Putin's Approval Rating At 3-Year Highs (As Obama Hits Record Low)

On the heels of President Obama's approval rating plummeting to 41% - a record low - it is perhaps ironic that the supposedly despotic (amid shrouded in Hitler-comparisons and homosexual hatred) Vladimir Putin has seen his approval rating soar to 71.6% - a 3 year high - as Interfax notes "we now have a complex society that supports the president, primarily because of his stance on Ukraine." Interestingly 64% saw Ukraine as a key current event while 32% said that success at the Olympics was most important.

Via Interfax,

The rating of Vladimir Putin registered by the All-Russia Public Opinion Research center (VTsIOM), which exceeds the rating he had after his inauguration in 2012, will most likely stay high and may even increase, Nikolai Mironov, general director of the Institute of Priority Regional Projects, said.

"Putin's rating is even higher than it was in May 2012, when he became president. His rating has now reached the highest point. I believe it may stay at this level and may even increase," Mironov told Interfax on Thursday.

"We now have a complex society that supports the president, primarily because of his stance on Ukraine. It's not only 'Putin's majority' we spoke about earlier and which was composed of people from specific social groups. We now have a much broader consensus. We have managed to achieve the consolidation of society, which is expressed in this rating," he said.

"The stable increase of the president's rating is due to the successes in two Sochi Olympics: the main Olympics and the Paralympics. But the main thing is the president's stance on the political situation in Ukraine and in Crimea. This stance is aimed at defending the interests of the country and helping Russian people. It's very important to voters and respondents. No doubt, that influences the rating," Mironov said.

Putin's approval rating has now reached 71.6%, which is the highest point in several years, a poll conducted by VTsIOM shows.

Russians have been positive about Putin's work for several weeks now, since mid February, and the president's approval rating has gone up 9.7%, the public opinion poll says.

Putin's rating is increasing on the background of the political crisis in Ukraine and the situation in Crimea, which 64% of the respondents called the main events of the past week, and the success of the Russian national team in the Sochi Olympics and the beginning of the Paralympics (32%).

Russians have generally approved of the president's work for the past few years (60%). The previous highest rating of the president was registered in May 2012 (68.8%), immediately after Putin's inauguration as head of state.

So Obama needs to invade another country, have a successful home Olympics, and ban homosexuals?

Comments

[combatsnoopy]

I'm going to KEEP IT REAL and explain why Putin is getting the higher ratings.
First, never in my life I would imagine admitting that I was jealous of the *RUSSIANS*!
Here, they have this accomplished, wicked smart, secret service personelle who has a 9th degree black belt in Tai Kwan Do.

In the U.S., the boomer goof non-materialistic flowerchildren draft dodgers voted in not one, but THREE COKED OUT STONERS as POTUS.  The first was Clinton (entitled trust fund bitch/Ivy League), Dubya (trust fund bitch/Ivy League) and Obama (entitled affirmative action trophy/Ivy League)...
Has nobody noticed the positive correlation with decline of our economy with entitled junkies in the white house? 

Putin created a business friendlier environment than the U.S.
Putin's Russia is drilling for their own oil.  Good on them if they can consume their own domestically drilled oil during quantitative easing, the US boomer elected junkies decided that we should only consume imported oil during quantitative easing which increases the trade DEFICIT.  Hint* trade deficits are very bad for the economy.

But what is the U.S. going to do to Russia? 

Send Hillary Clinton to make up bad rumors about  Putin? 
How about the old Honey Trap plot trick?
Create another Pussy Riot?  That was an OBVIOUS fake.  Look, if anyone met a Russian princess, they're the most spoiled- blathersome useless self obsessed b*s who sit in front of the mirror for 3 hours, may have never worked a day in their lives and get unemployment from OUR government while they "study" (gold dig) in the US on a Visa....when our own workers who lost their jobs and can't get unemployment at no fault of their own.  

In respect to politics, do NOT believe everything the press tells you. 

How do we know that the "anti-gay" laws were against the gay exploitation of their own civil rights as a red herring to the subprime banking scandal?  Gays should have their rights, but as far as I'm concerned they mean nothing to me in context of politics.   A gay man in weho attacked me with a bunch of racist sentiments.  Sure he was drunk, and he tried to accuse me of being an "Obama supporter" because I'm not all white.   I AM in favor of civil rights, but I find them horribly annoying. 

You CAN hate Putin all you want.   But honestly, you still have to respect him. 

I'm not in love with all of Russia's affairs myself, but I am thrilled if his own people can fend for their own welfare unlike a generation ago.  They're doing better than we are.

[smacker]

Here's a huge dilemma that keeps facing us in the West:

Whilst only a small number of people have time for anything that Russia stands for and most of us would not wish to live there, Putin is far more popular than Obama.

A lot of people believe Putin has played the geo-political game far better than Western leaders over Syria and now Ukraine. This has earned him a lot of respect in the West (outside of our governments). It just shows what a shambles our criminal-run Western governments have become.