65 % of Russians affected by crisis
The effect of the financial crisis on Russian people’s lives is increasing, the results of two sociological survey conducted in course of the last six months tell. 65percent of the respondents in a Russian survey conducted in March 2009 said that the financial crisis has had negative influence on their lives.
This is 1.5 times as many as in a similar survey autumn 2008. The number of persons saying that the financial crisis has no impact at all on their lives is halved compared to last autumn.
The survey shows geographical differences. People in Voronezh, Rostov, Saratov and Volgograd have been hardest hit by the crisis, and are most negative to the future. The situation looks best in Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. In Arkhangelsk, 47 percent said that their material situation had worsened in course of the last year. In Nizhny Novgorod the result was 72 percent.
The majority (42 percent) believes that inadequate politics from the country’s authorities’ side is the reason for the crisis, while 20 percent blame Western countries and USA. 16 percent think that the crisis is a result of the nature of capitalism.
12400 people in 21 different regions took part in the survey, Regnum.ru reports.
