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Nearly every American knows Vladimir Putin’s name

The Pew survey revealed the deepest familiarity with Vladimir Putin; only 3% of respondents said they didn’t know his name. Putin also elicited the most mistrust. More than 70% of respondents said they had no confidence at all in the Russian leader.

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“More than half of US adults (56%) have at least some confidence in [Ukrainian president Volodymyr] Zelenskyy to do the right thing regarding world affairs,” the report said. “By comparison, fewer than one-in-ten have confidence in Chinese President Xi Jinping (8%) or...Putin (7%).”

For Modi, who had a 76% approval rating in India according to another report published earlier this month, the Pew survey figure among Americans for “doing the right thing” stood at a measly 1%. Up to “37% have little or no confidence in his ability to do the right thing regarding world affairs,” the report said. And in a bipartisan outcome, Pew found that Republicans and Democrats concurred nearly precisely (21% and 22% respectively) in expressing confidence in Modi—the closest such outcome among all the leaders surveyed.

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