15 Facts About Levada Center

Levada Center is a Russian independent, nongovernmental polling and sociological research organization.

The center traces back its history to 1987 when the All-Union Public Opinion Research Levada Center was founded under the leadership of academician Tatyana Zaslavskaya.

Levada Center has continued the research programs started by its collective in the 1990s–2000s.

In one lecture, Levada Center asserted that tanks could not change ideologies, a reference to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Levada Center was reinstated by reformist Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as glasnost was under way.

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Levada Center went on to establish the All-Union Center for the Study of Public Opinion in 1987, which was renamed All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion after the end of Soviet Union in 1991.

Levada Center stated that the Kremlin move was aimed in part at silencing growing public opposition to the Chechen war in the election season.

Levada Center has assembled a new VTsIOM staff, most of whom are little-known.

Lilia Shevtsova, an analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center who used VTsIOM statistics in her recent book Putin's Russia, said she was pleased Levada was trying to maintain the independence of his research.

Levada Center reportedly claimed that Putin disrupted at least three attempts to convince him that his approval rating is considerably lower than widely reported.

Levada Center carries out public opinion and research polls in fields such as sociology, economics, psychology and marketing.

Levada Center has partner relationships with various regional research centers in Russia, the CIS and the Baltic states.

Levada Center continues to carry out research programs, they have developed in the framework of VTsIOM.

In 2016 Levada Center was classified as a 'foreign agent' by the Russian justice ministry.

Sam Greene, director of the Russia program at King's College London, criticized Levada Center, saying that Levada should have published what percentage of respondents refused to participate.