When building up the cabinet, Vladimir Putin will have to take into account numerous claims that the nation had amassed to the previous government. The government was unable to contain inflation, said a half of polled, while over a quarter of respondents didn’t doubt corrupt nature of bureaucrats.
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Nation Doubled Claims to Govt
When building up the cabinet, Russia’s new Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will have to take into account numerous claims that the nation had amassed to the previous government. The government was unable to contain inflation, said a half of the Russians polled by Levada Center, while over a quarter of respondents didn’t doubt corrupt nature of bureaucrats.
Levada Center has been interrogating the nation about the attitude to the government since 1999. The results are contradictory. On the one hand, the Russians back up political course of Vladimir Putin, on the other hand, the number of claims to the government is growing continuously.
Only 25 percent of the Russians regarded the cabinet unable to contain inflation and oppose the income decline in 1999, but as many as 57 percent thought so in April. The number of those sure that government was ignoring social protection of the population grew from 16 percent to 37 percent respectively.
The appetite comes with eating is hardly the reason that has strengthened the claims, said Levada Center Director Lev Gudkov. According to respondents, their demand is 2/2.5 fold above the actual income, but this indicator hasn’t changed for the last 15 years, signaling the economic boom under Vladimir Putin hasn’t driven up hopes of the nation but intensified the discontent.
This surge in the discontent that occurred in the environment of general economic recovery manifests the crude-oil essence of the economic growth with the revenues of the oil and gas sector by far not evenly shared by the nation, Gudkov explained.
According to the Russians, the key aims that the new government should focus on are fighting the inflation (62 percent) and ensuring the industrial growth (49 percent). The battle against corruption is another concern, the respondents specified. Indeed, 27 percent said the government was corrupt during the recent poll, while no more than 3 percent thought so in 1999.
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All the Article in Russian as of May 12, 2008
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