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report stressed. Mikhail Mishustin was trusted by 62.2% of respondents (-0.1% over the week).
Those surveyed also expressed their confidence in the heads of various parliamentary factions. Russia’s Communist Party (CPRF) leader Gennady Zyuganov was trusted by 33.7% of respondents (-3.2%), Sergey Mironov, the leader of A Just Russia - For Truth, received 32% (-1.4%), the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) Leonid Slutsky got 17.1% (-1.7%), and the leader of The New People party Alexey Nechaev procured 9.2% (-0.4%).
The poll also revealed that the level of support for the United Russia party stood at 37.7% (-0.2%), with the CPRF supported by 10.1% (-0.4%). The LDPR got 9.5% (+0.2%), A Just Russia - For Truth procured 5.7% (-0.1%), and The New People party’s figures came to 4.3% (-0.1% over the week).
Two politicians who attended a video conference organized by the Putin administration told us that emergency “express studies” conducted in the wake of Prigozhin’s mutiny found that citizens’ trust in the president has dropped by 9–14 percent (depending on the region). While polls by the independent Levada Center, in contrast, found that his approval rating has already returned to its pre-putsch levels, the willingness of the president, whose germaphobia since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic is well documented, to get up close and personal with strangers in Derbent suggests he’s feeling the heat.
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