YEREVAN. – More than a half of Armenian respondents positively assess country’s accession to the Customs Union, the opinion poll results show.

Aram Navasardyan, head of Marketing Professional Group, presented the results of a survey conducted by Gallup International in early October among 1,067 people in Yerevan and the regions.

As compared with the previous survey, the positive perception of Customs Union reduced by 3 percent (from 67 to 64 percent).

Asked whether such attitude can be explained by gas price rise, sales of weapons to Azerbaijan and the Hrachya Harutyunyan case, Navasardyan said Russian media coverage of the Harutyunyan case is a phenomenon of a single character. There has not been regular anti-Armenian propaganda either in Russian society, or the media. Some anti-Russian sentiment erupted in Armenia, but were accompanied by counterpropaganda.

Twenty-eight percent of respondents rated this decision unequivocally positive, 36 percent said it was rather positive. Another 19 percent regarded the decision as neutral. Only four percent called it “more negative than positive” and “negative.”

As to implications of accession, 38 percent of respondents cited economic growth, while 26 percent expect lower prices. Seventeen percent of pollees think that nothing will change and eight percent in contrast are waiting for higher prices.

Armenia’s intention to join the Customs Union was announced on September 3 in Moscow by President Serzh Sargsyan .