The Levada Center, 7/7/23 (English translation via Google)

A point that stood out to me: even among youth and those who get their news from the internet rather than television, majorities still want Putin to remain president, though the majorities are smaller than those who are over 55 and get their news from television. – Natylie

The majority of respondents describe their attitude towards V. Putin as positively neutral. Two-thirds of those polled would like the incumbent head of state to be re-elected in 2024. Supporters of his re-election explain this by the fact that V. Putin “is pursuing the right policy,” “a good leader,” “for the people,” “there is no alternative to him.” Opponents of the re-election say that he “has been in office for a long time,” “I don’t like his policy,” “changes are needed.” According to the respondents, V. Putin expresses the interests of the “siloviki”, as well as “ordinary people”, “oligarchs” and the “middle class” .

With respect to the president, as before, positive-neutral assessments prevail. About a quarter (23%) of the respondents describe their attitude towards V. Putin as “sympathy”, another 19% as “admiration” – compared to last year, the share of such assessments has practically not changed. Another 12% of respondents speak of a “neutral, indifferent” attitude towards the president, about a third (31%) have nothing bad to say about him.

What words could you describe your attitude towards Vladimir Putin? (table)

	Nov.00	Nov.02	Nov.05	Mar.08	oct.11	Mar.13	Mar.14	Mar.15	Jul.16	apr.17	oct.19	Mar.20	Aug.21	May.22	Jun.23
Sympathy	31	37	32	41	24	18	31	37	29	32	24	20	21	25	23
Delight	4	5	4	9	3	2	6	10	8	10	8	9	8	19	19
Neutral, indifferent	eleven	9	eleven	10	17	22	15	10	17	17	15	16	16	eleven	12
Alert, expectant	eleven	6	5	2	7	10	6	5	4	6	8	9	7	4	5
Disgust	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	1	1	1	3	3	6	2	2
Antipathy	1	1	2	1	2	5	2	2	2	3	3	5	4	2	2
Can’t say anything bad about him	36	37	36	34	33	thirty	29	thirty	31	27	thirty	27	27	31	31
I can’t say anything good about him.	4	3	8	3	8	8	7	3	6	4	8	8	9	4	5
Difficult to answer	1	1	1	2	5	3	4	2	1	1	1	3	2	2	2

As in the past year, the majority of respondents would like to see V. Putin as president of Russia after 2024 – 68% of them (in May 2022 – 72%). A fifth of 20% (in May 2022 – 19%) would not want him to be re-elected as head of state.

Would you or would you not like to see Vladimir Putin as president of Russia after his current presidential term expires, after 2024? (table)

	oct.12	oct.13	nov.14	May.16	oct.16	May.17	Aug.17	may.18	Jul.19	Mar.20	Feb.21	sep.21	May.22	Jun.22
Would you like	34	33	58	60	63	66	67	51	54	46	48	47	72	68
Wouldn’t like	40	45	19	21	19	20	18	27	38	40	41	42	19	20
Difficult to answer	26	23	22	19	19	14	16	22	8	14	eleven	eleven	9	12

Most often, the desire to see V. Putin as president after the current term was said by respondents aged 55 and older (74% for remaining, and 17% against it), those who trust TV as the main source of information (86% vs. 8% ), the wealthiest Russians (72% vs. 17%) and those surveyed who believe that things in the country are going in the right direction (85% vs. 7%). For V. Putin to leave his post in 2024, respondents aged 18-24 were more likely to speak out (60% for staying, and 25% against it), readers of Internet publications (55% versus 31%), those , who barely have enough money to eat (66% vs. 22%), and those surveyed who believe that the country is moving in the wrong direction (34% vs. 55%).

Of those who want V. Putin to remain president after 2024, 29% of those surveyed express such a desire because he “leads the right policy, strengthens the state”, 20% because he is “a leader, a good president”, 17 each % – because he is “for the people, for stability” and “there is no one else, there is no alternative.”

The respondents, who do not want the incumbent head of state to be re-elected for the next term, name the following reasons: “he has been in office for a long time, they are tired of him and his rule” (23%), “they don’t like his policy, it is destroying the country, the introduction of pension reform, violation of constitution” (18%), “changes are needed, a change of power” (18%).

39% of respondents believe that V. Putin expresses the interests of the “siloviki” – this figure has not changed much in two years. 29% of respondents believe that he expresses the interests of “ordinary people” – the highest figure for all the time of observation. Another quarter (in August 2021 – 40%) believe that the head of state expresses the interests of the “oligarchs”. In addition, the proportion of respondents who believe that V. Putin defends the interests of the middle class has increased from 16% in 2021 to 24% this year.

What segments of the population are represented, in your opinion, by Vladimir Putin? (full table with dynamics)

	sep.00	Sep.01	dec.03	dec.05	oct.10	oct.11	Jul.13	Aug.14	Aug.16	oct.17	Mar.20	Aug.21	Jun.23
“Siloviki”: employees of special services, the army, the Ministry of Internal Affairs	39	39	33	41	34	38	41	39	35	41	37	40	39
“Ordinary people”: employees, workers, rural workers	18	17	23	18	20	17	eleven	13	14	17	16	17	29
“Oligarchs”, bankers, big businessmen	16	17	14	23	26	35	35	thirty	28	31	38	40	25
“Middle class”: people with incomes above average	19	19	24	21	27	25	24	22	20	23	18	16	24
Government officials, bureaucracy	14	16	15	22	24	25	thirty	24	22	31	28	29	22
“Director’s corps”: heads of large enterprises	13	13	10	13	18	27	23	19	19	25	17	14	13
Cultural and scientific elite	6	7	9	8	10	9	9	10	9	15	8	10	10
intelligentsia	9	6	eleven	6	10	9	8	9	8	12	7	9	10
Yeltsin’s inner circle, the “family”	19	18	13	14	eleven	13	14	9	8	10	8	12	9
Everyone without exception	9	eleven	15	10	7	10	12	14	17	17	9	6	7
“Lumpenov”: beggars, downtrodden people	3	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	2	2
Difficult to answer	16	18	12	eleven	13	eleven	10	15	14	12	13	eleven	eleven

METHODOLOGY

The all-Russian survey by the Levada Center was conducted on June 22–28, 2023, based on a representative all-Russian sample of the urban and rural population of 1,634 people aged 18 and over in 137 settlements, 50 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The study is conducted at the respondent’s home by a personal interview. The distribution of responses is given as a percentage of the total number.

The statistical error in a sample of 1600 people (with a probability of 0.95) does not exceed:

3.4% for indicators close to 50%

2.9% for indicators close to 25% / 75%

2.0% for indicators close to 10% / 90%

1.5% for indicators close to 5% / 95%