(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – Many people in Russia express confidence in president Dmitry Medvedev, according to a poll by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center. 40 per cent of respondents say they completely trust him as a person and as a politician.
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – Many people in Russia express confidence in president Dmitry Medvedev, according to a poll by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center. 40 per cent of respondents say they completely trust him as a person and as a politician.
On the other hand, 31 per cent of respondents sympathize with Medvedev as a person but doubt his ability to lead the country out of crisis, 10 per cent do not trust him at all, and eight per cent trust him as a leader but have no sympathy for him.
Russian voters renewed the State Duma in December 2007. United Russia (YR)—whose candidate list was headed by then president Vladimir Putin—secured 64.1 per cent of the vote and 315 of the legislature’s 450 seats. On that same month, Putin endorsed Medvedev as a presidential candidate, and Medvedev said it would be of the "utmost importance" to have Putin as prime minister.
In March 2008, Medvedev easily won Russia’s presidential election with 70.28 per cent of the vote. In May, Medvedev was sworn in as president. His nomination of Putin as prime minister was confirmed by the State Duma in a 392-56 vote.
On Apr. 7, Medvedev called for the European Union (EU) to lift visa requirements for Russians, saying that this would make sense "if we are serious partners," in order to benefit from increased business trading.
Polling Data
How would you characterize your general attitude towards Dmitry Medvedev?
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I trust him completely and as a person and as a politician
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40%
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I sympathize with him as a person, but I doubt his ability to lead the country out of crisis
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31%
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I do not trust him either as a person or as a politician
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10%
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I trust him as the leader of the country, but do not sympathize with the man
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8%
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Difficult to answer
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11%
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Source: Russian Public Opinion Research Center
Methodology: Interviews with 1,600 Russian adults, conducted on Mar. 20 and Mar. 21, 2010. Margin of error is 3.4 per cent.
