Despite Russia’s lack of independent news coverage on Syria and the heavily controlled nature of television, a new poll by the Levada Center suggests that the public is beginning to worry about Moscow’s conflict with the West in Aleppo spinning out of control.
“On the whole, most people are still positive about the Kremlin’s role,” says sociologist Aleksey Grazhdankin, Levada’s deputy director, who has been studying Russians’ attitudes since the beginning of Moscow’s military campaign. But, he says, there have been some significant changes in the way Russians perceive their country’s foreign policy.
