Subject: Seccession  trend in Kaliningrad<br/>
Date: Nov 19, 2002 @ 02:22<br/>
Author: Karolis B. (&quot;Karolis B.&quot; &lt;kbajoraz@...&gt;)<br/>
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8 Percent of Kaliningraders Support Seccession from Russia<br/>
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Baltic News Service<br/>
November 18, 2002<br/>
16:04<br/>
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8 percent of Kaliningrad residents would now want to secceede from <br/>
Russia, states a Russian sociologist, relying on a poll. Even though, <br/>
according to Igor Zadorin, head of Cirkon polling group, there aren&#39;t <br/>
very many such people in the district yet, this tendency could be <br/>
evaluated as unnerving.<br/>
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&quot;This group includes youth, heads of comapanies, the district&#39;s rich <br/>
residents - all of those, who influence the region&#39;s future,&quot; he <br/>
thinks.<br/>
<br/>
His opinion was published on Monday in the daily &quot;Izvestya&quot;.<br/>
<br/>
&quot;The government has to decide as soon as possible as to what will the <br/>
Kaliningrad&#39;s strategic future will be,&quot; thinks Igor Zadorin, the <br/>
director general of polling group Cirkon, that prepared the <br/>
analytical overview &quot;The Problem of Kaliningrad in the Mirror of <br/>
Public Opinion&quot;.<br/>
<br/>
The future of Kaliningrad, which will be surrounded by European Union <br/>
(EU) countries, foremost depents on what economic model the district <br/>
will choose.<br/>
<br/>
47 percent of Kaliningraders believe that the district should be <br/>
granted a free economic zone status. They&#39;re just uncertain about who <br/>
should actually govern this zone - Russia or the enlarging EU.<br/>
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The results of the poll as well show that neither the whole Russian, <br/>
nor the Kaliningrader society has a clear &quot;comprehension of <br/>
Kaliningrad&#39;s trategic future&quot;.<br/>
<br/>
55 percent of the residents believe that after the resolution of the <br/>
visa question and after the EU enlargement, the economic situation <br/>
and overall life will not become better in the region.<br/>
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The region&#39;s economic situtaiton satisfies only 6 percent of <br/>
Kaliningraders. Almost three fourths of the district&#39;s resident&#39;s are <br/>
not satisfied with their material status, even though the average per <br/>
capita statistics are no worse than in other regions.<br/>
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According to Mr. Zadorin that is so, because the district&#39;s residents <br/>
compare their material well-being not with the whole Russia, but with <br/>
neighboring Lithuania and Poland, as well as Germany.</div>