If you can point me to links that show the improved economic performance of Russia under Putin I would really appreciate it.
Naji
----- Original Message ----- From: "ChrisD(RJ)" <chrisd at russiajournal.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:18 AM Subject: RE: Gorbachev on Putin
> Most Russians aren't disappointed in President Putin - Poll
>
> MOSCOW. March 21 (Interfax) - A majority of Russians (61%) say that
> President
> Vladimir Putin has had more successes than failures, the Public Opinion
> Foundation reported on Thursday with reference to a poll of 1,500 town and
> country residents on March 16.
> 13% think the opposite.
> 79% of Putin's supporters think that he has had more successes, while
4%
> think the opposite. Supporters of Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov
> say
> that the Russian president has been mostly a failure (36% to 34% who think
> differently).
> 29% of the polled said that the president has had the most obvious
> successes in social policy, 10% named foreign policy and 5% named domestic
> policy. 3% said that Putin has been especially successful in economics,
and
> 3% named defense policy.
> 59% of the respondents said Putin has never given them a reason to be
> disappointed in him.
> Yet 26% said that in some situations the president has been wrong. The
> most frequent example was the Kursk situation (7%). The events in Salt
Lake
> City ranked second (4%). The respondents said they were disappointed that
> "the Olympic team was put at the mercy of America" and the reaction of the
> president was too restrained "as he did not stand up to protect the
> athletes."
> 3% of the polled blame Putin for the ongoing war in Chechnya.