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Table 9.2.11
Do you think that V. Putin concentrating practically all the power
in the country is going to be beneficial for Russia?
2004 2005 2006 2007 2009 2010 2012 2013
III XII XI X VII VII III III
Will be beneficial for Russia 68 57 59 66 63 52 53 49
Is not going to be beneficial at all 20 29 24 20 16 22 26 33
Difficult to answer 13 15 18 14 21 26 21 18
N=1600

Table 9.2.12
Will Vladimir Putin be able to keep his promise to … in 6 years’ time?
Definitely Rather Rather Definitely Difficult to
yes yes no not answer
Make a 200!300% increase in the
11 42 28 9 11
salaries of government employees
Create 25 million new jobs in
5 31 31 15 17
innovation industry
Ensure annual inflate
5 31 34 13 17
on rate is down 3!4%
Improve production efficiency to
5 28 35 17 15
European standards
Rearm the military to NATO military
12 45 21 9 13
equipment quality standards
Build new roads on a massive scale
and develop the infrastructure 8 42 27 12 11
across the nation
Bring the corruption rate by 2 to 3
5 20 34 26 14
three times below the current rate
2012, March; N=1600

Table 9.2.13
Are you concerned with hardening of political regime following Vladimir Putin’s
Presidential re!election?
Yes, and it may affect me personally 6
Yes, but it will hardly affect me personally 27
No, it is hardly possible 54
Difficult to answer 13
2012, March; N=1600

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10. POLITICAL PARTIES

Table 10.1
How many political parties does Russia need now?
2001 2004 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
IX IV IX X VII IV VI X X VII VII IV
One strong ruling party 34 34 34 38 32 30 32 17 18 23 22 23
Two or three large
41 41 44 39 42 46 45 59 58 47 51 46
parties
A lot of relatively small
4 8 6 4 5 7 8 9 10 12 12 11
parties
We don’t need
9 7 6 7 7 6 6 4 3 3 5 7
political parties at all
Difficult to answer 13 11 9 12 14 13 10 11 11 4 11 12
N=1600

Table 10.2
Which of the views on political power struggle between the parties you would
rather agree with?
2008 2012
VII VII
Political struggle between the parties allows to voice the interests of
broad public which, in its turn, drives the decision making supporting 30 31
the needs of common people
Parties protect their interests and ignore the public opinion, so
61 59
common people do not benefit from the political struggle
Difficult to answer 10 10
N=1600

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UNITED RUSSIA
Table 10.3
Which interests, in your opinion, «United Russia» defends: interest
of all Russian population or the ones of the government officialdom?
2011 2012
All Russian population 32 35
Government officialdom 57 52
Difficult to answer 11 13
July, N=1600

Table 10.4
Do you agree with the opinion that “United Russia”
is the party of frauds and thieves?
2011 2012 2013
IV VI IX XI II IV VI VIII XII II IV V VI
Definitely yes 8 14 12 13 15 15 17 15 16 16 18 14 14
Most likely, yes 23 19 20 23 21 23 24 30 24 24 33 27 31
Most likely, no 30 29 28 28 30 31 28 30 30 27 24 29 29
Definitely no 15 18 22 17 17 17 12 12 13 14 9 10 9
Difficult to answer 23 19 18 20 17 15 19 13 16 18 16 20 17
N=1600

ELECTION LAW
Table 10.5
Are you personally in favor of or against …?
Definitely Rather in Rather Definitely Difficult to
in favor favor against against answer
Reinstating the right to create
15 31 9 4 42
electoral blocs
Reinstating the private citizens and
public associations with the right to
27 38 7 2 26
put changes to legislation to a public
referendum
2012, September; N=1600

Table 10.6
Are you personally in favor or against the “against all” box
returned to ballot paper?
2010 2011 2012
VII VII IX
Definitely in favor 30 42 37
Rather in favor 37 31 37
Rather against 9 8 10
Definitely against 5 3 5
Difficult to answer 18 16 12
N=1600

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11. PROTEST MOVEMENT AND OPPOSITION

Table 11.1
Do you support the mass protests active since December 2011
(“For fair elections”, “March of Millions”, etc.)?*
2011 2012 2013
XII I II III IV VI VII VIII IX X XI XII I V
Definitely support 12 10 10 7 12 7 11 10 13 8 11 8 11 5
Rather support 32 33 28 25 26 30 31 29 26 22 29 28 30 22
Rather do not
26 28 26 29 32 30 31 31 25 31 27 30 23 20
support
Do not support at all 15 14 19 23 14 14 16 12 21 22 14 16 14 10
Difficult to answer 15 15 18 17 15 19 11 18 16 17 19 18 22 44
*! The question offered in January!April was “Mass protests against election fraud and rigged votes”
N=1600

Table 11.2
Will you join such protests if they occur in your city or district?*
2012 2013
I II III VI VII VIII IX X XI XII I
Definitely yes 3 3 2 3 5 2 6 4 8 3 5
Rather yes 10 10 6 11 14 11 11 11 14 12 16
Rather no 31 30 30 28 30 31 27 32 30 33 32
Definitely not 47 49 48 48 44 49 47 43 38 42 38
Difficult to answer 9 9 14 10 7 7 9 11 9 9 9
*! The question offered in January!February was “Will you personally join the protests against election fraud
and rigged votes”
2012 г., N=1600

Table 11.3
Will the protest moods in Russian society increase,
remain at the current level or decline in the near future?
2011 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012
XII I* IV** VI** VII** VIII** IX*** X
Will increase 23 18 14 17 18 15 15 18
Remain at the current level 35 29 31 42 41 36 37 39
Will decline 29 40 44 32 24 33 29 25
Difficult to answer 13 14 11 9 17 16 20 18
*! Following the Presidential election
**! Summer and Fall this year
***! Fall
N=1600

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