December 11, 2001 - 22:07 AMT
AZERBAIJAN IS THIRD IN LIST OF COUNTRIES TAKING HOSTILE ATTITUDE TOWARD RUSSIA
According to the poll held by Russian center ROMIR, Russians considered Georgia and Azerbaijan the CIS countries having hostile attitude. Georgia is the leader according to this poll. 37.1% of people participating in the poll consider Georgia Russia's enemy. The second in the poll is Azerbaijan with 18.1%, then Ukraine with 16.1% and Tajikistan with 15.3%. Kirghizstan and Belorus are the last countries in the list of the countries-enemies. In the list of the countries-allies Belorus (76.7%) is the first among the CIS countries. Then Ukraine (37.5%) and Kazakhstan (35.3%) are. Armenia (28.1%), Moldavia (25.4%), Kirgizstan (21.3%) are in the middle of the list. Georgia (8.6%) and Azerbaijan (11.9%) are the last in the list. While choosing countries Russia could be unified into a new state, the people name Belorus (63.5%) first, then Ukraine (33.2%), and Kazakhstan (23.2%), then Moldavia (19.6%). 10.4% of people who participated in the poll answered that there were not such countries.