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Levada Center is a Russian independent, non-governmental polling and sociological research organisation. It is named after its founder, the first Russian professor of sociology Yuri Levada (1930—2006). Levada Center traces back its history to 1987 when VCIOM was founded, originally headed by Academician Tatyana Zaslavskaya. Being one of the largest Russian research companies, Levada Center regularly conducts its own and commissioned sociological and marketing researches. - Source: Wikipedia

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