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result in years. However, some eyebrows were raised as the increase was partly due to a revision of previous results by Rosstat which have produced several surprises in the last year thanks to dramatic upward revisions of official data that have undermined its creditability.
The anti-corruption blogger and opposition activist Alexei Navalny enjoys the trust of a mere 3% of Russians in the polls amongst Russian despite being the darling of the international media.
Trust in Russian politicians
Nov 17
Jun. 18
Sep. 18
Mar 19
Jun 19
Sept 19
Vladimir Putin
59
48
39
41
40
39
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
14
14
15
16
15
14
Sergey Lavrov
19
14
10
14
13
14
Sergey Shoigu
23
18
15
16
17
13
Dmitry Medvedev
11
9
10
13
11
9
Gennady Zyuganov
10
7
8
8
9
6
Pavel Grudinin
-
7
4
5
3
3
Alexey Navalny
2
2
3
3
3
3
Sergey Sobyanin
3
3
4
4
3
2
Valentina Matvienko
2
2
1
3
3
2
Sergey Mironov
4
2
2
2
3
2
Vladimir Soloviev
1
1
1
1
1
1
Grigory Yavlinsky
2
2
1
1
1
1
Not interested in politics / politicians
1
1
1
1
1
1
No such / I do not trust anyone
14
21
18
17
18
24
Difficult to answer / don't know / no answer
11
12
18
16
18
14
source: Levada Centre
While Putin’s trust rating has slid his popularity rating remains sky high and crept up one percentage point in September to 68% from 67% a month earlier. His disapproval rating remained the same at 31% over the last two months with another 1% unsure. (The numbers don't add up to 100, due to rounding errors.)
The rest of the performance of the government numbers remains largely unchanged. The public largely disapprove of the government which scored 43% approval and 55% disapproval. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and the Duma both remain deeply unpopular scoring 62% and 60% disapproval respectively.
The regional governors continue to enjoy almost as much approval as Putin and even saw their approval tick up 2pp in September to 63% from 61% a
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