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hostile against their country has hit the lowest mark for the past 15 years​, according to a recent survey by the Yuri Levada Analytical Center, a Moscow-based think tank. The US sits at the top of the ranking. Ukraine lies in second place with 35% and the UK third with 29%. Estonia is in ninth place on the list.
A survey of Russians has revealed that two-fifths currently believe it is time for the body of Soviet revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin to be removed from display and put in the ground​. Research by online service Superjob revealed that just 22 percent of Russians think Lenin should stay where he is, with 17 percent believing the country should wait until those who were born and raised in the Soviet Union have passed away. The status of Lenin's corpse is regularly discussed in Russian media, and is commonly brought up by political figures who wish to remove him from Red Square. In May, veteran politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky suggested that the country sell his body, perhaps to "China, Vietnam, or some other kind of communist."
About a third of Russians (37%) consider Russia a great power, ​another 29% think that the country will become one again in the next 15-20 years, according to the state owned pollster, the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VTsIOM). The number of Russians who consider Russia a great power has decreased by 12% since 2018 when 49% of respondents believed Russia was a great power. In comparison with the figures for 2017, the number of these responses decreased by 20% from 57% to 37%. According to the current poll, 26% of Russians are convinced that Russia will not be able to become a great power in the near future. Almost every third respondent (31%) believes that Russia should return the status of a "superpower" like the USSR. Men and Russians over the age of 35 are mostly likely to think Russia should become a great power again. At the same time, approximately half of the respondents aged 18 to 34 are confident that Russia should strive to become one of the 10-15 economically developed and politically influential countries. Another 10% of Russians believe that the country should not strive for any global goals. The most important goals for Russia include well-being and a high standard of living (12%), the development of social policy and the improvement of people's lives (11%), the maintenance of peaceful relations with other countries (10%), the development of the economy and the maintenance of business (9%), cooperation with other countries (7%), achieving global authority and influence (6%). At the same time, another 6% believe that, first of all, Russia needs to obtain the status of a world power.
Slightly more than half (51%) of Russians either support implementing the idea of "Russia for [ethnic] Russians" or think it would be good to implement "within reasonable limits,"​ according
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