Study: 59% of Bulgarians Disapprove of Putin's Actions, 23% Do Not Hide their Support

For more than 50 percent of Bulgarians, media reports about the war in Ukraine are rather unreliable, with one in three saying they encounter fake news every day or almost every day, according to a Gallup International Balkan study. Bulgarian public media in general manage to compensate the larger audience of commercial operators with more tangible trust from consumers, according to another conclusion of the sociological agency. The independent drilling for the information environment in our country was conducted among 1003 adult Bulgarians between 2 and 10 June 2022 and is representative of the adult population of the country.

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58.8% in Bulgaria say that they rather disapprove of Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine. However, 23.3% do not hide that they rather approve of these actions. Among the second group are mostly older people, respectively, supporters of political forces that are traditionally more pro-Russian.

A similar structure of opinion was reported in a similar question in a previous Gallup International Balkan study. It is possible that there is a certain social desirability in these answers, as well as "hidden support" for the war in Ukraine. However, a deliberate study on these topics should identify potential dimensions.

At the same time, 50.7% find that the information that the media in Bulgaria reports about the war in Ukraine is generally rather unreliable. Rather reliable, say 25.9%. The others hesitate. The data are worrying about the overall trust in the media environment, although the answers to the question may reflect the traditional skepticism in such cases.

Here, the oldest people react with more serious confidence in the media information - which clearly corresponds to more...

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