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Moscow, May 7 (Interfax) - Almost half of Russian citizens trust Russian President Vladimir Putin more than any other politician and are ready to vote for him again, polls showed.

If Russia had presidential elections next Sunday, 48% of Russians would vote
for Putin, while other possible candidates currently get less that 10%, the
poll, held by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) in 204 settlements in 64
Russian regions with 3,000 respondents on April 20-21, showed.

According to the information of the Russian Public Opinion Study Center
(VTsIOM), 48% of respondents currently put Putin the first in the list of
Russian politician they trust the most. Judging by the poll of 1,600 people held
by the VTsIOM on April 28 in 153 settlements in 46 Russian regions, territories
and republics, Putin is far ahead of his rivals in the trust rating: Medvedev
has 15%, Gennady Zyuganov 9%, Vladimir Zhirinovsky 7% and Sergei Shoigu 5%.

The latest poll of Levada Center showed that 62% of Russians did not support
the slogans “Russia without Putin” and “Putin has to go.” Only 8% of respondents
said they supported the slogans and 16% said they rather supported them.

When sociologists asked “Who do you want to see as the Russian president
after the 2018 election?”, 26% of respondents chose Putin, 14% chose a person
who would pursue Putin’s policy and 41% “a person who would offer a different
solution to Russia’s problems.”

At the same time, 31% out of 1,600 respondents polled by Levada Center in
late April in 130 settlements in 45 Russian regions said they would not be
against another presidential term of Putin. Nineteen percent said they wanted
Putin’s successor to become president in 2018, 16% were ready to support
Medvedev once again and 15% wanted another politician “elected independently
from V. Putin.”

Twenty percent of Russians have not yet decided who they wanted to see as the
Russian president after 2018.