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As for Russia, what is going on seems more like distortion of information about real state of affairs (or careful selection of information to be presented, avoiding certain aspects, or biased...

D.Bykov, Russian poet:

На Запад мы обращены,
Хотя они ничем не краше,
Но просто ихние штаны
Нам больше нравятся, чем наши.

i see, i've opened the Pew poll in pdf. It's 'trust in Russia'. I thought it was a linguistic question. I understand it as "доверие к России".

@shnuddy, I am not sure the rianovosti texts are always written by native speakers of English.

Or is it Tepid Peace?