An overwhelming majority of Russians (93 percent) support the unification of the Crimean Peninsula with Russia and reject the proposal of compensation for Ukraine (90 percent) made by Czech President Milos Zeman, VCIOM said.
The nationwide poll, which surveys 1,200 respondents older than 18, was conducted by phone on October 13-14.
Only four percent of respondents surveyed consider the unification to be wrong and six percent believe that compensation should be paid.
The main argument of people disagreeing with the idea of compensation is that Crimea is historically a Russian territory (50 percent).
At the same time, 69 percent of respondents said that global recognition of Crimea as a Russian territory would be important for Russia (28 percent said they think otherwise).
People continue to believe that it will happen within a year or within several years (65 percent of respondents surveyed in 2017 think so, against 72 percent in 2015). Another 23 percent of respondents said they believe that other countries will recognize Crimea as Russian territory within ten years or more and seven percent of the respondents said they will never recognize it.
In his speech in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in October 2017, Czech President Milos Zeman suggested that the problem of Crimea should be resolved by making payments to Ukraine.
