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Do Russians still support Putin’s war in Ukraine?

Their web searches suggest perhaps not — and the CIA is closing in on potential spy recruits

The happiness of the Russian public fell sharply last year after the invasion of Ukraine, according to analysis of their internet searches by a team from the University of Cambridge.

The research also found that web searches linked to anti-war sentiment and opposition to President Putin surged in Russia during the first months of the war, and increased again when his regime resorted to mass military conscription.

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