Four out of five Russians (79.8%) trust Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the latest poll by state-owned Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM), Tass reported on January 19. The poll recorded a 1 percentage point increase in the level of trust Russian citizens have in Putin, according to the survey, conducted from January 9 to 14 among 1,600 adult Russians. Additionally, approval of the president’s job performance saw a slight increase of 0.2 percentage points, reaching 77%, according to VTsIOM. Similar polls conducted by the independent Levada Centre records similar resu…