Majority of Stavropol residents give negative assessment of work of Stavropolsky Region's governor
12% of respondents use newspapers and 11% use Internet as their main sources of information about current events. 14% tend to trust newspapers and 10% trust Internet as information sources. It should be noted that Internet left radio behind as a source of information. Such local newspapers as “Sovetskaya Adygea” (7%), “Maikopskie novosti” (4%) and “Zakubanje” (2%) proved to be the most popular among the local print media. “Komsomolskaya pravda” (3%) and “Izvestiya” (2%) were the most popular among federal press.
Among the most popular web sites respondents indicated Yandex (3%), Mail.ru (3%), Rambler (3%), Regnum (2%), Caucasus Times (1%), Periodicals.ru (1%), Akipro.ru (1%) and Kavkazskii Uzel (1%).
Only 9% of those polled indicated that they use radio as their main source of information. At the same time, 11% tend to trust those news and information they receive from the radio. Only 3% of respondents mentioned international radio as their main information source but nobody said they feel confident about information they get from international radio. Among the most popular radio stations in Maikop were Russkoe Radio (8%), Radio Adygea (6%) and Maikopskoe Radio (3%).
Population of Dagestan is satisfied with the Head of the Republic, but would prefer increased federal center’s control
PRAGUE, 10 November, Caucasus Times. On 21-31 October 2006 Caucasus Times conducted public opinion poll among 400 residents of the capital of the Republic of Dagestan Makhachkala. In total, 185 women and 215 men have been polled. Representatives of local intelligentsia, students, employees, pensioneers as well as representatives of all major ethnic communities living in Dagestan were among those who participated in this public opinion poll.
Results of this opinion poll indicated mostly positive attitudes of the majority of the population of Makhachkala towards new republican leadership headed by Mukhu Aliev. Respondents’ attitudes towards changes in social, economic and security situation in the republic were mostly reserved or demonstrated rather cautious optimism.
Thus, responding to a question on how social and economic situation in Dagestan changed during the period from the beginning of 2006, 49% of respondents reported no changes. At the same time, 8% noticed that situation “improved”, 20% - “rather improved” and just 6% - “deteriorated” and 10% - “rather deteriorated”. 7% found it hard to answer this question. In total, those who tend to negatively or rather negatively assess changes in social and economic situation including those who reported no changes (65%) outnumber those optimistically-minded respondents (28%).
