--- description: The recent military moves in Syria largely contributed to the rating spike. title: Vladimir Putin's Approval Rating Hits All-Time High image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4e7cd8ae33acb0e/698869580b72e317d16e671c/putin-approval.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [russia](/tag/russia/) ## russia Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Putin's Approval Rating Hits Record High After Syria Strikes by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 22, 2015 1:37 PM CUT  Russian President Vladimir Putin waves during a videoconference on Oct . 21, 2015, in Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin waves during a videoconference on Oct . 21, 2015, in Moscow.Alexei Druzhinin—ITAR-TASS/Corbis by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 22, 2015 1:37 PM CUT Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating has reached nearly 90 percent largely thanks to his military moves in Syria, according to a new nationwide poll published Thursday. State-run pollster VTsIOM said a record 89.9 percent of Russians approved of Putin in its latest weekly survey — up from 86.6 percent a week earlier and above the previous record of 89.1 in June 2015. “Such high approval rating of the president of Russia had to do mostly with the events in Syria, \[and\] Russian airstrikes on terrorist positions,” VTsIOM said on its website. Moscow claims the air operation in Syria is aimed at weakening ISIS. Western officials… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/vladimir-putins-approval-rating-hits-all-time-high-boosted-syria-n449071?cid=par-time%5F20151022 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4083079/russia-vladimir-putin-approval-rating/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4083079/russia-vladimir-putin-approval-rating/"},"headline":"Putin's Approval Rating Hits Record High After Syria Strikes","datePublished":"2015-10-22T13:37:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:00:13.505Z","description":"The recent military moves in Syria largely contributed to the rating spike","url":"https://time.com/4083079/russia-vladimir-putin-approval-rating/","keywords":["russia","Syria","Vladimir Putin"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4e7cd8ae33acb0e/698869580b72e317d16e671c/putin-approval.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb4e7cd8ae33acb0e/698869580b72e317d16e671c/putin-approval.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Russian President Vladimir Putin","caption":"Russian President Vladimir Putin","creditText":"Alexei Druzhinin—ITAR-TASS/Corbis","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/russia/","name":"russia"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4083079/russia-vladimir-putin-approval-rating/","name":"Putin's Approval Rating Hits Record High After Syria Strikes"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Watch: Assad Meets with Putin","description":"Watch: Assad Meets with Putin","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ZfGTpYZK/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-10-21T14:49:22.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZfGTpYZK.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4083079/russia-vladimir-putin-approval-rating/","duration":"PT1M52S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4083079/russia-vladimir-putin-approval-rating/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```