80% of Russians Approve of Putin

[Trance Dance Master]

http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=45772
http://www.neurope.eu/view_news.php?id=76004

80% of Russians Approve of Putin

Putin’s approval rating still way up there

RUSSIA
14 July 2007 - Issue : 738

Nearly 80 percent of Russians approved of President Vladimir Putin’ s work as Russian president in the first half of 2007, and up to 46 percent are satisfied with how Mikhail Fradkov performs his duties as prime minister, according to a VTsIOM public opinion survey center of 1,600 people across 46 Russian regions in January-July 2007.
If presidential elections were held next weekend, 69 percent of those polled would vote for Putin. All the other potential presidential candidates would get no more than four percent.
Around 40 percent of respondents approved of the Russian government’s
work, 30 percent of the Federation Council’s work, and 29 percent the State Duma’s. The poll also showed that, as of July 7-8, Putin’s public addresses appealed to 31 percent of Russians.
First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov’s speeches were approved of by four percent of respondents and First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s by three percent. Liberal Diplomatic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s public
appearances received the approval of three percent of respondents.
The number of people trusting Putin reached 58 percent in the first half
of 2007, Medvedev 20 percent, Ivanov 17 percent, and Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu 11 percent.

[SWATH]

Yep, and Saddam Hussein got elected everytime with a whopping 99.9% of the vote.

[SeanEdwards]

Yer damn right they approve! People that don't approve of Putin turn up dead as fried chicken.

[DjLoTi]

Putin really isn't a very bad president. I have friends that are Russian. Yes, their roads are horrible, but it's not Putin's fault. I don't know why you think the craziness still goes on.

[ChooseLiberty]

I see a lot of knee jerk reactions to Putin here, but does anyone really know what he is doing?

For one thing he's been kicking out some of the oligarchs that took over Russian industry. I'll let you look up the rest and figure out who the oligarchs are and who they were funded by and why it's a good thing to kick them out even though the US government would tell you it's bad.

Do your own research - who is a better President for their citizens Bush or Putin?

[Akus]

So is Putin supporting Ron Paul?

[jonahtrainer]

I see a lot of knee jerk reactions to Putin here, but does anyone really know what he is doing?

For one thing he's been kicking out some of the oligarchs that took over Russian industry. I'll let you look up the rest and figure out who the oligarchs are and who they were funded by and why it's a good thing to kick them out even though the US government would tell you it's bad.

Do your own research - who is a better President for their citizens Bush or Putin?

From what I understand Putin has really helped Russia and their citizens. I still do not trust him nor them.

[DjLoTi]

Putin is a good president. Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, he denounced the terror, but does not get pushed around by US policies. He represents the interests of his people, and worldly members don't want the US invading on their lives. They hate the war even more then we do.

[Shellshock1918]

I call bullshit, either that or Russians are blind to what is going on around them.

[ChooseLiberty]

Gee, sorry to break it to ya, but "calling bullshit" isn't really an argument.



I call bullshit, either that or Russians are blind to what is going on around them.