Russians say the main threat to country is alcohol and drug addiction (57%), inflation (55%) and unemployment (50%).
MOSCOW, September 3, 2010. Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) presents the rating of the main problems for Russia according to Russians.
As before Russians put alcohol and drug addiction on the first place (57%) among major problems Russia is facing today. This is followed by inflation (55%) and unemployment (50%).
Standards of living, corruption (41% for each), crime (32%), situation in house and utilities sector and health care (28% for each), pension provision (27%) and youth situation (26%) are ranked among top ten problems.
Less Russians are worried about terrorism, state of morality, ecology (22% for each), and influence of oligarchs on life in Russia (20%). This is followed by problems in education (17%), demography (16%), economic crisis and delays in payment of salaries (14% for each). The situation in the Russian army and national security are of interest for 10% of respondents (for each group). Eight percent of Russians are worried about interethnic relations; those who put attention to Russia`s position in the world and Russian relations with CIS countries are 7% for each group. Extremism is seen least important problem for Russians (5%).
The number of respondents who are anxious about alcohol and drug addiction has declined over the recent month (from 62 to 57%). Less Russians are worried about living standards (from 46 to 41%), situation in house and utilities sector (from 34 to 28%), health care system (from 32 to 28%), pension provision (from 31 to 27%), economic crisis (from 18 to 14%), as well as the problem of terrorism (from 29 to 22%).
At the same time, Russians got more worried about inflation (from 51 to 55%) and impact of oligarchs on country`s life (from 13 to 20%). More Russians also report that ecological situation poses a threat to them (from 17 to 22%),
The initiative Russian opinion polls were conducted on August 14-15, 2010. 1600 respondents were interviewed at 140 sampling points in 42 regions of Russia. The margin of errordoes not exceed 3.4%.
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| March 2008 | January 2009 | March 2010 | April 2010 | May 2010 | June 2010 | July 2010 | August 2010 |
Alcohol and Drug addiction | 63 | 53 | 58 | 61 | 49 | 51 | 62 | 57 |
Inflation, increase of prices for goods and services | 67 | 61 | 54 | 46 | 47 | 50 | 51 | 55 |
Unemployment | 25 | 61 | 59 | 55 | 55 | 51 | 48 | 50 |
Standards of living | 20 | 32 | 45 | 40 | 43 | 43 | 46 | 41 |
Corruption, bureaucracy | 30 | 41 | 41 | 40 | 40 | 39 | 43 | 41 |
Crimes | 34 | 31 | 33 | 37 | 39 | 36 | 31 | 32 |
Situation in housing and utilities | 44 | 24 | 40 | 38 | 36 | 33 | 34 | 28 |
Situation if health care | 31 | 31 | 29 | 30 | 30 | 25 | 32 | 28 |
Pension provision | 38 | 29 | 24 | 25 | 31 | 28 | 31 | 27 |
Situation of youth | 13 | 23 | 31 | 30 | 36 | 33 | 25 | 26 |
Terrorism | 32 | 13 | 10 | 49 | 34 | 36 | 29 | 22 |
State of morality | 21 | 12 | 20 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 24 | 22 |
Ecology and environment | 26 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 19 | 21 | 17 | 22 |
Impact of oligarchs on economic and political life | 20 | 16 | 15 | 12 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 20 |
Situation in education | 20 | 14 | 16 | 14 | 17 | 23 | 18 | 17 |
Demographic situation (fertility, mortality trends) | 27 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 16 |
Economic crisis | - | 23 | 18 | 12 | 13 | 17 | 18 | 14 |
Delay in paying salaries | - | 20 | 18 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 14 |
Democracy and human rights | 19 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 11 |
Situation in the army | 13 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 10 |
National Security | 8 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 10 |
Interethnic and interconfessional relations | 8 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
Position of Russia in the world | 16 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 7 |
Russia`s relations with CIS countries | 16 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
Extremism, fascism | 8 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 5 |
Implementation of national projects | 6 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Upcoming change of power and problem of political continuity | 7 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Energy security | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Administrative reforming | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Hard to tell | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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