I would say that certainly the majority of people believe what the government tells them. In my elections class here, we broke down Russian society into different social groups and likely voting patterns, and it is just a fact that Putin will win. People believe in him and the state. I had a discussion today with my host mother, during which she blamed Yulia Tymoshenko of Ukraine for stealing Russian oil and said that she was happy that Tymoshenko was now sitting in jail. Suffice it to say, especially in the older generations, Russians miss communism and most would certainly agree that Khodorkovsky should be jailed.