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| Formation | 2003 (1987) |
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| Type | Research institute, independent nongovernmental organization |
| Purpose | opinion polls, social research, marketing research |
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Key people | Lev Gudkov, director Tatyana Zaslavskaya, honorary president Alexei Grazhdankin, Boris Dubin, Marina Krasilnikova, Alexey Levinson and Yuri Poletayev, Lyudmila Khakhulina |
| Staff | Approximately 60 |
| Website | www.levada.ru |
The Levada Center is a Russian independent, nongovernmental polling and sociological research organization. It is named after its founder, the first Russian professor of sociology Yuri Levada (1930–2006). The center traces back its history to 1987 when the All-Union Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) was founded under the leadership of academician Tatyana Zaslavskaya. As one of Russia's largest research companies,[citation needed] the Levada Center regularly conducts its own and commissioned polling and marketing research. In 2016, it was labelled a foreign agent under the 2012 Russian foreign agent law.[1]
- ^ ""Леваду-центр" оставили "иностранным агентом"" [Levada Center was left a 'foreign agent']. dw.com (in Russian). Retrieved 4 August 2020.