"Levada Centre": level of Russian citizens' trust to Ramzan Kadyrov exceeds official data

The "Levada Centre" has found out that 25% of Russian citizens experience respect and sympathy for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. According to the data published by the "Caucasian Knot", 49% of Russian citizens believe that Ramzan Kadyrov can be trusted.

According to the "Levada Centre", 15% of respondents said that they respect Ramzan Kadyrov, and 10% of respondents told of sympathy for him. The above rates increased over a year: in January 2016, 10% of respondents talked of their respect for the leader of Chechnya, and 7% talked of sympathy for him.

Meanwhile, over a year, the number of the respondents, who expressed their distrust towards the leader of Chechnya, increased by 5 percentage points, from 9% to 14%.

Let us remind you that on September 18, 2016, at the election of the leader of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov was supported by more than 97% of voters. However, in March of 2016, in her interview to the "Caucasian Knot", Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, the project director for Northern Caucasus of the International Crisis Group (ICC) and a member of the board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", stated that the popularity of Ramzan Kadyrov began to fall because of the injustice reigning in the republic.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.