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Putin's electoral rating down 1% — pollster

A week ago 76% of Russians said they were ready to cast their votes for the incumbent leader

MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/. Three quarters of Russians (75%) said they are ready to vote for President Vladimir Putin if the elections were held next Sunday, the weekly survey conducted by the Public Opinion Fund pollster said on Friday.

A week ago 76% of Russians said they were ready to cast their votes for the incumbent leader.

Four percent of those polled said they would have voted for Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR). Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov would have won three percent of the vote if the elections were held next Sunday

One percent of Russians said they would have cast their votes for businessman Mikhail Prokhorov who ran for president in 2012.

The pollster said that 3,000 people from 64 Russian regions took part in the survey conducted on April 4-5.