MOSCOW, July 23, 2007 Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) presents information concerning how much Russians trust the different branches of political power and its different levels.

Two thirds of Russians (64%) trust the executive power, whereas one fourth of the respondents do not (25%), 11% find it difficult to estimate their attitude to the issue. Less than one half of respondents have confidence in the legislative and judicial branches - 43%-45%, nearly as many respondents do not trust them - 40%-41%.

The confidence of respondents in the federal government (67%) is considerably higher than that to regional authorities (49%) and that to local government (43%). Confidence that 43% of the respondents gave to the local authority is levelled by the distrust of 42% of respondents. The respondents are more favorably disposed to the regional authorities (49% against 35%), and still better disposed to the federal government (67% against 22%).

Russians trust the legislators of different level almost to the same extend. Only one third of Russians (33%) express confidence in the Federal Assembly, half of the respondents (50%) distrust it; 17% find it difficult to express their attitude to the parliament. Russians manifest the same degree of confidence (33%) to the legislative assemblies of the constituent entities of the Federation; the level of distrust to the regional parliaments is somewhat lower and amounts to 44%, the share of those who find it difficult to provide an answer is higher - 24%. The attitude to the representative organs of the local government is similar, 30% of the respondents trust them, 46% do not, 23% find it difficult to provide an answer to the question.

Russians have more confidence in federal judicial power, regional judiciary causes trust and distrust in the equal measure, local judiciary is more likely to cause distrust. Half of Russians (49%) trusts the court of last resort, 38% have confidence in regional courts, 34% in local ones. 31% of the respondents have no confidence in the federal judicial power, 40% in the territorial and the regional, 45% in the city and the district ones.

The All-Russia opinion polls were conducted by VCIOM in May 26-27 and June 30, 2007. 1600 respondents were interviewed each of these times in 153 population areas of 46 regions of Russia. The statistical error does not exceed 3.4%.