On the heels of President Obama’s approval rating plummeting to 41% – a record low - it is perhaps ironic that the supposedly despotic (amid shrouded in Hitler-comparisons and homosexual hatred) Vladimir Putin has seen his approval rating soar to 71.6% – a 3 year high - as Interfax notes “we now have a complex society that supports the president, primarily because of his stance on Ukraine.” Interestingly 64% saw Ukraine as a key current event while 32% said that success at the Olympics was most important.