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Charting Putin's Popularity

Ruth Tarrant

5th February 2016

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I'm a big fan of the Economist Daily Charts - this "timeline" chart, mapping key events in Russia since 2000 against the popularity of Vladimir Putin and the Russian Government, shows that Mr Putin doesn't seem to struggle with the same popularity issues that face most leaders of large countries.

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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