Timothy Frye (Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy) discusses Russian public opinion research in an MSNBC article about the Kremlin’s strategy of recruiting soldiers from the penal system.
Read MoreAccording to Timothy Frye, a political scientist at Columbia University, the general consensus among researchers who follow public opinion on the war in Russia is that some 15% to 20% of Russians are enthusiastic about the war, about 10% are wholly opposed, and most everyone else falls in between.