Sixty-four percent of all Russians see their nation as a great world power according a poll taken by the National Institute of Social Psychology Studies. A bare 39 percent had a less exaggerated view of their county’s place in the world.
The majority of the 1,600 Russians – a whopping 55 percent - surveyed in the poll said they believe it is Russia’s destiny to gather the various groups of nationalities under the umbrella of a single state as a successor to the pre-Communist Tsarist empire and the Soviet state. Only 26 percent disagreed with this grandiose view, according to the Interfax news agency, which obtained a copy of the poll.
Russia’s present condition, however, tends to dash cold water on the Russian people’s grand ambitions. As reported by NewsMax.com’s
By any standards, he reports, Russia’s population is living in deep poverty, with more than one-third of all Russians living below the official poverty line. Moreover, he adds, 46.3 million Russians, or 31.8 percent of the population, receive monthly salaries that are less than the official subsistence level of $45 a month, a special government report revealed.
"The government says that it has been unable to pay Russia’s retirees what it says they need to survive. Official monthly pensions for the elderly were increased to $29 earlier last month, but that is still far below subsistence levels,” Lunev wrote.
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