For the first time in over four years, Russia’s leading polling agency has found that the number of Russians who have positive views of the United States is greater than those who have negative views.

The results, published Thursday by the independent Levada Center for Public Opinion, show a considerable increase in the number of Russians who said they generally felt good about the United States, while the number who felt bad dropped from almost 70 percent to 40 percent.

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