Russian President Vladimir Putin is enjoying his highest approval ratings in the United States since 2013, the Moscow Times reports.
Some 22 percent of Americans now view Putin in a positive light, a report by U.S. pollster Gallup revealed on Wednesday. The score shows a marked improvement on Putin's 13 percent approval rating in 2015 — an all-time low for the Russian president — and his 19 percent rating in 2013.
Republican voters, whose support for Putin skyrocketed from 12 percent in 2015 to 32 percent to 2017, are being credited with the change.