MOSCOW. May 19 (Interfax) - The suppression of terrorism will go on for a long time despite the liquidation of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the Russian Public Opinion Study Center (VTsIOM) cited the opinion of 77% of Russians expressed in 46 regions on May 14-15.
Most of such respondents live in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Thirteen percent of the respondents said that bin Laden's death would stop the international anti-terrorist fight. The opinion prevails in large and medium cities, villages and in groups with little education.
Fifty-two percent of the respondents said bin Laden was "a puppet created by the United States to justify its aggressive policy."
Thirty-two percent said that bin Laden was a real threat as the leader of a terrorist organization.
Forty-seven percent said that "U.S. security services were not efficient because they had been unable to kill such a dangerous man as bin Laden for too long."
Twenty-eight percent said "the killing of the al-Qaeda leader was a real success of the United States."
U.S. security services killed bin Laden in northeast Pakistan in the early morning hours of May 2, 2011.
The U.S. put the al-Qaeda leader on the wanted list in August 1998. He was suspected of orchestrating terror acts against the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed over 200 people. A $5 million reward was offered for the suspect.
Bin Laden said he was responsible for the terror act of September 11, 2001, in the U.S. in which over 3,000 people died. He was declared the number one terrorist, and the U.S. government increased the reward to $25 million. The Senate enlarged this amount further, to $50 million, in 2007.