MOSCOW. April 2 (Interfax) - According to social polls, Russians tend to look positively rather than negatively at the relations between Moscow and Washington, and their opinions on this issue have remained virtually unchanged over the past four years.

Most often Russians believe that our country has normal, calm (36%) or cool (26%) relations with the United States. Less often the relations between the two countries are seen as good, neighborly (7%) or tense (12%). Extreme rates are even rarer: friendly (4%) or hostile relations (3%), sociologists from the Russian Public Opinion Study Center (VTsIOM) told Interfax after conducting a nationwide survey.

On the whole, the relations between Russia and the U.S. are rated positively more often than negatively (47:41), and since 2004 (48:41) there have been almost no changes in these opinions.

The poll was conducted in 153 towns across 46 Russian regions.