The latest ratings of the Russian President show that he is supported by 82 percent of the population. This is less than the 2015, which allows the journalist Forbes to conclude that the euphoria after the annexation of Crimea subsided and Putin’s popularity began to decline. However, he notes, almost any other leader of the “soul would be sold” even for those 82 per cent.
After the annual direct line with Vladimir Putin, which the journalist mark Adomanis calls “teledemocracy all the worst features of the Russian political system“, the level of the President’s popularity among Russians. In this time many publications, and even anti-Putin, in recent months gave similar comments: the popularity of Putin’s “unwavering“, Adomanis writes in his article for Forbes.
The journalist agrees with such assessments: what are the standards to take advantage of, indicators of Putin’s popularity remains very high. So, the March polls show that its activities approve 82% of Russians. “Almost any other leader of state-level soul would be sold to get 82 per cent, “writes Adomanis.
However, the results of Putin cannot be called a record: for example, they are significantly lower than the indicators of 2015, and is slightly lower than the support of the population in 2007 and 2008. Such dynamics explain “the laws of gravity, “writes Adomanis: the ratings have a ceiling, and it looks like Putin punched it in 2015. “What goes up, must come down, and just mathematically impossible it would be to his approval ratings continued to grow indefinitely“.
But on the other hand, recognizes the journalist, there is nothing surprising in the fact that Putin has lost a few points in the rankings when his people lost about 10 per cent in wages, and the economy for more than a year is in recession.
“Of course, this does not mean that is inevitably coming some excitement like Bastille and that furious crowds of angry Russians are going to riot in the streets of Moscow to overthrow the government“, – warns the author. 82 per cent is not only a very good compared with other countries, but not bad for Putin.
However, most of these results suggests that in Russia there are normal laws of politics – at least partially. The economy suffers, and the government is losing popularity – comes exactly as would expect. Too often, the popularity of Putin is considered as an unchanged, which fabricated in a lab somewhere and not dependent on political reality. And it is not so, insists Adomanis: just look at his decline to the level of 60 per cent in the period from 2009 to 2013.
Based on these data, the national euphoria that followed the annexation of Crimea, finally beginning to weaken. It is unclear what will happen next, but at least, there is a likelihood that the days of universally high ratings is behind us, says Forbes.
