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U.S. president's rating rises in U.S., Russia

MOSCOW. Nov 29 (Interfax) - Many Russian citizens who did not really like U.S. President George W. Bush only recently are changing their opinions. Over the past two months, the number of those who sympathize with Bush has increased by 10% (from 22% in September to 32% in November.) And the number of those who dislike the U.S. president has decreased from 43% in September to the current 37%, the Public Opinion Fund announced following polls among 1,500 urban and rural respondents on September 22 and November 24.

Eighty-nine percent of the respondents know about President Vladimir Putin's recent visit to the U.S. Forty-one percent of those polled think that the latest meeting between the Russian and American presidents produced important results. Only 19% of the respondents polled in June expressed the same opinion about the Russian-American summit held in June. Twenty-six percent of those polled do not consider the latest Putin-Bush meeting important. In June such an opinion was shared by 34% of respondents.

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