{"id":88376,"date":"2011-04-22T12:09:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T07:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=88376"},"modified":"2011-04-22T12:09:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T07:09:48","slug":"putin-medvedev-rapidly-losing-publics-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/04\/22\/putin-medvedev-rapidly-losing-publics-trust.html","title":{"rendered":"Putin, Medvedev Rapidly Losing Public&#8217;s Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approval ratings of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his pro-Kremlin United Russia party have dropped to their lowest levels in two years, two Russian pollsters said, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rian.ru\/papers\/20110422\/163642065.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>RIA Novosti<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, citing Vedomosti.<\/p>\n<p>According to one nationwide survey, since Jan. 2010, the popularity of the president in the eyes of Russian citizens declined from 62% to 46%, while public trust in the prime minister dropped from 69% to 53%. The rating for the ruling party reached its lowest in the past two years: 44%.<\/p>\n<p>In late 2010, Putin&#8217;s approval ratings remained stable, while Medvedev&#8217;s grew. In late 2010, for the first time, the prime minister&#8217;s approval ratings caught up with the president&#8217;s. However, in January, public trust ratings of both the president and the prime minister dropped by 6\u20137%, according to another poll. As reported by the media at the time, such sharp fluctuations didn&#8217;t even occur in the midst of the financial crisis.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approval ratings of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his pro-Kremlin United Russia &#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10711,25329,16056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}