svg]:overflow-visible">Listen to article • 0:00 minPresident Vladimir Putin is facing rising discontent across Russian society as the war against Ukraine drags on, the economy flounders, and public dissatisfaction mounts over government restrictions on internet access.Russia’s biggest state-owned pollster, the Russian Public Opinion Research Center, on Friday recorded that Putin’s approval rating fell to 65.6%, its lowest level since before the beginning of the war and a drop of 12.2 percentage points since the start of the year.AdvertisementGauging genuine public opinion is difficult under an authoritarian regime that exiles, imprisons, or even kills political opponents and where criticism of the war is…