And that’s despite controlling all the media for his own personal use.
President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating has hit a historic low of 59% as the country grapples with the coronavirus crisis, the independent Levada Center polling agency said Wednesday.
According to Levada’s results from a phone interview in late April, when most of the country was under enforced lockdown measures, 33% disapproved of Putin’s work.
Putin’s previous lowest approval rating since he first became president, 61%, was recorded in June 2000 and November 2013.
The latest results mark Putin’s lowest approval rating recorded by the Levada Center since September 1999, when he had a 53% approval rating shortly after being appointed prime minister.
The president has received criticism in recent months over his decentralized response to the coronavirus pandemic and what critics say is a lack of adequate measures to prevent economic collapse as the country remains under lockdown.
In April, Levada said that more Russian respondents approved of local officials’ coronavirus response efforts than they did of Putin’s. A recent state poll has also found that Russians’ trust in Putin has hit a 14-year low of 28%, the same figure as in Levada’s latest trust results.
The Kremlin on Wednesday said it is “not inclined to fully trust” Levada’s poll results.
Putin is a boring old Soviet bureaucrat. His message is bland and mundane, centrist Soviet dogma.
All he cares about is maintaining Russia’s oil and gas markets abroad, so he and his rich Jewish friends can continue to profit and live the high life while his people live off 500 bucks a month.
Putin has mansions, private jets, cars, watches.
He has $2 billion stashed away in offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes.
But he will save the white race because he once said something about multiculturalism not working… even though he promotes it in Russia and jails or fines anyone who disagrees with it.
The peak Duginist messaging never fails.
Coronavirus, Putin can not do tomorrow antifa gay parade in Moscow, so sad….XD