Russia (bbabo.net), - Russians cannot be called particularly optimists, but what you cannot deny is their desire to hope, we are people of hope. This became clear when VTsIOM summed up the results of 2021 and compared them with what happened before.

The most notable politician of the year was Russian President Vladimir Putin, the musician of the year - Alexander Gradsky, who left us, the word of the year - "coronavirus", and the event of the year is the fight against it. The Russians considered the sports victories of our athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Games to be the victory of the year. The best writers of the year are Alexander Pushkin, Zakhar Prilepin and Victor Pelevin. The best actors are Konstantin Khabensky, Alexander Petrov, Sergey Bezrukov and Maria Shukshina.

The second year of the coronavirus pandemic was easier than the first, the fall in sentiment and expectations has stopped. The trend has reversed. “We are starting to get out of the hole,” said Valery Fedorov, head of VTsIOM, while presenting the final materials. “Moods, especially personal ones, have improved fourfold, although the positive attitude still does not dominate the negative. perceptions we have to come out next year. "

At the end of the year, VTsIOM has been measuring requests and sentiments of Russians for 19 years and is well aware of long-term trends that have not changed this year either. One of them is that personal totals always look better than general ones. And Russia is generally better than the rest of the world. “When we talk about what is close and understandable to us, we feel more confident, and as soon as we start to follow the general life on TV, the Internet and word of mouth, we immediately turn on skeptical and pessimistic assessments,” says Valery Fedorov. Therefore, we think that the most unfortunate situation is not in our family, and not in the country, but in the world. Only 1 percent of Russians surveyed called the outgoing year very successful for the whole world, another 9 - generally good, 30 - bad and very difficult, and 47 percent - rather difficult. The negative balance was "-66", but you shouldn't be upset, because last year it was "-83". And now the view of the world is still improving.

Interestingly, the emotional index turned out to be better than the rational one and reached positive indicators of "+60 points". Although he has not dropped below "+51" in the last 16 years. Even without experiencing a special uplift, people try to live a year without negative feelings. And besides, the New Year holiday itself - one of the main holidays in Russia - is becoming a powerful tool that cheers everyone up. All good things must come true - this is our main New Year's philosophy.

The second year of the pandemic was easier for us. The mood drop has stopped

"The hope with which we look into the future is for Russians the alpha and omega of a national character and worldview," explains Valery Fedorov.

Sociologists also measure such an indicator as "The Aftertaste of the Outgoing Year." For 12 percent of Russians it was better than they expected, for 37 it was worse than they had hoped, and for 49 it was exactly as they had seen it in advance. It is interesting that comparing their country with other states, 34 percent of Russians are sure that we have gone through difficulties more easily than others, 32 percent believe that it is about the same as everyone else.

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