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Article: Yuri Levada, who tested public opinion in Soviet Union and RussiaOBITUARY
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- International Herald Tribune
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- November 21, 2006
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International Herald Tribune
11-21-2006
Yuri Levada, a sociologist and pollster whose surveys provided some of the most reliable information about public opinion in the Soviet Union and then Russia, died at his office in Moscow on Thursday. He was 76.A colleague at the Levada Analytical Center, Leonid Sedov, told The Associated Press that the cause was a heart attack.Levada's career had three distinct phases defined by power shifts at the Kremlin. He began his work in the mid-1960s at the beginning of the Brezhnev era, conducting polls on a relatively wide range of subjects while avoiding questions about private property, religion and the Communist Party.He encountered problems later in ...