The new Monitoring of communication modes and the Rating of friendliness of post-Soviet countries authored by a team of experts from the National Research Institute for the Development of Communications (NIIRK) was published on Wednesday, February 26. And in it, the Institute's analysts counted ten states friendly to Russia.
The rating was compiled not only by NIIRC experts, but also by other specialists from Russia and the states of the former USSR themselves.
In one way or another, experts called Moscow friendly (in descending order of points) South Ossetia, Belarus, Abkhazia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkmenistan. Ukraine, as well as the Baltic countries — Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Georgia was given the status of a "relatively friendly" state in the NIIRC.
EADaily previously also informed that political polarization, according to NIIRC experts, continues to grow in the post-Soviet space.