In August 2024, there was a slight decrease in positive assessments of the situation in the country. The proportion of respondents experiencing tension, irritation, and fear has increased, but positive moods still prevail. The approval rates for the activities of the president and governors remained virtually unchanged, while the approval rates for the activities of the Government, the Prime Minister and Parliament continued to decline smoothly. The level of support for United Russia has also decreased, and the share of supporters of other parliamentary parties has hardly changed.

Two thirds of Russians (67%) believe that things are going in the right direction in the country, over the past two months this indicator has decreased by 8 percentage points (including 5 percentage points in August compared to July). Every fifth respondent says the opposite (20%, + 3 percentage points over the past month), another 13% of respondents found it difficult to answer.

Most often, men (70%), respondents who can afford durable goods (71%), Muscovites (78%), TV viewers (79%) and respondents who approve of V.Putin’s (78%) activities believe that things are going in the right direction in the country.

Respondents who barely have enough for food (25%), villagers (22%), respondents who trust information from YouTube channels (30%), and respondents who disapprove of the activities of the current president (77%) were more likely to say that the country is moving along the wrong path.

Every fourth respondent has been experiencing tension, irritation, fear, and longing in recent days (+ 6 percentage points to this indicator in July 2024). While the proportion of those who spoke of a good mood and a normal, even condition decreased to 13% and 62%, respectively.

Most often men (14%), the youngest respondents (26% aged 18-24), respondents who can afford durable goods (19%), residents of cities with populations under 100,000 and over 500,000 (14% each), those who believe that things in the country are going in the right direction (15%), those who approve of V. Putin’s performance as president (14%), those who trust social networks as a source of information (17%).

Most often women (27%), older respondents (33% of those aged 55 and over), respondents who barely have enough to eat (43%), people living in villages (26%), those who think that things in the country are going in the wrong direction (44%), those who disapprove of V. Putin’s activity as president (45%), those who trust YouTube channels as a source of information (28%) experience tension, irritation and fear.

The level of approval of the work of V. Putin as president has hardly changed and at the end of August amounted to 85%, 12% of respondents are not satisfied with the work of the head of state.

Activity of V. Putin as president is more often approved by women (86%), respondents aged 18-24 (91%), respondents who can afford durable goods (86% each), residents of cities with populations from 100 to 500 thousand people (86%), TV viewers (93%), respondents, those who believe that things are going in the right direction in the country (97%).

More often men disapprove of V. Putin’s actions as president (14%), respondents in the 40-54 age group (14%), respondents who barely have enough to eat (14%), respondents who trust information from YouTube channels (26%), respondents who believe that the country is heading down the wrong path (45%).

The level of approval of M. Mishustin as Prime Minister has slightly decreased – 71% (75% in July 2024), 19% of respondents disapprove of his activities.

The majority of respondents approve of the government’s activities, but the share of such respondents has decreased by 6 percentage points since June 2024. One in four (26%) disapproves of the Government’s work.

Positive assessments of the activities of the State Duma continue to decline, so over the past three months they have decreased by 7 percentage points. At the same time, negative assessments of the lower house of parliament show a slight increase, also by 7 percentage points.

71% of respondents approve of the governors’ activities. This level of support has been maintained for several months. 22% of respondents disapprove of the work of the heads of regions.

The top ten most trusted politicians have not changed (data from an open question is provided, when respondents were asked to name several politicians they most trusted on their own, no hint options were offered). At the same time, the level of trust in Vladimir Putin continued to decline and in August amounted to 45%, and the level of trust in Sergey Lavrov also decreased – 13% (in May – 18%). The assessments of other politicians have hardly changed – 19% of respondents trust Mikhail Mishustin, 7% – Andrei Belousov, 4% of respondents say they trust Sergei Sobyanin, 3% each – Dmitry Medvedev, Gennady Zyuganov, Sergei Shoigu, another 2% of respondents named Vyacheslav Volodin and Dmitry Peskov.

Among all respondents, the level of support for United Russia continues to decline, from 48% in February 2024 to 40% in August. The level of support for the LDPR and the Communist Party has hardly changed (9% each), support for the “New People” remains at 4%, and the Just Russia remains at 2%.

In terms of those who decided on the choice of the party, the rating of United Russia in May was 58% (- 5 percentage points from May 2024), support for the Communist Party and the LDPR was 12% each. The electoral ratings of the “New People” and the Just Russia were 6% and 3%, respectively.