Explore US-Russia survey research between 2021 and 2025.
Introduction
Since 2017, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Levada Center have jointly conducted opinion surveys in both the United States and Russia. During most of this period, official relations were in a diplomatic paralysis and public opinion surveys have been critical to monitoring the bilateral relationship.
Thanks to generous funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the two organizations shed light on public perceptions of the domestic, regional, and international dynamics of US-Russia ties in the hopes that these data would help guide relations in a peaceful direction.
Americans and Russians were polled about their respective foreign policies, and most recently with a special focus on the conflict in Ukraine. Most Russians support the military operation and have expressed increased confidence in Russia’s international clout. At the same time, they seem fatigued by war, and a growing percentage favors peace negotiations while they perceive having a battlefield advantage. Yet they are unwilling to make meaningful territorial concessions to resolve the conflict and remain defiant in the face of Western sanctions. Americans, meanwhile, have become more polarized in support for continuing US military and economic aid to Kyiv.
The goals of the multi-year Chicago Council-Levada survey project aimed to generate new public knowledge on critical issues in the US-Russia relationship; to inform and influence the policy and scholarly foreign policy discussion around those issues; to help shape media coverage of these issues; and to provide a lasting resource for scholars of American and Russian foreign policy and public opinion. We hope these results will continue to shed light on these important bilateral connections in the years to come.
