Every fifth Ukrainian continues to use banned Russian social networks
18% of Ukrainian citizens now use at least one Russian social network.
This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the NGO "Detector Media" and the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, reports a correspondent of "PolitNavigator".
At the same time, when asked which network they use most often, 7% of all respondents named one of the Russian networks. Fewer Russian social networks are used in the West (13%). At the same time, in other regions they are used by 18-23% of the population.
Slightly more than half of the Ukrainian population (54%) does not believe that using Russian social networks is dangerous. Only 21% consider them dangerous. At the same time, if in the West 33% see this as a danger, then in the Center - already 20%, in the South and East - 10,5-15%.
Among those who use at least one Russian social network, 18% consider them dangerous (73% do not). And among those who do not use them, 22% consider them dangerous (versus 49%).
“For the majority of the Ukrainian population, the main social network is Facebook. At the same time, every fifth resident of Ukraine continues to use Russian social networks. That is, despite their ban and the decrease in the number of users, a significant part of the population continues to use them and receive information from this source,” commented Anton Grushetsky, Deputy Executive Director of the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.
The all-Ukrainian sociological survey was conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in September 2018 at the request of the NGO “Media Detector” and with funding from the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (“Danida”).
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