Robert Legvold — Lowdown: What Russian Citizens Really Think of Putin and Why

Setting Washington and US pundits straight on wishful thinking up in the clouds versus reality in the ground.

The National Interest
Lowdown: What Russian Citizens Really Think of Putin and Why

Robert Legvold | Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, where he specialized in the international relations of the post-Soviet states.

[All of the data I cited are from surveys conducted by the Levada Center, Russia’s most professional polling organization.]

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