Comment by FabHK
5 years ago
You're right: I realised that the Russians I know skew urban and young and are not representative; and Putin seems to have majority approval [1].
Still not sure that changes in attitude will come about by making life more miserable for ordinary Russians; and even if the majority disapproves of Putin, there is not much they can do about it [2].
[1] https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/world/europe/russia-ukrai...
> And yet there is desperately little that Russians can do to change their country’s trajectory.
1 - russian propaganda. we do not have an institution of social polls, at least real ones
Levada is probably the only one that paints a somewhat realistic picture. They've had their share of problems with the dictator's government because of that.