There have, it seems, been better days to be Vladimir Putin.
According to a new survey from WCIOM, one of Russia’s leading polling agencies, trust in the Russian president has fallen to an all-time low of 31.7 percent. As the economy struggles and real disposable incomes look set to decline for the sixth straight year, the bloom is very much off the Crimean rose. CONT.
Samuel A. Greene (King’s College London), Monkey Cage