Moscow – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s electoral rating has grown by 7 percentage points to 60% in the past week, the Public Opinion Foundation reported based on results of a public opinion poll of 3,000 respondents it conducted in 204 populated areas in 64 regions of Russia on March 16, 2014.

Asked for whom they would vote if presidential elections were held next Sunday, 60% chose Putin, 8% Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 5% Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, 2% businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, and 1% leader of the party A Just Russia Sergei Mironov.