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The New Russia Barometer (NRB) monitors the response of Russians to the political and economic transformation of their society by the familiar social science method of nationwide representative sample surveys. The initial NRB survey was undertaken in January, 1992, the first month of the newly independent Russian state. NRB surveys have been conducted regularly since, compiling basic economic, political and social indicators covering freedom, support for democracy or undemocratic alternatives, earnings and not being paid, destitution, strategies that Russians use to cope with problems inherited from the old regime and with new problems, and support for different types of economic system. This SPP paper reports trend data from seven nationwide Russian surveys from 1992 to 1998. It also includes a chapter comparing Russian attitudes with those of Belarus, Ukraine and Central and East European countries surveyed in the New Democracies Barometer.
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