New poll says Russians' social panic hasn't spiked so sharply since eve of 1998 financial collapse

Meduza Russia ^ | 6 Sep 2018

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A new national survey by the independent Levada Center indicates that social tensions across the country are rising at levels not seen since the eve of Russia’s 1998 financial collapse. Seventy-two percent of Russians say they worry about rising prices, 52 percent cited growing impoverishment, and 48 percent say one of the nation’s biggest problems is unemployment.

In the past year, Russians have become roughly 33 percent more likely to talk about economic crisis, environmental deterioration, and rising crime, the Levada Center director Lev Gudkov told the newspaper Kommersant.

Sociologists say it’s still hard to know if rising panic will lead to more mass protests, but Gudkov says the current agitation has spread even to “inert layers” of society and “middle cities.” He notes, however, that this phenomenon is based on different concerns than the sentiments fueling opposition movements like Alexey Navalny’s anti-corruption activism.

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Putin is this EEEEEVIL Genius who can steal our elections from his keyboard.

Yet he is somehow not competent to govern his own country.

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Is the deep swamp really using Russian fear mongering to maintain control?

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EF the Ruskies, Putin would rather spend his $ on playing in the sand then helping the average Ruskie.

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Clearly this is a very very very interested person, to be posting here basically any anti-Russian article from any source that he comes across. One who is not disclosing his conflicts of interest.

This poster is an enemy of the people, pushing Deep State propaganda in perfect coordination with the Clinton-Meuller axis. It is shameful that this propaganda campaign is allowed to be conducted here.