The Impact of Sanctions on Russia

The one biggest event that really crashed Putin's approvals was of his own doing formalization. It also drew down all of these ratings of the social moods, the perception of the country's direction or other forages ratings,. We have seen a very similar correlation during the Crimea period going in the opposite direction. The resilience of this system is remarkable. Partly it's the internal desire of the people just continue as usual and that's something even my pollsters, sociologists, friends and Russia confirm. In fact, if you look at the polls in Russia today with all the necessary reservations that it's an autocratic regime, polls are not very reliable but at least they're dynamic we