MOSCOW: Some 77% of Russians trust President Vladimir Putin, while 78% approve of his job performance, reported Sputnik based on a new poll by Russia’s Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) released on Friday.
At the same time, the survey found that 13% of respondents do not trust the Russian president.
Meanwhile, 78% of Russians approve of the president’s job performance, and some 9% think otherwise.
The poll was conducted among 1,500 respondents in 53 Russian regions on December 15-17, 2023. The margin of error does not exceed 3.6%
In December, the Russian upper house scheduled the presidential election to take place from March 15-17, 2024. Later in the month, Putin announced that he would seek reelection as president.–Bernama-Sputnik
