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However, the pollster found a slight dip in trust towards Putin, with 80.7% of participants expressing a positive outlook, a decrease of 0.3 percentage points in a poll of 1,600 adult residents conducted between March 18 and 24, in the midst of which Russia was struck by a brutal terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall mall on March 22 shopping mall on March that saw over 140 people die. Nevertheless, the president's approval rating remains steady at 78.9%, VTsIOM said.
The government's performance under Putin also received mixed reviews with a 58% approval rating for the government's job performance, down 3 percentage points from the previous survey a month earlier. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin's approval stood at 56%, reflecting a 3 percentage point decrease.
The poll found that the ruling United Russia party enjoyed a 52% support level, witnessing a slight increase of 1 percentage point. Other parties, including the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) and the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), saw minor fluctuations in their support levels.
Individual party leaders received varied levels of trust, with KPRF's Gennady Zyuganov and A Just Russia-For Truth's Sergey Mironov seeing increases in trust levels, while New People's Alexey Nechayev experienced a decline.
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