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Putin was Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2007; [34] these selections are based on the person or persons "who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill". [35] In April 2008, Putin was put on the Time 100 most influential people in the world list. [36] Criticism of Putin has been widespread especially over the Runet. [37]
The proportion of Russians who trust President Vladimir Putin has risen to 81.6% from 67.2% before he ordered troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24, according to a survey by the state-run pollster VTsIOM ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin's approval rating has reached nearly 90 percent largely thanks to his military moves in Syria. Vladimir Putin's approval rating hits all-time high, boosted by ...
[58] Putin himself named the overcoming of consequences of the world economic crisis one of the two main achievements of his 2nd Premiership [38] (the other named achievement being the stabilisation of the size of Russia's population between 2008 and 2011 following the long period of demographic collapse started in the 1990s).
After the parliamentary elections on 4 December 2011, tens of thousands of Russians engaged in protests against alleged electoral fraud, the largest protests in Putin's time. Protesters criticized Putin and United Russia and demanded annulment of the election results. [141] Those protests sparked the fear of a colour revolution in society. [142]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a record-breaking defense budget, setting aside a staggering third of the government’s total spending as the war in Ukraine drains resources from ...
George W. Bush registered a 90% job approval rating (the highest in Gallup's tracking) shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. [2] Harry S. Truman registered a 22% job approval rating (the lowest in Gallup's tracking) in a survey conducted February 9–14, 1952. [3]
An intention to hike the retirement age has drastically downed the rating of the President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Russia. So in July 2018, just 49% would vote for Putin if the presidential elections were held in that moment (while during the elections in March 2018, he got 76.7%). [42] [43]