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Vladimir Putin's approval rating at record levels

Vladimir Putin’s approval rating is at record levels, with nine out of 10 Russians saying they have a positive view of their president. Putin had an approval of 87% in July, and an all-time high of 89% in June, according to Levada Centre polling.

Following a drop in popularity in 2012 and 2013, when Putin’s approval ratings dropped into the 60s, the Russian president’s popularity picked up again last year on the back of events in Ukraine.
Putin approval

According to separate Levada figures from June, 66% believe that western sanctions are meant to humiliate and weaken Russia, and only 5% think they are about ending the conflict in Ukraine.

Some 70% of Russians believe the country should stick to its current position on Ukraine, while 20% say it would be better to make concessions in order to avoid sanctions. 87% support the annexation of Crimea, and only 4% think that the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk should return to their pre-conflict status.

However, when it comes to the economy, only 13% describe Russia’s current predicament as good, while 53% describe it as average and 31% as either bad or very poor.

With nine out of 10 Russians approving of Putin, the president’s ratings are now better than they were in 2008, at the start of the Russian-Georgian war.

They are also unusually high compared with the popularity of other world leaders. Only Angela Merkel comes anywhere near Putin, with nearly seven in 10 Germans approving of the chancellor.
Putin v G7
How has Russia changed under Putin?

It is more than 15 years since Putin became Russia’s president. The former KGB officer was a virtual unknown when he was picked to be prime minister by Russia’s first president, Boris Yeltsin. After Yeltsin’s shock resignation on New Year’s Eve 1999 elevated Putin to the Kremlin, Putin confounded pundits again by winning the presidential election in March 2000 with 53% of the vote.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/datablog/2015/jul/23/vladimir-putins-approval-rating-at-record-levels

putin is one of the greatest men and russians have the good sense to realise it

I think that this could have been somewhat expected. The media is usually trying to make a bad image surrounding Putin; nothing special since they tend to manipulate.
There are probably several contributing factors for this. Russians aren't blaming Putin for their economic situation. I'm pretty sure that the international isolation is what caused the surge in nationalism in Russia.

I'm speaking as an outsider, but I think Putin is the worst thing that ever happened to Russia. He is trying to bring back the old Russia by trying to bring former Soviet republics back into Russia's sphere. Ukraine is a classic example of this. They're justification for the invasion of Crimea (and it was an invasion) is that they need to look after their Russian interests. Crimea is just one microscopic part of Russia. So, I hardly think that Crimea would bear any kind of significance to the vitality of the country.

 I am not outsider,becouse i am from Poland and i spent some years in my life under red regime.I know Russia and Ukraine,menthality,condition,history.I know how that regime works.In Putin Russia there is or you are with us or you are against Russia is failing bankruptcy.Russian MinFinn said,if Russia will not cut incredible high pensions for administration workers and his raising military spending than Russia will be bankrupt in two years.Last day Russia officials said that military pwer is mre imprtant that economy.87% russiansmaybe aresaying that thay are supporting Putin,it desnt mean that thay are supporting
Russia can be extremaly dangerous,most westerness leaders dont understend that Russia is only understend
laungege of force,power.If Russia will see weakness like it was in time of Hitler,than anything can happen,soft version will be cold war,tensins and conflicts in strategic areas of the world.Senator McCain is right,arm Ukraine

Anyway i think worse will not happen becuse of China,Russia is more and more dipendent on China and Chinise dont want conficts ,wars ,cnficts,becouse itculd be very dengerous for them

How is this guy still a President?

Don't they have term limits and what not?

Oh thats right I forgot: in Russia, president becomes YOU.

Putin is the man. He is the only one who can stop terrorist USA destroying the world.

The Russians are intelligent. And they know what is best for them. And Putin is the worst thing that ever happened to the USA and the NATO.


He is trying to rebuild Russia, which was completely destroyed during the 1990s by the American puppet Yeltsin. And he has succeeded in doing that.


If it is such a microscopic part, then why can't the Ukrainians keep their mouths shut?

Crimea was a part of Russia until 1954, when it was illegally transferred to Ukraine. Around 90% of the population is Russian speaking. And they decided to rejoin Russia, after the Kiev junta tried to suppress their human rights (for example the ban on Russian language).

You're being influenced by the media too much. If you consider where Russia was 20-30 years ago, this guy has done several miracles to the country. Crimea is probably another major reason which started strengthening the nationality within the country.

Exactly. Technically speaking it is his right to take back Crimea because it was illegally transferred to Ukraine. However, the western media made everyone disregard that and made Putin look like a bad guy (which he is not).

Ha, ha. Since the Putin is in power at Russia Usa had big troubles because of him. The USA people have less to eat, less money, less attractions, less all. And all those because of the glorious leadership of Putin in the whole world. Ruble is going high compare to us dollar and the economy of Russia is going even more high ultimately.

Nato is in the way to be dissolved. Has lost all the interventions  in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. Have no money to go ahead and will pray Russia to lend some. No one country want to join NATO. Except all the countries when Russia impedes with war to do this like Ucraina or other countries from all over the Europe (Georgia, FYROM, Montenegro etc).

Poor Usa and NATO!!!

The American public debt now stands at $19 trillion, and soon the NATO will run out of money to conduct new warfare and invasions. The Americans can only bully smaller nations, such as Serbia, Iraq and Afghanistan. If they try to poke Russia, China or Iran, then they will get their asses kicked really hard.

And who told you that the Macedonians want to join the NATO? The public is now opposed to the NATO, after the latter instigated the Albanian Muslims to invade Gošince in 2015.

http://www.ibtimes.com/macedonia-montenegro-should-join-nato-despite-russian-opposition-says-polands-defense-1964593 (http://www.ibtimes.com/macedonia-montenegro-should-join-nato-despite-russian-opposition-says-polands-defense-1964593)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/12/us-ukraine-crisis-nato-poland-idUSKBN0OS0Y120150612 (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/12/us-ukraine-crisis-nato-poland-idUSKBN0OS0Y120150612)


As I wrote before the public debt of USA is at the point that the American people has no bread to eat. The us dollar is going "down" compare to all the currencies. NATO don't invades peoples but defend peoples. Russia invades peoples like Ukrainians and Georgians because they wanted to go away of the Russian "welfare" and join EU and NATO. And NATO are stealing Crimea to Ukraine. Russia is defending this place from American enemies.

USA don't need to poke Russia or another country because have no reason to do this. And contrary to Russia who invades the free countries only to impose its will, will never do this.

I was referring to the polls conducted in Macedonia, where the majority of the people said that they don't want to join the NATO. What your defense minister says is not important here.


If things go on like this, soon that will be the case.


Oh sure... the invasion of Iraq was all about defending peoples, not about oil.
The invasion of Libya was also about defending peoples, not about oil.
The invasion of Afghanistan was also about defending peoples, not about controlling the opium trade.

Before Putin, it was free for all for Russians. After him the Oligarchs started paying taxes

Putin is the example of how a leader should be

Exactly. Putin is just the polar opposite of Boris Yeltsin. Under Yeltsin, the ordinary people were starving and fleeing the country, while the oligarchs were accumulating their wealth through various dubious means. That changed when Putin came to power. The oligarchs started fleeing the country (Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky.etc), while the living standards for the ordinary Russians improved.

Putin acted against the oligarchs after he became the president, but by that time most of the oligarchs had moved their ill-gotten gains out of the country (with help from Western banks such as the HSBC, Goldman Sucks, JP Morgan Chase, and the Citibank). Still, he was able to recover some of the stolen wealth (Yukos for example). And this is the main reason why the Western politicians hate Putin.

I'm surprised that Putin's ratings are still lower than the average Russian IQ (97)
http://www.photius.com/rankings/national_iq_scores_country_ranks.html (http://www.photius.com/rankings/national_iq_scores_country_ranks.html)

Ha, ha, he was term limited out, then handed off to his vice president, and then became president again.  I keep expecting Bill Clinton to try this in the USA.

Anyway, clearly Putin resonates with many Russian citizen.  Having control of the media and putting a lot of his political opponents in jail probably also helps.  However, it is hard to argue with his success.

Have to love stats coming out of Russia about loving a dictator,North Korea will follow suit now.

Putin has a real problem on his hands and I can not wait to see how he deals with it. He has so far been a pretty good strategist,have to admit the Russian mind is different. They play poker and chess differently.
So he has very little friends or some one he can trust to take over for him and not take away all the money he has built up. Honestly he could end up dead if the wrong people got into power,he has way to much money to be ignored. They estimate his billions and they figure he could be in the high billions.

Like Russian burned book in Crimea ? Like Russian kicked all tatars from Crimea ? Of course when this is others ... this is bad , but when russian ... normal ... nothing to look go away ... LoL

Have you a brainwashed ? Russia get destroyed only and only because they prefered to build weapons ... nothing to do with Puppet ...  If russian gov had taken more care about the basic things ... never the Russia had the bankrupt ...  and for the Wall i let you you choose ..

You come here to do critic over US & all European ... but so far all the EU country lived in peace after the WWII WAR and not with the "communist like" ... spy your neighbor to get a better place in the party..

After the end of WW2 ... the only country that sent TANK to put down population HAS BEEN RUSSIA ....  Praga ?? You have some miss in your historic culture ?? How the Polish president declined the offer of the Russia to deploy Tank too in poland when workers in Gdansk .... go outside to kick the communist party !

And this is a good thing that the Iron curtain has been break with the help of Pope Jean-Paul II & Polish people ... If living under Russian was so Nice .... explain us why all country living under Russian domination, once free ... banned mostly russian ... and do not want to get anymore anything with them ... ???? Hoo just for the fun perhaps ?

Research was published by Levada center, which is based in the USA, not Russia. As you are not being able to get even this fact (mentioned in OP) straight, I doubt rest of your post is relevant to topic at hand.

Do you have any evidence for all the verbal diarrhea which comes out through your orifice? As far as I know, the Crimean Tatars are still living in Crimea. No one kicked them out.


Listen. Russia is the no.2 weapons exporter in the world. Arms industry is one of the major forex earners. You worry about the bankruptcy of your country (Ukraine). The Russians know how to take care of their country.


In peace, and without sovereignty, as loyal vassal states of the US.


Oh, then what about the 70 or so countries which were invaded by the Americans in the past 7 decades?


Most of the Poles are born idiots. So it doesn't surprise me. And what your gay pope Jean-Paul II did is not important here. The iron curtain was brought down by Ronald Reagan, and not by the Polish idiots or the gay pope.

Bryant,

actually along with Belarussians, Poles are genetically practically identical to Russians. Their irrational behavior can be easily explained by their catholic bias aswell as complex of "great nation" confined to "small country" (fault of Russians of course). I do not approve of Polands actions (which has been destabilizing to european peace in the past century), but I do understand their agenda.

Meanwhile, Europe gets swamped by more selfinflicted debts and refugees...

Being Catholic is no excuse for being stupid and Russophobic. If that was the case, then the French and the Italians would have been even more Russophobic than the Poles, and the Romanians even more pro-Russian than the Kazakhs. But that is not the case. IMO, the problem is that the Poles are easily brainwashed. A reason for that might be the reduced intelligence and mental retardation resulting from working too much time in the toilets of Germany and the UK.

Thats why I mentioned "syndrom of small nation" too  ;) religion and assumed national identity are really two most significant differences between Pole and Russian. Genetically (and culturally considering pre-christian times), they are very, very close.

See for yourself.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Haplogroups_europe.png

Genetically, the Poles might be very similar to the Russians, but culturally, they have been very heavily influenced by the Germans. And another thing is that, although I am not very fond of the Poles, I will agree that their numbers have been going down for the last many decades (if not many centuries), due to assimilation. In the 19th and 20th centuries, large number of Poles were assimilated in to the other ethnic groups, such as Germans, Ukrainians, Belorussians, Lithuanians, Russians.etc. 

This is something that caught my eye, something that the media has actually covered. According to the sources (I've read it first in local newspaper) a girl had sent a letter to Putin saying how her family can't afford to buy this rare dog. Putin actually replied to her and got her the dog. (http://www.rt.com/news/310585-putin-kyrgyz-girl-dog/)
I would not be surprised if we see people saying that he did this solely for publicity. If he does nothing then he is bad,and if he does something he is still bad for some.  ::)

Gifting a new dog is not that difficult or someone like Putin. I was about to post that Putin should care more about the Russian citizens, than sending gifts to the Kyrgyz nationals. But then I noticed that the girl was an ethnic Russian.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKk9hmEUsAQRXXj.jpg

That said, for me, the following news is more important:

http://www.rt.com/news/264489-siberian-tigers-putin-russia/

Of course it is not difficult, however most presidents wouldn't care. What I was trying to point out was that the sheep would use any news related to Putin against him.
Just read a few comments on that article. I would say that Putin is doing a number of great things, but the west is trying to disregard all that and just talk about tensions, Crimea and whatnot.

Are you of Eastern Europe descent? This may seem off base like my comment but I am curious,would explain the take on my post.

If you do a research in every research center placed in every kind of the earth about Kim Jong-Un you will find that 99.99% (or even 100%) of North Korean people will love him. That doesn't mean that this person it is not a dictator and a common delinquent which torture its people like his father and his grandfather.

The Russians must pray that one day the daughters of Putin take the place of their father because only the genes of Putin race can guide the Russian people versus the continues glories.

Russia is not Third Reich, its statehood is imperial, not ethno-obssesive  ;) it is also not United Kingdom where purity of your bloodline decides your rank among those waiting for throne. It is difficult to discuss specifics of the country, if your mind is closed, even conditioned to hate certain culture. As to some families being privileged more than others, when I look at India (Ghandi clan) or United States (Kennedy clan, Bush clan, Rotschilds) I dont see that much difference. All of those are oligarchies dependant on some degree of public approval.

That isnt criticism, atleast unlike in Europe (which devolved into technocracy where votes are as universal as they are meaningless), public opinion still matters.

Now, Putins background is that of secret service officer, so I take a guess, that the next likely candidate for Russias leader will have similar background, his sheltered daughters are not viable for such role.

Could you explain what you mean by that?
The Ruskies are extremely ethno-obsessive. There is plenty of evidence of that in this thread, simply because Russians (and Russian apologists) cannot stop thinking about the genes and genetic history of "everyone else".

No one has done any research in North Korea, because the American research agencies are not allowed inside that country. That said, the Russophobes will always be having the difficulty in accepting how much public support Putin commands. His public support in percentage terms is almost twice that of Barack Obama, and the Western sanctions have played their role in increasing it from 65% to 90%.

And the Russophiles are too stupid to understand that approximately 60~70% is the upper limit for political support where they don't need to be embarrassed. Above that limit, it indicates the following:

a) there is too much group-think. The country is dominated by mindless sheep who have been fooled by the president's populist tricks.

b) some of the people are too scared to openly voice their opposition. I understand that Russians have a kind of cultural idiocy where they confuse "respect" with fear and intimidation. High support levels indicate that the leader is very intimidating, and therefore he has more power to force the people to do things, such as start wars. That is bad.

c) The opposition is too weak to keep the leader in line. You can't have a stable system without negative feedback.

You are the ultimate idiot, not the Russians. You have no problem in supporting a habitual liar and warmonger such as Hillary Clinton, and now you are mocking the Russians for supporting Putin. An average Russian is more intelligent than the average American, as seen from the choice of presidential nominees. And once again, Russians know what is the best for them. They don't need advice from Russophobes such as you.

Sure, its easy to make a lot of "friends" once you dispatch all your enemies... I think he got that pearl of wisdom from Stalin.

Point is, your president is a dictator. Dictators are never good. Your nation is reverting back to the old ways, except its not called Communism anymore.

This is good. "An average Russian is more intelligent than the average American, as seen from the choice of presidential nominees." Never hear such stupid things. All the world want to emigrate in the USA and the most intelligent people are in Russia. As it can see in Usa emigrate all the stupid people and and the intelligent born in Russia. There are some techniques of sex that only Russian known and uses and made that Russian born more intelligent than all the other nations of the world. The problem is that URSS was destroyed from the stupid Usa people. But now Russia has Putin which will have revenge for this. Poor Americans what will have from this glorious leader.

Yes so glorious that his daughter live in switzerland with $$ ... far away from russian crisis ... always more easy to -> Do what i tell not what i do !

When they born, they are smart, intelligent and poor ... this is why they love Russia.

Once they get rich with corruption, mafia, make big company to hire some low cost slave paid ...
What they do ?

They hide the money in another country like "Chypre" ... make some news corruption ... and left Russia, to buy expensive car from Germany/Italy, send their child in high state univeristy in US , Suitzerland , UK ... buy expensive cognac in France , buy flat in London near the City or New York ...  and go to holidays in expensive places again like Courchevelle ....

So only stupid and poor russian like Russia ?

Souldream we are at the same ship mate. I think that Putin and his entourage are destroying Russia. I think that Putin is a miserable being human which think for himself as a new world leader to whom no one cannot do nothing while can do everything he want. But as every little dictator this end will come from his nation. The question is when. Sooner for them better for the Russians and Russia.

One slight difference is the amount of money Putin has at his personal disposal. He can afford to make these public plays with little backlash. If it was Obama it would be waste of tax dollars.

It's good that you brought that up. It seems to me, Russian-style corruption is one possible endgame for some of the more extreme Libertarian ideologies. When the USSR collapsed, it would've been a Libertarian dream: conducting epic business deals with minimal state interference while the government was in shambles, and then they shaped future Russian governments into a giant shady oil/gas export business. Maybe any government can be re-interpreted as a business, but with only 25 years since the last revolution, Russia's government is like a gang of juvenile delinquents.

"Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the game."
~Vladimir Putin

 ;D ;D ;D ;D I love that quote even though it was never proven that he said that.

Vladimir Putin is a great man,he leads russia like no other man would lead their country,the guy is simply the best and insperation to all of the people around him.

There is something about him that he always enjoy his people trust. I think he should sit with his Western counterparts and resolve all the issues peacefully. Lets hope for the best!!

The last time charismatic leaders went unchecked, and allowed to do whatever they liked, World War II started...

He received the people's trust after serving them as the President for almost two decades. When he became the president for the first time in 2000, he was almost unknown outside the political circles. But the people slowly started trusting him, as he reversed the disastrous policies of Yeltsin, and kicked the pro-American oligarchs out of Russia.

How is this guy still a President?

Don't they have term limits and what not?

How do you want ? Any opposition is break / killed / or put in jail LoL ... for sure he will put back his puppet aka "Medvedev" like he do already the last time.

Anyway i think it is not really important how is president in Russia, we could get worse .... we have what we deserve ... they have arrogant , liar and not trustable president ... like the life in russia .... lie / corruption  ... rest of people who living under poverty is not important ... as all russian media claims ... russian people live to live like poor people and they are trainned to eat potatoes....

Think about who would benefit if another Great War broke out... it certainly wouldn't be Russia.

But the US Dollar, the US economy and the IMF certainly would..

Putin is by far one of the greatest leaders of our time. Dealing with the West's constant provocations, not to mention the CIA's proxy war launched in Ukraine, was not an easy task for anyone... But Putin handled it well.

Not to mention he prevented the USA from Bombing Assad in support of ISIS in Syria.

As an American, I can't help but applaud him for standing up to America's blatantly evil aggressive policies and constant attempts to throw the world into a new world order..

Putin is ex-KGB. He has lived through the Soviet times, and then became the president of Russia after the American puppet Boris Yeltsin almost destroyed that country (Some 15 million extra deaths occurred during Yeltsin's term). He has seen Russians suffering under the US-puppet rule during 1992-99. He doesn't want the same to happen to any other country.

Boris Yeltsin was not a puppet of USA. He destroyed Mikhail Gorbachev which was openly an open mind people and a lover of free world. As such lover of European Union and United States of America. It was not possible that Boris Yeltsin made this if he was a puppet of USA. Then, and the most important, this puppet, has "nominated" (this is the right word: nominated) as its successor precisely that Putin which the most wild enemy of United States.

The only true thing that can be told about Boris Yeltsin is that he was an alcoholised.

During the first half of his term (1991 - 1996), Yeltsin was not very dependent on the Americans. Still, he allowed the Western corporations and the American backed oligarchs to loot the national wealth of Russia. Things changed in 1996. Yeltsin had to rig the presidential elections that year (with support from the CIA), to beat the anti-American leader Gennady Zyuganov. The Americans made sure that the Western media kept silent about the election fraud, but in return Yeltsin got relegated to the level of a loyal vassal of Bill Clinton.

Putin was nominated its successor after his "loyalty" to Bill Clinton. This doesn't make sense. Nominate as heir the most big enemy of United States of America when he is supposed to be the loyal vassal of Bill Clinton?

Putin was nominated as the successor in 1999, as back then he was considered to be the most loyal person to Boris Yeltsin. Putin made sure that Yeltsin was never prosecuted for the plundering of the Russian national wealth. At that point of time, Putin and Clinton were good friends, and Putin maintained the good relations with the United States until George Bush became the POTUS in 2000.

Putin was and is the same person and the reason of its behavior wouldn't required at the Bill Clinton or George Bush (which are both USA presidents and as such the same kind of people) but because at the beginning Putin was a puppy and had not the possibility and the power to play the "world leader". Then day after day he put on display its true character and personality constructing its "glory".

The problem is that Putin is still one of the sane ones. Breznev was a drunkard, Tsjernenko and Andropov were too old and a bit potty, Gorbatchev was a die hard Leninist who luckily saw he lost the game. Yeltsin was rarely sober. So be happy with Putin. The next one might be completly insane.....

Putin never wanted to play the role of the "world leader". That distinction is reserved for the American presidents. Putin just want to retain the Russian influence on various ex-Soviet states (such as Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan.etc). He is not interested in the area outside the former USSR, as evident from his lack of interest in the events happening right now in Cuba and Venezuela.

That is true. Unlike former Soviet/Russian leaders he's not interested in Europe and European territory. Yet many believe he is a threat....

Putin was interested in improving the Russo-European relations (especially with France, Italy, and Germany). He made significant progress during the 2000s. The trio of Gerhard Schröder, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Silvio Berlusconi were able to withstand the American pressure, and proceed with their initiative to improve the relations with Russia. But the situation worsened, when the three were replaced by anti-Russian head of states.

You mean Chirac, Sarkozy is pro-American. But Putin can have his way soon with the rise of Wilders and Le Pen.

Putin wants to uphold and restore Russia to a position of strength. It has always been the way of Russian Communism to take over the world, just the same as Islam, and many other national themes.

The United States is taking over the world by offering the people way more freedom in general than any other nation does. In other words, Americans are taking over the world for the United States.

:)

True. Putin will not stop himself until the day Russia will be like the URSS. If it will be possible this and if the other countries will allow this kind of behavior.

The only pro-Russian leaders out there in the European Union at the moment are Viktor Orbán of Hungary and Alexis Tsipras of Greece. Wilders will never become the president of the Netherlands and his PVV will never become the no.1 party. He doesn't possess that sort of support. Le Pen on the other hand, is more popular, and her FN is on its way to become the no.1 party in France. That said, in the French presidential elections, a Le Pen victory seems very far away.