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by denton-scratch
887 days ago
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https://www.levada.ru/en/about-us/ They explain their methodology, and discuss things like what kind of questions tend to result in respondents terminating the interview. I don't know how independent they really are; but I haven't seen evidence that they are effectively state-controlled. If they are independent, then presumably it's true that most Russians are nationalists and Putinists. That doesn't seem implausible; as far as I can tell, a majority of voters in the USA are nationalists and Trumpists. I've never visited a country while it was under the fist of a dictator. And in a way, Russia is special; in Russian history, autocracy and tyranny have been a constant, except for the ten years after the collapse of the CCCP. Those ten years were miserable for Russians, so it would be unsurprising if they feel safer and more comfortable with autocracy and tyranny. |
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