{"id":1387364,"date":"2026-04-28T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/putins-anti-rating-why-russians-are-not-ready-for-mass-protests\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:50:00","slug":"putins-anti-rating-why-russians-are-not-ready-for-mass-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/putins-anti-rating-why-russians-are-not-ready-for-mass-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s anti-rating: why Russians are not ready for mass protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russia&#8217;s domestic situation is showing signs of destabilization due to economic turmoil and a protracted conflict. According to official Russian polls, distrust of the dictator has reached 24%, the highest level since February 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The main factors of public discontent are the sharp rise in prices, the blocking of popular Internet resources, and general fatigue from hostilities.<\/p>\n<p> Political scientist Oleksandr Paliy, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nAhsmdG7KCQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a conversation<\/a> on &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221;, noted that official figures may be significantly underestimated due to total self-censorship in Russian society.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/youtu.be\/nAhsmdG7KCQ?t=588<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/a-dead-end-what-has-changed-in-the-imperial-consciousness-of-russians\/\">Empire at a Dead End: Grandeur Without an Exit Plan<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> &#8220;If an official state institution, that 23% are ready to say no, then the situation there is much worse. Well, as for the rallies, I must say that there will be a collapse, you know, there will be chaos in Russia, there will be non-payments, there will be some kind of spontaneous riots,&#8221; he is convinced.<\/p>\n<p> According to experts, popular protests are unlikely to change the regime due to the lack of citizen subjectivity, but a split among the elites or a coup at the top is possible.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, another guest on the air on &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221;, a veteran of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Oleksiy Petrov, drew a parallel with the collapse of the Soviet Union, when a seemingly stable system instantly disappeared, despite the powerful punitive apparatus of the KGB and the police.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, public discontent is growing in Russia amid the protracted war against Ukraine, economic hardship, and restrictions on internet access. <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiiany-vtrachaiut-viru-u-shvydku-peremohu-u-viyny-proty-ukrainy-iak-tse-vplynulo-na-riven-pidtrymky-putina\/\">Vladimir Putin&#8217;s approval rating has fallen to 65.6%<\/a> , the lowest level since the start of the war.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" data-right>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/hidden-imperials-why-not-all-good-russians-are-equally-useful\/\">Hidden Imperials: Why Not All \u201cGood Russians\u201d Are Equally Useful<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> Meanwhile, the economic situation in Russia continues to deteriorate under the influence of sanctions and high interest rates. According to Rosstat, the economy shrank by 1.8% in the first 2 months of the year, and the volume of overdue payments reached $109 billion. As The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiiany-vtrachaiut-viru-u-shvydku-peremohu-u-viyny-proty-ukrainy-iak-tse-vplynulo-na-riven-pidtrymky-putina\/\">notes<\/a> , despite the growing discontent, there are currently no signs of the authorities losing control of the situation, but repression may intensify in response.<\/p>\n<p> It was previously reported that Ukrainian special services obtained recordings of telephone conversations of the head of the Central Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, who in a private conversation gave <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/odkrovennia-nabiullinoi-iak-shvydko-posypletsia-ekonomika-rf\/\">extremely pessimistic forecasts<\/a> about the stability of the Russian financial system in the coming months. These data differ significantly from the official Kremlin propaganda.<\/p>\n<p> By the way, the leader of the Russian communists, Gennady Zyuganov, has stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ekonomika-rf-kotytsia-v-prirvu-u-derzhdumi-zaiavyly-pro-ryzyky\/\">there is a risk of a repeat of the 1917 revolution in Russia<\/a> amid economic problems and growing discontent. According to him, the Russian economy is rapidly deteriorating, and he called the first quarter of the year a \u201ccomplete disaster.\u201d Zyuganov called on the authorities to urgently make financial and economic decisions, otherwise the country could face a scenario similar to the events of 1917 in the fall.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s domestic situation is showing signs of destabilization due to economic turmoil and a protracted conflict. According to official Russian polls, distrust of the dictator has reached 24%, the highest level since February 2022. The main factors of public discontent are the sharp rise in prices, the blocking of popular Internet resources, and general fatigue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1387322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1387364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1387322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}