76 percent of Russians apparently believe that Putin is Russia’s politician of the year:
Seventy-six percent of Russian citizens interviewed by the All Russian Center for Public Opinion Studies (VTsIOM) have named President Vladimir Putin the politician of the year.Liberal Democratic Party of Russia leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky was named by 13% of those polled, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev by 12%, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov by 6%, Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu by 4% and Communist Party of Russia leader Gennady Zyuganov by 4%.
That apparently means that 24 percent of Russians have a highly underdeveloped survival instinct… This poll is absurd anyway: to be a politician, there has to be a chance that you’ll lose an election. Otherwise you’re a dictator that sometimes leaves ballot boxes out in the open for people to put slips of paper in. We’re closer to being “Russian politicians” than Putin is, and we are neither Russian nor running for any Russian office.
Previously: Putin Goes After Chess Master, Opposition Politician Kasparov, Chechens vs. Kaiser Soze, Advantage: Not Chechens, Now You’ve Gone and Done It
