Adults in Russia overwhelmingly pick their president as the main political figure of the year, according to a poll by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center. 76 per cent of respondents think Vladimir Putin was the politician of 2006.
Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky was a distant second with 13 per cent, followed by deputy prime minister Dmitry Medvedev with 12 per cent, and defence minister Sergei Ivanov with six per cent. Support is lower for emergencies minister Sergei Shoigu, Communist Party (KPRF) leader Gennady Zyuganov, prime minister Mikhail Fradkov, Russian Federation Council chairman Sergei Mironov, State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov and Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov
Source: Angus Reid Global Monitor
Publication time: 29 December 2006, 10:45
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