Poll: ideal distribution of power in Russia 2019

The public opinion on distribution of power in Russia was divided in 2019, as survey results showed. With a difference of only one percent, the view that the authority in the country should be distributed between different interdependent structures had the largest share of respondents, measuring at 46 percent. The second most popular view was that the national power should be concentrated in one's hands. The country's current president Vladimir Putin stayed in power since 1999, starting as a prime minister.

Public opinion of Russians on distribution of power in the country in 2019

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Power in the country is distributed between different structures controlling each other	46%
Power in the country is concentrrated in the one's hands	45%
Difficult to answer	9%

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Release date

November 2019

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Region

Russia

Survey time period

July 2019

Number of respondents

1,600 respondents

Supplementary notes

The original question was worded by the source as follows: "What do you think would be better: that the power in the country was concentrated in one's hands or that the power was distributed between different structures controlling each other?"

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