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Putin reaches new heights of popularity among Russians
Interfax
Moscow, 29 November: The rating of President Vladimir Putin is
unprecedentedly high. Eighty per cent of Russians approve of his activities.
Putin's rating has gone up 5 per cent within the past month. It was 75 per cent
in October.
18 per cent do not approve of Putin's activities. The index was 19 per cent a
month ago.
Putin now has the highest rating of his entire presidency, the All-Russia
Public Opinion Research Centre told Interfax on Thursday [29 November] with
reference to two polls of 1,600 Russians in late October and on 23-28 November.
Information about people who did not give a coherent answer is not cited. Their
number is the difference between 100 per cent and the number of coherent
answers.
Fifty-three per cent of the respondents approve of the activities of Prime
Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, while 34 per cent think the opposite (the indices
were 48 per cent and 33 per cent a month ago).
The correlation is 46 per cent and 45 per cent for the government (42 per
cent and 45 per cent a month ago).
The confidence rating in Putin is also high. Fifty-two per cent of the
respondents named Putin when asked to name five to six politicians they trust.
The index was 47 per cent in October. (Only the names of the top ten politicians
are cited.)
Putin is followed by Sergey Shoygu (17 per cent in November and 19 per cent
in October), Communist Party leader Gennadiy Zyuganov (16 per cent and 16 per
cent), Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov (12 per cent and 12 per cent), ex-Prime
Minister and Duma deputy Yevgeniy Primakov (9 per cent and 5 per cent), Deputy
Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko (8 per cent and 8 per cent), Duma
Vice-Speaker Vladimir Zhirinovskiy (7 per cent and 8 per cent), Kemerovo
governor Aman Tuleyev (7 per cent and 7 per cent), Yabloko leader Grigoriy
Yavlinskiy (6 per cent and 7 per cent) and Moscow Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov (6 per
cent and 9 per cent).
Seventeen per cent of the polled said that no Russian politician could be
trusted (the index was 19 per cent in October).
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