Russians name Putin politician of the year – poll
MOSCOW. Dec 26 – 76% percent of Russian citizens interviewed by the All Russian Center for Public Opinion Studies (VTsIOM) have named President Vladimir Putin the politician of the year.
– Liberal Democratic Party of Russia leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky was named by 13% of those polled
– First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev by 12%
– Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov by 6%
– Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu by 4%
– Communist Party of Russia leader Gennady Zyuganov by 4%
– Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov, State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov and Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov were each supported by 3% of respondents.
– Kasparov did not make the top list as a politician
Figure skater Yevgeny Plyushchenko was named the athlete of the year by 32% of those surveyed.
– Russians also mentioned professional boxers Nikolai Valuyev (16%) and Oleg Maskayev (6%)
– Vladimir Kramnik (9%).
The poll was conducted in 153 localities across Russia.
Source: Interfax
It’s easy to win popularity contests when you control all the media. Russia deserves better than Putin.
Is it? Why do you think Russians are so easy to brainwash?
Kasparov did not make the top list as a politician
I did write a while back on this blog that the russians will not elect a jewish person as their leader. Kasparov not calculating with that almost proves that he is not a politician material.
Gabor
He is non-electable not because he is jewish (BTW he is half-jewish, half-armenian, but claims to be raised on russian culture) but because Russia for him is just a tool for self-glorification. While similar political moves inside chess world were not rejected decisively from his peers because of his superb chess skills, larger Russia doesn’t care about his chess titles.
“It’s easy to win popularity contests when you control all the media. Russia deserves better than Putin.”
Hmm , well , I don’t think Russian people is easier to brainwash than any other people to be honest , recent actuality in Iraq for instance proves that ..
However , it’s true that Vladimir Putin is a leader that a very few people in Russia dare to oppose for obvious reasons and it’s not surprising to see him top the poll .
But we also mustn’t forget that the Berlin wall fell about 15 years ago , and that if you look at history , more than a few western countries needed a leader with iron hand after such periods of economical and political crisis mixed with corruption . This isn’t a job for a humanist to be honest and i don’t think that you can clone a western democratic type of political organisation to a country in such limited time and especially after all the suffer and crisis the great Russian people endured throughout the 20th century .
how sad for Kasparov
he retired from a lucrative chess carrier & put life and limb online
pursuing politics
but somehow
Kramnik still manage to beat him
in the polls
😉
So sad that such a high percentage of the population (9%) supports cheating.
Russians have killed each other for a hundred years (40,000,000) forty million souls killed by fellow citizen.. and it’s still going on..what a evil race
by the way Lenin, Troksy and Marx!
were all Jews!
and plese russian don’t be brainwash by the american/English media!
by the way Lenin, Troksy and Marx!
were all Jews!
1. Lenin was not a Jew. He had some 1/16th or 1/8th (I don’t remember exactly) Jewish blood, some great-grandmother or something. Otherwise not.
2. None of those you listed were ELECTED by the russian people.
Gabor
Also, I have to wonder what is meant by Putin “controlling all the media”. That is not true under any reasonable definition of “control” I can think of.
Putin does not control the Internet.
This means that the more the western media are demonizing him, the more credible he is in the eyes of the Russian people =D