© Kristina Kormilitsyna/SputnikRussian President Vladimir Putin
More than 75% of Russians approve of President Vladimir Putin's policies, according to the latest weekly survey by the country's state pollster.
The Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTSIOM) has long polled a representative sample of adult citizens from across the country, making 1,600 calls a day and aggregating the averages on a weekly basis.
The percentage of Russians who said they trust Putin reached 78.8% in the week of November 11-17, while 75.5% entirely approve of his actions, according to the surveys published on Friday.
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin's approval rating was at 52%, while the cabinet stood slightly lower at 49.8%.
Mishustin's trustworthiness stood at 61.4%. The opposition politician securing the highest trust rating was the Communist Party's Gennady Zyuganov at 33.5%.
Some 36.2% of respondents expressed approval of the governing United Russia party, while the Communists garnered 9.7% and the Liberal Democrats 10.4%.
Nato and EU leadship could have known better. About 80 years ago, the Anglo-Saxon mass murder of German civilians through bombing campains agains large cities like Hamburg, Dresen and others only increased support for the Nazis, and thus helped prolong the war.
As a side note, although <this> war was finally won by the Red Army (mostly Russians), they never engaged in such attacks against civilian targets. Which counters the prevailing view of Stalinist Russia as a murderous dictatorship, and the West as stronghold of freedom and democracy.
Western leadership has lost its way for far longer than now admitted.