Russia: support without enthusiasm of population in Vladimir Putin

Some fatigue against the confrontation climate maintained at all times is emerged. The Anti-Guedure Party is perfectly inaudible in a country where critical vocals have been repressed or pushed to exile.

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There is the one who promised never to read news and does not know everything. The one who presses the step and rises his scarf on the nose. Those who are content with a grunt, or a word as a lapidary as cautious: “I am for peace”, “I am with Putin” …

Attempt to get the reactions of the Moscovians after the shattering initiative of their president in the Ukrainian file, Monday, February 21, it is not only to face a hurried capital, it is also the deepest touch on the political realities Russians: the great indifference and popular mistrust for all that affects the public sphere, even on these international ubiquitous subjects on television, even for this Ukraine whose Vladimir Putin continues to explain that it is “more than a neighbor “.

Anyway has a trend, a mood: a support without great enthusiasm to the action of Vladimir Putin, that the West would have put at the foot of the wall. This is for example what Valentin Nekrassov, retired 57 years old: “It would be better if we could stay friends with the Ukrainians, but we have no choice. The President had to make a difficult decision, that of free Himself the donbass … “

Tired of the climate of confrontation

This decision to recognize the separatist republics as “independent” territories, escalation which is accompanied by a risk of obvious war, Lioubov Blagouchina, 44 years old, accountant, the support of the lips: “with the agreements of Minsk blocked, the diplomatic initiative and the lack of goodwill on the Ukrainian side, the risk of war is there anyway. But it is also the responsibility of Putin to have dug with Ukraine since 2014. ”

The surveys on this last presidential initiative are missing, but, early 2021, about 50% of the Russians supported such recognition or attachment of the two entities to Russia, compared to 25% advocating their return to the Ukrainian giron. On the other hand, only 17% of the Russians believe that Russia and Ukraine should form one and the same state.

Other studies, older, show some fatigue facing the confrontational climate continuously in the country. If, in 2014, according to the Independent Analytics Center Levada, 26% of the surveys assured that “Russia is surrounded by enemies on all sides”, they are only 16% to think in 2020. The fear of the war At the same time, hoisted in second position of the concerns of the Russians.

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