Look, this is interesting. Levada Center poll: what citizens want to ask Putin during his live call-in show (it will be on Thursday).
The whole agenda so beloved by the Kremlin and Putin, saturating TV screens—Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, Donbas, terrorism, and international relations—comes at the very bottom of the ranking.
It even ranks below the category “no point in asking.”
People want to know why medicines are so expensive, why the ruble is so cheap, how anyone is supposed to live on a pension, and “when you’ll stop putting your cronies in power.”
Still, something tells me that on Thursday the public will hear much more about the capture and restoration of our beloved Palmyra than about “official corruption, Serdyukov, and Vasilyeva.”