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Fieldwork for the survey was carried out by Ipsos MORI in Greece, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Croatia, Lithuania, Hungary, Estonia, Bosnia and the Czech Republic; the Institute for Comparative Social Research Ltd. (CESSI) in Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Latvia; and the Georgian Opinion Research Business International (GORBI) in Armenia.
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