Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends

Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by jquery on Saturday March 05, 2022 @12:40PM (#30569758)

I know lots of Russians that support Putin, unfortunately. I wish it were as simple as Putin was acting alone but he is a popular Russian figure.

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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by shrimp_emoji on Saturday March 05, 2022 @01:44PM (#30570551)

I think if you multiply the number of Russians who protested against the Ukraine invasion by 100, it's 1% of Russians, max.

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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by gip on Saturday March 05, 2022 @01:44PM (#30570548)

I have family / friends in Russia and outside Russia and I’m seeing the same thing: Putin is popular. I suspect it had to do with how the Russian identity is build.

I keep telling these people that a country is defined by what it does in the world, not by what it is or was. But at the end of the day I think a lot of them consider Russia as a « powerful » country that should have an empire.

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