The opinion poll (Levada center, 2011), use translate.google.com
http://www.levada.ru/press/
(http://translate.google.com/
The results are clearly schizophrenic.
Out of five top "allies" the top three - Kazakhstan, Belorussia and Ukraine - are parts of Russia, historic territories of the Russian state, separated as artificially created "national republics" during the long night of the Bolshevik captivity.
The fourth state is... Germany.
Something that I find hardly comprehensible or rather totally incomprehensible.
That entity - because the Federal Republic of Germany is the direct legal heir to the Prussian state, to the German empire and to the Nazi Third Reich (unlike the GDR which had explicitly nothing to do with those criminal entities) has a peculiar track record - it destroyed Russian state in 1917 - something that was never restored, unleashed Communism on the Russian people, invaded Russia twice in the space of 40 years, unleashed Nazism, murdered more Russians than were otherwise killed or died from epidemics in the course of the world's entire history, destroyed vast number of cultural objects and landmarks, at a junction in time the criminal state of Germany was partitioned but most tragically it was again re-united unconditionally by Gorbachev-Eltsin gang and as the ultimate gesture of ingratitude German leadership did everything to enlarge the EU with new anti-Russian statelets (especially the ethno-Nazi statelets in the Baltics), expand NATO (which was a German initiative), and support Islamist militancies in the Balkans and Caucasus: Germany has the largest Chechen population now, thanks to particularly receptive and openly anti-Russian asylum policies. German visas are among the most difficult to get for the Russian nationals - far worse than Spanish, French or Finnish Schengen visas. I would rank Germany as the most anti-Russian state in (old) Europe, after Britain and Sweden. Germany in today's form is however a new state (unlike say Austria), so I am unsure about placing it entirely with the old Europe (with Russia and France), perhaps its personality is split as it has a lot in common, spiritually at least, with the ethnostate which emerged on Europe's periphery in the course of the 20th century.
Although it was nominally democratic Czech(-oslovak with Slovak part being pretty much a nobody, not even the second fiddle) state committed horrific crimes against its German speaking citizens and indirectly against Germany, in Russia it was all the other way around as the number of Russian victims is disproportionate to German and Nazi ones. This said I find that Czech attitudes toward Germany today are far more reserved than what one sees in Russia, where jubilant and slavish Germanophilia is the norm especially when it comes to monstrous merchandise churned out by Teutonic industries. An example would be the extraordinarily overpriced German Siemens fast speed trains that run now on preposterous (from economic and societal perspective) Moscow to St. Petersburg route. Although the French built TGV and Italian faster versions of FIAT Pendolino (the train unit is also owned by Alstom) offered to do the same for a fraction of the price and although unlike Siemens Alstom has experience of fast trains in Arctic (in Finland), the junta chose German because it was German. Likewise the junta created a cult of German car - both government and mafia (both are essentially the same in Russia) drive Mercedeses and BMWs - I can't see French president drive or rather be driven in a piece of German junk). Since Germany is a biological enemy of everything Russian, the choice to me is both puzzling and revealing.
Name five countries which you might call the closest friends and allies of Russia ...? * (Responses ranged from last measurement)
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | |
| V | V | VIII | III | V | V | |
| Belorussia | 46 | 47 | 38 | 50 | 49 | 35 |
| Kazakhstan | 20 | 33 | 39 | 38 | 32 | 33 |
| Ukraine | 17 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 20 | 21 |
| Germany | 23 | 22 | 24 | 17 | 24 | 20 |
| China | 12 | 24 | 19 | 18 | 16 | 18 |
| India | 16 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 16 |
| Cuba | - | - | - | 8 | 10 | 13 |
| Armenia | 9 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 11 |
| France | 13 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 9 |
| Azerbaijan | 5 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 9 |
| Bulgaria | 11 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 9 |
| Italy | 6 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 6 |
| Venezuela | - | - | 2 | 8 | 10 | 6 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 5 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 6 |
| USA | 11 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 5 |
| Tajikistan | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| Egypt | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| No such | 10 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 11 |
| Difficult to answer | 14 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 12 | 15 |
* Contains the first twenty countries in descending order
Here is how Belarussians view the world (2007, though I don't believe much changed since then), use translate.google.com
http://www.eurasianhome.org/
Despite massive propaganda campaign unseen since Stalin era and unprecedented monopolization of media attention, the "rating" of Russia's appointed tyrant, Medvedev, is at humble 44% while Putin's inflated approval is at 49%, a figure I find myself difficult to believe in as it should hover somewhere in the low 10s. I haven't met anyone who voted or would vote for the cockroach.
On top of that comes the news that two-bit tyrant Putin decided to put his phony candidacy up for mock elections.
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