MOSCOW. May 16 (Interfax) - Alexander Oslon, president of the Public Opinion Foundation, said, citing a study conducted in Moscow in April, that an overwhelming majority of respondents said they had no intention of taking part in protests.

The study showed that some 10% of the respondents surveyed said they were for Putin and "some 6-10%" were against him, Oslon told a press conference in Moscow on Wednesday.

An overwhelming majority of the respondents said they would not take part in any rallies for or against the current administration, which contradicts the media coverage of the protest tendencies, Oslon said.

At the same time, Oslon said most of the respondents who said they intended to take part in protests sad they would take part in protests against illegal immigration.

According to the sociologist, a situation when a huge number of people are gripped by the same idea to a point of creating a high protest wave is very rare and there is no such situation in Russia.

As an example, Oslon mentioned the results of the polls following the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, when a huge number of people all over the world were depressed by the thoughts of terrorism, and the 1980s perestroika in the USSR.

"There is currently no factor that totally grips people's minds. People are concerned about various things such as health, study, work, vacations [