Russian citizens continue to closely follow the events in Ukraine: 82% of the people surveyed by the Public Opinion Foundation said they follow the situation in Ukraine, and 47% of them said they do so on a permanent basis, mostly through television.

The poll, which surveyed 1,500 respondents, was conducted in 1,000 populated areas in 43 regions of Russia on January 18.

Seventy-seven percent of the respondents said they get information on the events taking place in Ukraine mainly from television programs.

Half of the respondents (51%) find federal channels to provide an objective coverage of the situation in Ukraine and 18% believe this coverage is not objective. Thirteen percent were undecided.

The percentage of the respondents who believe federal channels provide an objective coverage of the events in Ukraine is the highest among people living in cities with populations of over 1 million (56%), people with monthly incomes between 8,001 rubles and 12,000 rubles (56%), and peopled aged 46-60 (61%).

The percentage of the respondents who said television is not objective is the highest among respondents aged 25-34 (24%), people living in cities with a population of 250,000 people to 1 million (24%), young people with university degrees (27%), middle-aged people with university degrees(27%), and people with monthly incomes of over 30,000 rubles (33%).

People also get information on the Ukrainian conflict from the Internet (24%). The percentage of people who use the Internet to get this information is the highest among young people, especially those with university degrees (48%).

Eleven percent of the respondents said they learn information on the events in Ukraine from their relatives and friends, 9% said they learn it from the radio, and 8% said they learn it from newspapers.