Love has gone - tears remained

A survey of the Levada Center sociologists showed: there was no trace of the “Teflon” Putin. In 130 settlements of 45 regions, citizens of Russia, interviewed in the third week of April, definitely stated: the president -premier - the President, the president had arranged them, the charm has passed. If, at the end of the second presidential term of Putin, in February 2008, 62% considered his strongest side of GDP his businessiness and energy, then in April 2012 there were only 39%. In 2008, 47% held him for a mature and experienced man, today almost 60-year-olds only 28% see the head of state three times.
The idea of ​​Putin’s intelligence and four years ago in it was noticed somewhere, 43%noticed this quality, now-only 18%. But, it turns out, few people considered it independent and independent and then (29%) and very little (12%) now. On whom is it dependent? Not from fellow citizens - this is definitely. To the question: "What social forces will Vladimir Putin be based on in the future?" -The answer “ordinary people” chose 11%, but in the absolute leaders of the support of the old-New president-security forces (47%), governors and generally political elite (44%), large business (39%), officials (27%). It turned out that citizens and quite clearly imagine why Putin decided to return to the Kremlin: 49% believe that power for him is “most expensive and he will hold on to it at all costs”, and besides, the environment would not allow him to leave, even if he sharply wanted it. What is the following six years to rule the country, in the decency of which only the scanty percentage of the respondents (7%; 2008 - 24%) is confident and the same amount of him “pleasant, pretty, charming” (in 2008 - 30%) is a big question.