The Levada independent public opinion research center released the results of its latest poll on Thursday saying that after the mid-September parliamentary polls the Russians’ trust in government fell to the lowest level in five years, 26 percent, with 70 percent saying that the cabinet “not entirely deserves” or “completely doesn’t deserve” their trust.
The positive attitude to the State Duma fell from 40 to 22 percent in five years and the trust in the upper house, the Federation Council, was down from 40 to 24 percent.
The president topped the citizens’ trust rating with 74 percent, albeit it was down from record-high 80 percent in 2015. Sixty percent of respondents said they had strong trust in Russia’s military forces and 46 percent said they trusted the state security services.
About 43 percent of Russian citizens said they retained trust in religious organizations and about 27 percent said they still trusted the mass media. The sympathies with police and courts were at 24 and 22 percent respectively, also down from 29 percent in both cases in 2015.
Major Russian business corporations were at the bottom of trust rating with only 11 percent of supporters. Banks and trade unions have 15 percent. Small- and medium-sized companies, however, enjoy the trust of 22 percent of Russians.
At the same time, about 45 percent of Russians said that they expected the life to change for the better after the elections and 46 percent said that they expected no significant changes in the performance of the newly-elected parliament.
A similar research conducted in May this year by the state-run agency VTSIOM revealed that 80 percent of Russians approved of the work of President Vladimir Putin’s work in general. Putin was also first in the rating of personal trust with 53 percent, followed by Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu with 26 percent and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with 20 percent.
When VTSIOM asked Russians about their opinion on the work of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and the Cabinet in general, 55 percent said that they considered it worthy of approval while 45 percent disagreed with this position. The State Duma enjoyed support of 42 percent of citizens and 56 percent said that they disapproved of the lawmakers’ activities.
So ?
Let’s have regime change ( sarcasm)
About time to clean up,once and for all, both fith and sixth columns.And change this stupid economic policy(high interest rates).
You can only win against the ‘Empire’ if you are out of the dollar system.More sanctions in sight next sunday during the Syrian meeting in London.
They want Putin down at ANY price.
Breaking:BJ wants military intervention in Syria.
ISIS creatures are leaving Mossoul without fighting to regroup in Syria to Attack Dar el Zor and Palmyra.Some Al Nusra and ISIS militants are now merging their forces in Aleppo East.
Now the West can’t hide that they are protecting,arming and financing both ISIS and Al Nusra and co.
Tomahaw missiles strike on Assad army by sunday?
They ‘trained'(and sent a ‘message’ this night on the Houthis radars in Yemen.
Obama To Decide Friday On Military Action In Syria:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-13/obama-decide-friday-military-action-syria
Sad to say but now it is surrender saturday in Lausanne(will not happen)or Putin will fall by a Coup prepared by the 5th column.
It has been ‘too far” for the Empire,they have been humiliated(that is the way they see it).
They pretty know that Putin will never risk WWIII for Syria.
Mistakes were made back in Odessa(syndicate house massacre),Minsk never implemented,Syria(too late)…remember it was supposed to last 4 months.
The sanctions are still there but there is a Crisis fatigue in the Putin supporters outside and now inside Russia.
Putin is too moderate,the West only respect hardliners otherwise they take a lack of action as weakness.
Too many ‘our partners’…ennemies are not partners.Putin did not understood that European vassals are 100 pct US assets.Impossible to split them.
Nomen is omen. Names carry energy. Calling yourself ‘war is coming’ could be bad for your health. Why don’t you change your moniker? Just saying…
probably better figures than Uk….if there was world wide context in this article-ie refs to similar economies cultures etc(if possible),would be then understandable.Maybe.
The overall estimation of the Russian population lies in the middle, however, president Putin must have worries at this stage. The population is mostly unsatisfied with the political arena, what struck me is that Mr. Lavrov get so few approval, well, the question with the “partners” is nasty also in the general Russian opinion, not just by us here. The general living standard (for the most of the population) is not so convincing, mostly the pensions are low.(hitting the generation that has build up the country after the war), as if they were punished for their former communist past – meanwhile the “new capitalists” have good jobs, good pensions as a retribution on what they choose to work for. The inequalities are growing continuously, 170$ for an average pension and few thousand for the higher ranking jobs – why are those more valuable than others and at such great wealth difference, is a mystery for me.(mostly in the former communist countries – if not for the punishment). Is there a way out ? or even this would be resolved through the “help” of the coming war ?
I agree with you. People were told, work hard and you will go places. It was a lie. The ones that make the most money are the ones that work the least ( CEOs, presidents). That is an undeniable fact of life inside a capitalistic society and unless we do something about it, things will get worse and worse.
So far, our governments have been happy to ignore this fact. They prefer to throw insults at each other across the ocean instead. They have the intellectual maturity of a bunch of 10 years old.
By the way, I really liked the opera you referred to in one of your comment.
@ Ioan
Good comment. Lavrov’s standing is a clear indictment for the foreign affairs policies – obviously the Syrian imbroglio is causing serious concerns in the Russian people, which is also reflected in Putin’s lower estimation I guess. Being made fun of by the westerners does not ingratiate them with the Russian public, it appears.
Polls are social engineering tactics.. Look into Tavistock and Rhodes
introduced into the US by Trilateral committee via the above
further supported here in US by Roosevelt, Carnegie and friends
unfortunately, it works
@ Rouge
Ok, we know that. But you can see through all that and derive valid conclusions from polls. This particular one, in my view, is particularly realist in showing that Mr Putin enjoys high approval (although declining) while the Russian Government is held in contempt by the people, perhaps because of the poor economic management. The same situation obtains in most countries nowadays, at least in western Europe, and their leaders are jeered as jerks.
RT and Saker put this here for a reason do they think regime change is going to happen???
I cut and paste this from Wikipedia about the Levada Centre:
See below: what do people think???
//// After the Levada-Center on 1 September 2016 published the results of a poll that had found a significant decline in support for the ruling United Russia party, the Russian Justice declared that the pollster was ‘performing the functions of a foreign agent’.[1][2] “This manifests the increase in internal repressions carried out by the country’s leadership,” the center’s director, Lev Gudkov, had told TV Dozhd, the New York Times reported, “If they won’t cancel this decision, it will mean that the Levada-Center will have to stop working, because you cannot conduct polls with such a stigma put on you.” A pro-Kremlin group, Anti-Maidan, had been seeking the Levada-Center’s blacklisting, the Moscow Times had reported on 11 July 2016, adding that in a statement at its website, Anti-Maidan had claimed that ‘commissioned by the U.S. military, this Russian investigative service [Levada] gathered information in Moscow and Russia’s regions…Wisconsin University acted as an intermediary between the Pentagon and the Levada-Center’.[3]
The only polls that matter are exit polls. That is why they were dropped after the ‘irregularities’ of both Bush elections in the US, and also in the UK following the suspect reelection of the Tory party following four years of painful austerity for the majority of people in the UK.
Can anyone tell me who really pulls the strings at RT. I get a strong smell of globalist (((subversion))) coming from there at times.
I was sad to see the departure of the superb Anissa Naoui, especially after her knock-out savaging of Christian Amanforsure on CNN. (Could the two events have been connected?) Luckily Christian had the Father of Russian Democracy, Kasyanov, on the show to take up the almost five minute cut of the tongue-lashing by Anissa with recycled Putin-bashing.
This all came on the heels of the apparent murder of the founder of RT, whose name I forget, in New York.
The restructuring of RT forums soon followed, by an Israeli outfit, Taboola, who now also do the logarithmic and other modding. They have certainly changed the nature of the debate on RT forums.
Probably not for the better.
I sometimes think that the USSD and their allies in the hideout of ‘The Leader of the Free-for-all world’
have directed RT to tone it down or be shut down. I have no proof of course, except for this post on Social Media, which is good enough for the USSD, and therefore good enough for me.
About RT : at the beginnings of Russia Today, their site was much more free, in the sense that there was a comment section which could be reached very easy, like this blog. In those years was very popular. After a while this easy approach has been dropped. It was too inconvenient for someone. The same happened with Pravda.
Well I read some of the comments on RT. Most of them from “not particularly sophisticated” to utter crap. I´m not missing that. And they also leave a bad impression of RT on the international public. Maybe that´s why.
In Germany it´s the same. More and more media are limiting or completely cancelling the comment sections. One thing is that when they publish something and half the readers go NO! COMPLETELY WRONG!! then media don´t like that and it makes their propaganda more difficult. The niveau of the discussions is also going down.
It’s happening in the UK too. The mainstream media are drowning in their own filth.
That’s interesting reading and the Israeli connection says a lot. Any sane person has ask themselves how and why such a small ethnic/racial group have the world by the scruff of the neck. Kevin Macdonald goes some way to explaining the phenomenon. Oh, and Trump’s speech yesterday really let the cat out of the bag. He all but named (((them))).
Having trouble comprehending the number of actual Russians queried in this sampling.
Was it a random 10,000, 1,000, 500, etc. survey or perhaps just people who are registered voters of a particular political party? In the U.S., the poll number is often (but not always) disclosed in the penultimate sentence in the last paragraph followed by a +- error rate. I can’t find it in this article nor in any of the nested articles from the RT website.
“The Levada independent public opinion research center /…/ “
Just another example of how the Oligarchic MSM mumbo-jumbo breeds gullible, lazy, despicable parrots. Levada is about as “independent” as Syria is governed by a “regime” and Crimea was “annexed by Russia”. Long story short: Levada found itself between a rock and a hard place. Strictly speaking, it had two choices:
a) Do what it is being paid for. To wit: Attack Russia’s social cohesion in general and the State authority in particular by mendacious “opinion polls” at the risk of (correctly) being identified as an instrument of foreign “liberal” subversion and outlawed.
b) Do what it is not being paid for. To wit: Conduct honest and serious opinion polls in Russia at the “risk” (a 100% certainty) of instantly giving the lie to Western demagoguery and, hence, losing its Zionazi sponsorship.
Actually, Levada is an even greater purveyor of Western hogwash since it doesn’t let on that the vast majority of the opposition inside Russia regards Putin and his government as weak and pusillanimous against the Western Zionazis. Levada peddles the totally unfounded myth of Russia longing for zio-gay squalor and degeneracy.
Predictably, Levada stayed loyal to Soros and The Tribe and became duly outlawed. Excellent piece of news in my view. Please ignore the nonsense passed off as an “independent poll of Russian public opinion”. It is nothing of the sort.
From James Lahe’s post on the wikipedia entry – Russian Justice declared that the pollster was ‘performing the functions of a foreign agent”
Two points
1) The Levada Center is in the pay of foreign entities which means it is not independent.
2) Putin has hinted or plainly stated a number of times that corruption and so forth especially at the lower levels is still a significant problem in Russia.
The current Russia that I see doing good in the world, and within Russia, is Putin and his small team at the top. What will Russia be when they are gone?
FYI
Russia’s Justice Ministry placed the Levada Center on the foreign agents list, since the US government ts the main source of financing of its activities.
https://www.google.com/#q=levada+center+foreign+agent
Their secret plan for us:
http://www.algarathselect.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/SDR-Timeline-copy.pdf
Odessa:list of the killers of the house of syndicates massacre 2014 + photos
http://stalkerzone.org/list-nationalists-murdered-people-odessa-may-2nd-2014/
I don’t see any reason for “doom and gloom” over this. We “know”, or should know, (there are many reports on Russian sites). That the “government” (not Putin) has a lot of Russians unhappy with its performance. Even Putin shows he’s not overly “thrilled” with how his orders are carried out (the military is a separate matter). In most of the World today “governments” are not very popular. Why would we assume Russia would be different.In most countries a leader would be “dancing with joy” to have anywhere near the numbers of popularity that Putin enjoys.What this poll (even if it is,as I suspect,5th column inspired) should do is light a fire under Putin to make the reforms Russians want to see.If those reforms are made,Putin has no problems in the future at all.If they aren’t made,that might be another matter entirely.If I was advising him,I’d say take the information you see in the poll,and make those changes.
My take is that the Russian people differentiate between the Government, populated by liberal Atlanticists, and the Presidency.
They also have a very dim view of ‘business’, whatever that means, (market capitalism control of the economy?) which suggests their flirt with the ‘western values’ is coming unstuck.
I wonder whether Mr Putin’s descent in the popularity pole has anything to do with the farcical events in Syria in the last few months. Eventually people will notice that Russia is being made a monkey of in that comedy of errors.
Note the differences between the zio-western funded levada and the VTSIOM polls. I don’t see why anyone bothers with levada, it’s rather obvious they tailor their polls to achieve specific results, as all zionazi pollsters do, using carefully analyzed demographics and psychologically tested questioning.
RT
25% Russian standpoints
75% Zionist psycho-babble
Fascinating information!
@TheSaker:
You’ve been explaining to us how Russian society deals differently with governance than what we’re used to in Europe. How democracy and institutional power balance are different animals in Russia.
Assuming these statistics are trustworthy, do you see the Russians’ trust in various institutions confirming your understanding of Russian society?
Very curious about your take!
mbotta