Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin's job approval rating grew to 67% in July from 64% in June, according to the results of the Yury Levada Analytical Center's survey.
Forty-one percent of those polled said they trust the president, as compared with 37% the previous month, center sociologists told Interfax.
The poll results put the job approval rating of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at 59%. He enjoys the trust of 23% of respondents.
Apart from Putin and Medvedev, July’s top 10 most popular political figures of Russia includes Moscow Region Governor Sergei Shoigu (11%), Communist Party chairman Gennady Zyuganov (11%), Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky (10%), businessman Mikhail Prokhorov (5%), Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (4%), A Just Russia leader Sergei Mironov (4%), Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia (3%), and Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko (3%).
Eighteen percent of those polled said they did not trust any Russian politician.
Forty-nine percent of respondents approved of the government’s performance in July, and 51% took the opposite view, the sociologists said.
Twenty-three percent of those polled in July said they believed in the government’s ability to improve the situation in the country, as compared with 35% in June.
Thirty-five percent of those polled this month said the government was unlikely to be able to change the situation for the better in Russia in the near future, against 30% in June.
The public opinion survey was conducted in 45 Russian regions from July 20 to July 23.
