At the end of last week, specialists from the National Research Institute for the Development of Communications in Moscow presented a “friendship rating” with 14 post-Soviet countries in Russia.
In the rating of the institute, countries were evaluated according to 68 indicators: foreign policy, economic, media communications, communications in education, science, culture, youth relations, religious dialogue, and others.
On a 100-point scale, Belarus (88.4 points) is recognized as the closest country to Russia. The second place was taken by Kyrgyzstan with 60.6 points. Uzbekistan, scoring 59.3 points, took third place in the ranking of “the closest and friendliest” countries to Russia.
According to the results of the rating, Kazakhstan (58.4 points) and Armenia (58.3 points), which work together with Russia as member states in structures such as the CSTO and the Eurasian Economic Union, Tajikistan (57.9 points), which sends hundreds of thousands of migrants to Russia, and Turkmenistan (47.1 points), which has large energy contracts, are left behind Uzbekistan.
In the ranking, Georgia (24.2 points) and Moldova (8.3 points) are among the “relatively friendly” countries. Among the “unfriendly” countries are Latvia (-45.8 points), Lithuania (-49 points), Estonia (-51 points) and Ukraine (-83 points).
source: rus.ozodi