21 April 2015, 13:50 GMT
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Putin's public approval rating reached 87 percent in July, a poll conducted by Levada-Center showed.
In the same poll, 59 percent of respondents said they approve of the country’s current political course.
The Levada-Center survey was conducted between July 17 and 20, with 1,600 people from 46 Russian regions participating in the poll.
In December 2014, Putin was named Person of the Year in two separate surveys, one conducted by the Levada-Center and the second — by another Russian polling agency, the Public Opinion Foundation.
In November 2014, Forbes magazine named the Russian president the world's most powerful person. Putin was also ranked third in Time magazine's Person of the Year 2014 list.
