Levada Center: 57 percent of Russians against the third term

57 percent of Russians believe that the time of stay of one person at the presidential post needs to be limited to two terms. As Gazeta.ru reports, this is evidenced by the results of a survey of the Levada Center. 22 percent of the respondents do not agree with this proposal, another 22 percent found it difficult to answer. Speaking about the possible changes in the political regime in Russia after the return of Vladimir Putin to the post of head of state, 57 percent of the respondents said that the political regime would not change. 29 percent believe that the regime will become more rigid. 5 percent of respondents expect messages from the authorities.

67 percent of the respondents, one way or another, do not support the slogan "not a single voice to Vladimir Putin." Only 22 percent of the respondents agree with this strategy, another 11 percent found it difficult to answer. The associations of all protest forces would like 34 percent of citizens, the same amounts against the joint actions of "communists, democrats, patriots and others." 32 percent found it difficult to answer this question.

At the same time, 66.2 percent of citizens are in one way or another not satisfied with what is happening in the country. 26.3 percent of citizens described their attitude to life in Russia as “mostly satisfactory”, only 3.9 percent said that they were “quite satisfied” with the position of their affairs. 44.1 percent of the respondents said that "cases are in the right direction", 37.7 percent of the respondents did not agree with them. One way or another, 28.4 percent of citizens, 65.2 percent of the respondents to varying degrees are dissatisfied with the economic policy, are in one way or another. 54 percent of the respondents are allowed during the next year a repetition of the crisis of 1998 and 2008, 32.4 percent of citizens do not share their position.

According to the results of the recent survey of the Levada Center, less than half of the Russians are sure that the upcoming presidential elections will be honest, 78 percent of the respondents expressed confidence that Vladimir Putin will again become the head of state. Only 49 percent of the respondents predict that the upcoming elections will be honest, do not believe 28 percent of Russians, 23 percent difficult to express their opinion on this issue. At the same time, 30 percent of the respondents expect that there will be fewer falsifications in the elections than it was in the State Duma elections, and 10 percent are sure that there will be no violations and falsifications.

37 percent of the respondents believe that there will be as many and even more falsifications of votes in these elections than in the past elections to the State Duma. About three percent of the respondents believe in the victory of other applicants for the highest post in the country. 53 percent of respondents are sure that the current Prime Minister will win the presidential election in the first round, 28 percent believe that this will happen in the second round. 4 percent foresee Putin's defeat in the elections.

On January 25, the Levada Center published the results of the survey, according to which Putin's presidential rating amounted to 37 percent. The presidential rating of the Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, according to the Levada Center, amounted to 15 percent. For Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 9 percent are ready to vote on the next Sunday, for Mikhail Prokhorov - 6 percent, for Sergey Mironov - 5 percent. Another 2 percent are ready to vote for the founder of the "apple" Grigory Yavlinsky taken from the elections.

Recent surveys of Vitsom and the Public Opinion fund showed that Putin’s rating is 52 and 45 percent, respectively. The rating of Putin, according to polls by FOM and VTsIOM, has grown sharply over the past two months, while, according to the calculations of the Levada Center, Putin’s popularity from December has increased by only 1 percent from 36 percent.

In early December, according to the studies of the VTsIOM, the Prime Minister's rating was 42 percent, and now reached a level of 52 percent, which is enough to election to the president’s post in the first round. Sociologists from VTsIOM and FOM associated the rapid growth of Putin’s rating with the fact that the prime minister began to take active actions that could not but affect his popularity.

After the December publication of the recordly low ratings of the Prime Minister and President, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin’s rating falls “with a common emotional background in a pre-election and post-kind period”. “If you abstract from emotions, it is obvious that the real state of affairs is currently more likely with a plus sign,” the prime minister spokesman said.