backing the ussr 2.0as well as to abstain from voting in 2013, and to believe that
the Russian economy had been improving over the previous year
(see Table 6.1 and Figure 6.2). This conclusion is based on the
p- significance values in the independent sample t- test with SPSS
21.0, with equal variance between the sub- samples not assumed.
Two differences between sub-sample means were statistically
significant. Ethnic non- Russians were more likely than ethnic
Russians to support Russian expansion to the entire territory of
the former Soviet Union, but were also less likely to have voted
in the 2012 presidential election. Descriptive statistics offer addi-
tional insights on the likely prominence of these views in the
general population and on intergroup differences on key issues of
interest in absolute terms.
Figure 6.2 Preferences for Russian territorial identity, ingroup pride,
political preferences and economic valuations among ethnic Russian and
non- Russian respondents in the 2013 NEORUSS surveys (percentage of all
respondents who answered the question)^14
Note: *Statistically significant (non- randomly related) in the independent sample t- test