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Vremya Novostei\
No. 227|
[translation from RIA Novosti for personal use only]
WHAT RUSSIANS THINK OF THE GOVERNMENT
Oleg SAVELYEV, VTsIOM press service
At the end of November 2001, the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VTsIOM) conducted a representative express-poll on Russians' attitude to the government (the poll covered 1,600 respondents). The answers to some questions of the poll are given below in percent together with the data of the VTsIOM public opinion poll held in November 2000.
The statistical error of such polls is within 4 percent.
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Do you approve or disapprove, on the whole, of Mikhail Kasyanov's activities in the post of Russia's prime minister?
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2000 2001
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Approve 47 53
Disapprove 32 34
No answer 21 13
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Do you approve or disapprove of the Russian government's activities on the whole?
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2000 2001
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Approve 38 46
Disapprove 46 45
No answer 16 9
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Will the present Russian government be able to change the country's situation for the better in the near future?
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2000 2001
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Certainly "yes", rather "yes" than "no"
25 26
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Maybe "yes", and may be "no"
35 35
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Rather "no", certainly "no"
36 35
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It's hard to say
4 4
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