MOSCOW
\nThe level of Russian citizens\u2019 confidence in President Vladimir Putin has increased by 0.5 percentage points to 81.3% over the week, according to a poll by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center published on Friday.
\n\u201cWhen asked about [their] confidence in Putin, 81.3% of the Russians polled answered positively (+0.5 percentage points over the week). The level of approval of the Russian president\u2019s activities was 78.3% (+0.2 p.p. over the week),\u201d the results of a survey conducted among 1,600 Russian adults from August 1 to August 7 showed.
\nPositive assessment figures for the activities of the Prime Minister and the Russian government over the past week dropped to 52.6% (-0.2 p.p.) and 52.2% (-0.6 p.p.), respectively. \u201cMikhail Mishustin is trusted by 63.1% of respondents (-0.5 p.p. over the week),\u201d the report said.
\nThe respondents also expressed their confidence in the heads of parliamentary factions. According to the pollster, 33.8% of respondents trust CPRF leader Gennady Zyuganov (+1.8 p.p. over the week), Sergey Mironov, the leader of A Just Russia \u2014 For Truth, gained 31.3% (+0.7 p.p. over the week), the leader of the New People party, Alexey Nechayev, received 11.6% (+2.7 p.p. over the week), and 18.6% of respondents (+0.9 p.p.) said they trusted Leonid Slutsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR),\u201d the pollsters noted.
\nThe level of support for the United Russia party stood at 40.7% (+0.4 p.p. over the week), with the CPRF supported by 10.8% (+0.2 p.p.). The New People party\u2019s figures came at 4.2% (-0.2% p.p.), while the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) got 7.5% (-0.4 p.p.), and A Just Russia \u2014 For Truth was supported by 5.7% (+0.2 p.p.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MOSCOW The level of Russian citizens\u2019 confidence in President Vladimir Putin has increased by 0.5 percentage points to 81.3% over the week, according to a poll by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center published on Friday. \u201cWhen asked about [their] confidence in Putin, 81.3% of the Russians polled answered positively (+0.5 percentage points over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-277041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n