"Crimean syndrome" stops affected Russians' attitude to 1999-2005 terror acts

The increase of the number of Russians who are convinced that special services had known about the terror acts committed in 1999-2005, indicates that the population is no longer under the effect of the "Crimean syndrome", associated with the growth of confidence in the actions of the authorities, said the experts of the "Levada Centre". According to their version, there is a return to a "more pragmatic approach."

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that according to the results of the polling, conducted by the "Levada Centre" and published on August 31, the number of respondents, who believe that special services had known about the preparation of terror acts, but could not prevent them, has grown from 24% to 33%.

"At the background of events in Ukraine, the level of peoples' claims to the authorities has gone somewhat down. Now the 'freezing' effect of the interest in the problem is vanishing; and the moods return to the earlier level. However, the trend towards neutral assessment of authorities' actions evaluation still persists," said Alexei Grazhdankin, a deputy director of the "Levada Centre".

People's moods have indeed "returned to the pre-Crimean period," said Stepan Goncharov, an expert of the "Levada Centre", noting, first of all, that "albeit slightly, but the share of those, who blame federal and local authorities for the terror act in Beslan, has grown up."

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.