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MOSCOW, 18 November 2022. Russian Public Opinion Research Centre presents the findings of a study commissioned by Social Research Expert Institute; the study highlights the Russian attitudes towards assigning the honorary titles to a number of the Russian cities.

On November 15, a meeting of Pobeda Organizing Committees chaired by V.Putin was held. One of the initiatives was to assign honorary titles to a number of cities.

Seventy-six percent of Russians are informed that certain Russian cities were awarded the City of Labor Valour title and the City of Military Glory title. A quarter of respondents heard about it for the first time (24%). 

More than half of Russians are aware that Vladimir Putin signed the decrees on conferring the City of Military Glory title on Mariupol and Melitopol and the City of Labor Valour title on another nine Russian cities (including Gorlovka and Luhansk) (56%). Forty-four percent of Russians heard about it for the first time during the survey.

Most of Russians positively perceive the idea to assign the honorary titles to the cities that have recently become part of Russia (Mariupol, Melitopol, Gorlovka, Luhansk) (64%); 5% express negative views; 25% remain indifferent. Six percent are undecided.  

There are three reasons why the initiative was supported (among those who express favorable views): a well-deserved award (15%); huge contribution of these cities during the Great Patriotic War (10%); staying for long under shelling (9%).

 

 “Sputnik” Russian nationwide telephone survey was commissioned by Social Research Expert Institute (EISI) and conducted on 17 November, 2022. A total of 1,600 Russians aged 18 and over took part in the survey. Survey method: telephone interviews, stratified random sample based on a complete list mobile phone numbers in use in Russia. The data were weighted according to social and demographic characteristics. The margin of error at a 95% confidence level does not exceed 2.5%. In addition to sampling error, minor changes to the wording of questions and different circumstances arising during the fieldwork can introduce bias into the survey.

 

Key effectiveness indicators, November 17, 2022 survey:  cooperation rate (CR)* = 0.7882; minimum response rate (MRR)** = 0.0205; response rate (RR)*** = 0.1315. Based on corporate standards: https://profi.wciom.ru/principy_standarty/korporativnyj-standart-po-izmereniyu-rezultativnosti-oprosov-sputnik-vciom/

* CR: the number of complete interviews divided by the sum of: а) complete interviews and b) non-interviews with eligible respondents.

** MRR: the number of complete interviews divided by the sum of: а) complete interviews, b) interrupted interviews after successful screening and c) all the respondents where it is unknown whether they meet the selected criteria or not.

** RR is calculated in the same way as MRR, with the only difference that the number of respondents with unknown eligibility decreases proportional to the percentage of eligible cases in the total number of respondents with identified eligibility or non-eligibility.

 

The City of Labor Valour and the City of Military glory honorary titles were established in Russia several years ago. Did you hear, do you know that certain Russian cities were awarded these titles, or do you hear about it for the first time?  (closed-ended question, one answer, % of total respondents)

 

Total respondents

I am well aware about that

24

I heard something, but I do not know any details

52

I hear about that for the first time

24

At the recent meeting of “Pobeda” Organizing Committee Russian president Vladimir Putin signed the decrees on conferring the “City of Military Glory” and “City of Labor Valour” honorary titles on Mariupol and Melitopol. Nine cities were awarded the City of Labor Valour title (Astrakhan, Vologda, Gorlovka, Zlatoust, Kaspiysk, Luhansk, Norilsk, Orsk, and Yakutsk). Did you hear, do you know or do you hear about that for the first time? (closed-ended question, one answer, % of total respondents)

 

Total respondents

I am well aware about that

20

I heard something, but I do not know any details

36

I hear about that for the first time

44

Let’s talk about assigning the City of Military Glory title to Mariupol and Melitopol and the City of Labor Valour title to Gorlovka and Luhansk. These cities are in the regions which have recently become part of the Russian Federation. How do you perceive the idea to confer these titles on these cities?  (closed-ended question, one answer, % of total respondents)

 

Total respondents

Likely positively

64

Likely negatively

5

Indifferent

25

Don’t know

6

Why do you perceive positively the idea to assign the honorary titles to these cities? up to 3 answers are possible  (answers of the respondents who positively perceive the idea to assign titles to cities; data calculated in %  of total respondents; open-ended question; up to 3 answers; answers of at least 2% of respondents) 

 

Total respondents

Well-deserved award

15

They contributed a lot during the Great Patriotic War / they supplied the battle front  / they fought against the Nazi

10

People lived under shelling / they suffered a lot / they have gone through much

9

They defended their freedom / they fought for their motherland / they did not pull back

8

They became part of Russia / these are our cities  / our people

4

Military actions are on there / people fight there; our soldiers

3

People kept working despite shelling / hard workers

3

Assistance to cities, people / restauration

2

I was born there / I used to be there / my relatives are there / good cities, good people

2

Originally Russian cities

2

For endurance / heroism / bravery

2

Other

2

Don’t know

11

No response

36

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