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survey by the Levada Center, an independent polling agency. 1,608 respondents were given the following open-ended prompt: "Please name contemporary famous people who inspire you with their example and their active civic position." The survey was carried out by phone in April 2020. The poll's margin of error is 2.4 percent. In total, 8 percent of respondents named Vladimir Putin as an inspiring public figure and 4 percent named Alexey Navalny. Third and fourth place went to Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and right-wing politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, with 3 percent and 2 percent, respectively. Contrary to his reputation as a youth icon, Navalny inspires middle-aged Russians most of all. Among respondents between the ages of 25 and 39, he and the president were both named as inspiring figures by 6 percent of people. Among Russians between the ages of 40 and 54, Navalny actually outscored Putin (6 percent to 5 percent). Respondents younger than 25 and older than 55 were less inspired by the anti-corruption star: only 2 percent of people in these demographics say Navalny is inspiring (whereas 9 percent and 11 percent, respectively, named Putin).
As restrictions imposed to counter the spread of coronavirus were lifted in early June, Russians were more positive about their life situations​. More than two thirds of citizens say it's positive, a poll by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center shows. "Russians are positive about the situation they have in their lives. On June 5, 65% of our respondents said that. This number is 7 percentage points higher than on April 26 when the crisis sentiments peaked (58%)," reads the pollster's website, noting that 32% of the respondents say they are in a bad situation. At the same time, more than half of Russians (56%) say that the current situation in the country is bad overall, while 38% said it was good (a change of 8 percentage points compared to this April).
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