51 percent of the participants in the Levada Center poll want that Vladimir Putin does not leave the presidential post and after the expiration of the fourth term. Only 27 percent said the opposite.

A little more than half (51 percent) of Russians would like Vladimir Putin to remain in office as head of state and after 2024, when his current presidential term expires. On this Tuesday, June 19, the newspaper Vedomosti, citing the data of the poll "Levada Center". Only 27 percent of respondents said they would not like to continue Putin's presidency after the expiration of the current term. During a similar survey in August 2017, 67 percent of participants said they wanted Putin's re-election in 2018.

At the same time, 57 percent of respondents (and 42 percent in 2017) indicated that they would like full-scale changes in the country.

30 percent of respondents are confident that the reshuffle in the government will not help solve the existing problems.

"There are no figures of successors, people are pragmatic about this. In case of fear of change, politicians are viewed with caution, and since Putin is perceived as a conservative, it is believed that he will ensure the status quo. It is connected with this, for example, that the president did not speak out about pension reform, people are waiting for him to say his word, "Lev Gudkov, director of Levada Center.

Source: DW.