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Chinese respondents, 71% of Russians and 69% of Indians agreed with the statement that traditional gender roles are best suited for society. The global average stood at 47%. Russian respondents were also more likely than their global counterparts to agree with statements that the existence of transgender people is offensive, women shouldn’t work, same-sex couples shouldn’t legally marry and men shouldn’t wear skirts.
Dmitry Medvedev's January resignation as PM ​and the likely end of his frontline career stands as the best-received event of the year by a healthy 59-16% spread.
Just under half of all Russians believe the poisoning of anti-corruption blogger and opposition activist Alexei Navalny ​was either fake news or the work of western intelligence agencies, according to independent pollster the Levada Center:
15% - elimination of political competition;
7% - revenge for anti-corruption investigations; 19% - Western intelligence provocation;
30% - the poisoning was faked(!);
6% - struggle within opposition movement
President Vladimir Putin’s support among young voters has roughly halved in the past year, ​according to independent survey results ​released Thursday, ​The Moscow Times​ reports. If 36% of voters aged 18-24 said they would cast their ballots for Putin in 2019, only 20% expressed the same intention in November 2020, the Levada Center polling agency said. While sociologists have observed Putin’s support among young Russians tailing off in the past two years, the trend has intensified in recent months, the Open Media news outlet ​quoted​ Levada deputy director Denis Volkov as saying. Across all age groups, 39% of respondents in 2020 told Levada they would vote for Putin if elections were held on the nearest Sunday. These results stayed relatively stable from 2019, when 38% said they would vote for Putin. After Putin, 24% of all respondents said they would not have voted and 16% said they had no preferred candidate. Other age groups either increased or maintained their voting preferences for Putin, who has been in power for 20 years and has the authority to stay for 12 more under newly passed constitutional reforms. Levada polled 1,607 Russians over the age of 18 in person across 50 federal subjects on November 19-26.
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