Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov
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Russians Want Changes in Govt. Policy
According to a survey conducted by the Public Opinion Fund, the majority of Russians (53 percent) think that new Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov should change the course of the cabinet. The overwhelming majority (75-80 percent) of the public cannot name either accomplishments or shortcomings of the former government of Mikhail Fradkov, however.
Most respondents (37%) called the performance of the last cabinet “satisfactory. Only slightly fewer (36%) had trouble answering the question. Thirteen percent called the cabinet's performance “good,) and 10 percent said it was “bad.” The survey has a 3.6-percent margin of error.
Only 2 percent of Russians looked negatively on the appointment of Zubkov as prime minister, while 27 percent were favorably inclined toward his appointment. Most people (42%) had no opinion and 29 percent had trouble answering the question. Eighty-four percent of respondents had never heard of Zubkov before his appointment, 8 percent “had heard something,” and 2 percent knew something specific about him already. Thirty-two percent of respondents have a positive reaction to Zubkov's performance in office so far, while 48 percent have no opinion yet. There were similar indicators in reference to Fradkov in a survey shortly after his appointment as prime minister.
The survey was conducted on September 22-23 in 44 regions of Russia with 1500 respondents.
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