What do ordinary Russians think about President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and how much are they feeling the effect of Western sanctions? Denis Volkov has been working to find out. He’s the director of the Levada Center, an independent polling firm in Russia.
As Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep notes, doing anything independently in Russia is tricky (the government has branded the firm a foreign agent), as is conducting polls on this topic — since the government prohibits calling the invasion a war, and dissenters are arrested. CONTINUED
Rachel Treisman, NPR News
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