Russia’s state pollster changed its methodology and also started going door-to-door to ask
Russia’s state pollster changed its methodology and also started going door-to-door to ask people whether they support Putin. The president’s rating immediately went up.
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Russia’s state pollster changed its methodology and also started going door-to-door to ask people whether they support Putin. The president’s rating immediately went up.
Key points
- A new poll by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center ( VTsIOM ), published on May 15, put the president’s approval at 66.8% for the period from May 4 to 10 — up 1.2 percentage points from the p…
- Trust in Vladimir Putin also rose, reaching 72.1%, compared with 71% in the previous poll.
- In May, VTsIOM changed its methodology to include not only telephone surveys but also door-to-door interviews.
- The center said restrictions on communications, the spread of anti-spam filters, and telephone fraud had “substantially changed” survey conditions, making Russians more reluctant to engage with str…
- Older age groups were most affected, VTsIOM said, concluding that telephone surveys under current conditions “cannot fully ensure the reachability” of that demographic.
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This article was independently rewritten by ManyPress editorial AI from reporting originally published by Meduza (English).