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The 2020 Khabarovsk Krai protests became increasingly anti-Putin over time. [ 252 ] [ 253 ] A July 2020 Levada poll found that 45% of surveyed Russians supported the protests. [ 254 ] On 22 December 2020, Putin signed a bill giving lifetime prosecutorial immunity to Russian ex-presidents.
Putin has enjoyed high domestic approval ratings throughout the majority of his presidency, with the exception of 2011–2013 which is likely due to the 2011–2013 Russian protests. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 2007, he was Time magazine's Person of the Year . [ 6 ]
In January 2013, at the time of 2011–2013 Russian protests, Putin's approval rating fell to 62%, the lowest figure since 2000 and a ten-point drop over two years. [10] By May 2014, following the annexation of Crimea, Putin's approval rating had rebounded to 85.9%, a six-year high. [11]
In the United States, presidential job approval ratings were first conducted by George Gallup (estimated to be 1937) to gauge public support for the president of the United States during their term. An approval rating is a percentage determined by polling which indicates the percentage of respondents to an opinion poll who approve of a ...
Of presidents since 1960, only Ronald Reagan and (in interim results) Barack Obama placed in the top ten; Obama was the highest-ranked president since Harry Truman (1945–1953). Most of the other recent presidents held middling positions, though George W. Bush placed in the bottom ten, the lowest-ranked president since Warren Harding (1921 ...
Vice President: Acting president during the 1993 constitutional crisis. His powers were not recognized by Boris Yeltsin. Viktor Chernomyrdin Виктор Черномырдин 1938–2010 (aged 72) 5–6 November 1996 Prime Minister: Acting president during Boris Yeltsin's heart surgery. Vladimir Putin Владимир Путин Born 1952 ...
The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. [6] Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [7]
Putin with John Paul II in the Vatican City (5 June 2000) Many in the Russian press and in the international media warned that the death of some 130 hostages in the special forces' rescue operation during the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis would severely damage President Putin's popularity. However, shortly after the siege had ended, the ...