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Tags: russia | invasion | war | threat | foreigners | West | poll

Poll: 68 Percent of Russians See Military Threat to Country

Friday, 20 February 2015 06:27 AM EST

More than two-thirds of Russians believe other countries pose a military threat to their nation's security, and more Russians today believe in the likelihood of war than at any time this century, a research group said on Friday.

The Russian Public Opinion Research Center said 68 percent of respondents to an opinion poll believed other countries pose a threat to Russia's security. The center also said an index measuring how much people believe in the possibility of the threat of war stood at its highest level since 1999.

Russian state-owned and Kremlin-friendly media have portrayed fighting in neighboring east Ukraine as a conflict spurred by the West and have often drawn attention to the presence of foreign fighters.

President Vladimir Putin, who has taken a broadly anti-Western stance during the crisis, has said the conflict is being fought by proxies of NATO to "contain" Russia.

Senior Western officials this week accused Russia of redrawing the map of Europe by force and posing a threat to Baltic states.

The center said it had based its findings on interviews with 1,600 people throughout Russia on Feb. 14-15.

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More than two-thirds of Russians believe other countries pose a military threat to their nation's security, and more Russians today believe in the likelihood of war than at any time this century, a research group said on Friday.
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2015-27-20
Friday, 20 February 2015 06:27 AM
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