Putin's popularity plunges as Russian voters rage over pension reforms

[Cal Tek]

Source: CBC

Jonathon Gatehouse · CBC News · Posted: Nov 22, 2018 2:10 PM ET

Vladimir Putin's popularity is plummeting as Russian voters rage over government pension reforms.

A new poll, published today by the independent Levada Center, finds the Russian president's approval rating at 56 per cent, a five-year low. And the survey makes it clear that the public is increasingly unhappy with the direction the country is heading in.

Sixty-one per cent of respondents told Levada that they hold Putin "fully" responsible for Russia's problems, with another 22 per cent saying the president is "somewhat" to blame.

If an election were held today, just 40 per cent said they would cast a ballot for the man who has led them since 1999.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/national-today-newsletter-putin-tijuana-migrants-funerals-1.4911423

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Well, at least he still has Trump's vote!

[catbyte]

1. So he'll only get 90% of the vote instead of 95%?

Unfortunately, it means nothing, which is just how Il Douche wants it here.

[still_one]

15. exactly

[Takket]

18. I'd vote for Putin too

If I knew I was going to “fall out of a window” if I didn’t. Their elections are even more corrupt than ours unfortunately.

[AZ8theist]

2. If only the citizens of Russia..

knew how much Putti and his cronies have STOLEN from them...

He might end up like Benito did in 1945.

[FakeNoose]

3. The pension program for the oligarchs is in great shape

... not that it makes any difference to 99% of the country.

[nycbos]

4. Kind of like this?

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Now do you understand

how Obama's Sanctions are working. This was baked into the cake on Oil Prices and Putin's ability to obtain certain drilling Technology. Putin needed one and half Trillion Petro Dollars by the end of this month in order to stave off a economic nightmare and the possibility of a citizen .

Puti is in effect neutered and the uprising is about to begin.

[Qutzupalotl]

7. Putin also just lost his chance to control Interpol.

So his hackers still can’t leave the country without risk of apprehension. Putin must be pissed. Good.

And Mueller is getting ready to act again...

[Wellstone ruled]

11. My guess is this,

this is playing into Trump's behavior pattern lately. Donnie hears the footsteps of accountability thundering in his direction and it is scaring the crap out of him. He has never before had to deal with this due to the Russian Mob covering for him.

Next week I will be watching the Nymex on Sunday night for clues as to what to expect by years end. That will either accelerate Putin's demise or just delay it for a few months. History deals Russian rulers no quarter.

[Berlin Expat]

22. You noted that

"Putin needed one and half Trillion Petro Dollars by the end of this month in order to stave off a economic nightmare...."

is there anywhere I can read about that? I'm not doubting that in the slightest, but I'd like to read up on it for my own knowledge.

[Wellstone ruled]

23. Believe it

was a TPM story sometime February or March time frame. About the time Oil was first started to be manipulated by someone in Eourpe or China.

[iDOcareDoyou]

25. Uprising ? ... not yet ... BUT WE SHOULD START MESSING WITH THEM AS THEY DID WITH US!!! No?

What would be the consequences of a massive US retaliation along the lines that they used (are still using) on us in the last 3/4 years?

Oligarchs dethroned, their resistance strenghtened, their Military under more stable / less oportuniustic control . . .

Lets hope so.

[ansible]

6. Retirement age is 65 for men and 63 for women in Russia

Let that sink in for a bit

[bluestarone]

8. Shamefully Putin could

Become president here!!

[pecosbob]

9. Time for a few apartment buildings to be blown up by 'terrorists'.

[ananda]

10. It's hard to believe Peeuwtin ever had any ..

.. popularity I mean!

[JNelson6563]

12. I see. So it's all good times while

Putin is fucking up the whole world but oh, touch the pensions and *then* the Russian people have an issue!

Idiots. Did they think they were going to get cut into the action? No, they have to pay for it. Sounds like a rude awakening. Good.

[BannonsLiver]

32. Exactly

I don’t let the Russian people off the hook at all. Sure, some hate the man, but the majority do not. Anecdotally, I travel internationally with some frequency and I’ve seen quite a few unpleasant Russians in those settings, most recently last month in Germany. Fucking obnoxious, even more so than the “ugly American” which is also quite real.

[elmac]

13. russia's economy is in the toilet & ours is about to get flushed with it. Crash! nt

[DFW]

14. Russia is hard to explain if you don't talk to a lot of Russians

As a nation, they have always had a kind of inferiority complex vs. the West. Tsar Peter the Great took this on by visiting the west, learning from it, inviting western Europeans to come to Russia to help "modernize" it--to the extent that you could modernize things in 1720. As with Germany after World War I, people giving the ordinary citizen pride in his nationality, even it wasn't justified, were heroes. Bad economic times were always the fault of outsiders (Germany after WW I actually WAS this, making them particularly receptive to Hitler's rhetoric). A classmate of my younger daughter's once said the worst thing the Nazis did to her, born 40 years after their defeat, was to take away her right to have pride in her nationality. Putin isn't interested in learning anything except stealing technology and money, and outsmarting the west for the pure joy of it. Russia has an incredibly rich cultural wealth of art, music and literature. That's enough for him.

[LiberalFighter]

16. McConnell must be getting his marching orders from Putin

for changing our Social Security and Medicare. Likely wants to change our pension too by taxing more of it.

[rurallib]

17. "reform" includes betting it on the stock market

and pumping up the oligarch's riches with our money.

I would hope most Americans would go bananas at that.

[MarcA]

19. It's the oligarchs and their lackeys against everyone else.

Not US vs. Russia or East vs. West, etc. Too bad so many
people don't have the wisdom to understand it or the courage
to accept it.

[Just a Weirdo]

20. Hopefully both of their reign of terror

will be the dustbin of history, just like Hitler.

Fuck them both.

[cstanleytech]

21. I wonder how many of the 56% that said they approve did so because they fear for their lives?

[blue-wave]

24. I remember his popularity as high as

80% and has been dropping since that high point. There are many problems in Russia and it appears as though the Russian people are growing tired of waiting for the thief and thug in power to change things. Ya just gotta love the young. It's their future.

[MaryMagdaline]

26. Turns out they don't like funding crooked billionaires with their pensions

[Achilleaze]

27. But on the bright side, republicans still luvs Pooty Poot

for all he has done to undermine American democracy

[OnDoutside]

28. Sounds like a perfect time for US intelligence to be

screwing around with Putin's narrative in Russia....

[democratisphere]

29. The majority still favor putin. Humans are nuts!

[duforsure]

30. When enough people there realize Putin's wealth ,

From its being stolen from their economy, from them by him, his rule will come to an end. He's stolen billions from the the russian people.

[orangecrush]

31. 56% approval,

but only 40% would vote for him?

Sounds like something is out of kilter.

Like fear of reprisal for answering poll wrong.

[BannonsLiver]

33. Polonium milkshakes for all!

[orangecrush]

34. ...