Half of Russians regard environmental conditions as bad
56 percent of Russians think the environmental conditions where they live are bad or nearly catastrophic, a recent poll shows.
According to a survey conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center in December 2010, 56 percent of the asked Russians said that they regarded the environmental conditions where they live as bad, and of these 11 percent regarded them as “very bad or near catastrophic”, RIA Novosti reports.
Citizens of Moscow and St. Petersburg are least satisfied with the ecological situation. Only 23 percent of the asked persons in Russia’s two largest cities are happy with the environmental conditions.
People in the federal districts of Ural and North-West Russia are most satisfied with the ecological situation where they live. 54 percent of the asked persons in these regions regard the situation as “mostly satisfactory” or “more or less satisfactory”.
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