BESLAN TRAGEDY: PEOPLE'S ATTITUDES

As far as the residents' main sources of information are concerned, television has a comfortable lead (75 %), with radio as second (25 %), followed by the Internet (21 %) and the newspapers (15 %). The Internet is especially popular with the male population.

The question about which Internet sites best cover the situation in Chechnya objectively, showed there was a high degree of distrust for the Russian regional websites as well as the federal ones; thus these sites only received 1% each for being objective. 49% said that the foreign Internet sites covering the situation in Chechnya are the most objective. Half of the respondents (50%), mostly women, refused to answer this question.

Note: The poll was conducted on March 11-15 in Grozny and included 150 people aged 16 and over. Two or more answers were allowed for some questions.

Translated by Prague Watchdog.