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Security and “presidential” ministers are at the top of the rating.

MOSCOW, October 17, 2013. Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) presents the rating assessing the performance of Russian ministers.

Sergey Shoygu holds the first position among Russian ministers (4.28 points according to 5-point scale) followed by Sergey Lavrov (3.81) on the second and Vladimir Puchkov on the third place (3.61).

Top 10 Russian ministers also involve Dmitry Rogozin (3.27), Nikolay Nikiforov (3.21), Vitaly Mutko (3.21), Igor Shuvalov (3.20), Aleksandr Khloponin (3.11), Vladimir Medinsky (3.09) and Vladimir Kolokoltsev (3.06). 

The performance of such ministers as Aleksandr Konovalov (2.99), Dmitry Kozak (2.98), Maksim Sokolov (2.98), and Aleksandr Novak (2.98) is assessed as “satisfactory”.

They are followed by Mikhail Abyzov (2.89), Yury Trutnev (2.89), Aleksandr Galushka (2.87), Olga Golodets (2.85), Anton Siluanov (2.85), Sergey Prikhodko (2.85), Veronika Skvortsova (2.85), Denis Manturov (2.81), Arkady Dvorkovich (2.80), Nikolay Fedorov (2.78), Maksim Topilin (2.76), Igor Slyunyaev (2.76), Aleksey Ulyukaev (2.71). Least popular ministers are Sergey Donskoy (2.69) and Dmitry Livanov (2.66).

Over the recent months Russians more positively assess the work of Vladimir Puchkov (from 3.53 to 3.61), Vitaly Mutko (from 3.04 to 3.21), Aleksandr Novak (from 2.85 to 2.98), Dmitry Livanov  (from 2.49 to 2.66).  On the contrary, Vladimir Kolokoltsev (from 3.22 to 3.06), Arkady Dvorkovich (from 2.94 to 2.80), Maksim Topilin (from 2.86 to 2.76), Igor Slyunyaev (from 2.83 to 2.76), Sergey Donskoy (from 2.76 to 2.69) got lower rankings. Not much has changed for other ministers.  

The results of newcomers, Aleksandr Galushka and Aleksey Ulyukaev, are lower than the results of their predecessors, Viktor Ishaev and Andrey Belousov (2.87 vs 2.96 and 2.71 vs 2.8, respectively).

Compared to the results of September 2012, the performance of Sergey Shoygu was assessed much more positively (4.28) than Anatoly Serdyukov (3.07). Vladimir Puchkov has strengthened its position (a year ago – 3.4; currently – 3.61).

The VCIOM opinion polls were conducted in September, 2013 (September 14-15, 21-22, 28-29). 1600 respondents were interviewed in 130 communities in 42 regions of Russia. The margin of error does not exceed 3.4%.

 

Using the 5-point scale where 1 is “very bad” and 5 is “very good”, assess how the following ministers of the Russian government do their job

(closed-ended question, one answer per each minister, average point)

 

September  2012

December  2012

March  2013

June  2013

September  2013

Shoygu Sergey,  (earlier – Serdyukov Analoly; September 2012 survey),  Minister of Defense

3,07

4,16

4,19

4,27

4,28

Lavrov Sergey, Minister of Foreign Affairs

3,90

3,66

3,94

3,89

3,81

Puchkov Vladimir, Minister for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters

3,42

3,23

3,54

3,53

3,61

Rogozin Dmitry,  Deputy Prime Minister

3,36

3,23

3,4

3,32

3,27

Nikiforov Nikolay, minister of Communications   

3,36

3,10

3,25

3,20

3,21

Mutko Vitaly, Minister of Sport, Tourism, and Youth Policy

3,13

2,96

3,06

3,04

3,21

Shuvalov Igor, Deputy Prime Minister

3,32

3,22

3,17

3,23

3,20

Khloponin Aleksandr,  Deputy Prime Minister

3,17

3,17

3,21

3,16

3,11

Medinsky Vladimir, Minister of Culture

3,15

2,98

3,03

3,05

3,09

Kolokoltsev Vladimir, Ministry of Internal Affairs

3,14

3,12

3,2

3,22

3,06

Konovakov Aleksandr, Ministry of Justice

3,20

2,77

2,87

2,91

2,99

Kozak Dmitry, Deputy Prime Minister

3,27

3,15

3,23

3,26

2,98

Sokolov Maksim,  Minister of Transport

3,06

2,80

2,97

3,03

2,98

Novak Aleksandr,  Minister of Energy

3,12

2,84

2,92

2,85

2,98

Abyzov Mikhail, Minister of Relations with the “Open Government”

2,89

2,87

3,05

2,87

2,89

Trutnev Yury,  Deputy Prime Minister

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-

-

-

2,89

Galushka Aleksandr (earlier – Ishaev Viktor; September 2012 – June 2013 surveys), Minister for Development of Russian Far East

3,25

2,95

3,18

2,96

2,87

Golodets Olga, Deputy Prime Minister

2,91

2,92

3,06

2,89

2,85

Siluanov Anton,  Minister of Finance

2,83

2,74

2,86

2,87

2,85

Prikhodko Sergey (earlier – Surkov Vladislav, September 2012 – March 2013 surveys), Deputy Prime Minister

3,05

2,84

2,96

2,84

2,85

Skvortsova Veronika,  Minister of Healthcare

2,79

2,69

2,75

2,84

2,85

Manturov Denis, Minister of Industry and Trade

3,05

2,71

2,77

2,78

2,81

Dvorkovich Arkady, Deputy Prime Minister

3,04

2,89

3,04

2,94

2,80

Fedorov Nikolay,  Minister of Agriculture

2,72

2,62

2,68

2,77

2,78

Topilin Maksim, Minister of Labor and Social Development

2,72

2,62

2,78

2,86

2,76

Slyunyaev Igor (earlier – Govorun Oleg, September 2012 survey), Minister of Regional Development

2,86

2,84

2,98

2,83

2,76

Ulyukaev Sergey (earlier – Belousov Andrey, September 2012 – June 2013 surveys), Minister of Economic Development

2,83

2,77

2,91

2,80

2,71

Donskoy Sergey, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology

2,74

2,74

2,97

2,76

2,69

Livanov Dmitry,  Minister of Education and Science

2,85

2,67

2,60

2,49

2,66

 

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