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and opposition leader Alexei Navalny. His popularity rose two points to 44%, but are still way down on 52-57% range he enjoyed in the last six months. Those who do not approve of his activities are in the majority with 54% up form a minority of 46% in January.
Those happy with the Russian government's work are also in the minority 46%, down from 51% in January. And those dissatisfied with the Cabinet made up 53% of citizens up from 48% in January.
The Duma is still getting the most opprobrium of the state bodies with only 42% of respondents approving of its work against 57% who do not approve.
Three leading politicians trusted by Russians remains the same and has not changed for years : Putin is in the first place (54%), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov second (25%), and Minister of Defence Sergei Shoigu in third (23%) . The runners up are: LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky (15%), Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov and Medvedev tie (10%), followed by the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, the leader of "Fair Russia" Sergei Mironov, and Patriarch Kirill (5%), and in the rear the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov (4%).
The share of Russians that don't trust any politician is 14% of respondents, while 12% said they were not interested in politics at all.
In December the independent pollster the Levada Center found that of those surveyed only 12% said protests with political demands are possible and if they were to happen only 9% said they would participate in them.
Russians are more concerned with economic issues and 15% said protest with economic demands are possible , of which 12% said they would participate in those protests.
10 RUSSIA Country Report April 2017 www.intellinews.com