May 12, 2015. 69% of Russian drivers believe the new changes in the third-party insurance regulations lack efficiency, Levada Center’s research findings indicate.

According to the center sociologists’ data, 90% of Russian car drivers are aware of the changes which came into effect on April 1, while only 35% of pedestrians can boast the same.

Over one half of respondents (53%) feel the new insurance policy is just another kind of tax that fails to provide actual insurance (this feeling was shared by 74% of drivers and 34% of pedestrians).

Russians believe the third-party insurance neither protects the guilty party in an accident (39%) nor the aggrieved one (40%), since getting the actual compensation is a very complicated procedure (63%). Only one-third of drivers (31%) expect things to actually get better as a result of the recent changes.