Gorbachev Russia’s Most Unpopular Leader - Survey |
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Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin are Russia’s most unpopular leaders of the past century, according to a survey by Russia’s state-run VTsIOM pollster published on Thursday. Only 14 percent of respondents named Soviet President Gorbachev and 17 percent mentioned his successor, first president of the Russian Federation Yeltsin, when asked whose policies in the past 100 years made Russia develop in the proper direction. Their results are largely similar to a VTsIOM survey held in 2007. A total of 61 percent of Russians described Vladimir Putin’s policies during his two presidential terms in 2000-2008 as “generally positive”, down six percentage points from 2007. About 54 percent of respondents were positive about incumbent Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. http://en.rian.ru |
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