together with the United States, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Estonia, Great Britain, France, that is, in one Group with free and highly developed countries in Europe and North America. In other words, in the eyes of the Russian citizens interviewed, Ukraine has already significantly approached that very Europe, the entry into which was proclaimed one of the main goals of the Dignity Revolution of 2013-14.

Much more worrying about the results of this public survey would have to be experienced by Russian citizens, whose authorities have for many years been, for many years, the authoritative, economically less developed countries - Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Syria , Armenia, Cuba, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, as well as India.

Political and economic "portraits" of "friends" and "enemies" of Russia appear regularly on the pages of this blog:.

June 11, 2009. , Tell me who your friend is.

September 11, 2009. , Enemies and friends of the Russian leadership September 13, 2009. , Tell me who your friend is, and I'll tell you who your enemy is. And vice versa.

July 13, 2011. , Enemies and friends of the Russian leadership. Continuation on June 16, 2014. , Enemies and Friends of Russia This time the main attention was paid not only to the absolute and relative levels of political and economic development of "friends" and "enemies" of Russia - this picture is already well known to regular readers. "Friends" of Russia, to be more precise: the Russian leadership is authoritarian and poor, and its "enemies", more precisely: the Russian leadership, are free and wealthy countries.

This time it was decided to draw attention to the economic and political evolution that occurred over the past 12 years in the average whole group of "enemies" of Russian leadership and the degradation of the average of the whole group of its "friends". On both graphs (above and below), the weighted average values ??in 2005-2016. GDP per capita (for PPP at constant prices in 2002. ) And the Index of Political and Civil Liberties by Freedom House. As weights used to determine the weighted average values, we used the specific weights of the votes given by the interviewed Russian citizens to one or another country in the total amount of votes given to all "friends" of Russia and all of its "enemies".

Over the past 12 years, the per capita GDP per capita on the average in the group of "enemies" of Russia grew by 67.1%, while on the average in the group of its "friends" - it stagnated (increased only by 1.3%). The index of political and civil liberties in the average group of "enemies" of Russia remained virtually unchanged for 12 years (increased by 1.0%), and on average in the group of its "friends" - fell by 29.9%.

Thus, the relative level of GDP per capita in the group of "friends" of Russia in comparison with the same indicator in the group of its "enemies" fell from about 81% in 2005. Up to 49% in 2016. (The backlog of "friends" of Russia from its "enemies" has increased accordingly from 19 to. Up to 51 p. The relative level of GDP per capita in Russia itself, compared with the group of its "enemies" fell from 74% in 2005. Up to 55% in 2016. (T. The lag of Russia from its "enemies" has increased from 26 to. Up to 45 p. P).

The relative level of the Index of political and civil liberties in the group of "friends" of Russia in comparison with the same indicator in the group of its "enemies" fell from approximately 61% in 2005. Up to 42% in 2016. (The backlog of "friends" of Russia from its "enemies" has increased from 39 to. Up to 58 p. The relative level of the Index of political and civil liberties in Russia itself, compared with the group of its "enemies" fell from more than 38% in 2005. To less than 20% in 2016. (The backwardness of Russia from its "enemies" has increased from 62 to. Up to 80 p.

Thus, once again we have to reproduce the conclusions made a few years ago:.

"Enemies" of Russia (t. Of the current Russian leadership) are, as a rule, politically free countries with wealthy citizens with a high life expectancy, low crime, low levels of internal and external aggression.

"Friends" of Russia (t. Of the current Russian leadership) are, as a rule, not free, authoritarian regimes with poor inhabitants, doomed to short life expectancy, high crime, with high levels of internal and external aggression.

With the passage of time, the backwardness of the "friend" countries of Russia (t. Russian leadership) and Russia itself from the advanced states in political and economically more developed countries perceived by Russia's "enemies" (t. Russian leadership) is rapidly increasing.

The domestic and foreign policy pursued by the Russian authorities consolidates the catastrophic, in its inevitable consequences, orientation of our homeland to the countries of the world that are more backward in the economic and politically unfriendly countries of the world, to the opposition of Russia to the most developed in the world's most economically and politically most free countries.

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