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Americans' negative views on Russia have reached levels never seen since the fall of the Soviet Union, according to a new poll released Wednesday by the Gallup pollster.
Relations between the two countries have collapsed to a level comparable to that of the Cold War since Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula to Ukraine in 2014 and was accused of intervening during the war. 39th US presidential election of 2016.
According to Gallup's results, 52% of Americans perceive Russia as a "critical threat" to US interests, and Russia's negative ratings hit a new high of 73%.
At the same time, Russia has replaced North Korea as the country that most respondents have described as the "biggest enemy" of the United States. – at 32 percent. In last year's poll, only 19% of respondents rated Russia's biggest enemy, compared with 51% of respondents, the same thing about North Korea.
"Each of these negative perceptions of Russia marks a record in Gallup's trends," said the pollster m said.
Gallup surveyed 1,016 Americans living in the 50 US states between February 1st and 10th.
Conversely, more than two-thirds of Russian respondents appointed United States as the biggest enemy of Russia in a survey conducted last year by the Levada Independent Center.
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