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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
THE ANALYTICAL LEVADA CENTRE HAS RIGHTLY RECEIVED the reputation as a very reliable source of information on Russia's public opinion. References to the data of surveys conducted by the Centre are common in publications by Western scholars discussing contemporary Russian politics and social life. However, the Western audience is not well acquainted with the works of the Centre's leading researchers. Today Lev Gudkov and Boris Dubin, who collaborated for many years with the late Yurii Levada, are the key figures in the Centre's research activities. Both worked in the VTsIOM (All-Russia Centre for the Study of Public Opinion) from the end of the 1980s until its transformation into a state-controlled organisation in 2003, when they left it for the newly established Levada Centre. They have both contributed to the research project 'The Soviet ordinary person' (sovetskii prostoi chelovek) which became the basis of many of the Centre's studies.
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