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# Russian voters turn away from Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev
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## Russia's leaders are increasingly mistrusted and there is a growing desire
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for an alternative to Vladimir Putin or Dmitry Medvedev, a Russian study has
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found.
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![Russian voters turn away from Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev ][1]
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Observers in Russia have closely watched for an indication of whether Mr
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Medvedev will seek reelection or if Mr Putin is likely to run again Photo:
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AFP/GETTY
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7:00AM BST 29 Mar 2011
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The report by the pro-government think-tank Centre for Strategic Research said
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an unfair 2012 presidential election win by either President Medvedev or Prime
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Minister Putin may lead to a crisis similar to one that brought down the USSR.
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"People have not only stopped fearing a 'third person' but are beginning to
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wish for his emergence," said the report, based on the group's own polling and
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focus group work.
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"The most important change in the political consciousness of** [Russians][2]
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**over the last eight months consists not just of a fall of trust in the
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tandem and its participants but also a growth in demand for a 'third' person."
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The past year has seen an onset of a "political crisis" in Russia as ratings
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of Mr Medvedev, Mr Putin, and the ruling party United Russia fell by 12, 21,
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and 18 per cent, respectively, it said.
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Observers in Russia have closely watched for an indication of whether Mr
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Medvedev will seek reelection or if Mr Putin is likely to run again.
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The leaders have said that they will decide between themselves which one of
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them will run.
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But based on the think-tank's polling, it said that "Medvedev seems an
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unelectable figure" while Mr Putin is gaining "anti-electorate" among not just
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the opposition but wider society that accuses him of acting in self-interest.
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If the trend of falling trust in authority keeps strong over the next year,
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Russia will arrive at a political crisis that could "in its intensity surpass
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the end of the 1990s and closely approach the end of the 1980s," it added.
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So far there has been little sign of a third force emerging in Russian
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politics.
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But speculation that Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov may head the liberal
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Right Cause party has sparked interest, as well as striking statements by
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Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin warning against unfair elections.
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The report by the Centre for Strategic Research was published on the heels of
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another report last week by a different Kremlin-friendly think tank INSOR,
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which backed Dmitry Medvedev and laid out a strategy for his second term as
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president.
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