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Fewer Than 1 in 5 Russians Support Putin’s Foreign Policy

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Moscow Times | Fewer Than 1 in 5 Russians Support Putin’s Foreign Policy, Poll Says

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8/9/18
President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy is supported by only 16 percent of Russians in light of domestic policy changes like the proposed retirement age hike, according to the latest poll from the independent Levada Center. Russia provides military aid to the Syrian regime in its seven-year civil war and is accused of backing pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. A majority of Russians backed Russian airstrikes in Syria in 2015 with some reservations. A Levada Center poll conducted in July 2018 and published Thursday has found that 16 percent of Russian respondents support Putin’s foreign policy, down from 22 percent two years ago. Denis Volkov, a sociologist with the Levada Center, linked the decline in public support to foreign policy fatigue about Russia’s involvement abroad. “People say in many recent polls ‘Enough helping everyone, we need to help ourselves’,” the RBC news website quoted Volkov as saying on Thursday. Andrei Kolesnikov with the Carnegie Moscow Center said domestic issues have come to the fore for Russians because of the government’s plans to raise the retirement age.

“People have decided that military operations are less essential, and more money needs to be spent on domestic issues,” Kolesnikov told RBC. When respondents were asked what they disliked about Putin, the most common answers were his ties to big business, association with corruption and his detachment from the interests of ordinary Russians. Nearly half of respondents said they were either unsure about their opinion of the president or liked everything about him. The poll noted that Putin’s overall popularity continues to grow, even as another Levada poll found trust in the president had dropped below 50 percent. Levada conducted the survey on July 19-25 among 1,600 respondents in 52 Russian regions.
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The free lunch is over. Russians are now discovering that Putin's military foray's into Ukraine and Syria are expensive. It's expensive to continue to expand the military sector while under increasing sanctions for stealing Crimea, invading eastern Ukraine, and carpet bombing Syrian cities ... destroyed cities that Russia will now have to rebuild. There are also plenty of problems at home. Landfills in Siberia are poisoning the local populations. The Putin regime is raising the retirement age and has increased the national VAT tax. In addition, Russians do not think their military should be killing fellow Slavs (Ukraine). Putin's popularity and the popularity of his United Russia party are falling.
 
Can't you even be bothered to read the article you posted? 🙄

The poll article you quoted says 'Putin's overall popularity continues to grow'.

You conclude your summary saying Putin's popularity is falling.

I appreciate that you live in a post fact world, where truth and evidence free guilt are whatever you decide them to be - but this is ridiculous even by your standards.
 
It should indeed have (better) read that the popularity of Putin's foreign shenanigans is falling (as per the article).

But if we're going to pick for precision, the article also states that another Levada poll found trust in the president had dropped below 50 percent.

If true, bit of a mismatch there. How does somebody gain popularity while losing trust?
 
Westphalian said:
Can't you even be bothered to read the article you posted? 🙄

The poll article you quoted says 'Putin's overall popularity continues to grow'.

You conclude your summary saying Putin's popularity is falling.

I appreciate that you live in a post fact world, where truth and evidence free guilt are whatever you decide them to be - but this is ridiculous even by your standards.
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As I stated previously in another thread, you're not very good at this.

Putin's popularity in Russia is falling any way you look at it.....

Vladimir Putin’s approval ratings are dropping. This is why.
 
Rogue Valley said:
As I stated previously in another thread, you're not very good at this.

Putin's popularity in Russia is falling any way you look at it.....

Vladimir Putin’s approval ratings are dropping. This is why.
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From the very article you quoted:


The poll noted that Putin’s overall popularity continues to grow




I'm not offering an opinion - only illustrating that I read and understood your own article, something which seems to have been beyond you :roll:
 
I think it's a normal for support to dip several years into a conflict, America sees the same curve. You enter a conflict, support is high because it's the right thing to do then several years later people get "conflict fatigue". Putin also made some unpopular changes to the Russian budget, similar to leaders in other countries he made these soon after he was elected to enable him to claw back support deeper into his term and closer to a next election... although the Russian elections are hardly fairly contested.
 
As to what understanding is beyond anyone here, it would appear that reference made to the article dealing with Putin's approval rating seems beyond the reading capacity of some. That reference having been made by me in post #3, pointing out the discrepancy between (Moscow Times) claiming on the one hand a rise in popularity (of Putin) and on the other hand a severe drop in trust.

The Moscow times mentioned a recent Levada poll without linking to it so maybe this is the one:

Indicators – Levada-Center

................showing quite clearly that approval ratings for Putin are anything BUT on the rise, but have in fact fallen a good 15 pct since April.

Approval of the government being even worse and in fact all categories not being that rosy in that they ALL show a downward trend.

How the Moscow Times came to the contradictory take that Putin's popularity "is continuing to grow" is hard to discern without knowing the actual poll they get this from.

Because the above sure ain't it.
 
My personal take on Putin's popularity is that it has declined, although it's still far higher than most leaders' popularity. I also think HERA's interpretation is absolutely right.


But I also pointed out what the article actually said, and I think it's important to read things properly and not lazily dismiss anything in an article which doesn't fit a particular narrative. Facts matter to me, and where people draw a conclusion which is directly contradicted by the article they link to .......... then that should be pointed out.
 
Westphalian said:
From the very article you quoted: The poll noted that Putin’s overall popularity continues to grow
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I checked with Notepad. What you bolded above is not anywhere in the Washington Post article I posted....

He recently won a resounding reelection to yet another six-year term, a victory that was apparently genuine enough. And yet, according to poll numbers, Putin’s support is falling fast. In a July 8 poll by the Public Opinion Foundation — the polling agency the Kremlin itself uses — only 49 percent of respondents said they would vote for Putin if elections were held Sunday. That’s a drop from 62 percent just a month earlier. And in a June poll by the independent Levada Center, trusted by most academic researchers, only 46 percent of respondents said they thought the country was headed in the right direction, while 42 percent said they thought things were headed in the wrong direction — a shift from 60 percent and 26 percent, respectively, in April. That’s a 30-point drop in net sentiment in one month. And these aren’t just a couple of rogue polls. The Kremlin-friendly WCIOM polls show the same pessimistic shift. To find approval numbers this low, you would have to go back to January 2014. That would be the same January 2014 that immediately preceded Russia’s occupation of Crimea, the war in Donbas and the conflict with the West that crashed Russia’s economy but sent Putin’s popularity soaring.
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Vladimir Putin’s approval ratings are dropping. This is why.

Your lie has been outed.
 
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