A majority of Russians rate the economy as fair or poor and more than 4 in 10 say it is worse now than it was three years ago.In spite of those economic assessments, Russians remain positive about a number of facets of the country. Two-thirds believe Russia is headed in the right direction, and about half are optimistic that the next generation will be better off than current generations. Most think the economy and their personal finances will stay the same or improve over the next three years.When asked what are the most important problems facing Russia, Russians cite the economic and financial crisis (21 percent) and the situation in Ukraine (16 percent) most frequently. Russians say the most important problems facing their families are price increases, inflation, and low wages/pensions (40 percent), followed by poor quality or lack of access to health care, education and social services (13 percent).Asked specifically about the severity of 14 different problems facing the country, the issues Russians most commonly identify as serious are drug abuse (83 percent) and corruption (79 percent). The number of Russians identifying each issue as serious problem decreased from 2012 for all items queried in both studies.Eighty-one percent of Russians approve of the way Putin is handling his job as president, which is a significant increase from his 58 percent approval rating shortly after his most recent inauguration in May 2012 [1]. Eight in 10 Russians support Putin’s handling of the situation in Ukraine, and 2 in 3 favor Russia supporting Ukrainians who want to break off from the Kiev government. Sixty-four percent of Russians say economic sanctions have hurt the economy, and 45 percent say they have had a negative effect on their family.Public opinion in Moscow on most economic and domestic political issues differs from the rest of the country. And while most of the country relies on state-owned TV for their news, Russians who rely on other sources hold different views on a number of important issues—from economic assessments, to approval of various leaders and institutions.
Russians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.
Quote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.It's fucking pitiful. For their entire history, they've traded one autocrat for the next, and they fall for the exact same lies every time.
Quote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:11:09 PMQuote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people wantStrong leaders don't run their country into the ground. Putin is a pathetically weak leader, no amount of posturing will ever change that.
Quote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people want
Quote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:43:26 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:11:09 PMQuote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people wantStrong leaders don't run their country into the ground. Putin is a pathetically weak leader, no amount of posturing will ever change that.How is he running the country into the ground? It's the hypocritical West that's doing it; America can invade a country but not Russia?
Quote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:44:48 PMQuote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:43:26 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:11:09 PMQuote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people wantStrong leaders don't run their country into the ground. Putin is a pathetically weak leader, no amount of posturing will ever change that.How is he running the country into the ground?By fucking with Ukraine knowing damn well sanctions would be put into place. He doesn't care, because his personal wealth isn't really affected. QuoteIt's the hypocritical West that's doing it;Calm down there Babushka. QuoteAmerica can invade a country but not Russia?https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/loaded-question
Quote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:43:26 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:11:09 PMQuote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people wantStrong leaders don't run their country into the ground. Putin is a pathetically weak leader, no amount of posturing will ever change that.How is he running the country into the ground?
It's the hypocritical West that's doing it;
America can invade a country but not Russia?
Quote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:44:48 PMQuote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:43:26 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:11:09 PMQuote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people wantStrong leaders don't run their country into the ground. Putin is a pathetically weak leader, no amount of posturing will ever change that.How is he running the country into the ground? It's the hypocritical West that's doing it; America can invade a country but not Russia?The difference between America and Russia is that America never annexed Iraq/Afghanistan against their will and say that they were rightfully parts of "Greater America". There were a lot of opinion polls with Iraqi/Afghan civilians after their respective invasions and a majority of them supported the Americans coming in. And please don't cite that bullshit Crimean referendum. It is literally impossible for something as controversial as changing which country you're living in to get anywhere even close to 98% approval.
Quote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:48:57 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:44:48 PMQuote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:43:26 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:11:09 PMQuote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people wantStrong leaders don't run their country into the ground. Putin is a pathetically weak leader, no amount of posturing will ever change that.How is he running the country into the ground?By fucking with Ukraine knowing damn well sanctions would be put into place. He doesn't care, because his personal wealth isn't really affected. QuoteIt's the hypocritical West that's doing it;Calm down there Babushka. QuoteAmerica can invade a country but not Russia?https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/loaded-questionExcept Ukraine owed Russia a lot of money. Russia had all the rights to "fuck with" Ukraine One day China is going to coming knocking on America's door for it's money they have given usJust pointing out how the West are masters at hypocrisyNice question dodging
Quote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:11:09 PMQuote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people wantHitler and Mussolini were strong leaders as well, and look at where they got their countries to...And at least Hitler had the excuse of being a massive drug-addict and Mussolini was more motivated by a delusional ideology than personal wealth.
Quote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 03:08:48 PMQuote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:48:57 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:44:48 PMQuote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:43:26 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:11:09 PMQuote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people wantStrong leaders don't run their country into the ground. Putin is a pathetically weak leader, no amount of posturing will ever change that.How is he running the country into the ground?By fucking with Ukraine knowing damn well sanctions would be put into place. He doesn't care, because his personal wealth isn't really affected. QuoteIt's the hypocritical West that's doing it;Calm down there Babushka. QuoteAmerica can invade a country but not Russia?https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/loaded-questionExcept Ukraine owed Russia a lot of money. Russia had all the rights to "fuck with" Ukraine One day China is going to coming knocking on America's door for it's money they have given usJust pointing out how the West are masters at hypocrisyNice question dodgingI'm sure RT forgot to mention that the debt money was accumulated almost entirely by the Russian puppets who were ruling Ukraine at the time. Putin's tactics in the end of 2013 obviously showed this. The Russians were playing loan sharks so they Ukrainians had no chance of repaying as they were poor as shit.
Quote from: CAESAR JIHADIVS on December 22, 2014, 02:53:42 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:44:48 PMQuote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:43:26 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:11:09 PMQuote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people wantStrong leaders don't run their country into the ground. Putin is a pathetically weak leader, no amount of posturing will ever change that.How is he running the country into the ground? It's the hypocritical West that's doing it; America can invade a country but not Russia?The difference between America and Russia is that America never annexed Iraq/Afghanistan against their will and say that they were rightfully parts of "Greater America". There were a lot of opinion polls with Iraqi/Afghan civilians after their respective invasions and a majority of them supported the Americans coming in. And please don't cite that bullshit Crimean referendum. It is literally impossible for something as controversial as changing which country you're living in to get anywhere even close to 98% approval.So you can cite an opinion poll, but I can't? Talk about moving the goal posts to suit your needs. Just like Kosovo, Crimea wanted to break away from it's host country and Russia provided them support
Quote from: CAESAR JIHADIVS on December 22, 2014, 02:58:43 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:11:09 PMQuote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people wantHitler and Mussolini were strong leaders as well, and look at where they got their countries to...And at least Hitler had the excuse of being a massive drug-addict and Mussolini was more motivated by a delusional ideology than personal wealth.Seeing as Hitler managed to bring Germany out of one of the worst economic disasters in history, I don't see where you're getting at
Quote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 03:08:48 PMQuote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:48:57 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:44:48 PMQuote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:43:26 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:11:09 PMQuote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people wantStrong leaders don't run their country into the ground. Putin is a pathetically weak leader, no amount of posturing will ever change that.How is he running the country into the ground?By fucking with Ukraine knowing damn well sanctions would be put into place. He doesn't care, because his personal wealth isn't really affected. QuoteIt's the hypocritical West that's doing it;Calm down there Babushka. QuoteAmerica can invade a country but not Russia?https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/loaded-questionExcept Ukraine owed Russia a lot of money. Russia had all the rights to "fuck with" UkraineNope. No country has the right to declare war on another because they want to relive the glory days of fascism. QuoteOne day China is going to coming knocking on America's door for it's money they have given usLOL No they aren't. QuoteJust pointing out how the West are masters at hypocrisyNot in this instance they aren't. America didn't annex Iraq or Afghanistan. They went in with majority support from the locals. Russia is trying to recreate the Soviet Union. QuoteNice question dodgingIt's a loaded question. So I'll say again: America did not annex Iraq or Afghanistan. There's no hypocrisy. And even if it was hypocritical, you're changing the subject. The point is he knew fucking with Ukraine would bring heavy sanctions on Russia. He did it anyway. That's a weak, hotheaded, and ignorant leader.
Quote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:48:57 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:44:48 PMQuote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:43:26 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:11:09 PMQuote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people wantStrong leaders don't run their country into the ground. Putin is a pathetically weak leader, no amount of posturing will ever change that.How is he running the country into the ground?By fucking with Ukraine knowing damn well sanctions would be put into place. He doesn't care, because his personal wealth isn't really affected. QuoteIt's the hypocritical West that's doing it;Calm down there Babushka. QuoteAmerica can invade a country but not Russia?https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/loaded-questionExcept Ukraine owed Russia a lot of money. Russia had all the rights to "fuck with" Ukraine
One day China is going to coming knocking on America's door for it's money they have given us
Just pointing out how the West are masters at hypocrisy
Nice question dodging
Quote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 03:10:55 PMQuote from: CAESAR JIHADIVS on December 22, 2014, 02:53:42 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:44:48 PMQuote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:43:26 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:11:09 PMQuote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people wantStrong leaders don't run their country into the ground. Putin is a pathetically weak leader, no amount of posturing will ever change that.How is he running the country into the ground? It's the hypocritical West that's doing it; America can invade a country but not Russia?The difference between America and Russia is that America never annexed Iraq/Afghanistan against their will and say that they were rightfully parts of "Greater America". There were a lot of opinion polls with Iraqi/Afghan civilians after their respective invasions and a majority of them supported the Americans coming in. And please don't cite that bullshit Crimean referendum. It is literally impossible for something as controversial as changing which country you're living in to get anywhere even close to 98% approval.So you can cite an opinion poll, but I can't? Talk about moving the goal posts to suit your needs. Just like Kosovo, Crimea wanted to break away from it's host country and Russia provided them supportAn opinion poll has nowhere near the same magnitude as a blatantly rigged referendum . And Putin used that same BS rhetoric of the "Kosovo precedent" to justify stealing Crimea. And Kosovo and Crimea are different stories. Kosovo wanted to be independent, and they were effectively independent for 9 years before actually declaring it. But with Crimea, they were Ukrainian one day, and Russian the next.
Quote from: CAESAR JIHADIVS on December 22, 2014, 03:11:54 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 03:08:48 PMQuote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:48:57 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:44:48 PMQuote from: challengerX on December 22, 2014, 02:43:26 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:11:09 PMQuote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people wantStrong leaders don't run their country into the ground. Putin is a pathetically weak leader, no amount of posturing will ever change that.How is he running the country into the ground?By fucking with Ukraine knowing damn well sanctions would be put into place. He doesn't care, because his personal wealth isn't really affected. QuoteIt's the hypocritical West that's doing it;Calm down there Babushka. QuoteAmerica can invade a country but not Russia?https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/loaded-questionExcept Ukraine owed Russia a lot of money. Russia had all the rights to "fuck with" Ukraine One day China is going to coming knocking on America's door for it's money they have given usJust pointing out how the West are masters at hypocrisyNice question dodgingI'm sure RT forgot to mention that the debt money was accumulated almost entirely by the Russian puppets who were ruling Ukraine at the time. Putin's tactics in the end of 2013 obviously showed this. The Russians were playing loan sharks so they Ukrainians had no chance of repaying as they were poor as shit.And the people of Ukraine elected their president
Quote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 03:12:02 PMQuote from: CAESAR JIHADIVS on December 22, 2014, 02:58:43 PMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 22, 2014, 02:11:09 PMQuote from: Fagcicle on December 22, 2014, 12:06:16 AMRussians continue to prove their lack of intelligence.How so?You can't deny him being a strong leader, something many people wantHitler and Mussolini were strong leaders as well, and look at where they got their countries to...And at least Hitler had the excuse of being a massive drug-addict and Mussolini was more motivated by a delusional ideology than personal wealth.Seeing as Hitler managed to bring Germany out of one of the worst economic disasters in history, I don't see where you're getting at Learn your history, you fucking retard.
Putin support stronger than ever, despite economic woes
