Russian hackers would not be able to change the outcome of the United States presidential election, the nation’s most senior intelligence and law enforcement officials have assured Congress and the White House in recent weeks. But disrupting it, they acknowledge, would be far easier, causing enough doubts in key states, […] Read more »
The Tricky Business of Polling Under Putin
Russia’s designation of its most respected polling agency as a foreign agent last week, hobbling the Yury Levada Centre, shows the extraordinary challenges pollsters face in the country. … Levada is one of three leading Russian polling agencies; the other two are linked to the Kremlin, one owned by the […] Read more »
Russia’s Levada Centre polling group named foreign agent
Russia’s leading independent polling agency has been labelled a “foreign agent” by the justice ministry and says it cannot now work. The Levada Centre surveys political opinion among Russian people. Its director, Lev Gudkov, said the move, which comes two weeks before parliamentary elections, amounted to “political censorship”. CONT. BBC News Read more »
As acts of terror proliferate, Americans see no end in sight
Both presidential candidates have spent a good portion of time on the campaign trail explaining how they plan to combat terrorism. Hillary Clinton has said she would expand airstrikes against violent Islamic extremist groups in Iraq and Syria. At this point last week Donald Trump said he would partner with […] Read more »
With Russia a campaign issue, Clinton gains on foreign affairs
Hillary Clinton’s post-convention bump extends to enthusiasm about voting and trust on a slew of issues, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll. And on the most prominent foreign policy issue of late, Russia and its relationship with the US, nearly 6-in-10 see the country as unfriendly, and about half say […] Read more »
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and the Polls
You have to go back 40 years to find a presidential candidate saying something quite as loony about Russia as the many things Donald Trump said in his press conference Wednesday. … But what about today? If Mr. Trump’s advisers wanted to find some solace in the polls, could they? […] Read more »