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RFE/RL: Russians’ trust in Putin sinks to new low

Published May 25, 2019 at 3:18 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the media following talks with North Korean leader at the Far Eastern Federal University on Russky island in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok on April 25, 2019.

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Public trust in Russian President Vladimir Putin has fallen to its lowest level in 13 years, according to a Russian state pollster.

The poll, published on May 24 by the Public Opinion Research Center, found that trust in Putin had fallen to 31.7 percent, its lowest level since 2006.