Russian Leaders Go To The Polls Before Voting

: Before Voting, Russian Leaders Go To The Polls

MOSCOW -- Every Thursday, a bearded, bespectacled man arrives at the Kremlin bearing a sheaf of data for Vladislav Y. Surkov, the government's chief ideologist. There, a roomful of decision makers are gathered to hear the latest installment of What Russia Thinks.

As strange as it may sound to outsiders, the people who run Russia are obsessed with approval ratings.

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