Posted on 03/21/2016 11:32:34 AM PDT by Thistooshallpass9
The number of Russians who “fully trust” President Vladimir Putin dropped by 10 percentage points over the last year, according to a new survey conducted by the Levada Center.
At this time in 2015, 83 percent of Russians said they “fully trust” the president. The new survey conducted over several weeks in February and March says the level has now fallen to 73 percent.
Levada Center deputy chief Alexei Grazhdankina says this means Putin’s approval rating is back at “pre-Crimea” levels, a reference to the time before Putin annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014. However, the current rate is “still much higher than it was at the end of 2013,” Grazhdankina said.
The number of Russians who expressed sympathy for Mr. Putin also declined by 7 percentage points, while the number professing to feel “indifferent” toward him rose from 10 to 15 percent. The number of those who are “wary” of him climbed from 5 to 8 percent.
Most Russians view Putin’s intervention in the Syrian conflict favorably. Yet the economic hardships they are suffering at home are too significant to be entirely outweighed by enthusiasm over Russian adventurism and Putin’s bold foreign policy.
Even still, his popularity remains sky-high by Western standards. A separate Levada poll conducted last month showed that 65 percent of Russians would like Putin to serve another presidential term after his current term ends in 2018. “Election year is approaching,” Grazhdankin said, “and no real, viable opponents have emerged.”
Losing wars and being humiliated by Turkey does that.
How’s that Angela Merkel working out for you?
Whilst I approve of some of what Putin has done, these ratings are not worthy of any credibility. There is no organized opposition in Russia and the corruption throughout the system is rampant.
How many people are going to publicly say they oppose their murdering dictator?
Uh oh. Time to fake another terrorist attack or invade a neighbor or murder a few journalists.
Prostitution Surges in Russia in Wake of Financial Crisis: Report
Actually the Communist Party is Putin’s opposition.
“Losing wars and being humiliated by Turkey does that.”
I’m not so sure that Turkey is ‘humiliating’ Russia. Russia has S-400’s stationed near the Turkey border. Not a SINGLE Turkish plane flies without being pained...and if ANY Turkish plane strays into Syrian airspace, they get to test their ejection seats, if they’re lucky.
“How many people are going to publicly say they oppose their murdering dictator?”
Likewise, as some of us Trump supporters understand, “How many people are PROUD of having a leader that LOVES HIS COUNTRY”?
“Prostitution Surges in Russia in Wake of Financial Crisis: Report”
LOL...as if there’s none here. LOL!
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