Don't worry the person who approved that poll will be falling out of a window that doesn't open anyday now.
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lugitik_1 day ago
+72
And the official approval rating will magically rise to 97%
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Primarycore1 day ago
+44
Putin's official approval rating has only fallen from 125 % to 120 %.
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1SqkyKutsu1 day ago
+11
This is correct, using Trump math.
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Least1Difficulty1 day ago
+5
And then shoot the guy who did that for good measure.
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Icy_Row1751 day ago
+3
no, this time it’s gonna be either mental health institution or building streets in the arctic
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Quirky-Ad-68161 day ago
+2
Or the poll is a message to Putin himself, from his network of "friends".
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bokewalka1 day ago
+1
[ Removed by Listnook ]
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Pentaminymum14 hr ago
+1
He could be on the ground floor in a building with no windows, and still fall to his death
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Farewell-Farewell1 day ago
+148
65% approval AND control of the media and internet.
I would speculate that he's not as popular as this survey suggests if this is the best he can get.
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ModernirsmEnjoyer1 day ago
+44
Correct, but that doesn't mean he is about to fall, that there aren't people who still think he should rule, and that people uniformly attribute recent economic downturn to Putin specifically and his decision to go to war
The real answer is that we don't know the specific numbers, there is no independent polster that can reliable collect information through ways where people are actually willing to answer (even that independent one that worked before the war used telephone a lot, and people don't trust phone polls).
But downfall is real. All telegram channels have started complaining. Russian Listnook has gotten more grumpy. Russian contacts complain. We just don't how much.
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Decimated_zx1 day ago
+9
I just immediately decline the call moment i hear it is "polling public opinion". That poll and those numbers mean nothing.
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ModernirsmEnjoyer1 day ago
+3
They have to be reactive to avoid total public mistrust, and it does capture something real that doesn't take a lot of work to notice.
But the future of Russian politics in the next five years is going to be interesting. The end of the war, its consequences, and the succession process going to the active phase.
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Decimated_zx1 day ago
+1
I dont think anyone who doesnt trust state tv will trust those numbers anyway, and anyone trusting state tv will believe in 89% approval.
Idk how it will go in future but it feels like it will burn soon. All years before they would try really hard to not irritate public with new repressive laws\taxes before the "big votes", but this cycle just 5-4 months before duma election they are trying to crank it all like never before, even 2023 with mobilization wasnt that bad
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ModernirsmEnjoyer1 day ago
+3
People don't divide into brainwashed zombies and independent minded dissidents neatly, a lot of people who think they are impenetrable to government narratives are influenced through different channels
Duma election is going to be an interesting stress test because it's the institution where all the unpopular decisions are formally enacted, meaning it's most likely to cause trouble, but I doubt any serious challenge. Look at Kazakhstan to see what happens in those type of regimes - 11 years of broken economic model and the only thing that changed are faces.
The restrictions were planned years in advance, we all knew it's coming back in 2016, and nobody should get surprised.
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Oracle-of-Guelph1 day ago
+1
You figure statistics hasn't figured out a way to work around this? Your phone can predict when you need cold meds.
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big-papito1 day ago
+6
We don't know when he will fall, but all of this is a required precondition. It's not just the "vibes". Their economy, satan willing, is going into a spiral.
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ModernirsmEnjoyer1 day ago
+11
The Soviet Union never had a good consumer economy, what it took for the regime to fall was for the conflict between the elites class to emerge and then the system fell down
The main variable will be whether the Russian elites collectively decide it's time for Putin to go, and whether they can arrange that before the Kremlin can react. Nobody knows what happens inside the Russian elites except the most capable intelligence agencies, and even then they definitely have limits because Russia takes counterintelligence seriously.
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big-papito1 day ago
+8
I think the USSR was a little complacent, though. We had access to Voice of America, for example, in 80s. I lived through the two coups, and they were incredibly chaotic. Total amateur hour.
Putin built a security machine that is the envy of the world. It is NOT easy to breach.
That said, his paralyzed reaction during the Wagner faux-coup was interesting... They were near Moscow.
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ModernirsmEnjoyer1 day ago
+2
Paralyzed reaction is explained very well by the fact it stopped suddenly. What exactly happened remains unknown. In any case, those lightly armed units had to go through the Moscow Garrison troops, which stand near Moscow for a very good reason and the government keeps them happy. This would have been a slaughter for the Wagner.
Voice of America, BBC, and other "enemy's voices" were too costly to police and it released pressure from more curious citizens (even Khrushchev, in his forced retirement, listened to it). In more recent times, Russians in urban areas had access to Euronews, BBC, Ukrainian channels, and also the Internet well before the security system was built and they didn't play any significant role in politics. Westerners overestimate the role of media today.
At the end of the day it's either the elites or the mass defection of the working class Russians that can cause a political earthquake. And they are apparently preparing for the exit from the war.
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Spidero0w0o1 day ago
+1
The only thing that really drives revolution is basic necessities. People don't risk it all trying to overthrow the government because they generally have a family to feed and desperately need that stability. It's much safer to just continue to go to work until the situation becomes so bad that you need to revolt just to get food.
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ModernirsmEnjoyer17 hr ago
+1
Not necessarily. Poverty can also make one even more dependent on the state, not less. An expanded middle class without any stake in the regime and a strong desire for Coca Cola, Disneyland, and western democracy can also be a destabilizing force
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NezumiAniki1 day ago
+4
Pretty much anyone stopped supporting him (for various reasons) in the last years.
He's managed to disappoint every kind of person except those who cannot read.
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4862skrrt268420 hr ago
+1
I thought the problem was that all they could read is "we are winning. They are Nazis"
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totallyRebb1 day ago
+3
The other 35% will soon be re-educated or volunteered to go to Ukraine.
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Mysterious_Past627719 hr ago
+3
For dictators you divide by 10, 6.5%
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anders_hansson1 day ago
-11
65% is rather high if you compare to other leaders, e.g:
* Babis (Czechia): 57%
* Erdogan (Turkey): 40%
* Trump (USA): 39%
* Kristersson (Sweden): 38%
* Starmer (UK): 24%
* Merz (Germany): 20%
* Macron (France): 17%
Source: [statista - Approval ratings of selected world leaders as of March 2026](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1456852/world-leader-approval-ratings/)
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MSTRFLSH1 day ago
+16
That's how you know this list is nonsense. The countries that don't ass-kiss, low numbers. The moronic boot lickers and paedos, 39% or higher.
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Anstark01 day ago
+5
And? You want to prove that high approval is only reached by those who have absolute control? Use your brain
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anders_hansson1 day ago
-4
No. You can't compare approval ratings between autocratic/semi-autoctatic leaders and properly democratically elected leaders directly.
My point was that an approval rating of 65% isn't particularly low, which seems to be what the commenter was claiming.
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Defiant-Peace-4931 day ago
+52
65.6%, for those wondering.
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National-Mastodon9161 day ago
+26
Lmao what? It should be in negative numbers
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Defiant-Peace-4931 day ago
+23
I wouldn't be particularly surprised if they lean in to the various confounding factors that pollsters are supposed to correct for. I would also suspect that truthfully voicing political views to unknown callers, or even over the phone in general, is historically disfavored in Russia.
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Tomas28911 day ago
-2
Also Russians are truly simps for dictators like Putin and their invasion of Ukraine. Can’t really feel too sorry for them
-2
the_amateon1 day ago
+30
*very original joke featuring windows or poisoning*
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Serpent901 day ago
+17
Russians are pissed about the internet being blocked. To the point that there is some open criticism expressed towards the regime.
It's hitting a lot of richer moscow or st petersburg inhabitants, some of whom need access to internet for work. I heard there's a wave of emigration similar to what happened during the first mobilisation. And prices of real estate in Minsk (Belarus) are spiking.
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Fuzator1 day ago
+18
Yeah they were okay with waging war on their neighbors but lack of internet access is suddenly too much.
That should settle the “it’s just Putin’s war“ debate
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goingfullretard-orig1 day ago
+37
Similar is happening is the USA, where nobody gives a shit about Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland, Canada, Iran, but when gas goes up 20%, there's hell to pay...
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Tacti_Kel_Nuke1 day ago
+11
Just like americans with the Iran war then
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Slappyfist21 hr ago
+3
Exactly, I don't remember there being all that much complaining from the US until their gas prices increased a tiny bit.
There was a bunch of hot air, but actual substantive anything...not much at all.
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DIABOLUS7771 day ago
+30
Dictators don't need approvals.
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nediamnori1 day ago
+13
Of course they do, just not of the general public. But no dictator rules alone, even the most powerful one.
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anders_hansson1 day ago
+26
I think that's a fallacy. The dynamics are different than in a proper democracy, for sure, but they still need approval for their policies, otherwise their power is threatened.
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Reqvhio1 day ago
+2
bro thinks dictators are like homelander D:
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vidivicivini1 day ago
+5
"Now stands at staggeringly low 99.6%" stated Pravda.
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_your_land_lord_1 day ago
+4
Oh shit, bet he's worried. He might only get 99.9% of the vote next time. Gonna be a close one.
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O-parker1 day ago
+5
Next: Putin wins reelection by a landslide and pollster organization head falls out window .
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OMGMianiteS3Official1 day ago
+4
Oh man, things sure are looking shaky for him now huh? He had better watch it during election time come 2030
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Nyoka_ya_Mpembe1 day ago
+4
He might not get 120% votes next time.
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Impossible-Bus11 day ago
+3
No history of revolts in Russia we know that for sure...
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No_Match_Found1 day ago
+2
I’m sure that’ll be reflected in the next ‘election’ and he’ll lose maybe 0.1% of the popular vote?
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Elegant_Emu9521 day ago
+4
Putin and Trump are alike in the sense that neither one cares for their country and its citizens; they only care about themselves above everything and everyone.
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Senior_Strawberry_511 day ago
+2
Even if his approval rating was zero, they still couldn't do anything about it. Putin can't be removed democratically.
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Jolly_Conference_4481 day ago
+1
En guerre depuis 2022 quel président serait haut dans les sondages chez nous en france il n y a pas de guerre et notre président français tout le monde le deteste😄
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DarthRiznat1 day ago
+1
Doesn't matter. Dude's still gonna win with 99.99% majority.
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Khalydor1 day ago
+1
I don't thing this will change next general elections results.
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BuilderRemarkable2421 day ago
+1
Did they hear the rumors that the EU has finally had enough and they're about to start taking out all their state of the art equipment too?
Like, the kind all the aliens parading around our would do anything for
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LordFlappingtonIV1 day ago
+1
I, for one, love Putin. Almost as much as I hate the bottom of elevator shafts.
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jhansen8581 day ago
+1
if its not -80% then it doesn't matter... trump is 30% and he was voted in. imagine a dictator would need to be alot lower then that to have a worry.
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throw6w61 day ago
+1
How do they even know? Isn’t it a bit like how Putin always wins reelection with 90+% of the vote?
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gordonjames621 day ago
+1
Trump & Putin are having a "race to the bottom
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West-Lifeguard-349723 hr ago
+1
Russians die in Ukraine like a dead dog while Putin is in love with a new girlfriend. How Russians still stand this old corrupted man is still a myth
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jideru23 hr ago
+1
I do not think he really cares about approval ratings.
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Alternative-Edge-21923 hr ago
+1
The poll just fell out of the windows.
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DaySecure764222 hr ago
+1
The person who approved the state pollster probably tired of living in Russia I guess.
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Desert-Noir22 hr ago
+1
99.8% approval according to the poll. The lead researcher enters into the report while hanging out of a window.
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Toth-Amon12 hr ago
+1
Does it matter?
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shawnkfox1 day ago
+3
I've always been curious about the supposed high approval ratings of Putin. My assumption is they are absolute nonsense because either the poll is fake or people are afraid to give their honest opinion. I find it hard to believe that a super majority of Russians have ever approved of Putin. Who knows though, people can support pretty dumb things in politics as we all know.
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polocinkyketaminky1 day ago
+1
approval ratings don't mean shit in Russia.
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OneNormalBloke1 day ago
Those who do approve better not go into tall buildings.
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niceufo7771 day ago
We have to take everything with a grain of salt; let's not forget that, according to Reuters, the war would have ended with a Russian defeat four years ago...
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