Russia’s approval rate is falling rapidly in Post-Soviet countries, according to Gallup surveys

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  1. Armenia is pretty surprising for me,in that the public opinion has been shifting steadily more and more negative towards Russia well before the invasion of Ukraine

    Any Armenian can provide some explanation?

    I was assuming that Russia would remain popular due to the large percentage of Armenians who move temporarily to work in Russia

    Am i missing something?

  2. Out of 11 Post-Soviet republic for which survey data is available, Russia is now viewed unfavorable by a majority i**n 9 countries**

    Russian diplomacy is as succesful as their army,their energy war, or their economic policies

  3. They probably don’t care about approval ratings, but what is extremely painful to them is the fact that other countries are no longer afraid of them. This was their perverse national pride: “other countries are scared of us”. And now they got pantsed by Ukraine.

  4. Lol, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania aren’t even “post-Soviet states” in that sense as they were sovereign states illegally occupied by the Soviet Union, i.e. never legally part of the USSR. And in Estonia and Latvia, those numbers include the opinions of the large Russian colonist population. Among natives, the opinions are almost universally negative and always have been.

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