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Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by FabHK on Monday February 28, 2022 @09:48PM (#30508735)
You're right: I realised that the Russians I know skew urban and young and are not representative; and Putin seems to have majority approval [1].

Still not sure that changes in attitude will come about by making life more miserable for ordinary Russians; and even if the majority disapproves of Putin, there is not much they can do about it [2].

[1] https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/world/europe/russia-ukrai...

> And yet there is desperately little that Russians can do to change their country’s trajectory.

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Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by artcatrus on Monday February 28, 2022 @11:07PM (#30509394)
1 - russian propaganda. we do not have an institution of social polls, at least real ones
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Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination by 5e92cb50239222b on Monday February 28, 2022 @11:25PM (#30509554)
Levada is probably the only one that paints a somewhat realistic picture. They've had their share of problems with the dictator's government because of that.
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